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I thought it was a most entertaining trainwreck and I do not feel sorry for her. With $700,000 coming in per month she hardly needs to work. Having fired everyone around her and estranged herself from her family, she set herself up for failure. Apparently MTV demanded that she behave herself while in Vegas to ensure a winning opening segment. Brit Brit chose to party into the wee hours every night she was there. She showed up to rehearsals hours late with a frozen margarita in her hand. Ding dang, y'all!

Hell, remember Nigel Tufnel, when he discovered backstage that the caterers provided pieces of bread that did not fit the deli meat? And that one olive had a pimento and the other didn't? He said "I'm a professional, I shall rise above it" and then he rocked the fuck out of Toledo, or wherever.

And while I don't think by any normal standard Britney looked in bad shape, by Hollywood standards she was a mess. Her entire demeanour was definitely disconcerting.

One interesting biz-related fall-out regarding this has to do with California mega-reps The Firm, and Brian is correct to point out that ultimately it is your hired reps that must take some blame in the end. From foxnews.com:

There will be a lot of finger-pointing Monday as Spears’ flabby, bloated, incoherent showing is dissected over and over.

But the real person to blame has to be Spears’ newish manager, Jeff Kwatinetz of The Firm.

Kwatinetz has already had a very bad year, nearly killing the career of original “American Idol†star Kelly Clarkson by letting her — or rather encouraging her — to buck the advice of Clive Davis and release a terrible album against his wishes.

What followed was a series of public embarrassments including the cancellation of Clarkson’s tour and her firing of Kwatinetz. The album, "My December," went on to sell a fraction of the number Clarkson had sold previously.

Now with Spears’ tanking live on international television, insiders will no doubt question Kwatinetz’s ability to manage anything.

The reverberations could be serious. For the better part of this year, Kwatinetz’s partner, Rick Yorn, who manages top stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz among other actors, has been negotiating to leave The Firm. Yorn should have plenty of incentive to exit now. The only question is where he will go with his clients.

But more importantly: When Yorn goes, The Firm’s unraveling could turn out to be the biggest story of the year.

Ding dang, y'all!

ok I think Sarahbelle gets next pick.

I like this cd too.

276. 80's songs with Sax

1. Eric Carmen - Hungry eyes

2. Glen Frey - You Belong To The City

3. Huey Lewis & The News - Heart of Rock 'n' Roll

4. George Michael - Careless Whisper

5. Men at Work - Who Can it Be Now?

6. Sade - Smooth Operator

7. Bruce Springsteen - I'm Going Down

8. Duran Duran - Rio

9. The Cure - A Night Like This

10. David Bowie - Modern Love

11. James Brown - Living in America

12. Bill Medley + Jennifer Warnes-I've Had the Time of my Life

276. 80's songs with Sax

1. Eric Carmen - Hungry eyes

2. Glen Frey - You Belong To The City

3. Huey Lewis & The News - Heart of Rock 'n' Roll

4. George Michael - Careless Whisper

5. Men at Work - Who Can it Be Now?

6. Sade - Smooth Operator

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273. Older Women

1. Forgotten Rebels - fuÇk Me Dead

2. The Statler Brothers - Older Women Make Beautiful Lovers

3. Pearl Jam - Elderly woman behind the counter in a small town

4. Simon & Garfunkle - Mrs. Robinson

5. The Dead Milkmen - RC's Mom

6. Neil Young - The Old Laughing Lady

7. Gil Scott-Heron - Grandma's Hands

8. Offspring - Me And My Old Lady

9. The Who - Squeeze Box

10. Van Halen - Hots For Teacher

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272 - Songs that Remind you of being a teenager.

1. Pearl Jam - Jeremy

2. U2 - Wire

3.Lords of the New Church - Like A Virgin

4. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road (even though it was out long before I was a teenager)

5. Jane's Addiction - Three Days

6. Soundgarden - I fell on Black Days

7. Nirvana - Lithium

8. Martha And The Muffins - Echo Beach

9. Spoons - Romantic Traffic

10. Kim Mitchell - I Am A Wild Party

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paging jonyak.......

271 - Songs that blow you away...in any way!

1. Dylan - Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

2. Jurassic 5 - Jurass Finish First

3. Jeff Beck - A Day In The Life

4. Richard Thompson - Word Unspoken, Sight Unseen

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it doesn't??

STOP THE PRESSES!

Come to think of it, the theme being "Songs You heard at CTMF this past weekend", all you need is to make sure the song has had an official release, not necessarily by the band who performed it.

So the theoretical CD with this theme would have Bob Dylan doing "Gotta Serve Somebody", not Steve Murphy Band. Got it?

In this case, "Doobie Break", having never been released officially by anyone would have to go. And unless the DD song is a cover of an otherwise released song (it's not on either of their cd's apparently), it would have to go too.

Sorry, this one was confusing. I think the one remaining sticking point is that you would have had to have attended the festival in order to make an entry. If you weren't there, you couldn't have heard a band play any of the songs.

That leaves us with

270 Songs You heard at CTMF this past weekend

1. Bob Dylan - Gotta Serve Somebody(Steve Murphy Band)

2. The Grateful Dead - Franklin's Tower (Passenger)

3. United Steel Workers Of Montreal - Ask Me Stay (Dedicated to me!)

4. () Diesel Dog - Ain't Hurtin' Nobody (status pending)

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**** edited, see my next post below ****

Sorry, just clued in to this mess.

