Sweet story from Joe Pernice's mailing list:

Joe was in LA working on the new record. He and the genius known as Ric Menck were dining at Art's Delicatessen in Studio City. Joe spied Ed Asner, who was headed to the cash register at the same time as Joe and Ric. As they all approached, the cashier said, "I'm a big fan of your music." Joe turned to Asner and said, "you play music?" Then Joe realized the cashier was talking to him, not Asner.

Hell, I'd be excited about meeting Ric Menck, too. Those Velvet Crush albums were pretty good.

Ooh, excellent. Michael Berube has a new twist on one-hit wonders: Which bands do you WISH were one-hit wonders, because they have one song that you love and all the rest are dire? [link]

Wings, "Live and Let Die".

Wings, "Live and Let Die".

AKA the best Bond theme ever. Well, except for Henry Mancini's, but that's for Bond as a whole, not just for one movie.

But what is the WORST Bond theme?

But what is the WORST Bond theme?

Any that Shirley Bassey did. Or, hell, let's just make it a trifecta: Diamonds Are Forever, Moonraker, and, yes, I'm going to say it, Goldfinger. The first 2 are just blandly cheesey, and she *bellows* Goldfinger, which I cannot abide.

Oh, and the one that a-ha did was pretty bad, too. Was it The Living Daylights?

I'm oddly fond of Thunderball, myself.

Oh come, Sheena Easton's For Your Eyes Only.

Cheesy and soulless.

Whichever the one was that was done by Duran Duran.

t clutches Goldfinger to her bosom

Whichever the one was that was done by Duran Duran.

A View to a Kill.

A View to A Kill was released when I was at the tail end of my crazed adolescent Duran Duran fangirliness, and so just for that, I've always been fond of that song.

And I can tolerate Sheena Easton a lot better than I can Shirley Bassey.