Where's Day Tripper?!

Jeez two of these tunes are on the "most-skippable" list—Hey Jude and something else.

Yeah I "missed the boat" on the origin—but not the content:

Maybe, it always struck me as Lennon/Ono nonsense.

These days?! I'm here to follow the Disqus and not the self-anointed Overseers of Good Taste in Entertainment.

He had a great sense of melody, but the development sections of his songs (the C section of a Sonata) were irresponsibly short, in stark contrast to Beethoven, who blew out the development section and is on record as despising Mozart's work.

Preach on.

Gads this article missed the boat completely.

Rocky for the wrestling ring?!

The presence of Kissinger really got under my skin.

Not to mention NYC's notoriously ridiculous bureaucracy when any part of the landscape changes.

Remember Google's e-mail feature introduced some years ago that forced you to solve a simple math problem before you sent out an e-mail while under the influence?

Thanks for the laugh—I guess you read my grousing last week about the lack of info on the Waco shoot-out 12 days ago, specifically names of criminal gangs. Haven't heard a peep on ABC's version of the AP newswire for 5-6 days now.

The documentary Hot Coffee is quite good, highly recommended. It starts with the McDonald's case and then gets into nastier territory.

If you talk about the best of Dio, one must include 1985's Hear'n'Aid as he was the driving force and lead vocal behind that project.

So TV seasons/special(s) as well as CD releases?

If you love Sabbath's first four releases you'll enjoy sHEAVY's 1999's Electric Sleep as well as 2000's Celestial Hi-Fi.

Not all but most, especially the heavier stuff like Wheels of Confusion, Sweet Leaf, the first album's eponymous song. Fairies Wear Boots (one of my favorites due to the way Ward slows the beat down at the end of the fill of the riff) starts with the bridge, which is Iommi first and Butler figured out how to follow…

I've heard of it, but what exactly is Metalocalypse? A band? A festival? A series?

Butler was the driving force at first. Iommi had more of a hand than Maiden's guitarists or Fast Eddy in Motorhead but that came later in the band's development, and Iommi is the riff guy by the time they pick up Dio. But for the first four albums, those riffs are largely Butler's.