Ya theyre good in U2. Independantly theyre probably mediocre.

Anyway...
The second version of Please was sick. If they didnt rush Pop it could have been so much betted. Please, Discotheque, and mofo were all better on the later singles.

I like Pop but I thought I was biased Franks the only person ive ever heard list it as a favorite.

Oh and October is just not good. You can trick yourself into thinking its good, but its not.


Achtung Baby is unquestionably the grearest album in music history.

I think we can all agree on that.

Oh, whew. For a second there I thought you said it was the "greatest". Ok fine, I agree. It's the grearest.

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Anything by Bob Marley &/ The Wailers

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Team Cutler.

Larry Mullen isn't too bad. I'm a better bassist than Adam Clayton.

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He was originall recruited to the band because he was cool and had cool hair.

Hilarious.

Most of U2's detractors single out Bono, never thought I would see so much hatin' on "The Other Two".

And Frank, no you're not.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

My hair post is right. Durect quote from Bono.

I think we can all agree that Bono should probably run for President.

I realize that.

Bono has also referred to Clayton as the soul of the band. And Mullen Jr is the boss.
Must be nice to be weakest links in the world's biggest band.

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That would be Ron Wood and whoever is playing bass for the Stones.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Statistics prove you wrong, but that's ok.
And Ronnie Wood is just fine by me.

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Just chillin' like Garret Quillin.

Which statistics? Does The Edge have a higher Wins Over Replacement Guitarist than Keef? How does Adam Clayton get you closer to a Grammy?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I see your "Ladyflash" and raise you a "Fake ID."

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. -Susan B. Anthony

great album, great tour--Pixies final tour, iirc.








http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqcG62l_fls

Cocaine, helluva drug.

Screw the haters,

Waylon/Uncle Tupelo/Son Volt 'Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?'"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbkR3cGelvc

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

Prince 'I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz-DfrYNfN4

Mekons 'Memphis Egypt':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCQ6DLwV9CI

Milli Vanilli 'Girl You Know It's True' (the source video for the euro soccer style "chest bump" in the US):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0qTOkUPlGk

Aphex Twin 'Windowlicker'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoJeiRVnlu8

Too Much Joy 'Susquehanna Hat Company'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9fj7m_dm8M

The Broken Family Band 'You're Like A Woman':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OMohKnIvT8

Fatboy Slim 'Praise You':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ULVQOneeZE

Chemical Brothers 'Hey Boy, Hey Girl':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBeBH2G26Ck

Dr Hook 'Cover of the Rolling Stone':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJu6Up9w2Hc

James McMurtry 'Lobo Town':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfxo7Iz6yVc

LCD Soundsystem 'Beat Connection':

http://vimeo.com/8328839

Erik B and Rakim 'Let the Rhythm Hit Em':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29KvnMY413s

And the pride of Maywood, Illinois:

John Prine 'Crazy As A Loon':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh33ipvRSfY

And you can never go wrong with Underworld,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfH8qHFvEEY

Holy carp, I think I saw these guys at the old 4 am spot on Milwaukee @ North and Damen a few years back, 'the Note'. It was the joint with all the pool tables that I think got taken over by Debonair.

Wow, the 3 worst songs from the worst Old 97's album.

Dope.
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The note

Was just talking about that spot tonight.

interesting fun times indeed

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You never miss your wealth, till your well went dry
Seem like only yesterday, you were here smiling
Now you gone away, but I know you in a better place
No traces of you, what can I do?
Alone and confused

Tally-ho!
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Sheeet, the performers/bands had to enter the stage through the audience, and then they'd redeem their drink tickets from the (stage) left side of the stage at the far end of the bar, DURING THE SHOW.

As street as it got in wickertucky.
It was still better than nazi Nick's Bier Garden, where if you even looked like you might spark up anything other than a Parliament Light, they'd boot you. And don't even think about taking a chick into the men's room stall with you, much less 3 of the 4 members of an all-girl horror-core band from Detroit.

And then there is/was Estelle's--such a crackhouse than Vince Vaughn often directs other actors working on his projects to hit it up to get their fix.

With the Note at least it was zero pretense and they pretty much let everything go. Prolly 2nd to the original Tuman's in terms of places that you complained about having to go to but missed like 8th grade once they were gone.

The Note is awesome. They used to have hip hop every saturday. Usually Open Mic. And groups would form in the crowd of guys freestylin. Is it gone now? I told OKC he should go there.



First of all, I smoke Parliaments so I cant feel your pain there.
But Nicks definitely serves its purpose as a late night high percentage hookup bar. For the southsiders its pretty much Brewbakers North.

I had good times there.



Estelle's is awesome. And its interesting you make the Vince Vaughn comparison because the tables there always reminded me of the Swingers scene where Favreu keeps telling the girl Vaughn never called her.

I love Estelle's

Tumans was awesome too. Not sure if the one I went to was the original.


You just named 4 of the 5 bars I frequented most in my time up there.
I lived in what later became the Elvis House. So the fifth bar was Cleo's which had awesome food specials during the week.

Nick's was the Artful Dodger before it moved to Wabansia. Then it became Dreamerz where I pretty much lived for a couple years. I played there a bunch of times and saw a lot of different bands there. I saw two great Butthole Surfers shows on consecutive nights. I saw Nirvana there and didn't pay much attention to them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYzqPnAE ... re=related

My friend Billy busted up a cinder block in front of the stage when Eleventh Dream Day was playing one night because he hated them so much. Finally he drew a chunk of it back and hit himself in the face breaking his own nose. When I drove him to Grant Hospital and the admitting nurse asked him how it happened, he was too embarrassed to tell her the truth so he snarled, "A human fist!" Years later when Billy entered the program he was supposed to apologize to everyone he hurt. So one night he saw Rick Rizzo from Eleventh Dream Day at Jewel on Ashland and decided he needed to apologize to him. When Rick saw him he said, "Hi Bill" and started walking away, probably trying to avoid a conversation with my crazy friend. Billy followed him up and down the aisles until he heard Rick's kid say, "Daddy, why is that man following us?" Billy told his sponsor he figured that counted as an apology.

The old Blue Note on Armitage was great. They ruined it when they moved to Milwaukee. And the old Tuman's might have been my favorite bar ever. Great jukebox. Terrible speakers.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I think the only 2 post-Achtung Baby U2 songs worth listening to are "All Because of You" and "Mofo."

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. -Susan B. Anthony

Lake Michigan- Rouge Wave
Paper Thin Walls- Modest Mouse
Fences- Phoenix
Walk on the Ocean- Toad and the Wet Sprocket
After Hours- We are Scientist

And a lot of Wilco:

A Shot in The Arm
Heavy Metal Drummer
Someday Soon
I'm The Man Who Loves You
I'm a Wheel

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team Mully & Hanley
team Meatpants