BruceH

A couple days ago: New Boots and Panties!! and Reasons to Be Cheerful: The Best of Ian Dury Online, so they haven't come in yet. Sure, there's a lot of overlap, but I have a sudden hankering for some digital Dury.

I got that one too, and glad I did. Two very good albums on that disc!

Watched the new episode of Breaking Bad last night. A good one.

Gerry Mulligan Meets Just About Everyone of Note (250-disc box set.)

That's the paradox of a lot of rock bands.

I'll call you and raise. Is there any good McCartney music other than what he made with The Beatles? Well, that's exactly what I meant by "solo music." Music he made after The Beatles. My take is, yeah, there are individual songs, and Band On the Run is decent. (Though I always got the uneasy feeling that that album was actually designed to appeal to 13-year-olds...) Venus and Mars never did much for me. What it comes down to is that only about 5% of his post-Beatles output can be listened to without the gag reflex kicking in, whereas that proportion is almost exactly reversed with The Beatles. That is to say, about 95% of his Beatles output ranging from acceptable to great, the remaining 5% being stuff like "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," "The Long and Winding Road," "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da," and the like. No doubt everybody's mileage varies.

The Plimsouls...Plus (their first album with B-sides and other extras, oop Rhino, found at Amoeba)

Yeah...that's Mudd's cousin, Ben Mudd, and the women are androids. (Not that there's anything WRONG with that...)

Does McCartney have any good solo music?

I feel like she's looking down on me.

Sounds like a great title for a sequel to The Incredibles, or something like it.

I'm also looking forward to it as I don't even have the LP.

I like the look of the box, but The Big Steal is colorized?? Ouch! The only one of that lineup that's seriously inferior is The Blue Dahlia but it's worth seeing once, and as they say, your mileage may vary. You are the King!!!

Belated Happy Birthday!! (Hope you celebrated with good music and a good movie!)

I won't. (As soon as the DVD's come out.) Lately I've been watching more Breaking Bad. Yo! Beeaatch.

..as good as 'Green Chimneys' on Soul Mates? No. Frankly, Soul Mates is a better album all around, but Social Call is still damn good.

On Houston, yes. (Sorry.)

I guess Robert Redford and Jane Fonda would approve, as long as you were in Central Park. Actually, I'm participating in this, at least partially, in that I'm barefoot right now.

Indubitably!

Think I would prefer a dead man to Gordon Brown. Yikes, is Brown that bad?

Another meaning of "roots music."

If you can find a used copy of the Ballantine/Del Rey "The Best of Philip K. Dick" from 1978, that really is an excellent overview of his short work.

Why did they cut down that tree?

As in "Krushchev"?