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My putting the best-produced Queen up against anyone includes the Beatles. To Freddy Mercury and the band's immense credit, they either produced or co-produced most of the stuff from that era, so they didn't need a George Martin to help with that side of things. No slight to George or the Lads, whom it is impossible to overrate btw.

I played with Erik Pappas in little league. He hasn't played in the majors in close to 10 years so I don't know what that means for the Greek Olympic team, but without a US team to shear for, I guess I'm going Greek. Opah!

Freddy was great. At their best, there was not a more meticulous and perfectionist studio recording rock group than Freddy, Brian May, and and the rest of Queen. I think I'm going to listen to A Night at the Opera at home this evening for a refresher.

Tom and Jerry are the best. The Graduate is one of those rare films for which the film and the soundtrack are absolutely integral to each other and quite inseperable. The emotions of the film are brilliantly resonated by the accompanying songs. From that era, I can only think of Harold and Maude and the Cat Stevens soundtrack from that film that are that complementary and inseperable. Benjamin's Father: "Frankly, Benjamin, I'm afraid this whole plan of yours sounds half-baked." Benjamin: "No, it's completely baked.."

So that's what he says, huh?

The point of a greatest rock albums “of all time” list is to pick the singular watershed/innovative/revolutionary/influential recordings throughout rock history, not to pander to people who think ‘good music’ has only been around for the last 5 years. I listen to a lot of new stuff, a lot of old stuff, and a lot of non rock, so I certainly appreciate the fact that there is good new music out there. With the perspective of a few more years, some of this will certainly crack future greatest lists. That said, just looking at the first 15 albums on the list, you can see the watershed/innovative/revolutionary/influential… elements that make all the choices appropriate (sure, I’d argue many of the choices and positions, at would anyone).

Pretty good! I like this one too... cut the jibberjabber! I Pity the Page!!!

So many good quotes, so little time... Bart: Wow, Dad you took a baptismal for me. How do you feel? Homer: Oh, Bartholomew. I feel like St. Augustine of hippo after his conversion by Ambrose of Milan Ned: What was that? Homer: Screw you Flanders “The only danger is if they send us to that terrible Planet of the Apes... Wait a minute. Statue of Liberty- that was our planet! You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!” -- Homer "Inspired by the most logical race in the galaxy, the Vulcans, breeding will be permitted once every seven years. For many of you this will mean much less breeding, for me, much much more." -- Comic Book Guy "Things aren't as happy as they used to be down here at the unemployment office. Joblessness is no longer just for philosophy majors. Useful people are starting to feel the pinch." -- Kent Brockman And some of my favorite “mmms…” mmm... 64 slices of American Cheese mmm... mediciney mmm... forbidden donut mmm... sacrilicious mmm... free goo mmm... purple

When I read the initial post I thought you were having us on, given the deja vu subtitle of the thread. Then when there was no clever tag line at the end I thought you were just sitting back smiling as people responded to the old release. I never wouel havve believed they would actually send that out, nor can I even fathom the work flow they have that would even make that possible. A well-oiled PR juggernaut they're not...

Well, it's good to keep in "fighting form," for the yahoos down here in the southern part of the Bible Belt that are one of the banes of my existence.

Tell me about it. And also "they're" and "their" drives me bonkers.

Did you know that the Swahili language has no irregular verbs?

Bummer. I was looking forward to hopefully seeing him advance through the system.

Don't be suprised if they say he got away before being crushed. The last shot they showed of him was him freaking out as the chopper was coming down and he was already freaked out from being up on the roof near it. He may have flipped out and he's cowering somewhere or drinking heavily -- with his good arm of course. The ads touted "someone you know will lose their life" or something like that. There's still that no-name nurse with a piece of the blade in her back, and they could cop out and make her the stiff.

(That's rootbeer in those glasses, don't wanaa contribute to the delinquency of a minor.) Happy B-day!

Life without SoxTalk is a real drag.

That's one of my boss's pet peaves, too. Isn't that right, Dad?

