Osler's Razor

Not true. I like the Beatles. I own all of their albums. I just think Sgt. Pepper's is overrated.

Matt and I are still friends. We're going to Austin to see a show on Friday.

But I do hate Rush and ELO. Though "Don't Bring Me Down" is a pretty good song.
 

Since we're all thinking religiously this morning, would y'all please pray for some rain out here in Kingman? I haven't seen a drop of rain fall on this parched ground for nearly 5 months. I wasn't prepared for this when I signed up to come to the desert.

One other thing baffles me: Even though there has been no rain for so long, not a drop all spring, the plants in the desert have actually grown, a little, and turned green since the beginning of March. Outstanding!
 

Arizona is like Practice Court for plants.
 

you must learn to be a human camel, young kimosabe
 

Can I suggest a totally different tact (given that Simon & Garfunkel are the BEST and that Simon's "Graceland" is the best album ever.)

How about the plaintiff's lawyer with TB?? I'd like to hear some comments.

Love & peace,
Kat in the CSO
 

I know now that I am a true optimist and I know this because I moved into a house that is full of nothing but white carpeting with a toddler and a dog and a luthier. Not only that for dinner tonight I served ravioli and lima beans,. I though Spencer might get excited because for him I made Winnie the Pooh shaped ravioli. He still put it everywhere and fed the lima beans to the dog and the dining room looked like a crime scene by the end.

WHAT is SO WRONG with Lima beans???? I am not half the freak my mother was. When I was 5 I remember she made me eat octopus and squid. For my third birthday party she served Lobster Newberg, and she would not allow peanut butter or jelly or baloney anywhere near our house. HOW MANY KIDS HAVE TRIED TONGUE BEFORE THE AGE OF 6, I ASK YOU?

And I asked Spencer to eat a few stupid lima beans and he refused to even try them,.

I SUCK at this motherhood thing, but honestly I am 42 and at the end of the day I feel constantly that I have no idea what I am doing or how my kid will turn out. How do these goofy teenage moms feel? I mean they are like 17 and ALONE????? I mean I was still locking my keys in the car like every day until I was like 26. Had I had a child at the age of 17 or something, the kid would have turned out to be Ted Bundy, or worse, DONUT. I barely had figured out where babies came from before I turned 30. I once had to go to a male strip club in Windsor for a birthday party and I kept my turtleneck pulled up over my head the entire time. I was 27.

I have no idea what the point of this post is. But then, how is that different than any of the other ones?
 

Poseur's right. ELO and Rush stink. And Sgt Pepper, while groundbreaking in its day is not even the Beatles' best LP. That would be Revolver.

Early ELO is OK, but everything after "New World Record" blows. Their version is "Do Ya" is their best effort, but Todd Rungren did a better live version.

Even though Rush's overblown and derivative stylings stink as a matter of law, not knowing Neal Peart is a problem. Not knowing Geddy Lee, whose greatest contribution to musical history is his appearance on Bob and Doug McKenzie's Great White North LP redeems him from the dreck that is rush, is a sin. I may ask Bradley Thomas to give my name back.

In other music news, Peter Frampton is touring again. And he's got a buzz cut. He looks just plain weird that way.

-Poseur still hasn't ID'd the source of the band name the Del Crandalls....
 

Hmm Neal is at it again, huh? Well where Neal is, Carl Palmer can't be far behind.

Bonzo Bonham was still the best in my book, athough Ginger Baker gets hon. mention as my namesake.
 

I had Abbey Road as the best instead of Revolver, but I agree. Revolver was the revolutionary leap in the Beatles sound. Though their early sound is pretty great. Help! is a terrific album.

I wasn’t aware there was a Del Crandall challenge…

Del Crandall was a Gold Glove catcher for the Milwaukee Braves in the 1950s and 60s. He’s one of the rare catchers with a great defensive reputation who could actually hit a little bit (not that he was Josh Gibson or anything). Unlike Mookie Blaylock, he thought it was cool there was a band named after them and didn’t threaten legal action.
 

Poseur, Excellent response! The original challenge came at the end of a long string about visiting the Prof. in law school and seeing the Del Crandalls open for Barrance Whitfield & the Savages at some dive bar in Connecticut.

