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What's the main problem with record collectors?

  • They are prone to lose their sense of fun and delight in the music itself. (40%, 12 Votes)
  • Ask my loved ones, who have to live with me. (27%, 8 Votes)
  • Their role in driving up the used prices of half-decent obscurities that you used to be able to find in any cut-out bin. (23%, 7 Votes)
  • Their tendency to favor records based on "ironic hipness." (10%, 3 Votes)

Total Voters: 30

Start Date: 04/15/2011 @ 11:19 am
End Date: No Expiry

What's hardest to believe?

  • Keith Richards is alive. (32%, 7 Votes)
  • Brian Wilson is still making records AND playing live. (27%, 6 Votes)
  • Bruce Hornsby has maintained the same 37 strands of hair on his head since he first burst onto the music scene. (23%, 5 Votes)
  • Iggy Pop still hasn't found his shirt. (18%, 4 Votes)

Total Voters: 22

Start Date: 04/12/2011 @ 1:25 pm
End Date: No Expiry

Would you support a cap on The Blues?

  • Yes. (52%, 11 Votes)
  • No. (29%, 6 Votes)
  • Mmm, until we hash out this subject in a distinct thread I'll reserve my vote. (19%, 4 Votes)

Total Voters: 21

Start Date: 04/10/2011 @ 6:50 pm
End Date: No Expiry

SHOWDOWN (choose one): Iggy Pop's output from 1979-1986 (ie, New Values-Blah Blah Blah) or Lou Reed's during that same stretch (ie, The Bells-Mistrial)?

  • Lou's 1979-1986 output. (63%, 5 Votes)
  • Iggy's 1979-1986 output. (37%, 3 Votes)

Total Voters: 8

Start Date: 04/08/2011 @ 2:43 pm
End Date: No Expiry

Who's got a worse Look in Wire's 1986 US television appearance: bassist Graham Lewis (tights, mullet, etc) or Suzanne Somers (tights, poodle skirt, etc)?

  • Graham Lewis (100%, 8 Votes)
  • Suzanne Somers (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 8

Start Date: 04/07/2011 @ 9:58 am
End Date: No Expiry

Hair, which is usually a plus in rock 'n roll, sometimes works against an artist. Which curly-haired artist had the least-rocking full head of hair?

  • Brian May (38%, 5 Votes)
  • Nigel Harrison (Blondie) (23%, 3 Votes)
  • Lou Reed (23%, 3 Votes)
  • Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) (16%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 13

Start Date: 04/04/2011 @ 10:56 pm
End Date: No Expiry

What's the rock 'n roll "un-event" equivalent of mockcarr's attending the game in which Cal Ripken Jr. first sat out a game, putting an end to his incredible Iron Man streak?

  • The first Who show at which Pete Townshend did windmills on an Ovation acoustic while encased in a plexiglass "cone of silence." (92%, 11 Votes)
  • The first Van Halen show at which Eddie Van Halen moved to synth on "Jump." (8%, 1 Votes)
  • The first Stones show Keith Richards played sober. (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Other, which I'll add in the Comments for the Play Ball Edition of Dugout Chatter. (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 12

Start Date: 04/01/2011 @ 11:38 am
End Date: No Expiry

SHOWDOWN (choose one): Radiohead's "Lotus Flower" or Billy Idol's "Dancing With Myself"?

  • Billy Idol's "Dancing With Myself" (77%, 10 Votes)
  • Radiohead's "Lotus Flower" (23%, 3 Votes)

Total Voters: 13

Start Date: 03/30/2011 @ 8:33 am
End Date: No Expiry

SHOWDOWN (choose one): Topps' 1971 "Let It Be"-style baseball cards or their 1972 "Magical Mystery Tour"-style collection?

  • Topps' 1972 "Magical Mystery Tour"-style collection? (58%, 7 Votes)
  • Topps' 1971 "Let It Be"-style baseball cards. (42%, 5 Votes)

Total Voters: 12

Start Date: 03/27/2011 @ 8:59 am
End Date: No Expiry

Who's more impressive (not "who's cooler") in the clip of PiL's appearance on American Bandstand: John Lydon or Dick Clark?

  • Dick Clark (100%, 8 Votes)
  • John Lydon (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 8

Start Date: 03/24/2011 @ 8:59 am
End Date: No Expiry

Which of the following "found sounds" do you most enjoy hearing a particular on a record?

  • Breaking glass (26%, 6 Votes)
  • Typewriter (26%, 6 Votes)
  • Cocktail party sounds (ie, clinking glasses, chatter) (22%, 5 Votes)
  • Chirping birds/crickets (13%, 3 Votes)
  • Ringing telephone (4%, 1 Votes)
  • Splashing water (4%, 1 Votes)
  • Livestock (4%, 1 Votes)
  • Wind (1%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 23

Start Date: 03/21/2011 @ 10:18 pm
End Date: No Expiry

SHOWDOWN (choose one): The Clash's COMBAT ROCK or any album by Crosby, Stills, and Nash (no Young)?

  • The Clash's COMBAT ROCK. (91%, 10 Votes)
  • Any album by Crosby, Stills, and Nash (no Young). (9%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 11

Start Date: 03/21/2011 @ 10:26 am
End Date: No Expiry

Did anyone ever pay full price for the first Undertones album?

  • Maybe, but it wasn't me! (93%, 13 Votes)
  • I did. (7%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 14

Start Date: 03/17/2011 @ 12:56 pm
End Date: No Expiry

Who's the Most Reasonable Townsperson?

