Rex Kickass

Sometimes it's not always about the music itself but more about the paradigm shift they caused. The Clash were very much that way and helped lead to punk and ska gain wide wide acceptance in the U.S. Didn't Generation X have Billy Idol?

That's vile. Lol. Happy birthday you bleeding heart bastard.

So 24 hours ago. http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=43399

QUOTE(The Critic @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 10:54 AM) I personally wouldn't call Brian Wilson a genius, but I think most geniuses were probably considered insane. Writing pop songs just doesn't qualify you as being a genius, in my humble opinion. He MIGHT be insane, though..... EDITED to add that I just noticed the qualifier "in their fields", but I hold to my opinion regardless. I'm stubborn that way.... Critic, Brian Wilson is a genius producer. Pet Sounds, Smile - the layering is amazing for its time, and Wilson is deaf in one ear.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 01:25 PM) Death Or Glory = Best Clash Song That and Jimmy Jazz. Love falling over yourself drunk studio sessions.

Julia. My favorite John Lennon song of all time.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 10:50 AM) Here's my opinion on Kid's opinion: I think U2 has written and performed some great songs, even recently ( I think Beautiful Day is a very good little pop song ), but I would also take Read About It by Midnight Oil over anything U2's ever done. That song would make my all-time favorite song list for sure. As for adding "obscure" bands, if that's what someone listens to then of course they'd have them on their list. No one's trying to be more "indie" than anyone else. I personally can't stand the Rolling Stones. Waiting For A Friend is the only song I've ever liked by them ( You Don't Move Me from Keith Richards' solo disc is a great song, by the way ), so any list of favorite songs would be Stoneless, unless you include the Stone Roses ( I Don't Know Why I Love You is a great song ). I'd reiterate what Kid said - if you see a band name or song title that catches your eye and you search them out and like what you hear, is there anything better? That's half the reason I check out music message boards. Unfortunately, radio rarely breaks new bands anymore, they just rehash yesterday's leftovers again and again. But Kid and I could not disagree more about the Clash! The Clash was the 4th band I ever considered a "favorite band", and I could listen to them every day and never get sick of them. Sure, they made some bad moves ( 90% of Sandanista! and 97% of Cut The Crap - they should have followed their own advice on that one ), but they wrote a TON of excellent songs, and were very influential on the next wave of punks. Tim Armstrong has made a nice little living off the Clash's influence...( ducking from Kalapse ) I could never name ONE song as the greatest song ever written, that is something that changes every day for me. Someone mentioned Train in Vain on here. I like the song but skip it everytime I listen to my CD of London Calling because it doesn't fit the mood of the album. Personally my favorite Clash song would be "Ghetto Defendant" with Allen Ginsberg reading poetry throughout the song. So good.

There is no mall in Brick.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 10:28 AM) What's that about a blind dog finding an acorn once in a while? It is a very tough issue. What good is manufacturing something in the US that costs more and people won't buy it? If that were true, we'd all be driving Kias.

And there's nothing there. There are no cultural places in Brick Township. It's a bunch of houses connected to three commercial streets. Brick NJ is a bedroom community of 85,000. Most of the towns in the top 10 are too.

QUOTE(bmags @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 02:24 AM) God Only Knows - the beach boys Mmmm. Delicious. Brian Wilson pre crackup was pure genius. Even some of the stuff he didn't finish producing until the early 70s were just beautiful. God Only Knows is pop perfection, but the best song that he'd ever done IMHO is "Surf's Up." What was supposed to be one of the centerpieces of Smile, the song is really the high water mark of the Brian Wilson/Van Dyke Parks collaboration.

Closing loopholes works much better.

Well, if you see both sides of the issue - see what the President really said. He praised Murtha while saying that his criticism is invalid because he didn't provide an alternate strategy. Except that Murtha actually did provide an alternate strategy. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. About whether I am personally too hard on the GOP and not hard enough on my own party. The more I think about it, I'm probably treating my own a touch too softly. I'm a contrarian by nature and sometimes I'm letting my own hunger for change color my view of what's right. So I give up my own view of what is and what should be for the sake of an argument or a candidate. It's something I'm trying to stop doing. It's why I don't like Biden. It's why I'm unhappy with Kerry 2.0. It's why I love folks like Governor Schweitzer. It's why I get pissed off when we'll cut food stamps programs to make it look like we're trimming the fat, while we spend billions of dollars in graft elsewhere in our budget. I'm pissed off because our society generally does what's easy instead of what's right. I'm not a causehead and I'm more of a practicalist than you might think. But I also think that honesty, fairness, social justice ought to be more than ideals in our society. I don't know so much that my party believes in these values either. But I feel like on my side of the fence that voice is allowed to be addressed. With the GOP, there's tons of recent evidence showing that it isn't even a consideration.

Brick Township is Democrat, but in a GOP dominated county. But I don't buy that bs. I think that the safer cities are just boring. There's nothing to do in the mean streets of Brick.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...2000211_pf.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,176170,00.html

Super Bowl in Green Bay? How great would a Tampa Bay - San Diego superbowl be there?

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Nov 20, 2005 -> 02:22 PM) We know and that was very classy of you guys. There's only one curse that needs to keep going on and thats the Flubbs curse. It's not a curse. They just suck.

QUOTE(Pauly8509CWS @ Nov 20, 2005 -> 04:38 PM) What's Going On - Marvin Gaye For the time period it was written in, it can still be applied today, plus he was one of the greatest singers everrrrr. I love that album. Real groundbreaking stuff at the time. First time Motown really let a singer talk about those kind of issues and really proved Marvin Gaye a true artist. Lately, I've been all about "When Did You Stop Loving Me? When Did I Stop Loving You?" from 1978. It's the most bitter pop single of the 1970s, singing about his bitter divorce. It was the lead single from the album "Here, My Dear" an album that he was required to give the proceeds of to his now ex-wife as part of the divorce settlement. The album was pretty much entirely about their failed relationship. Gaye married Berry Gordy's daughter (or was it sister) in the early 1960's and it helped keep him at Motown despite a slow slow start for the singer on that label.

The Chicken Parm sub is wonderful at Yellow Submarine in Lawrence, KS. When in East Lansing, MI don't forget your Roast Beef sub at Jersey Giant.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Nov 20, 2005 -> 12:47 PM) Sitting on the Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding. Although a wonderful piece of music, I don't think it really captured the range or emotion that Otis had in what he did. Check out the Soul Album by him. Sometimes, I turn the lights down low grab an adult beverage and put the needle on the record and just listen to that.

QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 12:17 PM) Why yes.. it does. Along with nasty food, warm beer, and absolutely frightening bathrooms. Don't forget netting to catch any chunks of it that might fall on your head. Shea Stadium is a bit of a hole, but its got a lot of history and its own charms. The only thing that really bothers me about that stadium is that you can't walk all the way around it. There's no outfield concourse or common area.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 20, 2005 -> 10:33 AM) Whole foods is not bad - especially the organics. And Rex, just stop shopping then. Most retail stores do that now, whether they admit it or not. And if they don't do it, everything in the store says "made in China" - see child labor laws that we hold so near and dear to our heart. It's a f'ed up world we live in. Whole Foods charges a premium for their products. I assumed that the reason they did this was because they were willing to accept a higher cost for doing business by doing right by their employees. If I'm going to shop at a store that's going to be s***ty to their employees, I can find the same for less at Wegmans.

The Weather Channel.

I went to Whole Foods for the first time last night. I was really digging the mostly organic place. Then I found out their employment practices are akin to Wal-Mart. Union busters and 37 hour work weeks to avoid having to pay benefits. Dead to me.