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Sun November 04, 2007
YouTube Video Your random 80s flashback: Missing Persons and "Words." Important cultural artifact, or crazy chick with fishbowls on her boobs? (26)
YouTube Cool Hear n' Aid - metal's version of Live Aid. Turning famine awareness up to 11 (20)
(FMQB) Interesting Smashing Pumpkins postpone tour dates due to "health concerns" of drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. Amazingly, this time it had nothing to do with drugs (10)
London Times Obvious A new Bob Dylan art exhibit features paintings of "What I See". Apparently what Bob sees is mostly hotel rooms (6)
YouTube Video Delbert McClinton: an American original, turns 67 years old today. "Givin' It Up For Your Love:" no extra cowbell needed (8)
YouTube Video James Honeyman-Scott, founding member of the Pretenders, born Nov. 4, 1956. Here he is about a year before his death, live on "Fridays" with the band doing "Louie Louie." (5)

Sat November 03, 2007
ABC News Amusing Ozzy Osbourne goes to war with the pigs that used his name in a police sting. He’s afraid it could make his fans paranoid. Surprisingly, this isn’t a crazy train of thought (19)
Rolling Stone Interesting Rock star mug shots? The Rolling Stone is there (26)
YouTube Video Nov. 3, 1957: "Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis released. Piano stools, cousins, bass players have never felt safe since (13)
Guardian.com Obvious "While many people believed that they were living through the era of Bowie and heavy metal and punk, the most popular band of the era was writing songs about standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona" (44)

Fri November 02, 2007
(Some Guy) Cool Alice Cooper to perform his hanging trick 20 years after nearly being killed doing it (10)
(Some Guy) Amusing "At the tender age of 17, Soulja Boy has composed more songs about cranking things than Mozart did in his entire life. I'm not saying he's better than Mozart; I'm just saying he has more talent" (29)
AP Spiffy RIAA to University of Oregon, "Name the students downloading music." U of O to RIAA: "F.U. - do your own investigation." (24)
The Sun Interesting Meatloaf ends concert early, announces he's fried (53)
(The Inquirer) Obvious The RIAA will bring the full weight of their expensive lawyers down on anyone who offers music for download illegally. Unless, of course, it happens to be EMI doing it (9)
Chicago Sun-Times Misc Ludacris wants runaways to know they have options. This shouldn't really be news, R. Kelly has been giving runaways options for years (8)
Guardian.com Hero Michael Stipe talks about sanity, politics, the new album and his hair (24)
YouTube Video Depeche Mode - "Policy Of Truth" (27)
YouTube Video That k.d. lang sure is one talented feller. Kinda high voice, though. Happy 46th birthday to him, anyhow. "Trail of Broken Hearts." (21)

Thu November 01, 2007
Reuters Followup Led Zeppelin cancels reunion concert after Jimmy Page gives fans the finger (49)
Rolling Stone Dumbass Axl Rose does not respond well to criticism (47)
CNN Dumbass Lance Bass got married in Vegas just to hustle free drinks. Sucks that he didn't realize they give hard drinks all night long to any Tom, Dick, or Harry. Penis (3)
(Billboard) Amusing In a sign of the Apocalypse, the top three albums are all country, and no hip-hop or R&B anywhere in the top 10 (48)
(channel 101) Amusing Yacht Rock - the video history of some of your favorite smooth rock songs from the 70's and 80's. (parody) (7)
Starpulse Spiffy North Dakota town stages fake Ozzy Osbourne/Rob Zombie meet 'n' greet to catch nearly 40 deadbeat dads, giving the state the highest concentration of Ozzy fans who don't pay child support (49)
(Some Guy) Obvious After censorship, 50 Cent's new song "I'll Still Kill" is totally incomprehensible... as opposed to the original, which was about 50% nonsense (19)
(Some Guy) Unlikely Ozzy Osbourne says he's been 'suffering terribly' in his mansion from illegal music downloading (37)
YouTube Cool Have you ever wanted to see an animated video set to the acoustic version of Radiohead's "Creep"? Me neither, but I have to admit it was worth the four and a half minutes out of my day (27)
YouTube Video Lyle Lovett: He's already made up his mind it's his 50th birthday today (14)

