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  1. 1. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin

    2. Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer

    3. Life During Wartime - Talking Heads

    4. Stone Cold Crazy - Queen

    5. Supernaut - Black Sabbath

    6. Electric Funeral - Black Sabbath

    7. Monkey Man - the Rolling Stones

    8. Life In the Fast Lane - the Eagles

    9. Muse - New Born

    10. Finding My Way - Rush

    11. Kick Out the Jams - MC5

    12. Rollin' and Tumblin' - Muddy Waters/Cream/Johnny Winter

    13. Ain't Talkin' Bout Love - Van Halen

    14. Children of the Grave - Black Sabbath

    15. In the Flesh - Pink Floyd

    16. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - the Rolling Stones

    17. American Woman - the Guess Who

    18. Takin' Care of Business - Bachman Turner Overdrive

    19. the Rover - Led Zeppelin

    20. Into the Void - Black Sabbath

    21. Sunshine of Your Love - Cream

    22. Long Cool Woman - the Hollies

    23. Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin

    24. Anthem - Rush

    25. An Ode to No One - Smashing Pumpkins

    26. Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath

    27. Celebration Day - Led Zeppelin

    28. You Really Got Me - the Kinks

    29. Bastille Day - Rush

    30. Black Night - Deep Purple

    31. La Grange - ZZ Top

    32. Detroit Rock City - Kiss

    33. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

    34. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits

    35. Barracuda - Heart

    36. Question - the Moody Blues

    37. Layla - Derek and the Dominoes

    38. Smoke On the Water - Deep Purple

    39. Back In Black - AC/DC

    40. Day Tripper - the Beatles

    41. Let's Build A Car - Swell Maps

    42. Hair of the Dog - Nazareth

    43. Eight Miles High - the Byrds

    44. (Don't Fear) the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

    45, Iron Man - Black Sabbath

    46. Gimme Shelter - the Rolling Stones

    47. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

    48. Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin

    49. Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath

    50. the Lemon Song - Led Zeppelin

    51. Rock Lobster - B52s

    52. Dirt - Alice In Chains

    53. Little Guitars - Van Halen

    54. Jumpin' Jack Flash - the Rolling Stones

    55. Spoonman - Soundgarden

    56. Victim of Changes - Judas Priest

    57. Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy

    58. Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne

    59. Toys In the Attic - Aerosmith

    60. Money - Pink Floyd

    61. She - Kiss

    62. 20th Century Boy - T. Rex

    63. Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult

    64. Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

    65. Green Grass and High Tides - Outlaws

    66. Rockin' In the Free World - Neil Young

    67. I Can't Explain - the Who

    68. Time Stand Still - Rush

    69. Limelight - Rush

    70. Wild Child - the Doors

    71. La Villa Strangiato - Rush

    72. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry

    73. I Feel Fine - the Beatles

    74. Fire - Jimi Hendrix

    75. Gimme Stitches - Foo Fighters

    76. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Metallica

    77. Powerslave - Iron Maiden

    78. Master of Puppets - Metallica

    79. Jesus Christ Pose - Soundgarden

    80. Tornado of Souls - Megadeth

    81. More than A Feeling - Boston

    82. Riff Raff - AC/DC

    83. Bang A Gong (Get It On) - T. Rex

    84. Another One Bites the Dust - Queen

    85. Breadfan - Budgie

    86. Panama - Van Halen

    87. Paranoid - Black Sabbath

    88. Rusty Cage - Soundgarden

    89. Bombtrack - Rage Against the Machine

    90. Aces High - Iron Maiden

    91. Aqualung - Jethro Tull

    92. I Just Wanna Make Love to You - Foghat

    93. Cross-Eyed Mary - Jethro Tull

    94. Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas

    95. Day of the Eagle - Robin Trower

    96. Working Man - Rush

    97. Yours Is No Disgrace - Yes

    98. Arizona - Scorpions

    99. My Sharona - the Knack

    100. Combination - Aerosmith

    101. Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix

    102. Owner of A Lonely Heart - Yes

    103. Smokin' - Boston

    104. Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses

    105. Modern Love - David Bowie

    106. the Prisoner - Iron Maiden

    107. Hysteria - Muse

    108. A National Acrobat - Black Sabbath

    109. Escape - Journey

    110. Rocks off - the Rolling Stones

    111. Stone In Love - Journey

    112. Flirtin' With Disaster - Molly Hatchet

    113a. 2112: I. Overture, 113b. II. the Temples of Syrinx - Rush

    115. Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar

    116. She Sells Sanctuary - the Cult

    117. the House Is A Rockin' - Stevie Ray Vaughan

    118. Gator Country - Molly Hatchet

    119. Love Stinks - J. Geils Band

    120. Mean Street - Van Halen

    121. Whole Lotta Rosie - AC/DC

    122. Black Dog - Led Zeppelin

    123. Run Through the Jungle - Creedence Clearwater Revival

    124. Symptom of the Universe - Black Sabbath

    125. N.I.B. - Black Sabbath

    126. Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix

    127. I'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years After

    128. Don't Take Me Alive - Steely Dan

    129. Living After Midnight - Judas Priest

    130. Falling off the Edge of the World - Black Sabbath

    131. Country Girl - Black Sabbath

    132. E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) - Blue Oyster Cult

    133. Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam

    134. Megalomania - Black Sabbath

    135. Jessica - the Allman Brothers Band

    136. the Wizard - Black Sabbath

    137. Symphony of Destruction - Megadeth

    138. Walk This Way - Aerosmith

    139. Love Removal Machine - the Cult

    140. Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin

    141. Caravan - Rush

    142. I - Black Sabbath

    143. All Day and All of the Night - the Kinks

    144. Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz

    145. Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison

    146. P.I.L. - Public Image

    147. Snowblind - Black Sabbath

    148. Slow Poke - April Wine

    149. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath

    150. Makin`Love - Kiss

    160. India - Psychedelic Furs

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  2. ^^ Funny, I thought she was THE HOTTEST ever in that Adam Ant video. Was surprised (but then not so) to learn she was Stromberg's boat/helicopter pilot in The Spy Who Loved Me. For my money, the two most beautiful Bond girls in one film, her and Barbara Bach.

     

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  3. 1. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin

