Rendclaw

Every time I hear Head Over Heels I cannot help but sing along. I love "Everybody" just as much as the next person, but Head Over Heels I maintain was their best song. Sorry Earl, Seeds was overdone in a lot of aspects. They tried to do too much *and* stay the same. You can do one, not both.

Yeah it is quite boring now that Vettel wrapped up the season, Hamilton either can't catch a break or his aggressiveness screws him over, other drivers being ***** now that they have little to race for, etc. The only thing I can say about RBR is that they have the perfect chassis married to the perfect engine and the right driver behind the wheel in Vettel. I can't hate the kid because he's a nice guy. I miss the days of Senna, Prost, et al duking it out... I love F1 of today but it was a much better sport back in the 80s and early 90s.

Yeah it is quite boring now that Vettel wrapped up the season, Hamilton either can't catch a break or his aggressiveness screws him over, other drivers being ***** now that they have little to race for, etc. The only thing I can say about RBR is that they have the perfect chassis married to the perfect engine and the right driver behind the wheel in Vettel. I can't hate the kid because he's a nice guy. I miss the days of Senna, Prost, et al duking it out... I love F1 of today but it was a much better sport back in the 80s and early 90s.

Yeah it is quite boring now that Vettel wrapped up the season, Hamilton either can't catch a break or his aggressiveness screws him over, other drivers being ***** now that they have little to race for, etc. The only thing I can say about RBR is that they have the perfect chassis married to the perfect engine and the right driver behind the wheel in Vettel. I can't hate the kid because he's a nice guy. I miss the days of Senna, Prost, et al duking it out... I love F1 of today but it was a much better sport back in the 80s and early 90s.

Yeah it is quite boring now that Vettel wrapped up the season, Hamilton either can't catch a break or his aggressiveness screws him over, other drivers being ***** now that they have little to race for, etc. The only thing I can say about RBR is that they have the perfect chassis married to the perfect engine and the right driver behind the wheel in Vettel. I can't hate the kid because he's a nice guy.

Yeah there is some sort of schism. If you are a Christian you have to root for Tebow, going from his days in Florida. Even though I'm not as big of a Jim Rome fan as I used to be, his tweet about Tebow was right on the money: No one likes "I told you so." So I won't say it. But for all of you who tripped so hard when I said Tim Tebow wasn't ready: APOLOGY ACCEPTED Denver is so desperate for the second coming of Elway, its not even funny. I understand because I live near a city that has a team that has been so downtrodden for so freaking long, culminating with an 0-16 season, anytime the team does well (getting out to a 5-0 start this season for example) the fanbase loses their collective minds. Tebow is not ready, and while the hate is not justified, the excessive and overwhelming support he is getting (billboards??? really?!?!?!?) isn't justified either. You can't (or at least shouldn't) go so hard in supporting a quarterback that is not ready to play every down just because he shares the same religion as you. It should be about football, since its a results-oriented business.

Cornell has one of those voices that doesn;t translate live. Hell, he blew out his vocal chords trying sound like the record. And yes, grunge music from the early 90s is now considered classic, even though all of the people who considered themselves alternative back then (or still do) cannot STAND it. Welcome to the real world, flannel jockeys. EVERYONE gets old. Every twenty years, the genre gets larger. I cannot wait until what passes for heavy metal these days gets the same treatment. It makes me laugh, every time.

I still have not forgiven SyFy for ditching Farscape. All's well that ends well, because I am going to get the box set, which is only $40 or so on Amazon. I think with all sci-fi series, the first season is hardly ever any good, but it especially holds true with all of the Star Trek series, with the possible exception of the Original Series, and even then the first few episodes were relatively bad up until my favorite episode, "Balance of Terror". After that, everything improved markedly. TNG's first *two* seasons were terrible, they didn't start really picking up until near the end of Season 2, when they started humanizing Picard and the stories got better. DS9, the same thing, though I do agree on the series getting exponentially better once the Gamma Quadrant exploration started in earnest and the Dominion storyline began. Voyager, same thing. My point is that if you;re going to watch a sci-fi series you have to commit at least a season and a half to it before you pull the ripcord. That is, unless its parent network doesn't cut its nuts off in the name of ratings.

I liked B5 until things got way too complicated. DS9 was better with better characters, but I did like the relationship between Sheridan and Delenn. Mira Furlan is an excellent actress.

I tried them, they were horribly overpriced for what you got. Don;t get me wrong it wasn't bad, but for what I paid for a meal for myself and my girlfriend, I could have gotten a meal for a third person if had gone to Wendy's and *they're* highly priced too. I keep hearing so many good things about In N Out, but hell I have to go to Vegas or Cali in order to try it. Boo.

Technically it was Moving Pictures although I bought that, Signals, 2112, Exit Stage Left, and Permanent Waves all on cassette from Crazy Eddie at the same time. I still have them too, though I am sure they are much the worse for wear. I was going to include All The World's A Stage in that list, but I had borrowed that from a friend and he never asked for it back.

Yeah, since he got him to play on his solo album, and that wasn't a bad idea.

I have an STP concert I DVR'ed off of Palladia, and they still have it.. Too bad Weiland got on heroin, because they never should have broken up.

QUOTE (Blast @ Aug 9 2011, 06:51 AM) Lock and Key This. I find myself whistling or humming that damned keyboard refrain.

