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| How can power cords make a difference? It's all voodoo--cords, amps, speakers, all of it. Caveat Emptor! Run, kids, run! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Amen, R F Sayles, amen. What a great band. McLennan's solo records are also terrific, especially Horsebreaker Star.He (and they) will be missed. | |
| Best "album" of 2006 My favorites so far are Centro-matic's "Fort Recovery," an amazing record by a band I'd never heard of until recently--it is sort of reminiscent of Sparklehorse or Varnaline, but better--and the Drive-By Trucker's "A Blessing and a Curse," the tig... | |
| The 5 Jazz Recordings You Would Take With You... Who can resist these parlor game questions? Not me, so here's a shot at it...John Coltrane - "Love Supreme"Thelonious Monk - "Brilliant Corners"Bill Evans - "Sunday at the Village Vanguard"Ornette Coleman - "Change of the Century"Charlie Parker - ... | |
| DLP lamps I have the 52 inch model and had the same probem. I bought my television through Best Buy, and ended up getting replacement bulbs in 7-10 days from both Best Buy and Toshiba. Then, a few days later, we received a letter from Toshiba stating that t... | |
| Best Country/Rock - Poll A poser, alas. Just a big fan of the band.PS I agree with you about "Cuba"...great album! | |
| Best Country/Rock - Poll DC,I'll see if I can track down the Cowboy album you mentioned. Sounds interesting. Do you know if it's in print?I agree with you about the way your view seems to widen the more you get into this stuff. Admittedly, the definiton of country-rock is... | |
| Best Country/Rock - Poll Sorry I didn't give more specific examples in my first post. If I were going to recommend a beginner's library of great country rock, it would have to include the following, specifically:The International Submarine Band Safe At HomeThe Byrds S... | |
| Best Country/Rock - Poll Look for anything with Gram Parsons, from the Parsons-era Byrds to the Parsons-era Flying Burrito Brothers (especially the classic "Gilded Palace of Sin") and then to his solo records (especially "Grievous Angel"). For something a bit more modern,... | |
| What song best sums up the previous year? Tomryan,No question, Clinton had little more regard for the Constitution than Bush. Although I too may be jaded, I am not quite prepared to sacrifice the Fourth Amendment based on your anecdote, or Bush's judgment of who should be detained, who sh... | |
| What song best sums up the previous year? Tomryan,While I agree that the opposition (i.e. the Democrats) to the current regime is sadly devoid both of ideas/solutions and courage, I must strongly disagree that protest songs--from last year or any other--"do not make a valid point about an... | |
| Joni Mitchell Blue - Wow help me Agoners In addition to Blue, I recommend Ladies of the Canyon, For the Roses, and Court and Spark--great albums, all. Early Mitchell is the best Mitchell. | |
| Recommend used digital source for $3K used Fellas, fellas, please... Wc65mustang could not possibly be Audiogon member AudioFeil, because that would mean that he is shilling for products he sells, and using another "identity" to make it seem legit, no less. Now we have seen many cases in t... | |
| Top Five for 2005 1) The Hold Steady, "Separation Sunday"2) Go-Betweens, "Ocean's Apart"3) Sleater-Kinney, "The Woods"4) Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall5) Bob Mould, "Body of Song" | |
| About Lugnut -- Patrick Malone "He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again." --William Shakespeare, Hamlet |