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Where are the ashtrays? Those things were massive!

The My Way album was weak, imo. Retirement made sense. The comeback stuff was just silly until She Shot Me Down. I very much, though, like the fact that he aged openly and defiantly. The raw cuts of him singing live in front of the band that were used to create the Duets albums are pretty scary. Yeah, the voice is old and ragged, but the spirit is burning.

You and @rostasi need to compare collections sometimes!

If it's a tractor song, it's for what is being asked!!!

These last two, are they tractor songs?

Oatmeal - This Is Oatmeal!!!

Once you get past the title cut, Strangers In The Night is a really good record. Tempos for the ages and the last collaboration with Riddle.

Not really accurate in Sinatra's case. Both Capitol and Reprise released singles albums as well as the concept albums.

A drummer that will work for gas money!!!!

Nice one!

Totally, until I began exploring the full catalogue via Spotify

A few other Amazon reviewers are reporting the NO DISC error. None are relating it to the 80:02 timing, though. So I left one that did.

70mm IMAX in Dallas...should that be enough to sway me into seeing it?

Ok!

I was never a bobby-soxer. But I knew and hopefully still know musical power that goes beyond just "music". I also felt in the second half of the Sonny Rollins concert I heard. The first half was a bit mundane. The second half was anything but. But in 1982, Sinatra was already known for having good nights and...the other kind, when the pitch was wobbly and the voice croaky. I was fully expecting one of those nights, I was just there to see "the legend", to be an indifferent spectator of a Famous Performer Past Their Prime. Instead...one baaaaad motherfucker showed up!

Hmm?

I am actually contemplating seeing Barbie, just to see if it's the inspired pop-culture tweaking that all the hype is trying to say that it is. Willing to go to a bargain matinee to find out, maybe. But Oppenheimer... There was a cycle of documentaries and such a few decades ago that I paid attention to. Not sure what Hollywood is going to do to improve on that.

That might be another difference between him and Sinatra, then. Sinatra (who I did see live, on a very good night in 1982, at Caesar's)...of course there was "show biz", but ultimately it was Sinatra, period. He was more/bigger than any one thing. I went to the show because I had a chance to go, period. Wasn't really expecting anything, but left totally freaked out, it was SINATRA by God. If I hadn't seen, I would not have believed it. I might well have responded to Bennet the same way, possibly even more since he worked with his trio, right? Sinatra had a big band and did a few songs with rhythm quartet, but I was expecting to hear a bunch of schlock with sappy strings, so that just added to the surprise. But ultimately it was just Sinatra's sheer power of skill (and his skill of power) that shook me up. I have no doubt that Bennett live would have done the same thing in his own personal way.

Rethinking baseball math regarding over/under .500... If a team has a record of 60-40, why are they considered 20 games over .500 when a .500 record after 100 games would be 50-50? Aren't they actually just 10 games "over" a .500 record? To be 20 games "over" .500 after 100 games, wouldn't their record have to 20 games over 50-50, i.e. 70-39? EOY record of 100-62 is not 38 games over .500, because the difference between 81-81 and 100-62 is 19, not 38. I mean, hell, I've been doing this unquestioning math the old way pretty much my entire life and an not going to stop now, but... for a sport so bound up in micromaths, this logical inconsistency seems glaringly obvious if you stop to think about it, right? But it is easier!

My impression is that this is something that he grew into or more fully embraced or whatever after he kind of bottomed out, so to speak, once he got the "show-biz" out of his blood once and for all and finally went all in on just singing the songs. As far as "nice guy" or "con man", why not both? Learning about his personal history of destructive coke use and serial womanizing, surely he had good con chops, and, yes, that does not in any way rule out being a genuinely nice guy at the same time. I do wish I could have seen him live, especially in the later years.

Chickie D. Boom - Good Suntan, Better Sunglasses

The A's might not have a good baseball team this year, but their radio team is very listenable!

So that's her in the cover photo? That is certainly a stunning image, the wardrobe, the angles,everything