I don't thin k.d. lang adds any lines, and her version is the only one I find listenable. Her Hymns of the 49th Parallel version of 'Helpless' is staggering too.

http://www.ryanseacrest.com…

Sounds more like the straight white guy that wants his uncle to have the same rights as everyone else to me.

"Black people, you shouldn't hate gays cause slavery." Doubt it, as I am fairly sure slavery didn't end with sit-ins. Segregation laws did, including interracial marriage which is fairly comparable to gay marriage.

Totally disagree. 'Thrift Shop' could have left him almost a novelty one hit wonder, with "Can't Hold Us" being mostly unexceptional except for it genuinely sounding like he was having tons of fun.

I gave it an extra month because of 'Tories':
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

The recycling one is where they started to lose it for me (though didn't watch in order or anything). Recycling is crazy because people are willing to make the effort? Separating glass and cans from garbage makes no sense because you can harvest methane?

He's obviously invested a lot of time in teaching that dog to talk and it just can't.

Yeah, that threw me off- it's the basis of their song 'Boredom' (which is not only a song you can imagine pogo-ing to, it would be hard to imagine dancing to it any other way.

I was going to specifically mention 'Whips and Furs' too…

If you aren't familiar with the era, the Burning Ambitions: A History Of Punk compilation is a really strong introduction to some great stuff. Vibrators are particularly good if you like the Buzzcocks

A band called Big Dipper did a cover for a new wave tribute album that captures how great that song was, if only it was not in the 'long electronic' era:
http://grooveshark.com/s/Ho…

It was sort of distracting for me. I kept looking for the twist. I was sure the 'girlfriend' was going to hand him over to the IRA at some point.

Evan better than that, my Father-in-law asked me if I had figure out he was dead yet. He wasn't dead yet, they were still at the dinner.

"Right now in Africa there's some guy madly beating on a drum.
He's a Doors fan. Or an old lady sitting on the bus sucking humbugs. She's a Rider On The Storm, but she ain't never heard the sounds."

I'm just a middleclass white kid from Toronto
Inspite of how I sound
My single went platinum, I'm bigger than Marley, Jimmy, and Yellowman, But I'm not even mulatto
My reggae's watered down

Switching to Glide. Usually lasts for a week.

I love the Ramones, but now listen to the Vibrators and Buzzcocks move often for that treble over just distortion sound.

Some of the Klub Foot / Blood on the Cats era stuff did nicely.

Totally came by to say that. I was only through the power of the intertubes I found out who did that. Only knew it from an old mixtape from someone else's car.