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    Every time I hear a Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes songs, that album is the first thing I think of

    …aka "Yeasty"!

    Take a deep breadth:
    Record industry execs (who are Billboard's ad base) really only care what's selling now.  In the pre-computer days, the charts were based off reports from record stores—and those guys were very easily bought off.  So what happens when the charts started being complied by actual register sales in…

    Can I make a request for "Thick As A Brick"?  Mostly because I've always wondered how the hell was that thing marketed.  Not only is it one forty minute long song, but the fact it forms one big story makes it hard to edit. 

    There never was any sort of attempt at collaborating, but Bob Dylan definately dropped by a couple of times at Miles' house in the sixties.  Interesting enough (according to his wife Frances) Miles didn't practice at home and preferred listening to classical records.

    Independence Hall in Philadelphia, although I'm embarassed to admit I mainly remember it from the shot 18 seconds into this clip http://www.youtube.com/watc…

    By the way, what are the most popular American imports in Australia?

    Nielsen (and Arbitron) have rules that you are not supposed to directly solicit the people who they use as rating households.  For that matter, their rating households aren't supposed to reveal that they are Nielsen households.

    Well at least this inventory showed us the "picture of Space Needle to represent Seattle" has been in films and Tv nearly since the start.  Is there any other city besides Seattle that is universally represented by a single landmark?

    You glided over two important questions:
    What changed in the past few decades that Saturday night is a "night nobody young is home?"  In the seventies "cool" shows on Saturday night like All In The Family and MTM had no problem drawing young viewers.  And, you know, there's that show called Saturday Night Live.  If…

    It actually used to be a lot worse.  Before the cable era, hit shows would only start in September.  The notion of debuting a big hit like American Idol in December NEVER happened.  Now a lot of reality shows are specificly aimed to debut in the spring.  And that's just the broadcast networks; cable networks often…

    First off was this even an awards show? There were about six awards presented, and one person won four of them…the same person who was interviewed on 60 minutes beforehand, who is the predominant person on the official poster, and who was featured on commercials on the broadcast. It was more a North Korean election…

    Who's even used the word "alternative" since 1999?

    Ugh. Meant to say "melancholy of the original in the slow part."

    It's pretty mind boggling that the producers of "All in the Family" were willing to fire the biggest star on TV at the time.  Even the fact Lear and O'Connor fought nearly nonstop during the early years makes it a hard idea to justify.  When Lear told CBS what he was going to do, the network told him "put O'Connor…

    "It Ain't Me Babe", the Grass Roots.  Not only does it capture the melancholy of the original in the fast part, but the fast part makes the song sound like it was done by someone who's fighting conflicting feelings about his old girlfriend.
    "Just Like A Woman", Nina Simone.  Guts the idiotic charges that Dylan's lyrics…

    Does this mean he's ripping off Ringo's Sentimental Journey?

    I was reading in the Saturday paper that the Super Bowl ads are increasingly done by Hollywood firms, rather than the Madison Avenue firms that usually do commercials.  That would explain why the ads aren't as interesting as they used to be; Hollywood is the master of building anticipation for focus groupped…