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post #1 of 52
3/2/07 at 1:48am
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Or, more accurately: What Has Been Rocking Your Ass For The Longest Time?

grendel, from 1990-1998 (and there is SOME shame in this...)

--Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime
--Sisters of Mercy: Floodland and Vision Thing

...and that's it. There was, between 90 and 98, something vastly wrong with me.

grendel, from 1998-2006

--The Catherine Wheel: Wishville (and to a lesser extent, all their other albums)

grendel, from November 2006-Present

--Brand New: The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me

...

So, you see what I mean? Of COURSE I listened to other shit in between, and of COURSE I still do. But my MP3 player is not 4 gigs, and it ain't an iPod, and no matter WHAT ELSE gets put on it, Wishville and Brand New are always there.

I guess, in actuality, what music(s) would you define as your OBSESSION? And I don't mean 'throwing your panties at the band and mailing them your pubes' obsession, I mean music that, incorporated into your day, feels like BREATHING.

Tell me, CHUDders. Tell me.
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post #2 of 52
3/2/07 at 2:01am
If you mean, like: the old standby; I suppose, Van Morrison or Pearl Jam. Something like that. I'm more of the get bored, move on to the next thing /back to the old standby / revisit an earlier album I liked type. Which isn't really your type. Too bad. This could've been a great thread.
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post #3 of 52
3/2/07 at 2:02am
Right now, "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down (Bonzo Goes To Bitburg)" by the Ramones.

All time, pretty standard: Warren Zevon, Bruce Springsteen, The Clash, Bob Dylan, and The Pogues. Oh, and U2, but only early U2 and current U2. I can't get into those 90s albums at all.
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post #4 of 52
3/2/07 at 2:11am
Evil - Interpol
Tunnels - The Arcade Fire
Close to Me - The Cure
Rock Co.Kane Flow - De La Soul feat. MF DOOM
A Little More For a Little You - The Hives
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post #5 of 52
3/2/07 at 2:17am
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Originally Posted by grendel
--The Catherine Wheel: Wishville (and to a lesser extent, all their other albums)
I like the 1st half of that album. The back half is a snoozer. Personally, I'm all about Chrome, Happy Days and Adam & Eve.

Big with me right now:
The Darkness
Rhymefest
Archers Of Loaf
Dinosaur Jr.
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post #6 of 52
3/2/07 at 2:25am
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pop Zeus
I like the 1st half of that album. The back half is a snoozer. Personally, I'm all about Chrome, Happy Days and Adam & Eve.
Not to get into a Catherine Wheel love-fest here or anything, but Chrome (hailed by eleventy-billion people in their early 30's as the best thing ever) only had one thing I loved on it, and that was Fripp. And, given the slowness of that song, you can see why (while I am a fag for all their work) I like WISHVILLE and LIKE CATS AND DOGS and (to a lesser extent) most of ADAM & EVE over Chrome and Happy Days.

Done with gay love for shoegazing britbands....

...FOR NOW!!!

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post #7 of 52
3/2/07 at 2:33am
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Originally Posted by grendel
Chrome (hailed by eleventy-billion people in their early 30's as the best thing ever) only had one thing I loved on it, and that was Fripp.
But..but.. CRANK!
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post #8 of 52
3/2/07 at 2:43am
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Natural aversion to that song due to too-long usage of methamphetamines, i.e. CRANK.

Not that I went weird and straightedge or anything, just don't need the aural reminder that I really like drugs.
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post #9 of 52
3/2/07 at 3:00am
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post #10 of 52
3/2/07 at 3:05am
Sorry, couldn't resist.

As far as music, I've been absolutely obsessed with Jedi Mind Tricks' Uncommon Valor. RA The Rugged Man's verse is so fucking ridiculous.... it's even crazier when you realize he's telling the true story of what happened to his father in Vietnam.
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post #11 of 52
3/2/07 at 3:10am
Hank Williams III - Straight to Hell, just a great boozin' album, most of the songs are about drinkin', smokin' or snortin'. And a couple of tracks from the new Chimaira album Ressurection.
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post #12 of 52
3/2/07 at 3:11am
"Flyentology" by EL-P
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post #13 of 52
3/2/07 at 3:15am
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Originally Posted by BubWilliams
And a couple of tracks from the new Chimaira album Ressurection.
I'm so disappointed with what's happened to that band. They haven't changed their style at all... there's a couple of alright tracks, but every one is friggin' predictable and boring.