Wed October 31, 2007
(Some Guy) Spiffy Based on first day sales, Britney's new album "Blackout" projected to sell 350,000 copies putting it at #1 (32)
WNBC Sad Punk music pioneer found beaten to death in her 5th Avenue apartment (22)
(Yeeeah) Interesting Jennifer Lopez is massively high maintenance, costs a fortune before she even goes on stage, and can't sell an album (24)
(FMQB) Cool The world's greatest party band returns with first new album in 16 years, so hurry up and bring your jukebox money (36)
Canada.com Cool "You don't expect this huge guy with chains and a beard to be as nice as he was to a kid." Zakk Wylde rocks (50)
UPI Stupid From the "They're not the first...how did this get national attention?" file: Avenged Sevenfold opted to produce their latest album by themselves (38)
(Some Guy) Cool Slash says writing his autobiography was 'a lot like having kids'. It was fun to conceive, left to the publisher to raise and you can find one in every town you visit along the tour (11)
YouTube Video Want some candy for Hallowe'en? So does Annabella Lwin, born this day in 1965. Bow Wow Wow, indeed (18)
YouTube Scary Am I wrong, or is it just not Halloween without Screamin' Jay Hawkins climbing out of a coffin to sing "I Put A Spell On You"? (23)
YouTube Amusing Obligatory for Halloween: Monster Mash. Unexpected for Halloween: as played by The Misfits (14)
SFGate Cool Motley Crue bassist, who was declared legally dead in 1987, has a book out and it is No. 7 on the New York Times' nonfiction best-seller list. In other news, submitter doesn't know how to put those little dots over vowels (27)

Tue October 30, 2007
YouTube Amusing Danzig teams up with Shakira for the year's hottest duet (26)
MSNBC Cool Arrested Development is coming back (96)
YouTube Cool Something to get exorcised about, and just in time for Halloween: Mike Oldfield and friends performing Tubular Bells live in 1973 (24)
Fox News Obvious Clear Channel issues edict not to play Bruce Springsteen's "Magic." Is it because: A) He's too old? B) His album's too unpopular? Or C) He's a Bush Adminstration critic and they're all whiny, pouty crybabies? (63)
BBC Obvious Eagles comeback "will not disappoint fans." All two of them (36)
London Times Unlikely If it's good enough for Radiohead, it's good enough for Cliff Richard (15)
YouTube Video Ben Folds performing "The Luckiest" with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra (37)
YouTube Video John Belushi & Dan Ackroyd drag Brian Wilson surfing 1976 (13)

Mon October 29, 2007
YouTube Cool It's not beatboxing or a didgeridoo, but somehow it's still cool (10)
UPI Cool Hell freezes over again (37)
(black-sabbath.com) Cool Black Sabbath to record new LP in 2008 with Ronnie James Dio. Suck it, Ozzy (48)
(Some Guy) Cool Per this announcement, Ace Frehley is to play an unannounced concert in Poughkeepsie tonight (12)
Starpulse Ironic The Stones' Ronnie Wood is stunned by Pete Doherty's drug intake; says even Keith Richards isn't that f*cked up (14)
(Female First) Amusing Kelis is dropped from record label when her milkshake fails to bring all the boys to the yard (45)
Yahoo Strange You know his name. You love his ballads and religious songs. Now for the first time on Fark-tel records, own them all on 2 LPs, 2 Cassettes or 4 8-track tapes. The Best of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (9)
YouTube Sappy Dolly Parton sings to Porter Wagoner at the Grand Ole Opry (7)
Wired Ironic Vinyl records are final nail in cd's coffin (85)
YouTube Cool Reason #4617 why Fark needs an awesome tag: Coldplay's "Clocks" meets the Buena Vista Social Club. The win is strong with this one (22)
(The Tennessean) Sad Country music star Porter Wagoner dead at 80; 20,000 rhinestones now homeless (18)
MSNBC Obvious Attempting to take advantage of the Radiohead "pay what you want for music" success, multitudes of unscrupulous web sites pop up seemingly overnight (10)

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