So what's the best Zeppelin record? I used to say I for its shear audacity and bombast, but I've grown to enjoy Presence for its intensity. Page's rage and anger just blaze through on his guitar solos. Still go with I though. Zoso/IV, because of Stairway, has always been too pretentious. And "Going To California" will always make my skin crawl.
 

My dad was a huge blues fan, so for me it is an easy call: Led Zeppelin I. You Shook Me is one of my favorite songs, regardless of who is doing it. And then the bombast of Communication Breakdown... what an album.

Though I like your call on Presence. There's some good stuff there, but I'd have to take Phyiscal Graffiti from the later stuff. Sure, its got a bit of filler, but when it hits, its the best stuff Zeppelin ever did.
 

huh? i need to do a google search isee
 

Like most double albums, Physical Grafitti should have been 3 sides, not four. About the only 4 sided LP that doesn't have a wasted track is "London Calling" by the Clash. But Sandinista is a Mucking Fess. They really were lost in the Supermarket when they put that out.

--You're SO right on Sgt. Pepper being partially to blame for Prog Rock, btw. But so is Abbey Road, if not more so. At least Sgt. Pepper had breaks between the tracks.
 

Wel, osler I do not know why he does not post more, because he LOVES to Haiku BUT My husband had a LOT to say about this whole music thing.

Not sure why he did not post but he did talk to me about it Ad nauseum... hahah JUST KIDDING BILL

I do not know if they were Prog Rock or not but I loved Kansas. Just because playing them very loudly annoyed the crap out of my mother That is, until the eighties when the Violent femmes came out. Then I used that album to annoy her.
 

My fav Led Zeppelin song is Houses of the Holy. WHY do I like it? I dunno.

Cuz it has a good beat and it is easy to dance to. I give is an 89.

Fave Blues song: Only one really: Boom Boom by John Lee Hooker.
 

Tyd,

Houses of the Holy, the song, is GREAT. I'm sure Bill has told you what the title refers to. I've always loved the fact that they put the tune on Physical Graffiti instead of on the Houses of the Holy LP.

The definitive Zeppelin song is "How Many More Times."
 

And London Calling fits on one CD. So does Blonde On Blonde, another great double album. I think that's the secret to a great double album, its really a one and half album. In the age of CD, the double album is essentially dead, so its hard to come up with a list of great double albums. Off the top of my head:

Physical Graffiti -- Led Zeppelin
London Calling -- The Clash
Quadrophenia -- The Who
Blonde On Blonde -- Dylan
The Basement Tapes -- Dylan
Double Nickles On the Dime -- The Minutmen
Zen Arcade -- Husker Du
The White Album -- The Beatles
The Wall -- Pink Floyd
 

Best Zepplin: Zoso is prob the best overall, When the Levee Breaks is simply sublime. Best song overall though is on Physical Graffitti, Bonham on Kashmir is irresistable.

Another good double album: U2's Rattle and Hum. Flawed, but "All I want is you" makes up for a lot of sin.

Good call on the Floyd's Wall, I think that it gets overlooked too often.
 

Eeee-ew!! The Wall? Floyd should have packed it in after Animals. Talk about overblown Prog Rock!

Maybe I just got sick of it because it came out while I was music director at the College Radio Station. All those weenies who hated punk and were still trying to play Renaissance and Gentle Giant and Genesis and God knows what other pretentious garbage were overjoyed. The played The Wall to death. Meantime so did every AOR station in the country. What was alternative about playing Pink F--ing Floyd?

If they wanted to play Floyd, I wanted them to go back the the Syd Barrett days, or at least from before Dark Side. I suppose some of the "deep tracks" on Wish You Were Here (NOT Shine on you Crazy Diamond or Have A Cigar) would have been OK, but WHY did we need to be playing the Same thing EVERYONE else was playing.

I have the LP, but I don't think its graced my turntable since 1982. (and yes, I still use my turntable on a regular basis.. too much vinyl not to)
 

heyiplaw

I was the productions director at my college radio station... which meant I made all the commercials and PSAs and intros and stuff. It was so fun!!!!
 

IPLG,
Lol, sometimes I think Roger Waters and I are the only ones left who still love The Wall.