Is it better or worse than Velvet Undergound's "Lonesome Cowboy Bill?" (Trying to remember the quote about the Velvets on 'We're Only In It for the Money'… Something like: "Also, I get to work with the Velvet Underground, which is just as shitty a group as Frank Zappa's group")

Can I interest you in a pair of zircon-encrusted tweezers? Let me sterilize it, gimme your lighter.

I like Zappa, but Tom Waits is an all-time favorite of mine. His show at the Beacon when he toured behind Mule Variations was one of the best concerts I've ever seen, and I listen to his music at least on a weekly basis. Hell, I play and sing his songs on my acoustic guitar all the time as well (my 3 year old…

Interesting take… I posted a few months ago on a Radiohead thread that I found it ridiculous that Rolling Stone had named 'Kid A' Best Album of the '00's, I mean, I'm a fan, and I think it's a good, maybe great album (3 classic tracks by my count), but NOT the best album of the decade, or even the best Radiohead album…

I love that their first commercially released single in advance of their debut album was arguably its weirdest song (which is saying a lot), what I would like to think was an "answer record" to Simon & Garfunkel's then-recent hit "I Am a Rock": "Help, I'm a Rock"… It sounds almost like first-album Einsturzende…

Joe's Garage Act 1 was awesome… Act 2 & 3 were meh.

I think the success of "Yellow Snow" and 'Apostrophe' happened because 'Overnight Sensation' was such a blast and won him a ton of fans, so the follow-up (Apostrophe) was more or less a hit out of the box (made the freakin' U.S. Billboard Top 10), even though it wasn't nearly as good. I am expecting no one to agree…

One Part Lullaby was their best, most consistent album. Was disappointed it didn't find an audience.

Oh, forgot about that one… Good one!

The vulture one spoiled my sleep the night I saw it… The sound of Kyle's head bump-bump-bumping on the rock as vulture went to work and the camera pulled back… that was one of the more disturbing things I had ever seen. Wondered afterward it it would have been even more disturbing to have Kyle just screaming in agony…

OF COURSE I'VE GOT A PROBLEM WITH WOMEN!!!

The Outback slug… It has no natural predators, it is just… stupid.

Let's see… A TFTC episode that includes multiple castrations and an abused sideshow freak was somehow disturbing to you? How so? Seriously though, I watched this show all the time, and this was one of the 3 that have stayed with me, the others being the one where the not-yet-fully-dead doctor about to get autopsied…

Random factoid re: Face Dances: Over on the WLIR "Screamer of the Week" archive, it lists "Daily Records" (?!) as their listener-voted-best-new-song for the week of March 3, 1981… The actual singles from 'Face Dances' didn't even make the cut. So they were playing it, and listeners were calling in and voting for it.…

Supposedly he was fired for being more movie star handsome than Paul, who did not appreciate the competition… Then again, my source for that information was a 30 year old memory of a conversation with a bunch of fellow high school musicians, so ya' know, quite likely nonsense.

You say that sounding like Robin Zander is somehow not a good thing?

'Who Are You' is a Very Good album with only a few clunkers. It only suffers in comparison to the albums from the legendary '67-'73 years. Entwistle's "Trick Of the Light" is a blast.

WKRP did a much better job of incorporating The Who into a different episode wherein Les Nessman gets all Mad as Hell about something-or-other, and climbs into a small plane while "Had Enough" (Entwistle's shining moment from 'Who Are You') plays prominently.

One of my best friends is a drummer. Says he has always hated Keith Moon's playing, what with all the crazy fills, and generally the concept of "playing what is needed for the song and not just to show off" being beyond his grasp. I think that's a bit harsh and overstated, but I get what he means.

Oh, and he messes up rather noticeably on "Baba O'Reilly," a song he had probably played hundreds of times by that point. Sad.