Funny, cause I saw them back in the day before their first album even hit at CBGB's, back when their DJ actually did stuff.

'This Present Darkness' is still the best disc they've put out.
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post #14 of 52
3/2/07 at 3:39am
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Originally Posted by Alex Rivello
I'm so disappointed with what's happened to that band. They haven't changed their style at all... there's a couple of alright tracks, but every one is friggin' predictable and boring.

Funny, cause I saw them back in the day before their first album even hit at CBGB's, back when their DJ actually did stuff.

'This Present Darkness' is still the best disc they've put out.
They were a nu-metal band, now they're metalcore, so I'd say their style has changed. And they have a keyboardist not DJ, but yeah you can't really hear his presence on albums either, but he does do the death metal growls at the live shows. The Ressurection tracks are alright, it just mostly sounds like stuff from the self titled.

This Present Darkness is great, but I'm more more partial to The Impossibility of Reason personally.
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post #15 of 52
3/2/07 at 4:37am
The new Arcade Fire album is really freaking good. Super dark and depressing. Good times.
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post #16 of 52
3/2/07 at 4:42am
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Originally Posted by Alex Riviello
Sorry, couldn't resist.

As far as music, I've been absolutely obsessed with Jedi Mind Tricks' Uncommon Valor. RA The Rugged Man's verse is so fucking ridiculous.... it's even crazier when you realize he's telling the true story of what happened to his father in Vietnam.
Fuckin A! That song's wild. Too bad he only features on one track of the album.

Personally, I can't stop listening to Dredg's Catch Without Arms, Rise Against's Siren Song Of The Counter Culture and Aesop Rock's Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives. Also, if we're talking bands my obsessions are Lagwagon, Cursive and Bad Religion (I have kind of an eclectic taste in music). When Lagwagon toured here, I went to every show they played and actually burst out crying when I first saw them. Greatest nights of my life.
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post #17 of 52
3/2/07 at 4:58am
As far as Jedi Mind Tricks go, Animal Rap feat. Kool G. Rap takes all.

Yo, bust a motherfucking gat to this/y'all believe lies like y'all was Catholics/I rap in arabic/so my rhymes is just immaculate/my rap elaborate/push a 40 and blaze a sack to it/my aim is accurate/take your brain, blow out the back of it
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post #18 of 52
3/2/07 at 5:43am
Come What(ever) May by Stone Sour. It just keeps getting better. Through Glass really gives the wrong impression of the album. I'd like to see when someone buys the album based on that song, puts it on his playlist, takes a comfortable position and the opening song "30/30-150" blasts out right after his favorite Counting Crows-songs.

Also I'm Ready by Muddy Waters is really growing on me.
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post #19 of 52
3/2/07 at 6:32am
This.

I hang my head in shame, and then I play it again.
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post #20 of 52
3/2/07 at 9:42am
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Originally Posted by Murdoch
Come What(ever) May by Stone Sour. It just keeps getting better. Through Glass really gives the wrong impression of the album. I'd like to see when someone buys the album based on that song, puts it on his playlist, takes a comfortable position and the opening song "30/30-150" blasts out right after his favorite Counting Crows-songs.

Also I'm Ready by Muddy Waters is really growing on me.
I once dated a girl who had Stone Sour's first album, which pretty much sounded like "Nickelback featuring that guy from Slipknot, with a laugh-out-loud shitty spoken word track at the end".

We're not together any more. COINCIDENCE?
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post #21 of 52
3/2/07 at 9:48am
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Originally Posted by Dranbon
The new Arcade Fire album is really freaking good. Super dark and depressing. Good times.
Neon Bible? Dark, sure, but not depressing. Keep the Car Running is like Springsteen with great lyrics. But yeah, the darker stuff is the more interesting, my particualr fave being Black Wave/Bad Vibrations or whatever its called. That's just a crazy, awesome song all over.
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post #22 of 52
3/2/07 at 10:02am
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Originally Posted by Big Jim Slade
I once dated a girl who had Stone Sour's first album, which pretty much sounded like "Nickelback featuring that guy from Slipknot, with a laugh-out-loud shitty spoken word track at the end".