    2. Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer

    3. Life During Wartime - Talking Heads

    4. Stone Cold Crazy - Queen

    5. Supernaut - Black Sabbath

    6. Electric Funeral - Black Sabbath

    7. Monkey Man - the Rolling Stones

    8. Life In the Fast Lane - the Eagles

    9. Muse - New Born

    10. Finding My Way - Rush

    11. Kick Out the Jams - MC5

    12. Rollin' and Tumblin' - Muddy Waters/Cream/Johnny Winter

    13. Ain't Talkin' Bout Love - Van Halen

    14. Children of the Grave - Black Sabbath

    15. In the Flesh - Pink Floyd

    16. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - the Rolling Stones

    17. American Woman - the Guess Who

    18. Takin' Care of Business - Bachman Turner Overdrive

    19. the Rover - Led Zeppelin

    20. Into the Void - Black Sabbath

    21. Sunshine of Your Love - Cream

    22. Long Cool Woman - the Hollies

    23. Achilles Last Stand - Led Zeppelin

    24. Anthem - Rush

    25. An Ode to No One - Smashing Pumpkins

    26. Sweet Leaf - Black Sabbath

    27. Celebration Day - Led Zeppelin

    28. You Really Got Me - the Kinks

    29. Bastille Day - Rush

    30. Black Night - Deep Purple

    31. La Grange - ZZ Top

    32. Detroit Rock City - Kiss

    33. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

    34. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits

    35. Barracuda - Heart

    36. Question - the Moody Blues

    37. Layla - Derek and the Dominoes

    38. Smoke On the Water - Deep Purple

    39. Back In Black - AC/DC

    40. Day Tripper - the Beatles

    41. Let's Build A Car - Swell Maps

    42. Hair of the Dog - Nazareth

    43. Eight Miles High - the Byrds

    44. (Don't Fear) the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

    45, Iron Man - Black Sabbath

    46. Gimme Shelter - the Rolling Stones

    47. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

    48. Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin

    49. Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath

    50. the Lemon Song - Led Zeppelin

    51. Rock Lobster - B52s

    52. Dirt - Alice In Chains

    53. Little Guitars - Van Halen

    54. Jumpin' Jack Flash - the Rolling Stones

    55. Spoonman - Soundgarden

    56. Victim of Changes - Judas Priest

    57. Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy

    58. Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne

    59. Toys In the Attic - Aerosmith

    60. Money - Pink Floyd

    61. She - Kiss

    62. 20th Century Boy - T. Rex

    63. Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult

    64. Kashmir - Led Zeppelin

    65. Green Grass and High Tides - Outlaws

    66. Rockin' In the Free World - Neil Young

    67. I Can't Explain - the Who

    68. Time Stand Still - Rush

    69. Limelight - Rush

    70. Wild Child - the Doors

    71. La Villa Strangiato - Rush

    72. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry

    73. I Feel Fine - the Beatles

    74. Fire - Jimi Hendrix

    75. Gimme Stitches - Foo Fighters

    76. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Metallica

    77. Powerslave - Iron Maiden

    78. Master of Puppets - Metallica

    79. Jesus Christ Pose - Soundgarden

    80. Tornado of Souls - Megadeth

    81. More than A Feeling - Boston

