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The entire albums "On the Beach" and "Tonight's the Night" by Neil Young. He was in a really messed-up state when he made those. "Tonight's the Night" especially - he and his band were apparently trashed for the entire recording and touring of that album. A perversely strict work ethic.

Wasn't she in the SWW video? And she did the chorus on Flight Recorder from Viking 7, which was really really nice.

1. Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here" 2. Led Zeppelin - "Stairway to Heaven" 3. The Who - "Baba O'Riley" 4. The Eagles - "Hotel California" 5. The Beatles - "Helter Skelter" 6. Derek and the Dominos - "Layla" 7. Led Zeppelin - "Black Dog" 8. Neil Young - "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" 9. Jimi Hendrix - "All Along the Watchtower" 10. Jethro Tull - "Aqualung"

This entire EP is really solid. And I agree with sodamntired, M Good vs M Trolley is absolutely hilarious. It's a beautiful day in the neighbourhood... But yeah, Flight Recorder... is beautiful.

Nice, tristan, you totally sidestepped the main point I was making, namely that popularity has little relation to quality. You touched on my peripheral points only. And even though Crusader's opinion of you is more extreme than mine, your posts are making me want to agree with him.

Jethro Tull - "My God" Brilliant song. Utterly brilliant. I don't care how many people like to criticize Tull - they've made some great music.

Some of us (not all of us, but some) don't care for labels like "has-been." "Has been" what, exactly? Popular? You've pointed that out well. I'd agree with you there. But since when did popularity matter? I'm sure you know that popularity is a piss-poor measure of musical quality (witness Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, and countless others). There are some artists that, even when in what some people call a period of decline, are better than most of their contemporaries could hope to be. I consider Matthew Good to be one of those artists - he's not alone in that. But maybe you disagree, and that's okay by me. And really, don't bring up MuchMusic when you're talking about music and expect to be taken seriously. They are less relevant and substantial (when you step back and evaluate the quality of their programming and messages) than ever.

Thanks for sharing your opinion, chief. ;) You keep on telling us that the music we like sucks.

Winamp is all right. I used to use it. Now I'm addicted to foobar2000 (made by a former Winamp plugin developer). The forums for it are here. This program takes up low amounts of system resources, supports lots of formats (more than you probably even know about), has tabbed playlists (I use it to quickly switch between albums), native gapless playback (so you can play Dark Side of the Moon, for example, all the way through without pauses between the tracks, assuming you ripped it to a gapless format), very handy masstagging (useful for tagging all songs from the same artist/album at once), and a bunch of other useful features. foobar2000 has a fairly steep learning curve. However, if you get used to it, I can practically guarantee you won't want another player.

The Who Live at Royal Albert Hall = sheer awesomeness. As well, I've been trying to get my hands on Tool's Salival DVD/CD for a while... naturally, no luck.

Why do you think people always shout "Play Rico!" at concerts? How do you feel about the effects of getting social and political views out there (both in music or on the web)? For example, do you think it prompts people to think (who wouldn't otherwise), or does it just feel like you're preaching to the choir and being ignored by the rest? Does it even matter, as long as you get the message out there?

Pink Floyd - "Pigs (three different ones)" This is my favourite song from a vastly underrated and overlooked album, Animals (in between Wish You Were Here and The Wall. Definitely worth checking out.

Death Cab for Cutie - "Transatlanticism" The middle part of a three-song composition, and it's just beautiful. This band is definitely worth checking out.

Led Zeppelin IV is my pick. I have Led Zeppelin through Houses of the Holy, plus Presence. The first five albums are so awesome, it's hard to really rank them, but IV is probably the most consistent (which is saying something).

Didn't Dave Genn play and co-write on her last album? EDIT: Looked it up on allmusic.com... Some familar faces, besides Genn. Ryan Dahle does guitar. Warne Livesey produced it and did bass, drum programming, mixing, and some other stuff. And Garnet Armstrong did the design. I guess the Canadian music scene gets pretty inbred in some circles.