1) All Mod Cons
2) Setting Sons
3) In the City
4) Sound Affects
5) This is the Modern World
6) The Gift

Great article, Noel. I play the other Jam records semi-regularly, but haven't listened to The Gift since a month or so after it came out. I think I'll give it a spin today.

Thank you. I was hoping to see "Summer of Drugs" on somebody's list. Great cover.

As she left the courthouse, Kesha was yelling, "Now we see the patriarchy baked into the system!" Also, "Help, I'm being repressed!"

John Doe's version in "Bodyguard" was very good.

I wanted that for our first dance at my wedding but was outvoted by nearly everyone. I thought it would have been perfect.

Zoe Saldana?

Sony is a defendant in the action. It's alleged Sony knew or should have known the producer was abusing Kesha and failed to investigate. Why would a corporate defendant want to use its influence to initiate a criminal investigation into whether it acted in conscious disregard of Kesha's safety regardless of whether…

Between the comment/username synergy and the content, this deserves about a thousand upvotes.

Agreed, unless it was a take it or leave it proposition. Avoid prosecution in return for a sealed depo transcript in a case you know you're going to settle without ever testifying in court? It might have looked like a good deal - until the court unsealed the transcript.

I agree the whole transaction seems odd. As Vogon Poetry says below, his lawyers should have had a tighter, written deal before allowing him to be deposed. The only thing I can come up with is the deal he got is the only one the DA would offer, and his lawyers thought Cosby having to sit for a deposition was an…

Essentially, as long as he was faced with the threat of criminal prosecution, Cosby had a right not to provide incriminating testimony against himself under oath in the civil action. He would not have provided substantive answers to any questions either in a deposition there or a civil trial. That would have made it…

He was being sued by the victim in civil court and obviously would have had a 5th amendment right not to testify there. He waived that in reliance on the "no prosecution" agreement and sat for a deposition in the civil case.

The article says she runs a sexual agency. I'm not sure what that is, but I'm pretty sure it's near Wilshire.

Very few now recall that Marty Balin was the son of Marty Fundin.

I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on "Christmas in Capetown," a song it took me years to get the sense of.

The version of "Semaphore Signals" from Stiffs Live is one of the high points of that record.

The version of "Semaphore Signals" from Stiffs Live is one of the high points of that record.

Maybe they'd heard it, maybe not. Probably they'd heard it, just forgot.

My daughter woke me up up last night at 11:30 and told me Bowie was dead. I've had that just woke up disorientation about it ever since. This obit helps. Thanks O'Neal.