If you get the chance, listen to Jimmy Webb's version on his Ten Easy Pieces album. It's him and his piano.

Greil Marcus suggests that Bob Dylan wrote "Clothesline Saga" as a goof on "Ode to Billie Joe." I've never been able to hear the latter song without cracking up since then. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Which time?

"Chief, how's this for a fresh angle on that Dead & Co. piece you want for Newswire: Deadheads are smelly and can't remember things because they're too old and/or high." Editor: "That's pure genius, run with it!"
Speaking as someone whose first GD show was in the '70's and who went to the two Santa Clara Fare Thee…

So you're saying he was Beat Crazy?

If you were looking for a band name, would you go with "Feral Birds" or "The Feral Birds"?

X are doing the "play their classic album" thing this weekend locally (O.C. California) and these are supposed to be Billy's last shows before chemo. I couldn't do all four nights so I picked Wild Gift and More Fun in the New World. It did feel kind of sacrilegious not to go with the first album.

That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the article. I saw the Bowie exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum and thought it was very good, especially the amount of detail in his costume and stage design. Bowie put a surprising amount of thought into that stuff. I don't see the Stones exhibit as having…

Especially In Concert Volume 1.

As someone said below, the Nazz was Jesus. It's from the Lord Buckley routine of the same name. (That routine is also the source of the line "Make it Jude" from Hey Jude.) https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Jackie Suzanne meant it that way.

A good place to mention the heyday of emusic.com. For a few years there for $20 a month I got 90 song downloads a month. The downloads expired at the end of the month and emusic didn't have any mainstream labels in their catalog, so taking a chance on new bands was easy. I re-engaged in a big way with new music in…

You will always be my little brothers
Cause you're younger,
We're related
And you're boys.

Don't mention the war!

You reject Lord Cathol at your peril.

Don't give in 2000 man.

As far as I can tell, they're playing seven card stud. One of Gold's hole cards is the king of clubs and he's got three kings showing. Mudd has three aces up and he pulls the final ace as his last down card.

Ok it's early but I read this as "ever peed on a cat … ON WEED" and spit coffee everywhere.

TANSTAAFL - it was pretty libertarian.

Slow Children deserve a mention. "Spring in Fialta" and "Vanessa Vacillating" are near-perfect synth pop.