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"Ticket Outta Loserville" by Son Of Dork

MANICS STREET PREACHERS 1. The Holy Bible 2.Generation Terrorists 3.Everything Must Go 4.Gold Against The Soul 5.Know Your Enemy 6.Lifeblood 7.This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours SUEDE 1.Suede 2.Coming Up 3.Dog Man Star 4.Head Music 5.A New Morning

Didn't Erik Watts show up to job to Spike at one point?

Gotta go with the Rougeaus here. Great tag team, nice range of double team moves and really fun as heels. They were among the first heel wrestlers I ever liked as a kid, helped mainly by the "All American Boys" ring music. To this day, I still love their draw with the Bulldogs to kick off Summerslam 88

"Get Up You Son Of A Bitch, Cause Mickey Loves Ya" by the Bled

I'd love to see some kind of CW Anderson/Ric Flair interaction, be it a one-off match in ECW or some kind of union if Anderson gets promoted to Raw. There's an easy history to mine there, what with CW having the Anderson (sort-of) connection. Simon Dean given a decent singles worker to manage. It's too late to save him as a wrestler, but given a large, powerful heel (body courtesy of the Simon System, of course) to speak for, Simon's charismatic enough to get someone over, given mic time (something he doesn't get with the Gymini). Certainly better than re-hashing Nova in ECW, especially as any new viewers would wonder how he went from fitness guru to high-flying "innovator" A real push for the Smackdown tag ranks. With Kendrick/London, Mexicools, Kash/Noble, Gymini, FBI and Scotty/Funaki they have enough teams to make a decent division. Reform the Bashams (Danny is hardly lighting up Raw, or even appearing to be exact) could help, as could pairing some of the new signings- Jindrak and Palumbo could work as a good unit.

THey had a decent song a few years back called "100 You Should Have Done In Bed", which was quite fun, but they seemed to lose their bollocks and become a dire indie-snooze fest. I caught them supporting Ash a few years back and was very disappointed

I always liked "The Next" Alex Shelley and actually though of that when I saw the thread title. I also liked "The Insane Luchador" Super Crazy and "The Generic Luchador" El Generico. I also, for my sins, liked "Big Bad Booty Daddy" and "Big Poppa Pump"

For a grand total of £16: "Cursed With Insincerity" by the Wonderstuff "Evil Heat" by Primal Scream "You Fail Me" by Converge "Pass The Flask" by the Bled

Emperor Napalm Death The Berzerker Iron Maiden Cradle Of Filth Entombed

According to an interview with Danielson in todays Daily Star, he'll likely be taking on Robbie Brookside in an ROH title match in Liverpool, which would be pretty awesome

After 8 months, I finally remembered I had this blog and found myself watching some old tapes to find some decent content. While watching IWA Mid South's Simply The Best 5, I rediscovered this match. It's easy to see why this might be an overlooked match- on a card with the excellent AJ Styles/Matt Sydal match, an entertaining 6 man elimination match, Samoa Joe's IWA debut, plus good to great matches from Hero/B-Boy, Michael Shane/Austin Aries and Delirious/Jerry Lynn, you can't remember every good match. On rewatching, you realise how well matched these two are. This is an excellent mix of comedy and mat wrestling. It holds back from the over-the-top humour you find a lot in pro-wrestling (no underwear humour here) and relies more on Colt Cabana, the charismatic popular face, trying to humiliate the stooge. Daniels is a tremendous stooge- his cocky attitiude makes his pratfalls all the more entertaining. The spot where, frustrated by his failure to shoulderblock Cabana over, Daniels pyches himself up for the third effort, only to get tripped over by Cabana is funny, but not in the kayfabe-breaking way that, for example, an Ebessan match is, great as they are. Daniels realising he's too short to grab Cabana's arms on a modified surfboard and having to work his way up Cabana's singlet to get there has the same effect. Luckily both men are good enough workers to know how to have a good match as well as the comedy. Daniels, having endured Cabana's mockery, works over Cabana's upper back and head for his finishing piledriver. Also, as any good heel knows, having a manager to attack your opponent to allow you to roll them up for the win doesn't hurt either.

"Becoming More Like Alfie" by the Divine Comedy

"I've Been To Georgia On A Fast Train" by Tennessee Ernie Ford

Freakin' It: "Better ship a mill/ Quick to the store/ What, sold out?/ When y'all getting more?"

Haven't seen much recent stuff, but AJ Styles vs Matt Sydal from IWA-MS Simply The Best 5 was pretty great. Hero/B-Boy from the same show is also pretty good, as was Excalibur/Super Dragon vs Steen/Generico form Cage of Death 6. Dann Maff vs Arik Cannon from CZW Retribution was also good.

Joy Division-Love Will Tear Us Apart Red House Painters-New Jersey Manic Street Preachers-Stay Beautiful The Smiths-Cemetery Gates Menswear-We Love You Kate Bush-Hounds Of Love Carter USM-After The Watershed They Might Be Giants-I Should Be Allowed To Think Suzanne Vega-Left Of Centre Manic Street Preachers-Faster No specific order, other than the first three

"Folker" by Paul Westerberg "Apollo 13" by They Might Be Giants "The Moldy Peaches" by the Moldy Peaches "Strangeways, Here We Come" by the Smiths

"Nenette Et Boni - O.S.T." by Tindersticks "Speakerboxx/The Love Below" by Outkast

"Both Sides Now" by Glen Campbell

I always thought Noel wrote the lyrics. Liam's written a few Oasis songs, nothing special. The dire "Little James" is a Liam creation. I quote: "You live for your toys, even though they make noise Have you ever played with plastercine Or even tried a trampline Thank you for your smile You make it all worthwhile to us" As for underrated songwriters, Ishmael Lewis, Jonah Matranga, James McColl and Johns Flansburgh/Linnell

Jericho/Eddy from Fall Brawl 97 is a forgotten opener, the expected great match between the two which got the crowd fired up and it didn't matter that it was the best match on the card because most of the other matches were decent-good (FoF/Wrath and Mortis, Ultimo/Wright, Jarrett/Malenko) Also Survivor Series 96 has Jannetty/Hakushi/Horowitz/Holly vs Candido/Spicolli/Pritchard/123 Kid which was pretty awesome. Quick action, Jannetty NAILING Skip with a top rope powerbomb and the incredible scene of Barry Horowitz being a super-over face. Great stuff EDIT: Talking of great SurSeries openers, Powers Of Pain team vs Demolition team from the 2nd one is also great. Near 45 minutes of action featuring the Conquistadors surviving till the end, some great Tully heel work (his sneaky tag to Nikolai when he realises Barbarian has just tagged in is hilarious) and the double turn ending. A lengthy, but fun opener

"Panic And The Queen" by the Junket

The sheer awesomeness of Innerspace deserves a mention for how cool Dennis Quaid is throughout. Any man who utters the line "The Tuck Pendleton machine: zero defects" while looking in a mirror deserves your respect. Plus the awesome scene where Vernon Wells gets killed by Martin Short's stomach acid, following which Tuck inform him "Congratulations, Jack. You just digested the bad guy." Drago killing Apollo in Rocky VI. As much as I loved Creed, there's something satisfying about seeing him get beaten to death after his cocky, OTT entrance. "If he dies, he dies". Phoebe Cates pool scene in Fast Times At Ridgemont High is great for obvious reasons, plus Judge Reinhold's "Doesn't anyone knock anymore" after being caught wanking and kudos to Wild Pegasus- Over The Top is the most manly film ever made

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