Linnell may be THE great American pop songwriter of the past thirty years. Jerks who rip on TMBG should get their heads out of their asses. Thirty years of clever original pop songcraft, from Don't Let's Start to Can't Keep Johnny Down. John Linnell everyone! Praise him! Praise him!

Have you got any stewed prunes?

Ditto on the Adamson book - he has a very sophisticated sense of humor that comes thru in his writing, kinda like Cavett - and the Louvish book is a great debunker of myths.

Well, you should have come to the first party, we didn't get home till around four in the morning. I was blind for three days.

er that would be "Brava". and I second it.

You guys should be nice. Isn't America ready for a dwarf to be a leading man?

Pink Floyd
"Animals" is not a great album.

MInk Car was their worst album.

That is actually a NOT creepy photo of this guy, er….person. Do a Google image search of him and be really creeped out.

@MFSP - you're laying down some truth there, brother.

Not the first time
this has happened.

Is Zappa now on the hipster shit list?
Yeah his later recordings did get bogged down in fretboard pyrotechnics, but the guy was a stone genius and an absolute original, who created maybe 12 essential albums and is pioneer of alt rock. Here's to the man.

One could totally dance to "Dancin' In the Moonlight"
But no one would WANT to.

No. "shake and cough"/"Nabakov" is a fucking terrible thing.

OMFG that song blows, more than most Billy Joel songs, which all blow chunks. The song is not a commentary on the past, nor does he bother to distinguish between positive and negative experiences. It'a just a list of things, some good, some bad. Then the chorus:
We didn't start the fire
It's been always burnin' since…

Oh intercourse the penguin!

"in an era when an all-female band was, for better and worse, still a novelty"
Still a novelty. Sure, bring on your lists of exceptions - "ALL-female band", yup, still a novelty.

Wait a minute, tell me that again in greater detail, and slowly…..

Hipster checklist:
OK let me see if I got this right: its OK now to love MeatLoaf and hate Adam Sandler. Got it, great.

Dude needs to stop flapping his jaws and learn to keep a civil tongue in his head.