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3 hours ago, 1-0-0-1-0-0-1 said:

 

2 hours ago, blackhawkrush said:

I always thought his name sounds like another possible penal colony in Star Trek VI.   

Apparently they produce some good hockey players there. Send in the scouts!

11 hours ago, blackhawkrush said:

I'm left with Carolina. Teravainen with a second Cup?  Burns with his first?  

Joe Pavelski winning a Cup makes Dallas the easy choice for me. They're pretty much my secondary team anyway, lots of players on that team that are easy to like -- Pavelski, Benn, Hintz, Heiskanen, Robertson, etc.

6 hours ago, _hi_water._ said:

170. "Virtuality," Test for Echo (1996)

Test for Echo - Entry 2 out of 11

 

So... yeah, uh... once again, this album hasn't aged greatly. The positive side to this song is the music itself - I'd say that this is one of the heaviest tracks Rush gave us in the 90's, with Alex giving us crunchy riffs. Sigh... unfortunately, it can be very difficult to listen to this song when I am set to hearing a dated chorus like this: "Net boy, net girl/Send your signal 'round the world/Let your fingers walk and talk/And set you free," "Net boy, net girl/Send your impulse 'round the world/Put your message in a modem/And throw it in the Cyber Sea." Boy... this is definitely a mid-late 90's album alright. Aaaaagh. 
 

173. “Half The World” 1/11
172. “Anagram (For Mongo)” 1/11
171. “Bravest Face” 1/13
170. “Virtuality” 2/11
 

The lyrics to this song are bottom-5 worst, maybe bottom-1 worst. They're Neil's worst on an album with mostly terrible lyrics. They were cringy back in the mid '90s when the internet was first becoming accessible to the general public, and now here we all are, still online and still cringing.

Lyrically and musically, the "Net boy" choruses in this song are unlistenable. But that main riff...it's one of the band's catchiest and heaviest, and I think that riff by itself elevates this song to a much higher position on the list than fourth-worst. Still a bottom-30 song for sure, but higher than this. YMMV.

17 hours ago, _hi_water._ said:

I swear to everyone I made a list before creating this thread. It's a coincidence two of the songs mentioned in the thread already made the bottom two. I can assure you the next one should be different (unless you take a shot at guessing which one is next!)

It's not a coincidence. These two songs are, according to the FDA, Generally Recognized As Unsafe.

20 hours ago, grep said:

You spelled Tai-Shan wrong.  :)

Unless Tai Shan is an.....Anagram. (That was for Mongo)

15 minutes ago, blackhawkrush said:

We did it! Let the Knights win the Cup. I don't care.     

Congrats, you didn't finish dead last and you still won Bedard!

That version of Siberian Khatru is just blistering. Steve Howe is ripping it up on that end jam.

My PS2 is no longer powering up. There are tutorials on YouTube on how to fix it, and I might give it a shot if I can ever find the time. There are a few PS2 games that I still like playing.

3 minutes ago, Mithrandir said:

Gene Simmons is THE greatest entrepreneur the world has ever seen. 

https://www.everythingkiss.com/Funeral.html

I always thought of Aerosmith as the American muscle car of rock bands. They're like a '69 GTO or a '70 Chevelle.

Remember, when you're Breaking The Law, having an Ace of Spades up your sleeve is always a good idea.

I'll see myself out...

5 minutes ago, blackhawkrush said:

Wait till Biggus Dickus hears of this.    

The Big Cheese!

25 minutes ago, blackhawkrush said:

I thought we were an autonomous collective.    

Blame the Catholic church for not letting me wear one of those little rubber things.

34 minutes ago, blackhawkrush said:

Well, now it's time for racing, so let's go straight over to Epson and Brian McNutty.     

Well pretty much as I predicted, except that the Silly party won.

1 hour ago, blackhawkrush said:

Oh, well there's only just enough for me.     You see, if I split what's left, there'd be hardly any left for me at all. 

Fine, fine, fine, thank you. No more sherry for me don't you know. Warner House beat Badger House for the Second Cuppa, remarkable!

1 hour ago, blackhawkrush said:

Oh Bevis, are you going to do anything or are you just going to show me films all evening?  

Only that you said we must have a drink together sometime, so I thought I'd take you up on it as tonight's film society meeting was cancelled.

18 hours ago, blackhawkrush said:

Jacques, what will you be washing?  

We can't afford to take any chances -- sack the entire washing staff!

5 hours ago, blackhawkrush said:

      This may be even more serious than even I had at first been imagining.  

It's nothing to worry about, although it is extremely dangerous! I shall be juggling with your life, I shall be playing ducks and drakes with your very existence.

1 hour ago, laughedatbytime said:

Test for Echo over Abbey Road?

 

 

Yet, at present, T4E has 13.9% of the vote...

The WTF part of this poll is that, of all the  Rush albums to include with those three certified classics, they picked T4E? How totally random. But we all know how some music polls work -- you purposely include a WTF choice because people will pick it for a goof. If you really thought a Rush album belonged with those other three, you go with Moving Pictures or maybe Permanent Waves or you don't include Rush at all.

2 hours ago, blackhawkrush said:

   Bad luck, 73. Nice to have you on the thread.  

I'm sorry I'm late m'lord, I couldn't find a kosher car park. Don't bother to recap, I'll pick it up as we go along.

3 minutes ago, IbanezJem said:

Ehh, all right. Two points, ah, two flats, and a packet of gravel. 

We used to have to eat a handful of hot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

1 hour ago, blackhawkrush said:

I can't remember but I've got it written down somewhere.  

Oh yes, on the bottom of the box, after monosodium glutamate.

16 minutes ago, IbanezJem said:

Listen, tell you what. I'll file your legs down a bit, take your snout out, stick a few wires through your cheeks. There you are, a lovely pussy. 

I'm more interesting than a wet pussy cat! 

1 hour ago, blackhawkrush said:

Well, I didn't know you were called 'Dennis'.   

From now on, I want you all to call me 'Loretta'. It's my right as a man.