When the department stores clear out the summer seasonal stuff in August to make room for Christmas stuff you know it has gotten absurd. It's funny, I usually grumble and humbug my way to Christmas and eventually get into the spirit of things around Dec. 22 or so. Then, unfortunately, the #%&$#! Christmas music is stuck in my head until about mid-February -- I catch myself shistling the stuff around Groundhog Day sometimes.

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Redundancy is annoying, so, sure that's a fair cop. Absolutely wrong as far as Creation "Science" goes, though. And this is way more than a pet peeve, which is why I restricted the aerlier post to the innocent misuse of a term which in small part legitimizes bulls*** set forth by biblical literalists. Myt assumption is you are merely playing devil's advocate here, so I'll go through the motions. A 'theory' in science is hardcore, way more bolstered up by evidence than a hypothesis, way mnore than a vague notion that this or that may have happened in the past. Heck, Special Relativity ala' Einstein is just a theory, even though entire fields of science are built on it. Scientists use the term theory to describe something very well supported, but not all possible tests have been carried out. Scientists do NOT use the terms Creationism and science in the same sentence. Creationism is NOT science, nor is 'Inteligent Design,' or any other equivalents espoused by biblical literalists who have decided to interpret scriptures as historical fact rather than allegory. Biblical literalists are the equivalent of Flat Earthers, which amazingly also still exist but have zero relevance in the scientific world. The fact that biological diversification occured through evolution from ancestral precursors is accepted, is not debatable, and continues to be reinforced with each new technique (cell structure >> protein analysis >> DNA analysis) thrown in the mix. What is not yet known are some of the subtle mechanisms, like how ostensably neutral or slightly beneficial micromutations can accumulate as macromutational changes as in the formation of the vertebrate eye or a snake's envenomation apparatus. That's why its a valid, vital, and changing field. We don't know much about how the brain works yet, but that doesn't invalidate 75 years of neuroscience. The question of the existence of God is beyond science, and is rightly left to theologians. The question of how organic diversity came into being is beyond that capacity for comprehension else or is too damaging to the personal beliefs of literalists that humans are something more than a minor footnote in the evolutionary tale. Yet we give these people airtime and let them threaten the goal of scientific literacy for the students in our nation's schools. It makes no sense.

Midnight Oil would have been a good show. I saw U2, REM, and Peter Gabriel at Assembly Hall shows, all quite good. I saw and met Stevie Ray Vaughan at a show in Follinger Auditorium in '87 (and I got my Fender Tele' signed by him, still a prized possession). Farm Aid (the first one) was the fall of my freshman year, and that was fun. Some great, once-in-a-lifetime type shows I saw at Mabel's included Living Colour right before the debut album came out, and also Jane's Addiction just before Nothing's Shocking was released. We'd always make it out to see Champaign native Adrian Belew whenever he came through town. Local bands of the day that I'd make a point of seeing included Mudhens, Lonely Trailer, Otis and the Elevators, Naked Apes, Modern Humans/Smoking Toast, Plump Harriet, Sorghum (Nature's Table favs), Combo Audio, Elvis Brothers occassionally, Catfish and Carter, Vehicle In Tow, the band (?) that became Haardvark... don't know if any of those was still around beyond 1989. I went to class now and then, too. I worked nights at a Gyro shop right across from Murphy's and two doors down from Mabel's, so after we got off work we'd usually grab a pint and catch some music or go to a house party if a band we knew was playing, or if they needed a band that worked cheap. I also worked weekends at one of the record stores amd that helped defray the cost of the habit. It sucked once I graduated and had to start paying for CDs.

International Pop Overthrow is still great to listen to. The next couple albums started to sound more the same, but still great pop writing by Ellison. I think it was '95 or '96 when he killed himself. It was like a year later before I found out and I hadn't listened to IPO in a couple of years. I put it on and remembered how dark the lyrics were underneath all the peppy catchy tunes. I used to see Material Issue at Mabel's at UofI on maybe a bi-monthly basis in 88-89 or so. I noted the place took a sad turn for the metallic worse when I went back for a visit a few years later. Any improvement since then??

Cool Beanz, thanks for the search!