No. More like Sabbath replacing Ozzy with Dio.

It would be easy. Put them all in one ladder crew in the Springfield Volunteer Fire Department. They go into a building, building collapses.

What if Shearer's replacement is a transformational talent of such brilliance that he single-handedly improves the show to such a degree that it makes the first ten seasons look like a pile of puke?

AIDS.

Fuck him.

Agreed. So fire the whole cast to cut costs and use the savings to hire better writers. All dialog can be recycled from old recordings.

Does the show still need Shearer? Including out-takes, there must be hundreds of hours of recorded audio of Shearer performing these characters. Is Mr. Burns really going to say something he hasn't already said? You could just cut and paste his dialog together from old recordings. It would be funny too.

Shearer has actually seen "The Day The Clown Cried," which would make a perfect basis for a one-hour series finale.

Bad hair day. Really bad.

Yeah. Birch is on an amazing list of album credits as producer or engineer or both. I don't understand how a guy whose work has gotten massive exposure for four decades can be largely unknown.

Also poached by Sabbath was Rainbow's producer Martin Birch, a crucial name that gets overlooked in rock history. His fingerprints are all over the early days of hard rock and metal.

Dio is universally respected by metalheads. If you wanted to do an article on a divisive metal figure you could have tried King Diamond. His falsetto and gothic lyrics/persona are beloved by many metal fans, dismissed by many others.

List is deficient in the heavy '70s rock I asked for. Styx's "Renegade" is the sole example. However, "Lovefool" can serve as a pretext to jam "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath," which the Cardigans covered on the same album. Just fold the two songs into a medley. I hope this opportunity is not frittered away.

She's such a super lady.

Why you want only 8? I'll take as many as they can make.

I've been meaning to binge-watch UFO, the early-70s Brit sci-fi series. One of these days I'll do it.

Sometimes stuff becomes uncool for a reason. I'm all for reappraising things and asking questions like "was the backlash justified?" In this case, the answer is yes. I'm perfectly okay with Jagged Little Pill remaining unhip enough that people are embarrassed to admit they like it. They should be.

Nah, it's an annoying singer performing cheesy mediocre pop-rock songs. I disliked it in the '90s and dislike it now. It's just not very good.

She has some odd vocal affectations that rubbed me the wrong way from day one. Some of her songs are tolerable, if dated and cheesy, but that fucking voice is a dealbreaker for me.

Excellent. You sound like an eager volunteer to rehabilitate mid to late 90's music. I really would appreciate the effort, and even though I doubt you'd win me over, I do love a quixotic quest.