1. Kirk Douglas
2. Matthew Sweet
3. James Honeyman-Scott
4. "Cat Scratch Fever"
5. "Cat Scratch Fever"
6. "Cat Scratch Fever"
7. Junior Walker
8. Isaac Hayes: post-1969
9. RTH Chess
10. "Night Moves"

Hey, Loop -- man, you only got *three* out of 10! A failing grade!

Better luck next time --

HVB

so we're being graded, huh? you didn't say anything about that in the initial post!

1. Burt

2. Elliott

3. James!

4. Walk This Way

5. Cat Scratch

6. Free for all

7. tough call, on the merits of Junior's "way back home" alone, but overall, i gotta give it to Rufus: lots more fun for me.

8. hmmm....love 'em both (if "walk on by" is pre). but i'm gonna go post, 'cuz that's the kind of mood i'm in.

9. i don't understand this question.

10. still in denial about how little the rest of rth cares about seeg, huh? i kid...i kid. i'll play: there's a reason why "Night Moves" is the bigger hit.

Burt Lancaster

Matthew Sweet

James Honeyman-Scott

"Walk This Way"

"Janie's Got a Gun"

"Free for All" (I'm not sure that I even know this song, but I can't stand "Cat Scratch Fever")

Rufus Thomas

Isaac Hayes: pre-1969 (ie, when he was primarily a behind-the-scenes songwriter/producer)

RTH Mercury (NOTE: For those of you who don't know what the question is, Hrrundi means the original, private Yahoo Groups list or this open version... Boo hoo hoo!)

"Night Moves"

Kirk
Matthew sweet
James Honydew Mellon
Walk This Way
Janie Got a Gun
Anything but Cat Scratch Fever
Rufus
Night Moves
Pass

thanks for the clarification mod. sometimes hvb speaks his own language with no prior warning! though i do like the terms he's deployed here, as biased as they are.

i prefer the blog, of course.

but what i like better about the blog is the way its introduction has revealed more about the founding members of rth.

who knew that links linkerson would prefer to continue to function in the boiler room, as a provider of no commentary of any substance, while continually pointing to endless reams of articles signaling the "end of the world as we know it"?

the real question, links, is during the cold months of winter, do you still go sleeveless?

I'd like to write an essay on the connectedness of his tendency to stay with the "chess" version of rth and his sleeveless fashion, but i'm not sure how to go about doing it.

all i can say at the moment is that the world is a better place for both of these tendencies.

1. Colour My World instead of Cat Scratch Fever.

2. Hey Jude instead of Cat Scratch Fever.

3. The marching band Star Wars Medley instead of Cat Fucking Scratch Fever.

But more importantly, answer these:

1. The part of my record collection that is hip, but which I have secretly begun thinking of as less-hip, since I began collecting things so obscure that no one would be sure what answer would be cooler, or the part that I myself often think is so odd as to be kind of dull?

2. Pustules or Boils? (Not the bands, the ailments.)

3. Pre-something-or-other, or ante-bellum?

4. Nietzsche or Wagner?

1. Kirk Douglas. Killer chin.

2. Matthew Elliott. I don't care about either of them.

3. James Honeyman-Scott.

4. "Cat Scratch Fever" or "Walk This Way" Stub your toe or smash your thumb?

5. "Cat Scratch Fever" or "Janie's Got a Gun" Bump your head or get kicked in the shin?

6. "Cat Scratch Fever" or "Free for All" Bed spins with barfing or hangover the next day with barfing?

I can't do those. I tried, I just can't.

7. Junior Walker

8. Isaac Hayes: pre-1969

9. RTH Chess or RTH Mercury? I like this one because I never played on the other one.

10. "Down on Main Street" Guess Fire Lake was busy?

1. Burt Lancaster
2. Elliott Smith
3. James Honeyman-Scott
4. "Walk This Way"
5. "Janie's Got a Gun"
6. "Free for All"
7. Rufus Thomas
8. Isaac Hayes: post-1969
9. Huh?
10. Pass

1. The Train - see YT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmsxtErEVrw

also the Swimmer - Lancaster by a mile!

2. I'll Check...Smith I don't know & Sweet? I dunno...

3. Honeyman-Scott did more with less...

4, 5, 6 - I can't take the Nuge seriously anymore. His current schtick bleeds into his past opuses - kind of like trying to picture George Foreman as anything but an appliance shill...

7. Junior Walker made better music though Thomas had more fun with it...pick 'em...

8. Hayes' best music was written for other folks before he started performing it himself, but once he started performing, he was the real deal. Pre sixty-nine he was unknown, Post sixty-nine he was unforgettable. Post.

9. Quest que c'est? Skreak engrish troop!

10. Meh...Night moves. I can sing along with the backup singers cuz I remembers some of the words...

Kirk Douglas
Elliot Smith
Honeyman
Walk This Way
Janie's
Free for all
Rufus
Post
Chess
Night Moves(as sung by Pete from Bakshi's American Pop)

Burt

Matthew Sweet

James Honeyman-Scott

"Walk This Way"

"Cat Scratch Fever"

"Cat Scratch Aches"

7. pass

8. Isaac Hayes: pre-

9. RTH Chess, athough you are getting 50 percent less wisecrackery out of me on this new one, so perhaps that's to its benefit.

10. no seegar

1. Pass

2. Elliott Smith

3. James Honeyman-Scott

4. "Walk This Way"

5. "Janie's Got a Gun"

6. Pass (I don't know "Free for All")

7. Rufus Thomas

8. Isaac Hayes: post-1969 (if it's including 1969 just for Hot Buttered Soul alone)

9. RTH Chess

10. Pass