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Seven string guitars are pretty homosexual. The Arcade Fire - Crown of Love For so long I wanted to hate this band. The singer's Modest Mouse overtones and all the love from the indie-press really made me want to contradict them. But the album is actually good. Very good. Dammit.

I've been using dBpowerAMP for a long time. It can convert CD audio to wav, flac, mp3. Can also convert wav to mp3 or flac or vice versa. Very useful if you're concerned about lossless, uncompressed audio, that sort of thing. Which you NEED for Dire Straits soundboard recordings. Mark Knopfler will be appreciated with nothing less. Before that I used some freeware program that was decent: FreeRipMP3.

Rocket from the Crypt - Young Livers

Is it still a double post if it's six hours later? Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - At the Border, Guy

Cake - World of Two

Yeah, Winamp 3 was awful. I uninstalled that sucker so fast and went back to 2.97 or whatever I had.

I'm gonna cheat and name a compilation... All Ages is the best Bad Religion CD, cause it's got (most of) the best tracks from their Epitaph years. No Control is one of their best actual albums, second to Stranger than Fiction in my book. BR - I Want to Conquer the World

I've used winamp since .mp2 was the file format of choice. It's minimalism appeals to me, and the playlist is easy to use without a bunch of dumb options I won't use. Also, winamp doesn't try to manage your song library, another thing I hate about windows media player and musicmatch jukebox. My only gripe with winamp is that the random function sucks, and has never improved. That gets really annoying when you're dealing with large playlists. I hate musicmatch, but it does have the redeeming feature of a recorder that can record straight to mp3

I gotta get my hands on some Uncle Tupelo. I should probably wait a while though. I feel like I've burned through most of Wilco's back catalogue in two weeks. Let's try listening to something else for a minute or two. minibosses - castlevania 1 theme oasis - slide away

Wilco - Via Chicago

Watched Zoolander this weekend. That was a funny movie that got the short end of the stick. Very stupid, but funny. "Listen to your friend Billy Zane, he's a cool dude." Oh, and the David Bowie cameo was classic.

Oh man, that song is all kinds of awesome. tell me do ya do ya have any money? i wanna spend all your money... at the gay bar, gay bar, gay bar! Aimee Mann - Dear John Somebody tell this woman she's not supposed to have rawkin' guitar solos in her songs.

I just watched a CMT video of Bruce Springsteen recording his new album with a big band playing Pete Seeger classics like "John Henry Was a Steel Drivin' Man" and "Pay Me My Money Down." It sounds like a zydeco party. This CD is gonna be great. edit: BTW, Richard Cheese is a genius and Rudie Can't Fail is great.

Man, they even had the keyboard mouse set-up for the DC too. That would have been convenient for a BG port.

The "Rocky" soundtrack is played at every kickboxing class I have: four times a week! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Then this might ring a bell.... Baby, baby we can shed this skin, we can know how we feel inside Instead of goin down an endless road, not knowin if we're dead or alive But some things are worth fightin for, some feelings never die I'm not askin for another chance, I just wanna know why There's no easy way out, there's no shortcut home There's no easy way out, givin in givin in can't be wrong or maybe... In the Burning Heart Just about to burst There's a quest for answers, an unquenchable thirst In the darkest night Rising like a spire In the Burning Heart, the unmistakable fire!

They say alcoholism is a disease. Well, it's the only disease you can get yelled at for having. "Dammit, Otto, you're an alcoholic." "Dammit, Otto, you've got lupus." See, one of those two doesn't sound right. - Mitch Hedberg, R.I.P.

I don't listen to them much, but my friend said the new album comes with some sort of 3D glasses, presumably to look at the weird stuff in the liner notes. What is up with that? My mind ties music to certain events, and for me Undertow will always bring back memories of ripping up carpet and painting my old college house before we moved in. I think that was the only CD we had with us, until I found a semi-scratched copy of Pinkerton in the basement. Faith No More (live) - This Guy's in Love With You

"Hearts on Fire" from the Rocky IV soundtrack. Training montage, baby!

Twilight Singers - Number Nine A duet that makes me wish the Dulli/Lanegan side project "The Gutter Twins" toured around more or put out an album. Devil Sweet talkin' fly on the wall Blackberry Belle of the ball Just like you told me I'm gonna crawl...

I'll be sitting on the hood of a Dodge with a looted Martin guitar, playing "Eve of Destruction" a la Larry Underwood in The Stand. Then I'll re-read Z for Zachariah, just to compare notes.

Non-beer drinkers should try a Flaming Dr. Pepper. Most fun you'll have with a drink. I might be forgetting something, but it involves lighting a shot of 151 on fire and dropping the shot glass into a small glass of beer. If you drink the whole thing right after you drop the shot in, it tastes absurdly similar to a Dr. Pepper. Of course, if you use tequila instead of 151 it just tastes like Hi-C.* * absolutely untested and probably false

Oh what a lucky man... he was! Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover

"Whatever".... actually doesn't ring a bell. Columbia does though, and that's a winner. The Clash - Tommy Gun

I hear that. They should have saved up all those B-sides that made up The Masterplan for later albums. "Acquiesce," "Talk Tonight," "Good to Be Free," those were all much better than their recent stuff, yet they weren't good enough to make Definitely Maybe or What's the Story? (Morning Glory). Go figure. Those parentheses might be misplaced. Wilco - I'm Always in Love

When it kicks in toward the end, that song rocks so hard it hurts. Lead guitar licks like needles in my ear, man. Oh and I'll see your "I've got a Fever" and raise you a "The Girl in the Dirty Shirt." One of the tolerable songs on Be Here Now, the album on which Oasis completely lost their way and started making crap (my opinion, of course). Anybody heard the recent Oasis CD? I heard the single, Lyla, and it sounded okay.