Obviously we're spoiled for choice here and "Something" is a solid pick (and the late Frank Sinatra's all-time favorite Lennon-McCartney composition to boot) but one song I will probably never get tired of is "Strawberry Fields Forever".

I still love Elephant (bought it the day it came out) and I think it holds up well. There's nothing in the production or otherwise that makes it sound dated or of a particular time, to me anyway. Still my favorite White Stripes album.

I also only recently discovered Alvvays, though these days I'm typically more like five or six years behind when it comes to discovering new music, so getting into something that's just a year old makes me feel relatively "hip" or "with it" as the youngsters are undoubtedly saying these days. Was listening to the…

I substituted the "sandwich" version for the actual cover art:

It's probably the closest thing Lou ever made to a punk album as a solo artist. The whole album has a rough and raw feel, which may partly be down to the album being recorded using binaural recording technology (which Lou was enamored with at the time) and largely featuring live recordings with overdubs. The 11-minute…

Now you're catching on!

Good to know. Be sure to let us know when the 50th anniversary celebration of the river not catching on fire is, and we'll do our best to come join in the festivities.

But it's such a good joke!

But whatever Corgan comes up with just might have the potential to rival Mike Love's as the most egotistical and insane induction speech ever.

The influence that Pere Ubu, Rocket From The Tombs, Peter Laughner and other associated artists from the Cleveland scene in the mid-to-late-70's have had on real rock n' roll (along with Akron, Ohio's own Devo) probably won't be understood or accurately acknowledged for at least another hundred years (if we make it…

If you like "wok" puns, better check out this guy ASAP:

Agreed - just wanted to acknowledge commenter The Amazing Lou Reed more than anything else. I'm a huge fan of Reed's solo work (mainly 70's AKA speed-and-alcohol era) but for every Coney Island Baby or Street Hassle, there's a mixed bag like Sally Can't Dance or Rock n' Roll Heart in there. Still enjoy that entire era…

I think it was a token gesture more than anything to not seem completely out of touch. Sadly, Joey Ramone passing away may well have expedited the process.

Same in Japan. I swear the "Deep Purple" sections in some of the record shops I used to go to were bigger than the sections for all the other artists starting with the letter "D" combined.

The "Rock and Roll" Hall of Fame is a sad institution indeed. RHCP and Green Day get inducted in their first year of eligibility, but it took unofficial protests from inductees R.E.M., Patti Smith and Madonna for The Stooges to finally be inducted (too late for Ron Asheton though). And you, sir, had to fucking die in…

The selection committee clearly paid way too much attention to all the little chicks with the crimson lips.

Minor Threat's cover of "12XU" was my introduction to Wire, too. Back in the days before YouTube or even Napster, cover versions were sometimes the only way to hear these songs, especially for those of us growing up in the sticks with no way of easily obtaining the albums by the original bands. For example, Nine Inch…

Excellent primer. Of course the fact that most of the songs are short makes it easy to fit in plenty of tracks from Pink Flag, but this mix was career-spanning and the tracks chosen were representative of the band's sound and the albums they were taken from. Well done!

How does it feel? To be thinking you're first? When you're really not? With no direction to first? Like…no CancerAids for you.

Cool idea and I appreciate the effort, but this ain't gonna work.