I can’t watch all the videos, but I think Kate Bush is really irritating. Her song “running up that hill” gives me the heebeegeebees.

Joe, you were under the influence of something to come up with this list.

The Stones Video is really old. Keith looked human. Not my favorite Stones Song. can’t you Hear me Knockin is in the top 10 rock and roll songs of all time. But that’s just me.

That woman is either a midget or Donald Sutherland is 9 feet tall. The song is OK, I enjoyed it right up to when I fell asleep.

Moving right along to Tom Waits. I have enjoyed his stuff for years, although I can’t get past the thought that in one of the closets in his house is a freshly pressed Che T-shirt and a rocket launcher.

Joe, Joe, Joe, I am not tone deaf, as I never said she was off key – I just can’t stand her. One of the very reasons I don’t like her is because in college I had a roommate that played the album with “running up that hill” over and over (sometimes at 6 am on the weekends) and it drove me frickin crazy. Then Kate made that song with Peter Gabriel and I still didn’t like her.

I haven’t followed her career, and I have watched DWTS but don’t even know what the song celebrate is. I’m sure I have hummed to a couple of her tunes from time to time, but to put Kate’s album up there as a top 10 of all time is crazy, in my opinion.

I am not that much younger than you that we wouldn’t have common interests in music. I graduated from HS in 1985 so I am an 80’s generation, baby.

Bumble LOVES Dancing With The Stars. Don’t make me come down there …

Say what you want about Kiss, they were very smart. To be a household name and be to able to walk down the street enjoying your privacy, brilliance.

I was going to ask for a poll of what everyone thought were the top ten albums of the past 30 years, but then realized all of mine would be between 1978 and about 1994 when I quit listening to music – so I’m not such a great one to run the poll.

Why thank you, resident young whippersnapper. As you can see, I’m not having an easy time with this crew.

Joe, I thought I recognized you from a Kiss concert I attended in New Jersey. Did you see Ted Nugent at the Meadowlands too?

Here are the actual Top 20 albums from 1979 to now (in no particular order):

Nirvana – Nevermind
Public Enemy – It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Radiohead – OK Computer
Jeff Buckley – Grace
The Smiths – The Smiths
Paul Simon – Graceland
Pet Shop Boys – Introspective
Neil Young – Rust Never Sleeps
The Clash – London Calling
Talking Heads – Remain in Light
Elvis Costello – Armed Forces
Prince – 1999
Roxy Music – Avalon
OutKast – Stankonia
LCD Soundsystem – LCD Soundsystem
Portishead – Dummy
Joy Division – Closer
Bruce Springsteen – The River
Buena Vista Social Club
The White Stripes – White Blood Cells

I think this is a fine discussion, but I guess since I dissed Kate it started on a downer note.

Regardless, I’d include (best in the past 30 years):

Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
Fleetwood Mac Rumors
Boston Boston

Yes! to the Clash, Elvis Costello and U2 – some of my favorites

I am not a huge fan or a lot of music of “newer” music and a huge fan of even older music, Big Band – Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, Bing and my beloved Frank Sinatra. I even think Dean Martin had a pretty smooth voice and was a lot better looking than Frank.

You guys have a real knack for making me feel old. The only “Kate” that comes to mind for me is “Kate Smith.” And I hated the damn Beatles too. I once had a spat with a girlfriend because she liked the old Jefferson Airplane and I thought they were talent-less idiots. And then there were the absolutely insane “Sex Pistols”!

If you don’t stop all this crap, I’m going to file an age discrimination lawsuit against this blog!

“Like they used to” ACTivist?? Do you mean like the Ed Sullivan Show?

joy division certainly should be up there. though i’d say ‘the bends’ for radiohead and ‘nebraska’ by springsteen. also, what about the pixies ‘doolittle’ and neutral milk hotel’s ‘in the aeroplane over the sea?’ the latter is one of the best albums in that past few years. way better than ‘dummy.’

Beatles fans, last summer we saw :

http://www.wolftrap.org/Find_Performances_and_Events/Performance/08Filene/0619show08.aspx

At Wolf Trap and it was an excellent show. This year, they are returning for two shows. I was amazed that my sons 11 and 13 knew most of the words..

Brian — old, tough, and mean as the Devil himself!

Lovisa — Nat “King” Cole and “Mona Lisa”! Now you’re talkin’ my language! You go, girl!!!

I third Nat King Cole, he died too young!

You’re right, Dans. I forgot about that.

Thanks for posting Bobby Darin. He too died too young.

Wolv, yes, I forgot the Lions did win a championship.

They too died too young..