Another McCartney Beatles solo I'm rather fond of is the one on "Good Morning, Good Morning". His lead guitar on "I'm Down" is simpler but is pretty groovy as well. My favorite Beatles solo still belongs to George, though, on the album version of "Let It Be".

Dick Dale's playing on "Misirlou" is pretty great too, if we're talking surf music.

It's still a good solo, but yeah, the overdubbed solo for the album version is just incomparably better.

If the original version of "Layla" had never existed, the acoustic version would be kind of a not incredible but nice song. But as it is, it's hard not to hear it as just a decidedly inferior version of a masterpiece.

Some of my favorites are obvious ones - Stairway to Heaven, All Along the Watchtower, Layla, Comfortably Numb.

David Gilmour's solos are always so precise and well-planned. I know some people criticize them for sounding too rehearsed, but if you ask me that's not a flaw in this type of music.

I always thought Radiohead sounded like mediocre Pink Floyd - which, sadly, made them one of the best bands of the past thirty years or so.

I enjoyed the book when we read it in school, but yeah, as a middle-class nerd from New Jersey in the early '90s, I could not relate to the social milieu at all. The world of The Outsiders is just about as alien to me as the world of the Icelandic sagas.

Yeah, I'd vote for either Buchanan or George W. Bush as the worst (pre-Trump, anyway).

I think Monk's Cafe was the first one I tried as well.

Sour beers are amazing. I remember the first time I tried a Flemish sour ale; it was like a revelation. Sour lambics, like Kriek, are pretty great too. I don't think it's technically a sour style, but (exiled to the wastelands of northern Ontario as I currently am) lately I've been enjoying Nickel Brook's bourbon…

Hmm, I think I'm starting to get it. By replacing the word "live" with its opposite, you achieve a humorous effect. Well done! I shall now laugh in recognition of your joke.

Could you explain that in greater detail, please?

. . . After spending a good deal of time in the '90s trying to pass single-payer health care. She realized that it's not likely to happen, you see.

In late DS9 ("Who Mourns for Morn?", I think), it was established that latinum was the only valuable part and Quark called gold worthless. However, when the Ferengi were introduced in early TNG ("The Last Outpost"), they were shown prizing gold very highly..

Works for me.

Yeah, I don't get the outrage about this. Learning invented languages is fun, and learning any language (even a conlang) will teach you something about how language works. But then I say this as someone who once tried to translate Tolkien's Ainulindale into Quenya, so . . .

They offer this and not Quenya!?

"Best Sean"? I know plenty of Seans who're better than you, Hannity.

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