I think people around here are a little bit embarrassed about O-B-A-M-A these days.

He was a damn good number 3 batsman for Australia, too. Remember that time he riled up Curtley Ambrose by asking him to remove his sweatbands? What balls!

What's that you say? Warren Oates prefers the earlier, hipper Fleetwood Mac? Now how about that!

It's that one with the sax break.

Oates, you're just too hip, brother…

"AND A GOOD DAY TO YOU, SIR!!"

Baker St is one of those songs where they come up with the hook (in the case the sax break), think to themselves 'this is fucking awesome', jam on it for days and then realise that they're going to need to write an actual song around it and toss one off in no time flat. Classic example is 'Smoke on the Water,' the…

"Honed In"?
in the books section of the AV Club? Oh my.

She's right -
Everything WAS better in the past.

Any ballad
on any Stooges album; or 'Let Me Try' in the MC5's Back in the USA.'

Yep

Twelve, you mean…

You need to edit out that second (german) verse using Audacity or similar, then you've got a guaranteed hit on your hands.

Gimme Big Mac, Fries to go…

Parks' early 70's album "Discover America" is one all-time favorites- West Indian steel band music mixed with 30's pop tunes, it's a work of art.

PET SOUNDS
Didn't he write the lyrics for Pet Sounds, or something? I know (or think I know) he put out an album of 'orchestral' arrangements of Beach Boys songs (which was pretty dire); in fact, all up he could be said to be the inferior British equivalent of Van Dyke Parks.

Wouldn't YOU be?

I thought it was "Barry McKenzie Holds His Own."

If the majority of readers go away satisfied then damn right it makes him a good writer. Not a good linguist, maybe, but who'd wanna be one of them?

He's big in Australia too, like Pink and Cheap Trick.