"The whole 'white people can't dance/sing/etc.' wears on me just a bit."

You could always seek reparations from Russell Peters. He does a bit in his standup act about having to go to the men's room to throw up or something the first time he saw white people trying to do the Chicken Dance at a wedding.

"a show called Vinyl Tap"

That's good.
You get CBC?

JV wrote:

Max wrote:

I won't be much of a public apologist for BTO, but I'd say that their three biggest hits are each distinctive: Let It Ride, Takin' Care of Business, and You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet.

This wasn't exactly a hit, at least not stateside, but shows Randy Bachman's jazzier side

I often wondered who was responsible for "Undun", which was very jazzy.  Very cool guitar work. 

When I saw the version Ringo and the All Starr Band with Burton Cummings, they played Undone.  So I assume he had a major role in it.  But then again, I was in the audience in LA when Joe Walsh, as a member of the All Starr Band, played "Desperado" solo on piano, the evening after Don Henley was quoted in the press as complaining about Walsh playing "Life in the Fast Lane", which Walsh only co-wrote.  Henley said something to the effect of, "now people will assume Joe Walsh wrote that song".  So, as a total 'in your face' move, Walsh played Desperado, which the whole world knows is a Don Henley song (well in LA the Eagles are HUGE and to them anything that happens in LA is pretty much the whole world).

I just looked it up, Wikipedia says Undun was written by Bachman alone.

Dammit!  I forgot Peter Gabriel's first album.  Now my Top Ten is up to 26

Max wrote:

1970: Beatles "Let It Be"
1970: Simon & Garfunkel "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
1970: Carole King "Tapestry"
1970: Cat Stevens "Tea for the Tillerman"
1970: The Who "Who's Next"
1971: Paul McCartney "Ram"
1971: Pink Floyd "Meddle"
1972: Stevie Wonder "Talking Book"
1972: Gentle Giant "Three Friends",
1972: Gentle Giant "Octopus"
1973: Gentle Giant "In a Glass House"
1973: Stevie Wonder "Inner Vision"
1973: Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon"
1973: Toots and the Maytals "Funky Kingston"
1973: Alice Cooper "Billion Dollar Babies"
1973: Genesis "Selling England by the Pound"
1974: Genesis "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"
1975: Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here"
1977: Peter Gabriel
1977: Bill Joel "The Stranger"
1977: Steely Dan "Aja"
1978: Cheap Trick "Heaven Tonigh"
1979: Pink Floyd "The Wall"
1979: Cheap Trick "at Budokan"
1979: UFO "Strangers in the Night"
1979: Scorpions "Lovedrive"

artie_fufkin wrote:

tkihshbt wrote:

Boy do I hate the fucking Eagles. And I hated them before "The Big Lebowski."

The Eagles are like calamari. People tend to love them or not get them at all. I think a lot of it has to do with Henley's pretentiousness. He's quite possibly the most humorless person in the history of the music industry.

to paraphrase neil young:

ain't singing for pepsi
ain't singing for coke
don't sing for nobody
makes me look like a joke
his note's for don henley.

artie_fufkin wrote:

I'd rather listen to cats fuck than a 35-minute version of Peter Gabriel warbling some unintelligable nonsense while he's dressed up as a daisy or a sunflower.

after many years of introspection, i think i prefer dancing with the moonlit knight to firth of fifth as my favorite genesis song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdD6L4cKKU8

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2054286/Steven-Tyler-injuries-hotel-room-fall-Singer-insists-fallen-wagon.html?ITO=1490

Smithf772......odd