Nova Carmina

This seems unfair; it should have been a later-round matchup! Forgive me, Big Al: I voted for Pagey.

Well, pitchers and catchers have reported, the Red Sox have overpaid Alex Bregman to try and look busy and competitive, so it's probably time to start another one of these! Can the Royals improve by another thirty games? (No, obviously. Will they improve at all?) Can the Cardinals find a way to be competitive in a lame duck season for their GM? Can the White Sox win more than 41 games? Can anyone stop the Dodgers? Play ball!

I went with Hackett for the more impressive/varied body of work. Jeff Beck seems like a comet to me: here for a good time, but not for a long time (of peak creativity).

Bad Company The White Stripes Soundgarden

Ah, the misery of others is as good as the joy of one's own!

The Police Warren Zevon Material Issue Dave Matthews Band (is "jam band" one of the excluded categories? I've lost track) Cheap Trick The Go-Go's Madonna Michael Jackson Bruce Springsteen Peter Gabriel

Exhausting, and I wasn't even skating!

Liverpool choke away the Quad by fielding a bunch of kids against the mighty Plymouth Argyle. Don't be too snooty about any trophies, Slot!

That would be great! But . . .

Don't forget the batteries to throw at the players entering the blue tent!

Why would you do something that could so obviously be nullified by simple retaliation? "You broke our QB's knee; let's see how your guy's knees are." "You concussed our RB on a late hit; we can hit late, too." Unless the players on Team A are so skilled at the dark arts of injury that Team B doesn't realize what's happening, "taking out" 3-4 key players would work both ways. Maybe the game winds up with the last eleven of the 55 guys on the field. Who's got the deeper Taxi Squad?

The 1976 box set release is fantastic and is the kind of thing Rush ought to be doing.

In case the posts stick around, and in case it's a sincere listicle: Ten albums? I literally couldn't name ten Elton John albums if you had a gun to my head, but surely I can come up with ten songs? "Saturday Night's Alright" "I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues" "Rocket Man" "I'm Still Standing" "Don't Le the Sun Go Down on Me" "Tiny Dancer" uh . . .

Too bad the outage ruined my comic timing; I had a "Saad day in St. Louis" joke all lined up and ready to go.

Maybe other teams should try, you know, playing better? If they wanna stop having to hear about the Chiefs, maybe don't let 'em keep it close?

Niiiiiiiice

Apparently he preferred it to exploring the Cowboys' job . . .

I don't get this at all. "Supposedly fan-driven forums" can, in fact, include criticism of said band. You may be looking for a "worshipper-driven forum" or something. Further, I'm going to assume that his comments were in response to music-related criticism, like production values or too much keyboard/not enough guitar or "should sound more like Hemispheres!". The release of retread material at exorbitant prices is not an artistic choice made by someone following his muse. This is a business decision made by people probably several degrees removed from any creative input. As such, it cannot be immune from criticism of the sort Peart was bemoaning. Are we peasants who should merely be happy there's some shiny new (old) crumbs to savor? Even real fans can make rational market-based decisions, like "There's no effin way I'm going to spend so much money on something like this."

Were they, though?

Oh my god, this cover. "Here, kids, is why artwork is such an important gateway to the music!"

Congrats! Welcome to the Club. The paddling and the secret handshake tutorial will be scheduled soon.

Welp, that was disappointing. And I know this was the first time through, but my god that playoff took forever. Frankly, I was so out of the college football mindset that I forgot the game was on until I was looking for something other than the news.

Thanks for sharing your skills with us. RIP.