    82. Riff Raff - AC/DC

    83. Bang A Gong (Get It On) - T. Rex

    84. Another One Bites the Dust - Queen

    85. Breadfan - Budgie

    86. Panama - Van Halen

    87. Paranoid - Black Sabbath

    88. Rusty Cage - Soundgarden

    89. Bombtrack - Rage Against the Machine

    90. Aces High - Iron Maiden

    91. Aqualung - Jethro Tull

    92. I Just Wanna Make Love to You - Foghat

    93. Cross-Eyed Mary - Jethro Tull

    94. Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas

    95. Day of the Eagle - Robin Trower

    96. Working Man - Rush

    97. Yours Is No Disgrace - Yes

    98. Arizona - Scorpions

    99. My Sharona - the Knack

    100. Combination - Aerosmith

    101. Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix

    102. Owner of A Lonely Heart - Yes

    103. Smokin' - Boston

    104. Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses

    105. Modern Love - David Bowie

    106. the Prisoner - Iron Maiden

    107. Hysteria - Muse

    108. A National Acrobat - Black Sabbath

    109. Escape - Journey

    110. Rocks off - the Rolling Stones

    111. Stone In Love - Journey

    112. Flirtin' With Disaster - Molly Hatchet

    113a. 2112: I. Overture, 113b. II. the Temples of Syrinx - Rush

    115. Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar

    116. She Sells Sanctuary - the Cult

    117. the House Is A Rockin' - Stevie Ray Vaughan

    118. Gator Country - Molly Hatchet

    119. Love Stinks - J. Geils Band

    120. Mean Street - Van Halen

    121. Whole Lotta Rosie - AC/DC

    122. Black Dog - Led Zeppelin

    123. Run Through the Jungle - Creedence Clearwater Revival

    124. Symptom of the Universe - Black Sabbath

    125. N.I.B. - Black Sabbath

    126. Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix

    127. I'd Love to Change the World - Ten Years After

    128. Don't Take Me Alive - Steely Dan

    129. Living After Midnight - Judas Priest

    130. Falling off the Edge of the World - Black Sabbath

    131. Country Girl - Black Sabbath

    132. E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) - Blue Oyster Cult

    133. Yellow Ledbetter - Pearl Jam

    134. Megalomania - Black Sabbath

    135. Jessica - the Allman Brothers Band

    136. the Wizard - Black Sabbath

    137. Symphony of Destruction - Megadeth

    138. Walk This Way - Aerosmith

    139. Love Removal Machine - the Cult

    140. Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin

    141. Caravan - Rush

    142. I - Black Sabbath

    143. All Day and All of the Night - the Kinks

    144. Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz

    145. Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison

     

    146. Public Image - PIL

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  4. My three favorite b-sides that didn't appear on an LP (not already mentioned and not counting EP/extended singles tracks):

     

    The Exploding Boy by The Cure (backed In Between Days)

    All of Us by Big Country (backed In a Big Country)

    Annex by OMD (backed Enola Gay)

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  5. U2's Sweetest Thing was originally released in 1987 as the b-side of Where the Streets Have No Name. It became a big hit in 1998 as part of the band's greatest hits release that year.

