I also would accept Double Nickels On The Dime.

The greatest album from quite possibly the greatest year in music history? Tough call, but I'm gonna say yes.

I actually find it too innocuous to inspire hatred. Prime Apathysong material, then?

It really is a generic, forgettable song. Hell, I'm one of those "people in their mid-30s (who) should be able to effortlessly karaoke along to it" and I barely remember it. Yet if it was so popular as to spend 15 weeks at #1, I must have heard it dozens of times and not even noticed.

It doesn't take rocket appliances to get a fuckin' Grammy.

I read 1Q84 last summer and quite enjoyed it. I think some of the negative criticism I've read here and elsewhere is valid (specifically the repetitive nature of the main characters' thought processes at times) but overall I thought it was an entertaining and absorbing story and as usual I enjoyed the world that…

Pantera is another band that comes to mind, since they spent the best part of a decade (and released several albums) as a glam metal band prior to developing the sound they became known for starting with Cowboys From Hell.

I think you're right. A better way to phrase my previous comment would have been: "It's too bad the bonus tracks were left off when EMI reissued those albums with better sound quality."

They largely moved away from an overtly "grunge" sound after Core, but the fact remains that STP (or "Alice In Jam" as we used to derisively call them) lacked credibility due to their funk-metal origins and their debut album sounding quite derivative - hence the article accurately stating that the band "spent much of…

STP started out as a funk-metal band called Mighty Joe Young:

"Life Goes On":

"Abdulmajid" - excellent track. Wouldn't have sounded out of place on "Heroes" at all:

Forgot about that one. I have the same Rykodisc version of Scary Monsters and was likewise blown away first time I heard that song.

Both "Strange Feeling" by Tim Buckley and "I've Got A Feeling" by Pentangle directly lift the melody from "All Blues" by Miles Davis.

Ditto "Red Money" (from Lodger) and "Sister Midnight" by Iggy Pop (from The Idiot, released two years earlier). Both songs use the same music (written by Bowie & Carlos Alomar) but have different lyrics.

Nah, stick it to Green Day. In addition to the song above and all the Kinks songs that got mentioned yesterday, "Holiday" bears more than a passing resemblance to "The Passenger" by Iggy Pop. First time I heard that opening riff I assumed it was a cover until the vocals kicked in.

Well, none of these artists were the FIRST to consciously or subconsciously rip off an existing song, and they certainly won't be the last…

Go back to Russia!

Since "Tardis" was made in the pre-sample clearance days, I don't think Glitter gets any royalties from it (though I'm not 100% sure about that). But if that is the case, I think "Doctorin' The Tardis" would make a good replacement for "Rock N' Roll, Pt. 2" at sporting events - most of the spectators probably…

The Clash and the Beefheart were the first two I downloaded and probably the two I've listened to the most so far. The sound quality was a bit rough on the Beefheart, but I wasn't too put off as up until late last year I was regularly listening to cassettes in the car, and 20-year old mixtapes of stuff I taped off the…