See, I'd actually watch that documentary. I'm not sure what that means now.

@Cheeseburger: Yes.

Does this mean we'll get to see more hard-drinkin' Koski in the videos? Here's hoping!

I'm fairly sure I could sit on a desert island with Hank's "40 Greatest Hits" and be happy with it for a long, long time. Really, it was difficult to ever top Sr. for the country music genre.

Naah, the original "I Will Always Love You" is almost revelatory. Especially after Houston's awful, ubiquitous version. 's good stuff.

@Lovecraft: I meant his recent stuff more than anything, not those balletic, hysterical performances from his speed days. Those were brilliant.

Well, Prison Wine just moved from "funny running joke" to "aggressively creepy" with one comment. Congrats, buddy!

See, with RT you can basically pick up any album with his name on it and it'll be solid. He's almost alarmingly consistent. The only thing I think you'd need a primer for is if you want to avoid the early 90s album with the controversial Mitchell Froom production.

"Good Year for the Roses" was a cover from the "Almost Blue" album. I believe it was a George Jones song originally. EC's version is amazing, though.

It's got its moments, especially "Brilliant Disguise" which is just heartbreaking. It's never been one of my favorite Bruce albums - I felt like it started off glacially at best.

I feel like the only person in the world who'd rather listen to Richard sing than Linda. I've never been a huge fan of her voice. Still, that album is definitely her best performance. Do we believe that "Shoot Out the Lights" the song is actually just about the mujaheddin or is it like a metaphor?

M is right - "Dirge" is where it's at. How it wound up on a shit sandwich of an album like "Planet Waves" is anyone's guess. Even stranger, three songs later you get "Wedding Song" which is either really dripping with bitter sarcasm or a scihzo serious love song. Bizarre one way or the other.

His televised interviews are some marble-mouthed shit to be sure, but who gives a fuck what he says? Bob's totally full of shit anyway and lies to reporters (and all through his autobiography, which was endlessly fascinating regardless [or maybe because] of its distant relation to objective truth) just for kicks. He…

I added the Dan Roche to my wishlist after reading that description. I thought that was a book. Someone upthread mentioned Philip Roth's "I Married a Communist" which is hard to top as far as these things go.

Fuck me, I bought it and read like 5 pages worth. I got some catchin' up to do!

@Kyle. Right on. Lennon was not a good guy by any stretch of the imagination. It angers me to see him held up as some idealized granny-glasses wearing peacenik because in the brief moments of non-Yoko-manipulated public imagery he seems to betray a bit more intelligence about his own role as "inspiring noble action".…

Do people really read books to relate to the characters? Really? I genuinely cannot wrap my head around this conceit.

I'll cop to having enjoyed "Bonfire of the Vanities" despite seeing its flaws. I do love me a book every now and then where every single character is completely fucking deplorable, even if they were easy, obvious targets. And I enjoy his early (let's say pre-1980) journalism a lot. Anything after? Yeesh. "Man in Full"…

It's hard to hate on "Elizabethtown"'s soundtrack, which has Lindsey Buckingham and an admittedly slightly distasteful cover of Judee Sill's "Jesus Was a Cross Maker" on it. The film looked beyond dire, of course.

I liked this one
(not a first attempt) despite the fact that it was really a fine excuse to allow the cast to dance like idiots. And hey, new receptionist is cute.