My least favorite thing seen on TV are all advertisements needing to put the disclaimer, "Do not attempt," even in the mildest of situations. The worst (that is, needless) was a car commercial that had a family loading into their vehicle, pulling safely out of the driveway and heading off to their little girl's…

And truckstops. It has truckstops.

I would like to visit Sylvania, just to see why they would want to invade Freedonia. I would also like to visit Roseyland just before the Marines destroyed it, enabling Hawkeye, BJ and Sculley to escape relatively unscathed. And of course, I want to go down to South Park and have myself a time!

I am from Connecticut, and I am sad to say that I had heard of Michael Bolton before he became the world-wide annoyance. He was a hometown favorite in New Haven and I remember hearing about upcoming gigs at venues like Toad's Place by the Michael Bolotin Band on WPLR (fortunately, 'PLR never played his tunes; they…

But George's All Thing Must Pass had to come out as a three-record set. First, it showed to the world that he had a lot of pent up material, as if to make up for lost time. Second, the "Apple Jam" disc had to happen to show that he could have some fun as well because otherwise, the overall tone would be way too…

It's about time I saw some Chicago somewhere in this discussion (and great Chicago, at that). I especially love that big brass blast in "Loneliness" that follows the long fade from "Mean Tune".

Agreed.  In fact, almost all of the Beatles' British lps have the great one-two punch.
The bar had been set way high from the git-go. To wit:
Please Please Me: I Saw Her Standing There/Misey. Yay.
With the Beatles: It Won't Be Long/All I've Got to Do.  Yay.
Meet the Beatles: I Want to Hold Your Hand/I Saw Her Standing…

I like the cut of your jib for including Bernard Herrmann's Psycho (and likening it to Bartok) and the Zombies.  As far as "serious" music is concerned, because you can't really divide "one-two punches" out of first and second movement, I submit this following item:

And so I will add a few more:

Here's my start:
Surrealistic Pillow, Jefferson Airplane: She Has Funny Cars/Somebody to Love