This theme could have been played out according to the rules as set out from the beginning but it's clear it's going to be difficult. I am sure that enough of the artists that played this past weekend at CTMF have released albums with tracks that could qualify for the theme, be they originals or covers (remember, "bootleg" style versions are not eligible here, and never have been). So, if the Steve Murphy Band has a CD (I don't know) and they played a song from it at CTMF, then that song can stay on the list. Listing a song they did but have never "released" is ineligible. But unless they only performed that one song for their set, there should be other options available.

It's also obvious that for this theme to continue some editing will have to be done to it to make sure it falls within the rules. Part of the challenge of the game as a whole is to make it through the most difficult themes so we can't just abandon the theme, or else we abandon the game as a whole.

I say: edit this list to what is applicable to theme. Then, rope in some of those dirty disgusting wookies who went to the festival to apply what's left of their brains to finish the task at hand properly, and then we can move on and pretend this never happened, like the career of the Disco Biscuits.

As for who gets to "change" the rules, I'd argue they haven't really changed much since the very beginning, they just needed some clarification from time to time. We're heading towards almost 300 themes now (!) and I don't recall having to correct much as of late, so we're doing good. But it would a nightmare to have everyone changing the rules as they see fit, just to suit their own themes or entries, so I - quite frankly - want the final say on these matters.

This theme can be finished, just fix it up and think a little harder about what those bands (who have released material) played!

Go, we're almost at #300!!!

I know I've heard some rumour that Rod Stewart blew off all of his bandmates and then had to have his stomach pumped. Something tells me that account is a little (or a lot) inaccurate...

The offical rumour is that he had to have his stomach pumped and they brought up a gallon (or some other amount) of semen. Never happened.

Surprisingly, His Rodness has since denied this story.

Am I the only one that is totally burnt out on "reunion" talks for any band, let alone LZ? It's like, great - you're going to get back together and make a mint but I can't really think of too many major reunions that actually began to live up to the glories of the past. Of course, they can be serviceable - at $125 a ticket they better be - but only merely so.

I'm not trying to be a buzzkill but I just can't see how a Led Zep reunion would provide any more value than just giving thousands of people the chance to say they saw Led Zeppelin. And considering they stopped in 1980, what really is the point in that? Just to check another one off the list?

It'll be interesting in 10 years time when all these "heritage" acts finally really do become too old to mine the otherwise floundering arena/amphitheater markets anymore.

I'm happy to see the ass end of this Summer. It's my least favorite season and this wasn't a particularly good one for me.

269 Songs about Displaced Persons

1. The Band - Acadian Driftwood

2. Calexico - Across the wire

3. Ry Cooder - How Can you Keep On Moving (Unless you Migrate too)

4. Sting - Englishman In New York

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When Phish comes on my I-tunes... for most songs, I can only think one thing: Dated. The Beatles don't... Zeppelin... not so much, but Phish... it has now become a time and a place. And that's the past.

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Billy Breathes... that one will stand the test of time however.

I'm in the same boat. Not that I agree with the BB proviso. But yeah, good songs last forever. Then there's Guyute, etc.

Funny, really the only Phish CD I can still listen to these days is Round Room, and it's probably the one most universally panned by their fanbase.

It has good songs.

#268 The Twelve Most Depressing Songs..... Ever!

1. Richard Thompson - The End Of The Rainbow

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#267 Songs about places of worship

1. David Sylvian - Steel Cathedrals

2. The Ramones - Pet Semetary

3. The Stanley Brothers - Old Country Church

4. Frank Zappa - Dumb All Over

5. Radio Tarifa - La Mosca

6. Dead Kennedys - Moral Majority

7. Culture - Holy Mount Zion

8. Roger Waters - Towers of Faith

9. Zeppelin - Houses of the holy

10. Rush - The Temples of Syrinx

11. Stephen Malkmus - Church on White

12. Lyle Lovett - Church

gimme a minute

THE TWELVE SONG ALBUM GAME RULES

* each album has 12 songs; you are allowed only ONE contribution per album

* you must pick a song that has been officially released. A "bootleg" recording of an unreleased song is not eligible here.

* whoever finishes one theme gets to also set and start the next theme. And so on....

* previous themes may be repeated but the previous picks must be located and re-posted so that no songs duplicate themselves between different volumes.

Booche gets the next theme.

#264 New Theme: Ill mull it over during lunch

1. Adam Sandler - Lunch Lady Land

2. Blues Traveler - Mulling It Over

3. Paul McCartney - Mull of Kintyre

4. Frank Zappa - German Lunch

5. Moody Blues - Lunch Break: Peak Hour

6. Weird Al Yankovic - Girls Just Want To Have Lunch

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and quick! we've only got till the end of lunch to complete this theme ...

this is the sound of a man drowning.

bye bye music retail business as we've understood it. bye bye!

They remain the only band I've bought a ticket for and then bailed on mid show. Life was way too short to listen to any more of that nonsense!

i know AD purpled it, but [color:purple]Band on the Run ain't a Beatles song

it's true.

doesn't make it a better song. ugh.