     

    Also, Walk to the Water is a great b-side to With or Without You.

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  6. How about "Silver Springs", the Fleetwood Mac song left off the Rumours LP...

     

     

    Stevie Knicks was furious that the rest of the band made the decision to leave the song off the album over her objections (not enough space). Personally, I far prefer it to Songbird or Oh Daddy (esp Oh Daddy), despite usually really liking C. McKvie's songs.

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  7. One album not on this list is XTC's Skylarking. Its initial release, whose track list didn't include its now-signature song Dear God, was originally panned by RS as more evidence that XTC was exhausted and out of ideas, pandering to audiences with yet more pastoral nothings a la Mummer's Love on a Farm Boys Wages. Their negativity seemed to be validated by the lack of impact the album had on the charts. I remember this well as I really loved XTC and I loved Skylarking and wished more people would as well. I felt for XTC; not that their career needed validation from RS but they did seem to be struggling a bit (following Mummer and The Big Express) and a hit piece by RS didn't help a very good album that few seemed to notice (initially). I thought that review snarky, unfair and unwelcome; I could only wonder what XTC thought of it.

     

    Then Dear God, issued as the b-side of Grass (various stories exist as to why it was left off the initial pressing of the album), took off on U.S. college radio and the album was subsequently re-issued with Dear God included (Mermaid Smiled was sacrificed, which was too bad as it was/is a really excellent song, though it did show up later on compilation album Rag and Bone Buffet). The re-issued album, carried by the success of Dear God, took off on the indie/college charts. A different reviewer with RS, reviewing the re-issue with Dear God, claimed the now-commercially successful album a masterpiece. Today, RS lists it as #48 on its top 100 albums of the '80s.

     

    So is the album actually great vs completely forgettable just because it has Dear God instead of Mermaid Smiled? Of course not; two different reviewers, with their own taste and biases, each influenced by the album's apparent reception, apparently. This is what makes these reviews annoying, if you take them seriously, and which is why I don't take them seriously, just as I don't take car reviews seriously (it's all click bait in the end; everyone's trying to make a living).

     

    Re Dear God, hard to believe it was left off the album in the first place. A wonderfully crafted, powerful song that doesn't really say anything controversial or new, it just says it with emotional impact. The "problem of evil" is probably the strongest argument against a loving God and always has been to my way of thinking, at least phrased as "the problem of pain" ... so much unnecessary evil is due to us violent, brainy monkeys that it's existence never swayed me as strongly as the existence of pain and suffering which seems woven into the fabric of things, regardless of our human awfulness. That said I don't think the argument decisive but needs to be faced and Andy Partridge has done his part. As he said, he was trying to give voice to "a struggling agnostic." Perfectly understandable, and well done.

     

    p.s. Andy has written much more clever disses of organized religion than Dear God if one wants to get all upset about it.

     

    p.p.s. I found the original, critical, RS review by Rob Tannenbaum (http://chalkhills.or...e.html#rs870326). Not quite as blistering as I remembered but definitely down on the album and the band. E.g., the result (of XTC's and producer Todd Rundgren's collaboration) is "ultimately unsatisfying," revealing "the limitations of (Partridge's) pastoral vision through his reliance on repetition." Later, after the successful re-issue, Tim Sommer of RS praised the album as "the most inspired and satisfying piece of Beatle-esque pop since ... well, since the Beatles," comparing it favorably with such classics as Rubber Soul, Revolver, Pet Sounds and The Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society. Same world, different realities.

