At one point, when a station here in Salt Lake was in between formats, they played nothing but Louie Louie. The Kingsmen version. For about 3 weeks straight.

Also, in, I believe, 1990, when we were getting a new "alternative" station, they started out their first week playing nothing but one band per day. I believe they did a Depeche Mode Day, a Cure day, a U2 day, an REM day, an Oingo Boingo day . . . . I don't remember the others. No Bowie Day, tho.

For 1986:

10. Addicted To Love, Robert Palmer
15. West End Girls, Pet Shop Boys (although it actually was first released in, what, '82?)
19. Kiss, Prince and The Revolution
22. Holding Back The Years, Simply Red
28. Rock Me Amadeus, Falco
37. Something About You, Level 42
44. No One Is To Blame, Howard Jones
72. Small Town, John Cougar Mellencamp
73. Tarzan Boy, Baltimora
77. Rumors, Timex Social Club

How old is "Gradtuated High School"? 1990 I was 17 so I'll take that.:

5. Vogue, Madonna 13. Pump Up The Jam, Technotronic 46. Ice Ice Baby, Vanilla Ice 56. U Can't Touch This, M.C. Hammer 81. Everybody Everybody, Black Box

I really don't like Pelecanos, BTW, I think he's like a literary version of Tarantino without the breathtaking stylistic flourishes that make QT so great. I sort of thought this based on his books, but his episode in S1 of The Wire (the penultimate one where Wallace gets got was so catastrophically bad that it brought it into sharp relief; his lame pop references and were shoehorned into a cliched and melodramatic plot that switched the show's usual icy naturalism for trad Hollywood story beats ( Samuels' pep talk to McNulty, D confonting Stringer about Wallace, the final "Catch You Later" line ) and shameless sentimentality.

Sufjan Stevens doing the Star Spangled Banner at the South Street Seaport in NYC: [link]

Now Playing [link] a bunch of Volcano Suns rarities. Why haven't their early LPs been reissued on CD? Especially with all the Burma activity.

How old is "Gradtuated High School"? 1990 I was 17 so I'll take that

Egads, I find out I'm six years older than Corwood AND Jim in one pass through the thread? How distressing! Or, what JZ said.

Jim just broke my heart...if it was Sunday I'd say he broke the truce.:) I thought that episode had for-real emotional weight, although Simon is mos def more subtle and even made me feel sorry for Snot Boogie for carrying his horrible moniker through life because of one day's runny nose. The Tarantino comparison is apt enough however, that I won't cross the country to homewreck...sigh. Corwood, am I a big sap?(assuming you read the Wirehead spoiler font) Maybe just a forgiving fangirl...I live in an overgrown cowtown that sometimes pretends it's a metropolis... we take our cool where we find it. Oh! From my list yesterday, forgot the Neville Brothers' "Everybody Plays The Fool"

The thing was that stuff was wildly out of character. If you look at, say, Rawls's "This is coming from a guy who hates you" speech, or the scene when McNulty finally visits Kima or, most of all, that last scene with Bubs ("Mcnutty...don't tell her") which had me in floods of tears, it was in the same tone as the rest of the show.

That isn't fair. Bubbles ought to have a side endorsement with Kleenex; very few emotional moments could compete with that whole ruined, quiet dignity thing Bubbles has going on. That scene you described...my god...I'd hate to meet the person that didn't get affected by that. I suspect we "elected" him twice. (And I'm a geek, because it is very early here and I'm still taking time to give props to Andre Royo..."Wire" fiend, much? Yes, complete with "withdrawal".) Although my "Rescue Me" fandom at times does make me suspect that maybe I'm soft, playing hard, so it's okay that we disagree about that. I won't be coming into the thread heavy or anything, even for my fake literary boyfriend.

God, 'ruined, quiet dignity' is a stunning description of Bubs.

Thank you. (even if your heart's a rock...does that sound like letting it go...really nsm. Sorry.)Out of all the deaths there could be, that's the one they'd scrape me off the floor after, which is funny, cause it would be hardly unexpected, with both heroin and the Bug to worry about, and the snitching and all of his stupid little "capers", but it is still true. I'm not sure why.

Frank Sobatka, too, could rip out my heart and hand it to me.