MR>   Happy New Year! 

Thanks! Even though I'm a tad late on the reply. 
I had jury duty along with lots of family obligation, and other stuff to 
do.

MR>Good to see that there's at least a couple of
MR>people still hanging around here.  I just dropped in after a kind of
MR>forced absence of several months (computer problems coupled with a
MR>serious cash shortage), and saw this message.

Cool. It's nice to know I impelled at least SOME traffic. :-P

MR>-=> STEVE KEMP wrote to ALL <=-
MR> SK> My top 10 "Desert Island disks":

MR> SK> Throwing Copper - Live
MR> SK> Undertow - Tool
MR> SK> The Bends - Radiohead
MR> SK> Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
MR> SK> Safe As Milk - Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
MR> SK> No Need To Argue - The Cranberries
MR> SK> The Jesus Lizard Show - The Jesus Lizard
MR> SK> Jar of Flies - Alice In Chains
MR> SK> Dulcinea - Toad The Wet Sprocket
MR> SK> Unplugged In New York - Nirvana

MR>   Cool!  My picks would be a bit different from yours, but these are
MR>definitely some good choices.  The Nirvana, Radiohead, Cranberries,
MR>and Toad the Wet Sprocket discs you listed are my favourites by each
MR>of those bands.

Those four you agree with are surely exceptional, to be sure.

MR>   Let's see, ...jeez I can never pick just ten... It changes from
MR>day to  day.

Same here. 

I got a new (to me) Dave Matthews the other day and a used Eric Clapton 
Unplugged and those are now my faves. 

MR>And besides, I'm into all kinds of music, from jazz to
MR>classical to rock, plus some bluegrass, country, blues, etc.

I'm into rock mostly, but I dig jazz, classical, bluegrass, and blues.
Not a big country fan, save for the bluegrass side.

MR>   Even picking just ten pop/rock albums is hard enough.  If it came
MR>down  to it tho', I guess I'd just have to close my eyes and grab ten
MR>off this  list of twenty current faves (in chronological order):

MR>  The Beatles - "A Hard Day's Night" (1964)
MR>  The Beatles - "Abbey Road" (1969)
MR>  The Guess Who - "So Long, Bannatyne" (1971)
MR>  Ambrosia - "Ambrosia" (1975)
MR>  The Who - "Who Are You" - (1978)
MR>  Little Feat - "Waiting For Columbus" (live; 1978)
MR>  Dire Straits - "Dire Straits" (1979)
MR>  Elvis Costello - "Get Happy!!" (1981)
MR>  Talk Talk - "It's My Life" (1984)
MR>  Level 42 - "World Machine" (1985)
MR>  David & David - "Boomtown" (1986)
MR>  Amy Grant - "Lead Me On" - (1989)
MR>  Jellyfish - "Bellybutton" (1990)
MR>  Richard Thompson - "Watching the Dark" (compilation; 1993)
MR>  The Grays - "Ro Sham Bo" (1994)
MR>  Jason Falkner - "...presents, Author Unknown" (1996)
MR>  Supergrass - "In It For the Money" (1997)
MR>  Natalie Imbruglia - "Left of the Middle" (1998)
MR>  The Dandy Warhols - "Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia" (2000)
MR>  The Guess Who - "Runnin' Back Thru Canada (live; 2000)

Some I've never heard of, others I've heard of but never heard.
Of course I love the Beatles, the Guess Who, The Who, Little Feat, and 
Elvis Costello.

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