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I think "Stacked" has "That 70s Show" as a lead-in (followed by "Trading Spouses: Meet Your New Mommy"), so it's kind of a moot point. I'd say that with all of the Sunday night slots being taken and "American Idol" returning before too long, the show's future on Fox looks pretty grim. Has there been any talk of moving it to FX? It might be a better fit there.

I think that's Pitchfork's number 1 album of the '90s, so it can't be that odd of an opinion. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It was originally Loveless but they swapped the placing of those two albums when they revised the list a while back. The reasoning for the switch was pretty dubious, but I ultimately agree with the result.

The "You and Whose Army?"-"I Might Be Wrong"-"Knives Out" stretch of Amnesiac is good. Maybe a little obvious. Also, "The Modern Age"-"Soma"-"Barely Legal" portion of the first Strokes album. Fun.

What's the status of the show beyond that hiatus? I read the other day that it was going to be pushed off of Monday nights by "House" come January. Any chance it get can get a cushy spot with "Stacked" as a lead-in on Wednesday nights?

If Big Ben isn't out for the season, Pittsburgh is all right. It's not like Maddox is a total scrub, and the defense and running game alone should win them a few games. A little further into the season, a 6-10 week sort of injury might be debilitating, but with it coming this early I'd say they're still in a good position. If he's out for the season, they're fucked just in the sense that they can't compete with the elite AFC teams with a second-string QB.

And, actually, could I get a list of all of the previous major innovations in popular music, just so I know what sort of criteria we're working with here?

I'm willing to bet that this thread will look awfully trite once the third Strokes record is released. And, beyond that, the next major musical innovation will obviously be composed by aboriginal Australians and will consist entirely of cut-up segments of cellphone ringtones.

Has anyone else ever listened to this band, 10cc? They're terrific. Their stuff is mostly straightforward pop/rock, but with really interesting arrangements and a lot of completely seamless tempo changes. The two primary songwriters for the band, Godley and Creme, wnet on to record that "Cry" thing from early MTV with all of the faces morphing into other faces. I think they also directed a Duran Duran video. They're most famous Stateside for the songs "I'm Not In Love" and the somewhat similarly-titled but inferior "The Things We Do For Love." I would recommend their self-titled first album and, more specifically, the songs "Rubber Bullets," "The Dean & I," and "Headline Hustler." Their second album, Sheet Music, is also worth hearing. On a scale of 1 to 10, with Bryan Adams at one end and Supertramp at the other, I would give 10cc a strong 8. Listen and you will agree.

I feel as though I've had my music career derailed by anti-semitism, as well. Damn this contract with Palestine Records.

This movie is more or less based on the relationship between David Bowie and Iggy Pop in the 70s. I don't remember that much about it. David Bowie said that the most interesting parts of the movie were the gay sex scenes, and I would be inclined to agree. Were I david Bowie, which I am not. The scene at the end where the one character is reinvented as an "industy tool/entertainer" is based either on Bowie's own Let's Dance period or David Johansenn's reinvention as Buster Poindexter. Draw your own conclusions. Either way, it's a pretty mediocre attempt at documenting the glam rock period of the early 70s, but with a pretty amazing soundtrack.

My roommate burned me a copy of XTC's English Settlement the other day. It's good. I'm sort of uninitiated with this band, having heard only Drums and Wires prior to this, and these songs are much longer and a lot less hooky. I like this less, and I'm really starting to not like "Senses Working Overtime" at all, but it's still pretty interesting.

I have watched two sporting events with my girlfriend in the year and a half that we've been dating. The first was the Tampa Bay-Indianapolis MNF game where the Bucs blew a seemingly insurmountable lead in the last three minutes of regulation and then got bit by a totally asinine "leaping" call in overtime, totally demoralizing the team and effectively ruining the rest of what should have been a somewhat respectable defense of their championship. I made a total fool of myself in a very early stage of our relationship and it's some small wonder that she found it cute rather than obsessive and creepy. The other game I watched with her was the Spurs-Lakers playoff game last year with the two insane shots in the last five seconds that totally swung all momentum in the series to the Lakers. I'm not quite as obsessed with the Spurs as I am with the Bucs, so this incident just sort of compounded the other one and assured that not only would I never watch a game with her again, but that I would never so much as mention that I might be interested in watching a sporting event to her ever again. She's just the worst fucking luck.

I think Inc's voice is kind of sexy. I should note, though, that I've never actually listened to his radio show. I refer only to the voice that he uses in my dreams.

I really just can't stand anything. Were I to compile a list of classic albums, it would contain only Supertramp's Breakfast In America. This is the only album in the long and uneventful history of recorded music that appeals to me.

Wait, what's the difference between "I Know There's an Answer" and "Hang Onto Your Ego" aside from modified lyrics?

That last album was the best thing they'd done since If You're Feeling Sinister. In all seriousness, they're in really rare company as a current band that I care even the slightest bit about.

The Who is the ultimate average band. Even their greatest hits album is underwhelming, which can't really be said of any other important rock band. I think their sustained popularity has a lot to do with them being sort of like punk rock to baby boomers, in that they were louder than any other band from their era.

Does anyone know what the story is with "Sister Midnight" from The Idiot and "Red Money" from Lodger being the exact same song with different lyrics?

I must have dreamed that Abu Ghraib thing, then. However justifiable the actions of the Marine might have been in light of his situation, the one really stupid thing he did is shoot the guy while being filmed. This is exactly the sort of thing that a lot of the more anti-American Arab television stations will grab onto and show ad nauseum to prove their point.

I'm a little disappointed that I'm not allowed to post in this horrible thread.

I had a gimmick called TheLukester that I thought was pretty funny. I don't know how amusing other people found bird watching jokes, though. It didn't really take off like I'd anticipated.

Yeah. I remember making a joke about Nick Cave's "slightly darker" original version of "West End Girls" that I thought was just outrageously funny. Those were more innocent times, I guess.

I don't really like that song, either. I usually stop the album after the weird semi-song in between "Cry Baby Cry" and "Revolution #9." I would definitely never argue the point that that album should have been condensed to one record, but there really is some pretty worthless stuff on there. Edit: In reference to "Good Night."

It really boggles the mind as to how that album got such a good reputation. That said, I'll take "When I'm 64" or even the dreaded "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite" over "Honey Pie" any old day of the week.