Giuseppe Zangara

As such, I'm quitting the board.

Ridiculing anyone who posts about wrestling is too easy. But I'm still hurt in my sensitive parts.

That I didn't get any tail only makes the direction this thread took in my absence even worse. I'm hurt. Too hurt to say anything clever.

Were I trying to pick you up, a change of plan would be in order!

I'm wearing Skechers and John Lennon-style specs. I think that will suffice.

The whores don't arrive for another hour, usually.

TheDeathofDerangedHermit

But, you never know what's going to happen in the TSM chat room!

I hope you people that are choosing my night's activities to include sex with a scenester realizes I'll have to put up with the Postal Service or something just to get some play. Or worse, Get Up Kids. Those names may mean nothing to some of you, but believe me, it's not good.

Getting "spammed by the piledriver" sounds sexy.

Hi-yo!

DerangedHermitShouldHaveBeenAnAbortion

No, Byrne sings the SMS version of it quite differently. That version is in a much slower tempo than the studio recording, so he alters his normal performance accordingly.

Velvet Underground - The Gift

C could happen, but it's not feasible as a stand alone option. Based on past experiences at the bar in question, I need to be under some sort of mind-altering substance just to tolerate it.

I just saw Mike's sig!

You never know what's going to happen in the TSM chat room!

Where do you get this notion. You've trashed as many pizza places in this thread as I have.

I agree with none of those, especially "Take Me to the River," the studio version of which is TH's finest moment. The live version is fine, but too "arena funk." I find the use of backing singers in the SMS take extraneous, too. My picks are "Psycho Killer," "Heaven" and "Girlfriend is Better." The first two are incredible reinventions of already good songs that appear on 77 and Fear of Music, respectively; the former's stripped down performance makes an unsettling song even creepier, while the latter's also stripped perf finds a heartrending sadness missing in the original's sneering sarcasm. "Girlfriend is Better" takes a song that, on Speaking in Tongues, came off as mechanical and flat (for which I blame the super-thin drum machine used in the track, giving the rythym section—and, in turn, the song itself—no life) into something truly funky.

Tindersticks - My Sister

Someone should ban Moist Party Gurl.

I ate at a Sbarros in NYC. I should be shot.

What, no "Take the Skinheads Bowling?" "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" EDIT: Let it be known I have no idea what is this column you are talking about, so I may very well be missing the point.

But only three or so of the SMS songs are actually better than their studio counterparts. The rest are equal in quality, if different otherwise. EDIT: Oh, and I will always hate, hate, hate Tom Tom Club.