QUOTE (Presto-digitation @ Aug 15 2011, 05:31 PM) Long time Metallica fan and my favorite album of theirs. All this talk about sell-out and shit like that is abject non-sense. It's an excellent metal album, high on crunch, melody, texture, and a keen sense of structure and arrangement. Once again Presto, we're in total agreement. While my favorite album by them always flip-flops back and forth between Ride The Lightning and Master of Puppets, I always loved this album. All of the sellout talk is just the disillusioned fans wanting their favorite band to never change or try something else. Selling out would be remaking Master of Puppets every album since. Justice was a radical change from Puppets, just as Puppets was a change from Lightning. As I have always said when the "sellout" talk starts, Metallica were accused of that since they got on the Elektra label and made Ride the Lightning in 1984, because the hardcore fans now had to share their band with a growing number of people. I liked that the album wasn't a major time investment, and the sound was much, much better compared to Justice.

We all wanted to tag Samantha Fox back in the day, no need for anyone to lie about it.

I love Newegg. I spent $600 on parts and I have a system that is solid as granite, and aside from maybe getting an SSD drive for the OS and a 2 or 3 TB external for storage, I don;t need anything else. It does everything I need and does it pretty well. Not to mention that there is a certain feeling of satisfaction of building your own system. You just have to be careful, follow the instructions, and don't panic.

There are two reasons why it sucks so bad. Like most of you I stopped giving two farts in a grasshopper's ass about MTV when the canceled Headbanger's Ball, but by that time I think the signs were clear that they were going more toward the reality shows. Hell, they invented the genre. I'll give them credit for that, before reality TV became the pustule-infested monster it is today. The second reason is that most of us are considered old. I'm 42 myself (even though it still feels weird to say it), and the way music is presented changed when grunge came along and wiped almost everything else out in the early 90s. I'm a child of the 80s and always will be. I still maintain to this day that the 1980s were the best for music as a whole since the 60s. The 70s, well... severe hit and miss. Until I had to send my DVR back to Comcast, I had most of Rush Hashana on it, mostly because one block of Rush vids they did had Vital Signs, something I had never seen on TV (crappy ass Youtube videos don't count, because flash video quality is terrible, especially when someone is recording it with a webcam pointed at the TV set, but I digress). My point is that the world has changed radically since we were sitting in front of the tube and watching MTV as kids back in the early 80s and now we have turned into our parents, talking about how good things used to be back in the day, and how crappy things are now. We are no different than our parents when they talked about the 50s and 60s, and our grandparents when they talked about how things were between the Depression and World War II. I always quote something I saw in the "A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica" video: "Every generation will scorn the next, and their music." It's inevitable. Yes, MTV has not been truly about music for more than twenty years now, and its never going back. I will again give them credit, because at least they saw that people wanted a channel that was more about music, so they made VH1. Then they put out VH1 Classic, which was more to our speed. And I could certainly deal with more music and less reality TV, but thats not going away until the genre collapses, and that may or may not be soon, when people finally get fed up with them. All I know is that they're cheap to make, and if you can script... errr.... film enough drama/conflict/sex going on, people will watch, and the creators make money hand over fist. Why do you think Mark Burnett is close to a billionaire? Vh1 Classic will always get the nod from me, because the proportion of music and music docs vs. reality shows is higher than any of the other sister stations. Though I think Palladia is starting to challenge for the title. But then again, I *think* that channel is owned by Viacom too.

Sykes himself is underrated... the 87 Whitesnake album and Blue Murder were just fantastic from a guitar standpoint. I still rock both albums regularly. I would love to see this trio, especially if Billy Sheehan is the "mystery bassist". The only other one who I think would be a better selection would be Stu Hamm.

I couldn't disagree more about what Ted said, but its all a matter of personal taste and opinion, and no one's opinion is better than another. Giving him so much credit for liking what he likes? Hardly takes that much testicular fortitude on the internets.

QUOTE (RUSHHEAD666 @ Jun 26 2011, 01:38 AM) QUOTE (Rendclaw @ Jun 25 2011, 10:22 PM) Calm down, people... Music is subjective, just like 90% of everything else in life. As to Di'anno, yes, he needed to go after Killers. That was the nadir of that lineup of the band, as his drinking had gotten pretty out of control on that tour, and you can hear how shot his voice had gotten. I just wish Clive hadn't gotten sick, because I liked his jazzy leanings slightly better than Nicko's straightforward approach. Holy shit Claw!! How's it going stranger? Well said amigo! Clive was great! Hell you can never go back and it's not fair to judge Paul to Bruce. Of course is a much better all around vocalist, yet Paul's existence fit in with the first two records perfectly. JMO The first two Maiden albums are EPIC MASTERPIECES OF MIND!!!! UP THE IRONS CLAW MAN! Oh I've been around, just staying quiet and enjoying the carnage around here. I agree that Paul was perfect for the first two albums, even though I think the music was starting to outpace him on Killers. Bruce was the right singer at the right time, and together Maiden took a quantum leap forward. Even listening to Bruce's auditions, you could tell that this was the guy, and anyone else wasn't even close. As Bruce himself said in the Classic Albums piece they did on NotB, it was like a rollercoaster, and NotB was where you crest the top of the big hill and start going on the ride that didn't end until 1992.

Calm down, people... Music is subjective, just like 90% of everything else in life. As to Di'anno, yes, he needed to go after Killers. That was the nadir of that lineup of the band, as his drinking had gotten pretty out of control on that tour, and you can hear how shot his voice had gotten. I just wish Clive hadn't gotten sick, because I liked his jazzy leanings slightly better than Nicko's straightforward approach.

I've been shopping at Sam's for my meat for years... the chicken breasts are good, their steaks are better than average, as is their pork.

Wil is cool, I just wish he would turn his snark down from 11 sometimes.

That's a negative..