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.

The House That Jack Built - Aretha Franklin

My all time favourite motown tune (at least i think its motown)...that era anyway.

Son of a Preacher Man (the Aretha version)

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)

Anybody remember Usenet

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

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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)

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#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

Great song, horrible show.

Go to the back of the class.

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

I'm pulling for her.

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)

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I can think of 2 incredibly obvious ones

Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure.

A Godlike album ...

"You're swimming pool eyes/In sea breezes they flutter"

Lousy uptight pagans.

"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.

So I checked out the rest of Ten Years After ... even without Alvin Lee' date=' the kicked muy mucho ass. A fun night.[/quote']

So who replaced him? I thought I read somewhere that it was Dave Mason?

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.

Torontonians' date=' does Ottawa really look like that when you visit?[/quote']

Not to me. Don't revere Christina's comments as typical of all Torontonians.

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.