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The Cure - "The Cure" (2004) Have to admit I'm really looking forward to this one. I've got nearly every Cure album since 1987 (and a smattering of those from before '87 too). For my money, every Cure album since "Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me" (1987) is a winner. (OK, probably not "Wild Mood Swings" (1996), but everything else is great.) There was also a 4-CD box-set of nothin' but b-sides just recently released too, which I suspect is quite good. (I've got a grey-market "greatest b-sides" disc, with most of the b-sides from the "Kiss-Me/Disintegration/Wish" era, which are really great.) And I hear that Rhino is going to start releasing the entire Cure catalog, with bonus discs of extra material (b-sides, live, demos, etc...), in much the same way as they've done for the Elvis Costello catalog. Let's hear it for one of the great misanthropes (and song-writers) of our time, Robert Smith. Any other cure fans in the house??

Come on people, step up. This is a GREAT disc.

He isn't listed on any recordings after 1967 (he's on Donald Byrd's Blackjack), but then no mention after that (of course, I'm looking at the AMG, which is far from complete).

Ain't that the truth. I've almost bought this one three or four times. Every time, I'm always at a store where I can sample it first (usually I'm finding it used), and every time I listen, and can't stand the sound. Probably worse that Stanley Cowell's "Brilliant Circles", now that I think about it. And before having "Turkish Women..." pointed out to me, here in this thread, I'm not sure I could have ever thought of a modern (post-1950) studio date that sounded any worse than that Cowell date. But "Turkish Women..." may, indeed, be worse. I just can't bring myself to buy it, try as I might.

Slow here too...

If you could snap your fingers and GREATLY improve the sound quality of any one single recording, what would you pick??? >> A particular bootleg that you love, despite the fact it really sounds like crap?? >> A great commercial recording that has just never been issued on CD with decent sound, for some weird reason or another?? (Maybe it's only been released on CD one time, in the late 80's, and is REALLY overdue for a remastering job.) >> Or a great commercial recording that they just plain f*cked up in the first place, so much so that even the original vinyl sounds like crap -- but you love the recording never the less. (Or maybe some category I'm overlooking.) What would you pick??? Me?? Maybe this... I've never heard the vinyl, but I'm told the sound quality of it is pretty much just as bad as the it is on CD. I doubt we'll ever hear this album with any better sound, but if I could 'snap my fingers' -- oh to hear Woody and Tyrone on a truely 'progressive' date, with really clear sound. PS: Your choices don't have to be jazz.

1965 to 1970 is probably my favorite half-decade of jazz (I know, that's six years, so sue me ). I certainly don't like everything recorded during this era, but the quirky "inside/outside" stuff that I like the most, seems to come from these years. You know, 'progressive', but not quite 'free', and sometimes 'groovy', or 'progressive' and 'groovy' at the same time!! What are some of your favorite 'underrated' recordings from the last half of the 60's?? (Let's leave BN out of the mix, for the most part, cuz in varying degrees, we've all been there, and done that.) And yeah, let's include 1970 too. Or heck -- how about the really early 70's too -- in so much as the suggestions fit in with the rest of the discussion. (Absolute cut-off is about 1975.)

Thanks for the offer, but I think I'll pass. (Anybody else here, feel free to snap it up.)

Great to have you back, Pete. Stick around, and join the party.

Loni Anderson got all the oogling, but the gal I was really sweet on, on WKRP, was Bailey Quarters!! (played by Jan Smithers)

Played strip-poker back in the spring of 1992, with a mixed (mostly female ) group of American students when I was in Besançon, France - while visiting my girlfriend (at the time) for a week, who was on a study-abroad program for one year during her Junior year of college. Don't let your imaginations run too wild (the only Poker that was played was the card game), but I did manage to bluff far better than I had ever expected to, on several very key hands. B) Thank god for cheap French wine. (And, AFAIK, that's the last time I ever played Poker.)

You know, other than feedback from Tom (tomatbluenote), there's not a damn thing I miss about the old BNBB. And frankly, this place has everything I liked about the BNBB (and more of it too!!), and less of the stuff I didn't like (and usually a lot less!!). And as long as several of us can manage to get Michael's ear through the Mosaic e-mail route every now and then, that reduces the need for Tom, for the most part anyway. The overall civility on this board (most days), is downright amazing (the politics forum, notwithstanding ).

My Dad's gonna visit, driving in from St. Louis today. He and I have plans to work on some stuff around my house, some electrical stuff mostly, like a circuit in the kitchen that doesn't work, and put in a new outlet in the dining room, etc... Hopefully the weather will be OK on Sunday (though that's not looking too good), cuz we've all got plans to get together with my wife's folks, and catch the outdoor KC Symphony pops concert at Union Station, followed by fireworks. (If it gets rained out on Sunday, then hopefully they can squeeze it in on Monday night.) Nothing terribly exciting by conventional standards, but it'll be good to spend time with my Dad, who's staying until Tuesday. I've been to St. Louis several times since my Mom passed away back in February, but this'll be his first trip here since then. (I call him two or three times a week, and he seems to be doing quite well.) So it'll be good to have my Dad here for a fairly long visit, about 5 days.

That's so "8 hours ago" man, get with the times... -_-

Link: more Hella Kitty... This time on .

Link: Hella Kitty on eBay on , that is.

Hella Kitty!!!! (look closely) EDIT: More of the same...

Link: Hella kitty

What can any of us say, but that Jim totally hit this nail on the head. Bravo!!!

Maybe you're not alone. Better start a poll about it, and see!!!

Watch out, there's another fork in this road.

The world waits for the results.