  • BigSteve (44%, 8 Votes)
  • ladymisskiroyale (39%, 7 Votes)
  • E. Pluribus Gergely (6%, 1 Votes)
  • k. (6%, 1 Votes)
  • 2000 Man (5%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 18

Start Date: 03/15/2011 @ 9:51 pm
End Date: No Expiry

'70s TV COP SHOWDOWN (choose one): The Rookies or S.W.A.T.?

  • S.W.A.T. (55%, 6 Votes)
  • The Rookies (45%, 5 Votes)

Total Voters: 11

Start Date: 03/12/2011 @ 11:04 pm
End Date: No Expiry

Which musician would you be most inclined to offer a job as a general Office Assistant, maintaining the printers and fax machines, distributing mail, programming the boss' new smart phone, etc?

  • The nearest guy in Vampire Weekend (50%, 11 Votes)
  • The guy in Death Cab for Cutie with the Munchkin hairdo. (18%, 4 Votes)
  • New Order's Stephen Morris. (18%, 4 Votes)
  • Chris Squire of Yes (9%, 2 Votes)
  • Fred Maher (former Lou Reed, Matthew Sweet, Scritti Politti drummer) (5%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 22

Start Date: 03/09/2011 @ 7:22 pm
End Date: No Expiry

SHOWDOWN (choose one): "Sunday Morning" or "Friday on My Mind"

  • "Friday on My Mind" (67%, 18 Votes)
  • "Sunday Morning" (33%, 9 Votes)

Total Voters: 27

Start Date: 03/06/2011 @ 9:49 am
End Date: No Expiry

Which "man of the people" rocker would most likely give you an honest day's work if you hired him as a day laborer?

  • Mike Watt (42%, 15 Votes)
  • Bob Seger (25%, 9 Votes)
  • Rory Gallagher (14%, 5 Votes)
  • John Fogerty (11%, 4 Votes)
  • John Mellencamp (8%, 3 Votes)

Total Voters: 36

Start Date: 03/01/2011 @ 8:56 pm
End Date: No Expiry

In terms of hair prejudices, which hair situation do you find most challenging in terms of a rock band's lead singer?

  • White-boy dreadlocks (35%, 12 Votes)
  • Male pattern baldness (18%, 6 Votes)
  • Fauxhawk (15%, 5 Votes)
  • Pigtails (15%, 5 Votes)
  • Ponytail (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Feathered center part (6%, 2 Votes)
  • Red hair (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Black-dyed hair (3%, 1 Votes)
  • Liberal use of hair gels (0%, 0 Votes)
  • Mohawk (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 34

Start Date: 02/25/2011 @ 12:17 pm
End Date: No Expiry

An open question for Billy Joel fans, which misguided arrangement choice is the toughest to take:

  • When Billy sings, “No, no you had to be a BEEG shot” in "Big Shot." (45%, 9 Votes)
  • When Billy sings “Working too hard can give you a heart attack-ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK-ACK” in "Moving Out." (35%, 7 Votes)
  • The synth in "The Entertainer." (15%, 3 Votes)
  • Other, which I'll state in the ongoing thread on "The Entertainer." (5%, 1 Votes)

Total Voters: 20

Start Date: 02/22/2011 @ 1:34 pm
End Date: No Expiry

SHOWDOWN (choose one): Husker Du or The Replacements

  • The Replacements (75%, 6 Votes)
  • Husker Du (25%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 8

Start Date: 02/22/2011 @ 7:20 am
End Date: No Expiry

SHOWDOWN (choose one): Fairport Convention's "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" or Fairport Convention's "I'll Keep it With Mine"?

  • Fairport Convention's "Who Knows Where the Time Goes." (43%, 6 Votes)
  • "Hey man, I don't listen to the English folk-rock shit." (43%, 6 Votes)
  • Fairport Convention's "I'll Keep it With Mine." (14%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 14

Start Date: 02/19/2011 @ 12:22 am
End Date: No Expiry

What's so bad about Soul Asylum? (Choose as many as 3 reasons.)

  • The fact that Pirner dated Winona Rider while I didn’t. (24%, 8 Votes)
  • The expiration date passed on Dave Pirner‘s rat’s nest hair and severely ripped jeans. (21%, 7 Votes)
  • The fact that they far exceded the popularity of the Replacements. (21%, 7 Votes)
  • Nothing, are you people crazy? (18%, 6 Votes)
  • The other guitarist’s lank mall-rat hair. (9%, 3 Votes)
  • I hate when indie bands I love and wish were more popular suddenly become popular. (6%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 23

Start Date: 02/16/2011 @ 10:10 am
End Date: No Expiry

As a follow-up to last year's wildly successful World Cup of Rock 'n Roll is it time we prepare for a March Madness tournament to determine the greatest US region in rock?

  • Yes! (70%, 7 Votes)
  • No. (30%, 3 Votes)
  • Only if we include US territories. (0%, 0 Votes)

Total Voters: 10

Start Date: 02/15/2011 @ 1:46 pm
End Date: No Expiry

Do you tend to prefer love songs that focus on the feelings the lover is experiencing or those that speak to the love interest?

  • Those that focus on the feelings being experienced by the narrator in love. (50%, 3 Votes)
  • Those that speak to the love interest. (50%, 3 Votes)

Total Voters: 6

Start Date: 02/14/2011 @ 2:45 pm
End Date: No Expiry

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