The original theme was Alex Chilton performing the song, I don't know when they started using Cheap Trick.

Is there a way to put the Emmett mix in a folder? There must be.

Yeah, I agree with keeping the Emmett Mix on the account until we need to delete it.

And I can't argue with their song choices, although one of the joys of being a "rock snob" (which, really, is sort of like being a aficionado of fry grease) is that I'd come up with a completely different (and, of course, because it's me and I'm so rock-worldly, far more valid) list.

I'd spent sometime at the Rock Snob site before. They seem to get a lot of my preference right and are suitably sarcastic about them.

The original theme was Alex Chilton performing the song, I don't know when they started using Cheap Trick.

Although this wasn't the original Big Star track -- Chris Bell sang that one. It was preferable to the Cheap Trick version, though, with that "We're all alright" refrain that sort of goes against the ennui and dissolution in the rest of the lyrics. Nothing against Cheap Trick; that's just not one of their finer moments.

Mommy's all right, Daddy's all right, they just seem a little weird.

That's definitely one of their finer moments.

From the snob site listing on Lester Bangs:

Though every Rock Snob worth his salt reveres Bangs (a heavy biography by Rock Snob author Jim DeRogatis was published a few years back), his writing has aged rather less well than that of his less strident contemporaries Richard Meltzer and Nick Tosches.

Tosches I'll grant, but not Meltzer. I still like reading Lester. In fact, the current issue of Mojo with Lou Reed on the cover has exactly the kind of prickly, cranky Lou Reed interview you used to get with Bangs. Except the interviewer here is studiously polite and not drunk. So where I just said "exactly" perhaps you should substitute "sort of."

From Natter:

Steph L: I gotta stop listening to the Pixies and go to bed, damn it.

Did you see them on ACL?

Unfortunately, I did not.

Meltzer is indeed a drag. A wordy, self-important drag.

I also enjoy reading Bangs, and love Tosches when he's not writing godawful fiction.

That's definitely one of their finer moments.

And now I'm picturing Red and Kitty on the couch, rolling numbers, rock and rolling, got Eric's Kiss records out. That was a great episode when he walked in on them having sex.

"In the Street" was the perfect choice for the theme song of a show that features a stoner circle.

Unfortunately, I did not.

It was ok. They played their first few songs ("Here Comes Your Man" and "Wave of Mutilation" and one more, I think) quiet and slow and sped things up considerably with "Vamos".