It's an odd yet predictable list.
Oh, c'mon -- you did NOT predict this:
271. Don't Stop Believin'
Journey [1981]
Fist-pumping underdog fight song + lots of beer = karaoke bliss.
Available on: Escape (Columbia)
272. Rock the Casbah
The Clash [1982]
London punks spread Mideast peace the old-fashioned way: with disco records.
Available on: Combat Rock (Epic)
Oh, c'mon -- you did NOT predict this:
That's the odd part. I mean, they had a lot of odd choices in their 500, but the top tier was predictable. Well, except "B.O.B" at #2. I would not have guessed that. There just didn't seem to be any guiding logic to it. At least it wasn't a Rolling Stone list. Those are the worst.
You say that like you don't think that every single moment of Mick Jagger's life has produced sheer brilliance.
BTW, Hec, did you see my link to the faux-Ignatius Reilly love letter to Bush in Natter?
BTW, Hec, did you see my link to the faux-Ignatius Reilly love letter to Bush in Natter?
Yeah, that was brilliant.
My casting for Ignatius: Oliver Platt. Or Vincent D'onofrio.
I pitched the Dolls'
Too Much Too Soon
and Tom Waits'
Swordfishtrombones
for the 33 1/3 series.
I heard from the editor and he's leaning a bit torwards the Waits, but I'll get a chance to make a formal proposal in November. I've asked Kim to pimp hard for me.
Send me some book-ma. It'd be a dream to write about either record.
Great David! I was hoping you'd make a pitch.
Great David! I was hoping you'd make a pitch.
It'd be cool! I don't think I did my best writing in Lost In The Grooves (though I think the book, on the whole, is probably stronger than Bubblegum, and I did more to shape Grooves editorially), so I'd love an opportunity to really stretch as a writer.
Totally D'onofrio, if I was picking. But either one would be fab. Still bitter that I hated his Homicide episode, that most folks revere.(It made me roll my eyes forever instead.I'm not sure which thing did it.)
Yeah, Corwood, I cracked up, babe.
I am kinda cranky with my iTunes. I burned about five CDs of mixes off my iTunes on my old computer, now I am going to upload them oin my new iTunes and they have none of the song or artist info on them.