BlueAngel

A Buffalo-Kathleen Edwards-Asking For Flowers C D Either Way-Wilco (Sky Blue Sky) Foam Born (The Backtrack) - Between The Buried and Me (Colors) Good Times Bad Times - Led Zeppelin (I) Hells Bells--AC/DC (Back in Black) In the Flesh? - Pink Floyd (Wall) J K Like A Rolling Stone-Bob Dylan (Highway 61 Revisited) More than a Feeling--Boston (debut album) N Overcome - Tricky (Maxinquaye) Possession-Sarah McLachlan (Fumbling Towards Ecstasy) Queen of the Reich - Queensryche (self-titled) Radio Free Europe - R.E.M. (Murmur) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band-Beatles To End The Rapture - Avenged Sevenfold (Sounding The Seventh Trumpet) Untitled - Interpol (Turn On the Bright Lights) Very Last Day - The Hollies (The Hollies) Welcome to the Working Week-Elvis Costello (My Aim Is True) X-Offender - Blondie (self-titled) Y Yellow Submarine (song) - The Beatles (Yellow Submarine LP) Zoo Station - U2 (Achtung Baby

Hopefully you'll have more luck than I did.

^I get up at 4 am most days so that would be close to my breakfast time if I actually ate breakfast. Now I'm having leftover linguini w/tomato sauce and garlic bread.

Songs that are the first track on their original album A B C D Either Way-Wilco F G H I J K L M N O P Q R Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band-Beatles T Untitled - Interpol (Turn On the Bright Lights) V W X Y Zoo Station - U2 (Achtung Baby)

The Grammy's always reminds me of that episode of The Simpsons where Homer and his friends win for "Outstanding Soul, Spoken Word, or Barbershop Album of the Year" and he tries to give it as a room service tip but the guy throws it off the balcony hitting another guy who yells "Hey, don't throw your garbage down here." then throws it back up knocking Homer out cold. Anyways don't care much either way, I saw an advert for it and the list of artists featured seemed more like a list of reasons to avoid it. And do they really need like 700 categories, kind of defeats the honour of winning a bit. The only awards I've ever paid half-attention to are the Brits, briefer, way better nominees/performers, (with some indie and alternative in the main categories, and this year Animal Collective is up in the international categories) and only somewhat dedicated to the wasteland that is the American, and to a lesser degree other nations', mainstream. Don't mean to be a downer, I just think there's plenty of music that better deserves some primetime stateside attention and most of what their offering isn't it. I do like Maxwell though, if I had to choose.

"Rabbit in Your Headlights" - UNKLE

Not familiar with either but New Orleans Saints is a nice name... Everton or Aston Villa

And if I would have given Beasties my #1 instead of #2 I could have gotten both my noms in.

I like the Dowdy Kitchen Man.

Great list... tough to narrow down. The top three were easy since they're among the first songs I ever liked but the rest took several attempts. 1. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd 2. Going to California - Led Zeppelin 3. Black Water - The Doobie Brothers 4. Rocket Man - Elton John 5. Hey Ladies - The Beastie Boys 6. I'm the Man Who Murdered Love - X T C 7. Lola - The Kinks 8. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart - Wilco 9. Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys 10. Too Drunk to (bleep) - The Dead Kennedys HMs: Wonderful World - Sam Cooke Librarian - My Morning Jacket Baby Blue - Badfinger Bus Stop - The Hollies She's Not There - The Zombies Slip Slidin’ Away - Paul Simon With A Girl Like You - The Troggs

1. Town Called Malice - The Jam 2. So What'cha Want - Beastie Boys 3. Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order 4. Big Time Sensuality - Bjork 5. Death Of A Salesman - Low 6. Just Like Heaven - The Cure 7. Intro - XX 8. Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush 9. Without Me - Eminem 10. Fallin' - Alicia Keys

"Spacelab" - Kraftwerk

"Crescendolls" - Daft Punk

"Turning Japanese" - The Vapors

+5 You Can't Catch Me - Chuck Berry +4 Its Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty +3 On Broadway - The Drifters +2 Unforgettable - Nat King Cole +1 Twistin the Night Away - Sam Cooke -5 Blue on Blue - Bobby Vinton -4 All the Way - Frank Sinatra -3 Puff the Magic Dragon - Peter Paul & Mary -2 Keep Searchin - Del Shannon -1 Walk Like A Man - The Four Seasons 5 Long Tall Sally 4 I've Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra 3 Locomotion - Little Eva 2 Born To Cry - Dion 1 The Bristol Stomp - The Dovells

"Town Called Malice" - The Jam (1982) "So What'cha Want" - Beastie Boys (1992)

I also tend to disagree a bit with the “worst decade†article. To me auto-tune is like any other production ‘innovation’ trend the industry has used to try to create what they consider better quality and better selling music. I don’t disagree with it on principle (just like I wouldn’t object to a song because it uses a drum machine instead of a ‘real’ drummer provided it fits with the context of the song) The music itself is still legitimately written, as Batman said, even if the vocals are altered. However I don’t care for much of the mainstream pop and R&B in the first place that makes the most use of it and how they’ve distorted its original function. I am however a fan of plenty of house/electronic music that is plenty synthetic and manipulated but it works in those genres and for those artists. Basically I try to evaluate what I hear on its own merit not on what technological tweaking it does or does not have. I find the Idol shows more embarrassing to music and often the hapless contestants than anything else. But music-based video games have been generally a good thing helping to expose younger generations to music they might otherwise have missed and at times inspiring them to pursue music in real life. I also don’t think it’s a terrible thing that older artists are still popular. Music doesn’t have an expiration date. If young people like their stuff, fine but I disagree that they attract fans because suitable “replacements†do not exist among the subsequent generations of artists, only perhaps they remain largely undiscovered/ignored (and probably most people attending those concerts are older fans anyway, who else can afford it?) I find some younger music fans (myself included) actually start out going backward and gradually move toward contemporary music as they refine but also expand their tastes. Well-established music is way easier to discover and appreciate than most alternative and indie, past and present. And technically wouldn’t most of the people in the next paragraph (those who died young) be considered old embarrassing guys as well by now? There isn’t much proof that they would remain as good or get better with age and really only a handful of artists have ever achieved either, in my opinion. Spot-on though about music stations, Industry vs. The Fans and generally reviled bands and performers. But I too think something should be said for Kanye West at least as a producer and for his earlier records. What I’d like to know is if so many people hate these artist’s music who keeps buying it and reinforcing the impression to the industry and onlookers that this is what music today is all about??

"Inseln" - Die Sterne

I was equally (happily) surprised too. Though I think the person to thank is Muziktyme since his return this week meant nine extra points for "23".

Vertigo (1958) - James Stewart

"Emerald Eyes" - Fight Bite

Laura (1944) - Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews

1. 23 - Blonde Redhead 2. Over and Over - Hot Chip 3. High and Dry - Radiohead 4. Bandages - Hot Hot Heat 5. Learning to Fly - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers 6. Eid Ma Clack Shaw - Bill Callahan 7. There She Goes - The La's 8. Chores - Animal Collective 9. Diamonds and Rust - Joan Baez 10. The World At Large - Modest Mouse

"The Grace" - Neverending White Lights

Aww, lucky, I wish Richard Ashcroft would've brought me a cake. Anyways Happy Birthday and best wishes, I'll have to vote Blonde Redhead No.1 (or relatively close to it) in the Top 10 this week in honor of this occasion, and since its such a lovely song I encourage everyone else to do the same.