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  8. 1. Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin

    2. Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo -- Rick Derringer

    3. Life During Wartime - Talking Heads

    4. Stone Cold Crazy - Queen

    5. Supernaut - Black Sabbath

    6. Electric Funeral - Black Sabbath

    7. Monkey Man - Rolling Stones

    8. Life In The Fast Lane - The Eagles

    9. Muse - New Born

    10. Finding My Way - RUSH

    11. Kick Out the Jams-MC5

    12. Rollin and Tumblin-Muddy Waters/Cream/Johnny Winter

    13. Aint Talkin Bout Love - VH

    14. Children Of The Grave - Black Sabbath

    15. In The Flesh - Pink Floyd

    16. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones

    17 - American Woman - The Guess Who

    18 - Takin' Care Of Business - Bachman-Turner Overdrive

    19. The Rover - Led Zeppelin

    20. Into The Void - Black Sabbath

    21. Sunshine of your love - Cream

    22. Long Cool Woman - The Hollies

    23. Achilles Last Stand -- Led Zep

    24. Anthem - Rush

    25. Smashing Pumpkins - An Ode To No One

    26. Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf

    27. Celebration Day - Led Zeppelin

    28. You Really Got Me - The Kinks

    29. Bastille Day - RUSH

    30. Black Night - Deep Purple

    31. La Grange - ZZ Top

    32. KISS - Detroit Rock City

    33, Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

    34. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits

    35. Barracuda - Heart

    36. Question - The Moody Blues

    37. Layla - Derek and The Dominos

    38. Smoke On The Water -DP

    39. Back In Black - AC/DC

    40. Day Tripper - Beatles

    41. Let's Build a Car - Swell Maps

     

    The opening... I think it's all of one note but it works

  9. ^^ I had a friend at the time who was really into the first album (with "Mad World"). I didn't really care for them thinking them kind of prissy Brits singing mopey songs so I was prepared not to like Songs from the Big Chair when it came out but whoa, it was unstoppable, like a force of nature. What VH's debut was to rock in '78 SftBC was to pop alternative in '85. Seemed like everyone liked it no matter what kind of music they were into otherwise.

     

    You mentioned "one side." Side 1 I assume. Side 2 is so cool too, while being very different from side 1. One thing that made the album so great.

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  10. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

     

    I these were the only lines he ever delivered, they would be enough to make him one of the greats. RIP

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  11. Christian Rock music that brands itself as such sucks more often than not, and what doesn’t suck of it is usually mediocre. That’s coming from a Catholic rock and roller. Rock music inspired by Christianity (either negatively or positively) but not nominally “Christian,” is usually better (see Kansas, Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, U2, etc.).

     

    Great music is (usually) hard to make, and I think a lot of “Christian” bands think rely too much on their message (which is often a corny dull version of what religion is supposed to be about) to carry a mediocre melody in a typical verse-chorus structure. I’d rather hear Christian blues, cuz then the playing would have to be good or they’d never go anywhere. Plus, in some 2000 years of tumultuous perseverance, you’d think Christianity would have a good blues or two in its soul.

     

    J.R.R. Tolkien famously (if you like Tolkien) wrote that he "cordially dislikes allegory in all its manifestations". Yet, he writes elsewhere ("Letters of...") that he considers LOTR a "fundamentally religious and Catholic work." For me, self-identified "Christian rock" is like really clumsy, pain-inducing allegory. With few exceptions from what I've been exposed to, I can't stand it; it's like that South Park episode where Cartman and the gang start a Christian band ("Faith+1" :D) by writing cheesy love songs and then replacing "Baby" with "Jesus," basically. I will admit that I am not at all fluent in the genre though; there might be some really good artists that I'll likely never hear.

