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1. You Can't Catch Me - Chuck Berry 2. Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochrane 3. Stand By Me - Ben E. King 4. Twist and Shout - Isley Brothers 5. Unchain My Heart - Ray Charles 6. The Wanderer - Dion 7. Willie and the Hand Jive - Johnny Otis Show 8. You Don't Own Me - Leslie Gore 9. Twistin the Night Away - Sam Cooke 10. You've Really Got A Hold On Me - The Miracles

1. Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses 2. Tangled Up In Blue - Bob Dylan 3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - George Harrison 4. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits 5. Mr.Tamborine Man - Dylan and the Byrds 6. A Thousand Kisses Deep - Leonard Cohen 7. Lean On Me - Bill Withers 8. Changes - Jimi Hendrix 9. Sometimes - Clark Country 10. Stay While The Night Is Young - Savoy Brown Nice list Karma and with probably my easiest No. 1 choice since featuring the most awesome, air guitar-worthy (not that I've tried or anything) solo in 80's metal, top hat-wearing history.

1. Bored Teenagers - The Adverts 2. Followed the Waves - Melissa Auf Der Maur 3. Mr. Suit - Wire 4. One Way or Another - Blondie 5. Stylo - Gorillaz 6. Shortnin’ Bread - The ReadyMen 7. Teenage Lust - The Jesus and Mary Chain 8. Stay Away - Nirvana 9. Welcome To The Working Week - Elvis Costello 10. Willie The Pimp - Frank Zappa

1. Here Comes Your Man - Pixies 2. Maps - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 3. White Riot - The Clash 4. Bargain - The Who 5. Mercy Seat, The - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 6. Friday I'm In Love - The Cure 7. 10 A.M. Automatic - The Black Keys 8. Tonight, Tonight - Smashing Pumpkins 9. No Woman No Cry - Bob Marley 10. Nausea - Beck

"Bored Teenagers" - The Adverts (1978) "...We talk about the whys and wherefores. Do we really care at all? Talk about the frailty of words Is rarely meaningful, When we're sitting watching the 'planes Burn up through the night like meteorites. We're just bored teenagers. Looking for love, Or should I say emotional rages. Bored teenagers, Seeing ourselves as strangers." "Followed the Waves" - Melissa Auf Der Maur (2004)

1. People Are People - Depeche Mode 2. Rearviewmirror - Pearl Jam 3. Rainmaker - Sparklehorse 4. Never Learn Not To Love - The Telescopes 5. It's a Wonderful Life - Sparklehorse 6. Gogol - Gonzales 7. Right Here Right Now - Jesus Jones 8. What We Know - Sonic Youth 9. California Love - 2pac featuring Dr. Dre 10. Drain Cosmetics - Serena Maneesh

1. Long May You Run - Neil Young 2. Don't Do It - The Band 3. Share The Land - Guess Who 4. I Heard It Through Through The Grapevine - Gladys Knight and the Pips 5. Smackwater Jack - Carole King 6. Black Friday - Steely Dan 7. Stand By Me - John Lennon 8. Ballad Of Curtis Loew - Lynyrd Skynyrd 9. Rock Steady - Bad Company 10. Steamroller Blues - James Taylor

"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" - The Slits

Quite sad indeed. I loved his first two albums especially, and though he was obviously troubled, he was very gifted and he'll be missed.

Decent show. I thought Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin did OK, the acting award winners were fairly predicable, though I was somewhat hoping Jeremy Renner would win Best Actor for The Hurt Locker, excellent performance: "There's enough bang in there to blow us all to Jesus. If I'm gonna die, I want to die comfortable." And I'm very happy it upset for Best Picture/Director, partly because I too don't care much for James Cameron personally or many of his movies for that matter. Avatar was alright but The Hurt Locker is one of my recent favourites and it's one of the best war movies I've ever seen, particularly of those dealing with Iraq. I think I reviewed it somewhere here last year, highly recommended. Up in the Air and Inglourious Basterds were good too but not really Oscar-worthy I thought (excepting Christoph Waltz), so their losses weren't a surprise. Up was a given for Best Animated and deservedly so. Loved it.

"Black Eyes" - Shearwater Name a song that is based on a news story.

"Why Bother?" - Weezer

"Creep" - Radiohead

1. Don’t Dream It’s Over - Crowded House 2. Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel 3. I Want You Back - Jackson 5 4. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson 5. Georgia on My Mind - Ray Charles 6. I’m a Believer - Monkees 7. Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney & Wings 8. Smooth - Santana featuring Rob Thomas 9. Take On Me - a-Ha 10. Unforgettable - Natalie Cole w/ Nat King Cole Nice.

1. Transmission - Joy Division 2. Etude Op. 10 No. 3 in E Major (Tristesse) - Frederic Chopin 3. Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks 4. Got You (Where I Want You) - The Flys 5. Are 'Friends' Electric? - Tubeway Army 6. Bring the Noise - Public Enemy & Anthrax 7. Generator - The Holloways 8. Adia - Sarah McLachlan 9. Smokin' From Shootin' - My Morning Jacket 10. I'm Sorry - Brenda Lee

1. Louie Louie - The Kingsmen 2. Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin 3. Maybellene - Chuck Berry 4. I'm Ready - Fats Domino 5. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry 6. The Loco-motion - Little Eva 7. La Bamba - Richie Valens 8. Long Tall Sally - Little Richard 9. One Fine Day - The Chiffons 10. Runaround Sue - Dion

Happy Birthday, Crazy Don.

"Transmission" - Joy Division (1979) "And we would go on as though nothing was wrong. And hide from these days we remained all alone. Staying in the same place, just staying out the time. Touching from a distance, Further all the time." "Etude Op. 10 No. 3 in E Major (Tristesse)" - Frederic Chopin (1832) "In all my life I have never again been able to find such a beautiful melody." - Chopin

An episode of Charlie Brooker's Newswipe featuring "the fair and balanced newsmen of dystopian future, sci-fi, satirical, shouty porn sledgehammer channel Fox News". I love the Bill O'Reilly Inside Edition outtake: "I don't what that means, 'to play us out', what does that mean?...We'll do it live!... DO IT LIVE!".

I was saying "Crosby had better score the winning goal" after they let the lead slip and since he had been kind of floating around for most of the game. Perhaps karma just wanted a happy ending for Canada.

^ I know right, but perhaps the third week in a row is the charm. Otherwise nice ten, good to see my favourite Gorillaz song up there as well as the Stooges, Neil Young and really the only Duran Duran song I like: emotionally convincing, musically compelling... y'know, generally un-Duran Duranesque. "Get Free" was a nice surprise too.

That was embarrassing for their skip, two bad shots cost them what should have been a somewhat certain win... but at least the men did do better. And with 13 gold metals their looking to break the all-time Winter Olympic record today.

"Your Racist Friend" - They Might Be Giants "Holy man tiptoed his way across the Ganges The sound of magic music in his ears Videoded by a bus load of tourists Shinny shellsuits and drinking lemonade Now I got a funny feeling Which I bought mail order"

1967 "Break on Through (To the Other Side)" - The Doors

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