Yeah, I'd disagree with Big Country. I think Steel Town is really impressive.

Guy Clark was actually the one that I put down on the list that I regret now (like I said, I did the list in a hurry).

I guess I would say, in defense of my pick of Joni Mitchell, that I really love her style on the first album. It's a slightly creepy mellow folk thing that she had going there and I think it's great - she had it on a few songs on the next two albums and then lost it. I'm not arguing that Blue and Court and Spark…

Not necessarily how it happened - let me bore you for a minute:

I enjoy Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here, and they certainly were successful commercially, but I always see those albums as imitations of Barrett's mindset - with Piper you have the real thing.

More Beer, Free Beer…Lee Ving was in Clue.

If you're hetero for Einar Orn then you won't be disappointed with the other two.

I agree, but shhhhh….

I got a million of 'em
Really only a few, but I love this inventory. Now lesse (as he looks at his records):

I meant to put down "seventies and eighties" for those artists. Damn.

I really hate the term Yacht Rock…
Because it reminds me of something really unfunny I saw on the internet once.

You're married to Amy Poehler?

I usually went for the long songs too. Well, long songs and "Streets of Bakersfield" (I was the one who tried to turn Gabor's into the Grizzly Rose for three minutes).

Thanks Jason
Not only for this great Kinks post, but also for the Denver nostalgia. Denver was my hometown up until two years ago, and I used to live three blocks away from the Cricket (but much preferred Gabor's).

Later Oswald's
Oswald actually continued into the late-thirties with Walter Lantz (of Woody Woodpecker fame) at the helm. I've only seen one that was specially made for the film The King of Jazz (one of the first cartoons done in color) and it's not particularly memorable - but it was also early on (1930 I believe)…

Just a thought
I don't know how long this article takes to write from start to finish, but you could easily make this a weekly trip through different charts. It would be interesting to have a take on r & b, modern rock, AC, tejano, um…inuit…I don't know, but I really like this concept.

Die Hard
It's not officially Christmas at my parents' house unless "Die Hard" plays at least once (possibly the sequel if they have nothing better to do).

GG would be so proud of that remark.