In the traditional sense of one-hit wonders, meaning music singles from somebody who popped up once and then vanished, Martin Briley's single "Salt In My Tears" from the early 80's is my fave.

"I Of Newton," starring Sherman Hemsley and Ron Glass, is easily the best comedy episode-let of the New Twilight Zone. It's on YouTube, and less than 9 minutes long. Watch it.

Queen re-established their cool creds on stage at Live Aid, summer of '85.

Further proof that Dave Marsh actually doesn't know shit.

Brian's Song is a very good football movie. So is "Something For Joey."

ND40 is a very good movie. I'd argue The Longest Yard is more entertaining, and better in terms of dramatizing (and comedy-izing, which should be a word) the game on the field.

Best movie about football ever made. And it's really not close (35-14 or so).

I was just pissed because the one, true Van Halen would have included Michael Anthony.

Heh.

I was really afraid that I'd owned every record on this list when I saw the link.  Fortunately, just "Star Fleet Project," which I never actually listened to…

A modest contribution, with due thanks to Becker, Fagen, Gilligan, Cranston, et. al.:

Caught what was supposed to be "Aja Night" at the Wang (uh huh huh huh) in Boston a few years back.  After playing through Aja, Fagen snarked at a local music writer who'd griped about the band not scheduling a "Royal Scam" night in Boston on that tour.  Then they played all of The Royal Scam!   PLUS about 4-5 songs…

True Companion actually isn't on "The Nightfly," it's from the soundtrack album of "Heavy Metal" (the Nightfly box set version released decades later doesn't count)… but who cares?  Still a great song.

Donald Fagen:  "Walter (Becker) and I had been working on that song at a house in Malibu. I played him that line, and he said, 'You mean it's like, they call these cracker assholes this grandiose name like the Crimson Tide, and I'm this loser, so they call me this other grandiose name, Deacon Blues?' And I said,…

I remember thinking this show was just another generic sitcom while watching the pilot, full of stock characters I'd seen a hundred times:  Rachel was the spoiled brat, Joey was the obnoxious jerk, etc., etc.  I also remember being very pleasantly surprised when the writing improved dramatically after the first show;…

"Raspberry Beret" is much better when sung in an Elmer Fudd voice.  Try it at home, kids!

Back in '81, the name of the fictional schoolteacher who moonlighted as "The Greatest American Hero" was Ralph Hinkley.  Unfortunately for the guy who chose that name (probably Stephen J. Cannell) the show debuted just a few weeks before John Hinkley, Jr. shot and nearly assassinated then-President Ronald Reagan.  In…

Damn kids.  My first car only had an 8-TRACK.  I would have KILLED for a tape deck.

God help me, I still have the 8-track of "Star Wars And Other Galactic Funk."  Although, thankfully, no 8-track player to use it with.

A lot to that.