Rob Not Bob

Network : "This was the story of Howard Beale : the first man to be killed because he had bad ratings."

These can be ones that make you laugh, cry sad, cry happy, squish your hear flat (#5 for me) or otherwise move you ... come play along! Here are a few of mine (yes, I know most of these only make sense in context) : 1) Sky Captain & The World Of Tomorrow : "Lenscap" 2) Hannah And Her Sisters : "I'm pregnant" 3) Garden State : "So tell me ... what do I do now?" 4) Some Like It Hot : "Well ... nobody's perfect." (a classic) 5) Chasing Amy : "Who was that?" "Oh, just some guy I used to know." 6) Casablanca : "Louie, I think this could be the start of a beautiful friendship" (another classic)

Continuing to be an insufferable nitpicker, but the Motown soul is very different from Aretha Franklin. The Motown sound was a very polished, clean sounding, pop soul, as opposed to the more funky, earthy sounds of the soul acts on Atlantic (like Aretha) and Stax ... I love both sounds, but they are very distinct from each other.

Pretty sure that Aretha Franklin was in fact on Atlantic, not Motown.

Chuck Berry, Peter Tosh, Curtis Mayfield

Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) Mick Harvey (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds) Jamie West-Oram (The Fixx) Craig Scanlon (The Fall) Dave Brock (Hawkwind) Tim Buckley

Tawl Ross (Funkadelic) Carlos Alomar (David Bowie)

Both remember it and still use it, actually .. alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.indie, baby. well, a lot of ISPs (including, unfortunately my own) have phased out or cut off access to usenet.

#254. Songs with a number and a colour in the title. 1. Nena - 99 Red Balloons 2. Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

Anybody remember Usenet? Thought not ... I'm just trying to get the trend going of everyone referring to it as FaceCake. My approach is to always refer to it as such.

#253. Songs about or mentioning a non-Christian religion or spiritual path 1. David Byrne & Brian Eno - Quran (Islam) 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

#254. Songs About Unions 1. Old Crow Medicine Show - Union Maid 2. United Steel Workers Of Montreal - Union Man 3. Billy Bragg & Wilco - I Guess I Planted 4. Drive-By Truckers - Uncle Frank 5. Uncle Tupelo - Coalminers 6. The Band- King Harvest 7. The Beatles - Back In The U.S.S.R. 8. The Grateful Dead - Cumberland Blues 9. Ani DiFranco / Utah Phillips - Bread and Roses 10. Bruce Springsteen - The River 11. Phish - Union Federal 12. Frank Zappa - Stick Together

Go to the back of the class.

Also, Booche needs to get off his ass and fix his entry.

TMI

#252. Songs by Bands Whose Band Names Were Inspired by the Titles of Other Songs* *Obviously, you can't use the same band on this list twice. That would just be stupid. 1. The Pretenders - Brass In Pocket ("The Great Pretender") 2. moe. - Shoot First ("Five Guys Named Moe" by Louis Jordan And His Timpany 5) 3. Eric's Trip - Universal Dawn ("Eric's Trip" by Sonic Youth) 4. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees ("Radio Head" by Talking Heads) 5. Judas Priest - ("The Ballad Of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" by Bob Dylan) 6. Deep Purple - Bird Has Flown ("Deep Purple" by Bing Crosby) 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12

I can think of 2 incredibly obvious ones

A Godlike album ... "You're swimming pool eyes/In sea breezes they flutter"

"God bless those pagans!"

Fiona's reply as printed in the Ottawa Sun (even though she sent it to the Toronto Sun) : Re: "Ottawa rotting at the core" (July 14). Having lived in downtown Toronto most of my life and downtown Ottawa and Vanier for the past nine years, I disagree with the column regarding the dangers that apparently abound here. I've yet to see a single person openly smoke crack here, but have lost count of how many times I saw it in Toronto. I feel perfectly safe walking downtown here at night. That most certainly wasn't the case in my hometown, Toronto, where I was regularly chased down the street by rival dealers trying to get my attention. It seems this world traveller has never been to Haiti, Jamaica, Cairo, Iraq, Afghanistan or many parts of Toronto if she truly thinks Ottawa is one of the most dangerous cities on Earth. Fiona Hammond-Vincent Ottawa (No doubt there are more dangerous places than the Byward Market)

My wife's letter was printed in the Citizen.

Nobody famous, near as I know ... a young guy named Joe Gooch who smoked on guitar.

Caught part of Cat Empire, quite cool. Edie Brickell was all kinds of awesome. I intended to see all of INXS , the band was tight but quite frankly JD Fortune drove me away with his lame stage patter .. quite frankly, he is a wanker. So I checked out the rest of Ten Years After ... even without Alvin Lee, the kicked muy mucho ass. A fun night.

As a youth, I used to wonder why they had Sneat written on their sweaters.

Oh, sure, my wife is from Toronto and sure doesn't think this way ... just asking for another perspective on our city from someone outside it.