     

    On the other hand, through the centuries, magnificent, soulful music inspired by the Christian faith has been woven into the cultural heritage of the West... classical, opera, gospel, blues, etc. Sometimes the religiosity is front and center, like Beethoven's Ode to Joy, but other times it's hidden under themes such as sin and redemption, as in so much blues and (deeper than most) artists like Dylan and Cash; like in the LOTR, Christian influences pervade the art without taking over (leaving the reader/listener freedom of interpretation, which was Tolkien's concern). That's what I like. I recall a quote from Bono, that he only likes artists that are "either running to or away from God." To some extent I'm like that too -- I think artists like Dylan, Cash, Sufjan Stevens, Nick Cave, etc. can be appreciated at a deeper level than artists without any spiritual aspect to their art -- but of course I also like plenty of music that has nothing to do with existential or spiritual struggles: hot rods, babes, black holes, dystopian tales of the future, and plenty of power chords for the sake of power chords. Some though, or many, would argue that even hot rods and babes are ultimately spiritual issues.

     

    So to the original question, I think my answer is no, but I do love good music that is spiritual in nature, or as Bono put it, is at least "running away" from God. I have a soft spot for writers like Kurt Cobain and Jeffrey Lee Pierce, whose music in an odd way I consider spiritual, because they wrestled with, and confronted, the pain and troubles of life, which ultimately are spiritual concerns, IMO.

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  12. I might actually check this one out. For one, I didn't know this:

     

    In chapter five, during an interview with “Ort,” a colorful Athens denizen, craft beer expert, and old band friend, he explains to Lurie that the band’s name doesn’t stand for “Rapid Eye Movement.” They actually named themselves after Ralph Eugene Meatyard, a Kentucky photographer of enough repute that he once photographed Thomas Merton. But Meatyard was best known for his unsettling and blurry black and white photos of subjects, often his own children, standing around in the woods wearing Halloween masks. Notably, he signed his letters with a lowercase “r.e.m.”—exactly the way it appeared on the band’s early concert posters and albums.

     

    https://www.theameri...m-in-the-u-s-a/

    Meatyard is a good name for a person who takes those kinds of photos.

     

    Honestly, my first thought while looking at those photographs was, "This guy is seriously messed up."

     

    He certainly puts the gothic in American Gothic. He kind of foreshadowed some of the creepy horror of the last twenty/thirty years or so.

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  13. I might actually check this one out. For one, I didn't know this:

     

    In chapter five, during an interview with “Ort,” a colorful Athens denizen, craft beer expert, and old band friend, he explains to Lurie that the band’s name doesn’t stand for “Rapid Eye Movement.” They actually named themselves after Ralph Eugene Meatyard, a Kentucky photographer of enough repute that he once photographed Thomas Merton. But Meatyard was best known for his unsettling and blurry black and white photos of subjects, often his own children, standing around in the woods wearing Halloween masks. Notably, he signed his letters with a lowercase “r.e.m.”—exactly the way it appeared on the band’s early concert posters and albums.

     

    https://www.theameri...m-in-the-u-s-a/

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  14. Can Rutle please clarify what this thread is about?

     

    I originally took it to mean live versions of songs that were awful, but then thought he meant live versions that were better than the studio version.

     

    In case of the latter, Rush is the only band of which I am aware that has consistently sounded better live than in the studio, even back in the 70's when it was hard to do so.

     

    What I said above. Live versions that make listening to the studio version pointless, more or less. There are probably few songs with both live and studio versions that one likes equally as much; you're almost always going to prefer one to another. I'm asking about those live songs that basically make you uninterested in the studio versions, or make listening to the studio versions difficult. There's only a few songs like that for me; I named three that immediately came to mind. As an aside, when I was young I overwhelmingly preferred live versions, albums like Around the World with Three Dog Night, Wings Over America, The Song Remains The Same, and All the World's a Stage being my early favorites. As an adult though, I almost always prefer studio versions, with a few exceptions, like most the tracks off of All the World's a Stage. But take The Song Remains the Same, apart from No Quarter, I'll take the studio version of every track even though I really enjoy the album.

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  15. I also misunderstood this post. You should reword the title: "Live versions that were better than the studio version"

     

    No, that would be a different thread. I can think of many many many songs that have a recorded live version better than the studio version, and vice versa. Not a very interesting question I think. I meant what I said, though maybe "ruined" isn't the best word. How about, "Live versions that made the studio versions irrelevant for you."

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