Maybe I'm not a lazy Dem but it wasn't Hillary who inspired me to vote for her. She was a stubbornly insular candidate with a self righteous inner circle. It was the prospect of what we're facing now. To be fair, Hillary was also talking about race when Bernie was having trouble veering from his own talking points.…

Does this mean Downtown Abbey moves to CBS? Maybe the cast could meet the NCIS LA cast in a special time travel crossover episode.

That is fake news, sir. Even if you jest, John Densmore is a supporter of the Dakota Pipeline protest and recently asked Obama to pardon Leonard Peltier. I don't think Robbie Krieger is any less liberal. Plus with the money they continue to make from sales of their old albums they don't need to play a gig like this.

Yeah, but I don't think Zappa's synclavier songs sound near as good as the songs he recorded with live musicians - especially the various editions of the Mothers. I think he turned to the synclavier because hiring musicians became too expensive, which is a pity. Imagine what the JFH songs would have sounded like with…

Agreed. Pretty sure Jones also dubbed the bass on Bollocks, so extra props if that's true. But Paul Cook deserves major kudos for his thunderous work on that album. The way he locks in with Jones during the "No Future" coda of "God Saves the Queen" still sounds terrifying.

Just hope this is the music during the opening and closing credits:
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This year's SyFy Twilight Zone marathon is on for 3 full days. Starts with the Twilight Zone Movie at 6am Pacific Saturday and lasts through Monday night. Time enough at last.

Nothing wrong with Houses of the Holy and Jan Brady. Don't drag them into this.

It's the rap by Mickey Rourke, and maybe the opening narration of "The Glass Spider," that sealed the critical legacy of NLMD. But Tonight does include Bowie's godawful cover of "God Only Knows," so it's a close race to the bottom.

And, yet, Feldstein was also responsible for regularly tangling with the comics industry and congress over his subversive and often gruesome horror and fantasy stories for pre-Mad EC titles like "Tales from the Crypt" and "Vault of Horror." This includes "Foul Play", one of the great comic stories of the '50s and a…

Space Oddity - Bowie

BTW, Heroes was the album Bowie recorded in Berlin. Low was recorded in Switzerland.

Reminds me of my favorite scene in Raging Bull after Jake throws the fight against Billy Fox. Weeping with disgust at himself in the training room, Jake turns to his brother Joey and asks "Is this living?"

Almost forgot about that. That happened while I was in college, prompting a friend who hated the Clash to crow that Chimes' stint in Sabbath was proof Strummer, Jones et. al had no real principles. We were all very didactic back then. I disagreed but thought it an odd career move for Chimes. Now it seems kind of cool.

If Elvis Costello can stand with Bruce Thomas and Tom Petty can stand with Stan Lynch, Pearl Jam can stand with this guy. I don't think Vedder is capable of the animosity those pairs have shared since the '80s.

Chimes is a mensch. He was the Clash's drummer very early on but quit because he didn't like their politics. Yet he still helped them record their first album while they looked for a replacement. He also stepped in after they fired Topper Headon on the eve of their '82 tour. An excellent drummer in his own right and…

All this dissing of Dylan's poetic/musical cred reminds me of this other moment in Don't Look Back: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I'd say that about Neil Young's Waging Heavy Peace. But Chronicles is a genuinely entertaining and insightful read.

Upvoted for Descendents / Der Wienerschnitzel reference.

I don't feel as bad for Echo as I do his replacement who hasn't had a working body since 1989. But, yes, all props to the metronomic anchor Echo provided to their early demos.