I bought The Nightfly when it was released and was at first disappointed that it sounded more like Gaucho than Royal Scam. Then songs like "Maxine" and "The Goodbye Look" kept running through my head, and I found I was able to remember each lyric on the album. I guess it made an impression, even though I still don't…

In deference to your namesake, hearing the song "Station to Station" for the first time was also a great experience - especially the sudden transition into the "side effects of the cocaine" section. Earl Slick and Roy Bittan are superb.

Upvoted, even though "Sandinista!" is my favorite Clash album.

I was listening to KHJ-AM on a transistor radio, walking through the (then) Fullerton Junior College parking lot during the Summer of '72 when I heard Bowie's "Space Oddity" for the first time. I really did stop walking to focus on the song. I didn't know it had been released in England three years before, or that the…

I'm no fan of either decade, but in terms of music both started promisingly. When "Sandinista" was released, there was a sense that punk and post-punk could go in a lot of interesting directions and still be popular. Unfortunately, it devolved into synth-happy new wave by '83. I thought alternative would right the…

I miss those days. You could say Radiohead allowing fans to download "In Rainbows" for any or no payment is just as noble as charging $10 for a triple album. But you couldn't read the lyrics off an awesome "Armagedion Times" illustrated poster.

"I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers."

Just want to add Charlie Watts and Topper Headon to the list of essential drummers. Watts' swing and sophistication elevated the Stones' sound in ways we take for granted. Without him, the band would be considered a little better than the Faces and not much more. As for Headon, his power and versatility allowed the…

I remember. I was a freshman in high school at the time and had already seen "Kids are Alright" and "Quadrophenia" in theaters. So when the radio began playing "Rough Boys" I couldn't wait for the album. Unfortunately my local record store didn't have Empty Glass on their release calendar, so I would stop by after…

The ultimate way of telling us kids he has cartoons to make. RIP.

Star Wars:Aftermath? How come there's no mention of Brian Jones learning to play the sitar or Mick Jagger writing mean breakup songs to Chrissie Shrimpton?

It's easy to mock Dustin Hoffman for being a self-important windbag. But if Alex McCown is serious about ridiculing aging boomers for their opinions about today's culture, then he needs to upbraid Liv Ullman for saying the same thing:

Something like a jib.

Mine was "Simpson Tide" which aired toward the end of season 9. The poorly drawn opening montage setting up the "Planet of the Donuts" dream, the implausible (for that time) notion that Homer, Lenny, Barney, et. al would suddenly join the crew of a nuclear submarine, Rod Steiger's repeated uttering of "I like the cut…

Vincent Price identified as cool.

I'm suddenly in the mood for the crisp, punchy pop of Let It Bleed. Few songs are as jubilant as "Gimme Shelter" or as sharply upbeat as "Midnight Rambler."

I always thought Faulkner's "The Unvanquished" was a similar, but far less romantic, depiction of a wealthy Southern family's experience during the Antebellum-Civil War-Reconstruction period. I don't think it was an intentional response to "Gone With the Wind"; Faulkner wrote it in installments for the Saturday…

That's it exactly. I think Daltrey is the only one who wanted Meyers to play Moon. But since Moon looked at least 25 years older than 32 when he died, we may have to wait a while longer.

Who will play McQueen's Malibu neighbor Keith Moon, strolling along the beach dressed as Hitler and getting his ass kicked by McQueen's son when drunkenly trying to barge into their house? Could be an easy best supporting Oscar.

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