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I've heard that similar solo in Cabaret Voltaire's "Do The Mussolini (Headkick)" using a keyboard, but I was wondering if this guitar solo is based on a classical tune as I've also heard the same riff in the old PC Engine videogame Splatterhouse: The credits at the end of the game for music is given to "Chopin". So I was wondering, is the guitar solo from BOC's "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" come from a Chopin composition?

Blink 182 and Rancid.

I also went to see Kraftwerk and The Faint early last month... boingboiiing boom tschak!

If you look closely in the background, there is a blonde girl there at Pedro's carne asada bbq. You can barely make out who it is, but like I said, it would be funny if it turned out to be Summer. ... and the Jamiroquai song was faaaaar from 80s. You overshot into the late 90s. That was "Canned Heat" from an album that came out in 1999.

One thing I do like about Hack Johnson is that he told it like it is in "Flake"... an acquaintance of mine told me to listen up 'cause the song totally reminded her of me 'Maybe' always means 'no'

Hey, Batman. Maybe you can answer this question. Near the end of the movie where Pedro is having his presidential fiesta, is that Summer Wheatley in the background? I thought it would be funny if she actually showed up for the chimichangas (not actual/traditional Mexican food, btw) ::

Chris Isaak at Humphrey's By The Bay here in SD. He's also playing to-night, but the good seats sold out in less than a couple of minutes.

I'm not really fond of cats, esp. indoor ones

Weird. I don't do that. I go straight into the roast pit with bbq sauce on hand

Ya got me there, chief. I came back to terrorise Songfactors by endlessly rebutting them

I didn't understand the great adulation catholics gave Pope John Paul II... that was until I saw him perform live from the Vatican Rock on, brutha Karol :guitar:

I've been checking this site every day, more than I have been the past couple of months just to see if it would be running back up again :: Good work, y'all. Keeps music afficionados happy.

Whoa. Hope all goes well. This magnitude of this coincidence is too great to be wasted.

I never got used to "iirc". I think, "International Reply Coupons? But what about the extra 'i'?"

I went to a Amoeba in LA and gave Elephant a listen. Granted, I only gave it one and a half, but none of the songs caught my whim...

The White Stripes, The Strokes, Hack Johnson and his cadre of lame-Os, The Dork Matthews Band, Coldplay, and many more. All of it: bland and mediocre at best.

You're probably thinking of the Joao Gilberto version (the original). I have that on a Stan Getz compilation and I recall feeling disappointed it wasn't Astrud on vocals Edit: You couldn't possibly be thinking of the Frank Sinatra version that I just read about on AMG!

I go with the aliens from another planet. Vivre sur videooooo!

I cannot write "lol" when I really laugh. It's just not the same. On a messageboard I am more liberal when it comes to some abbreviations ("btw" and "fave" are probably the ones I use the most) and I love using the graemlins! I know I shouldn't, but they're great. These two are my favourites: ::

I think... Quadrophenia

Vini Reilly and Peter Hook. Since they come from a branch of music most people in Rock consider "all look and no substance," I'd say they are truly amongst the most underrated of guitarists

Poor guy... he just screams "hug me and pinch my cheeks until I turn strawberry red "

I like those Japanese dramas. Not the historical ones, but the regular 30-50 episode shows they air. The writers are clearly superior to anything Hollywood has turned out in decades. They have a way of getting the viewer involved in the fictional lives of the characters. The manga artists are almost as effective. I will mention one more production from the US: Wild Palms. Very weird, very in the style of Lynch's Twin Peaks. I liked it despite having Jim Belushi in the lead Australia's Spellbinder and Canada's Degrassi rank pretty high up there. These were television shows, but with an ending. Last, but not least, the best animated series to come from the 80s:

Chloe Jones also died some days ago. That's two. Is it still a rule of three?

Yeah, I was baffled how Beck Hansen came into the picture. The guy was pretty much one of the best musicians to come from the 90s. Wasted talent? Look no further than Johnny Marr or Stuart Copeland. After the disbandment of The Smiths and The Police, they pretty much faded completely into oblivion as a footnote of once great bands. Further wasted talent? Guns 'N Roses could've been the next big thing for the entire decade of the 90s had they stuck to business. Once they broke up, it was the different parts not adding up anywhere close to the total put together. Only musicians whose solo work I liked was Izzy Stradlin and he barely cut it. Anyway, the guy was doing Blues-Rock, so it's like comparing apples and oranges with his past work in G'NR. Maybe Gilby Clarke, but he came later into the scene of the band and of his solo work...