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Maybe the fact that his name is Falcon had something to do with it.

In other news, A-Ha is throwing in the towel. http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/aha-to-call-it-quits-after-tour-20091016-gzfl.html

I predict six months from now there'll be a lot of ragged out Lamborghinis on the auto repo auction market.

I wonder what percentage of Lamborghini buyers finance them in the first place. Seems to me most buyers would just have their accountant make a bank transfer to the dealer (or walk in with a briefcase full of bills) and be done with it.

Leroy Bach is wishing he was still in Wilco right about now.

OK, I'm five songs in. My computer crashed after a few songs but now it's back up. The cover of Roxy Music's "If There is Something" was pretty good. "Amlapura" was nice sonically, but didn't go anywhere as a song. So far, it's not as horrific as I remembered, but it's not something I'll be listening to again any time soon. I'm expecting the second half to have some real dreck.

That would definitely have been on my list, but I didn't realize it was released in 1990. That was an enormously important album to me for a long, long time. I probably should have put Janes Addiciton: Ritual De Lo Habitual on my list, too.

1. Breeders - Pod 2. Beastie Boys - Check Your Head 3. Firehose - Flyin' the Flannel 4. Firehose - Live Totem Pole ep 5. Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen 6. Sonic Youth - Washing Machine 7-11. Polvo - entire '90s catalog, minus Shapes, which was not up to par. 12. Rockateens - self titled 13. Mike Watt - Ball Hog or Tug Boat 14. Mike Watt - Contemplating the Engine Room 15. Pixies - Trompe Le Monde 16. PJ Harvery - Rid of Me 17. Pavement - Brighten the Corners 18. Smoke - Another Reason to Fast 19. Flap - Pal 20. Guided By Voices - Under the Bushes Under the Stars

Yeah, I'm procrastinating. Right now I'm listening to the Wilco book cd, which I haven't heard in a long time. Maybe it would have been wiser to warm up with some Loverboy, or something.

Bummer. Hopefully they at least played Limehouse. I saw the Breeders a bunch of times during the Jim McPherson/Josephine Wiggs era. The best time was when they opened for Nirvana and, to my mind, wiped the stage with them. The were so powerful that night. That was the only time I saw them play Happiness is a Warm Gun.

I kind of like the way those look, but I don't think I could ever own one.

I don't know who was the best band of the '90s, but the best album released in the '90s is: I'll take that opinion to my grave.

I brought Tin Machine 2 with me to work today, and I will attempt to listen to it all the way through.

I love that NRBQ w/ Captain Lou record. I also loved seeing him on wrestling shows in the '80s. If you were a kid in the '80s, this is ingrained in your memory every bit as strongly as the Thriller video:

I still have the Creem with them on the cover. The controversy was that the statues on the cover of their second album were anatomically correct. On the censored USA version the statues are castrated.

This was my first exposure to the band when I was in 11th grade, and I was 100% sold: Tin Machine at the "Elvis Awards" (I remember the Replacements and Keith Richards also performed): (Hope this link works.)

Yeah, Oy Vey, Baby. I still have that. That one gets panned pretty much across the board, but as live albums go it's ok. It suffers from all the bad 2nd album tunes, especially the boring blues song that Hunt Sales sings. If your band includes David Bowie, why let the drummer take a lead vocal? Lots of good stuff on the first album, though. I remember back in the day my friend told me Tin Machine was suppsed to do a co-headlineing tour with Janes Addiction. My response was that Tin machine would blow Janes Addiction off the stage. I really believed that. In hindsight, I was proba

Done!

This is the thread in which we discuss Tin Machine. Other acceptable topics of discussion include, but are not limited to: Soupy Sales; children of famous people; famous rock/pop stars attempting to become somewhat anonymous by forming a band with a group of semi-obscure musicians; Iggy Pop's "Lust For Life"; Todd Rundgren's "Runt"; bands who release one killer album and follow it up with a terrible album; using battery powered vibrating devices on your electric guitar; bands who wear expensive suits; mirror finished headstock-less Steinberger guitars. I'll get us started. As a te

Good news! I'll probably skip that one. Maybe an Atlanta date will follow. Is $55 the norm these days for Wilco tickets?

I'd be all over a Tin Machine thread.

The John Paul Jones wikipedia page has a quote from Jimmy Page in which he refers to his work on Hurdy Gurdy Man session: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones_(musician) "I was working at the sessions for Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man, and John Paul Jones was looking after the musical arrangements. During a break, he asked me if I could use a bass player in the new group I was forming. He had a proper music training, and he had quite brilliant ideas. I jumped at the chance of getting him.[13]"