We're not together any more. COINCIDENCE?
If that girl really liked that album, you're better off without her. Or you like dating deaf chicks. It really is a shitty record. And your definition of it is spot-on.
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post #23 of 52
3/2/07 at 10:35am
Grendel: Nothing wrong with QR:OM. It's a great album/cd, and there is no shame in that.

For me, I find myself drawn to these cds. Some are old, some are more recent, but they continually stay in rotation on my iPod -

Rush - 'Hemispheres', 'Signals', and 'Roll the Bones'
Dream Theater - 'Awake' and 'Scenes from a 'Memory'
Iron Maiden - 'Number of the Beast' and 'Piece of Mind'
Metallica - 'Master of Puppets'
OSI - 'Office of Strategic Influence' and 'Free'
Joe Satriani - 'Crystal Planet' and 'Flying in a Blue Dream'
John Petrucci - 'Suspended Animation'
Blue Oyster Cult - 'Cultasaurus Erectus'

Sorry, I'm a bit of a prog-head here.
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post #24 of 52
3/2/07 at 10:44am
Sonic Temple by The Cult has been rocking my ass for over a decade now. First I got it on vinyl as a present, played it till my record player broke, then got it on CD and it has started twitching over the last year. A new visit to the record store waits.
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post #25 of 52
3/2/07 at 11:13am
Sorry, got to get in on the Catherine Wheel man-love. Fucking love them.

Rob Dickinson's solo CD 'fresh wine for the horses' is really good.
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post #26 of 52
3/2/07 at 1:24pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dranbon
The new Arcade Fire album is really freaking good. Super dark and depressing. Good times.
All the hipsters around me (read: college-age girls that work for me in a suburban coffeeshop) have been ranting about Arcade Fire and I (being 31 and COMPLETELY out of the loop) have NO IDEA who they are, resemble, or what they're about.

But super dark and depressing is what I'm all about, musically (note my love for The Catherine Wheel, and even more dark-themed, the new Brand New album). So I'll see if I can get one of my young things to burn me one.

*****

And in reply about the Catherine Wheel: Yeah, Rob Dickinson's solo album is 66-75% great, and the rest 'meh'. But he opened up for the Church at the State Theater in Northern VA, just a few blocks from where I work, so I made lackeys take over the helm and went and caught the show. Just him and an acoustic guitar and that crazy angelic voice of his. He came out at the end of the Church's set and did three of their songs with them. And then they did a House of Love cover. It was cooler than I was expecting.
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post #27 of 52
3/2/07 at 2:59pm
grendel, don't make the mistake I did and write The Arcade Fire off because of who likes them (hipsters). They're incredible and REALLY unique sounding. I would reccomend their first album, Funeral, first though.
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post #28 of 52
3/2/07 at 4:58pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by grendel
And in reply about the Catherine Wheel: Yeah, Rob Dickinson's solo album is 66-75% great, and the rest 'meh'. But he opened up for the Church at the State Theater in Northern VA,
He has a live CD for sale on his web site that is from that tour. Its amazing. Some of the tracks I really didn't like from the 'fresh wine' cd, sound great on the live one. 'Storm" jumps to mind.
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post #29 of 52
3/2/07 at 5:29pm
Call me crazy, but I've been really rocking out to some old Weird Al albums my neighbor was initially throwing out.
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post #30 of 52
3/2/07 at 5:31pm
Your Crazy!

I kid, I kid...
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post #31 of 52
3/2/07 at 6:22pm
I have had Antichrist Television Blues by Arcade Fire and Fire Eye'd Boy by Broken Social Scene stuck in my head
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post #32 of 52
3/2/07 at 7:28pm
I listened to a triple threat of Metallica yesterday. Kill 'Em All, Master Of Puppets, Ride The Lightning. Totally massive.
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post #33 of 52
3/2/07 at 8:08pm
I'm currently going through my Strapping Young Lad / Devin Townsend Collection: Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing, City, SYL (my personal favorite), Alien and The New Black. Then go on to Terria, Accelerated Evolution and Synchestra
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post #34 of 52
3/2/07 at 8:45pm
I do believe that although WISHVILLE is a very good album, it was the whimper that euthanized Catherine Wheel. I'm with you that Chrome is a bit "overrated" to use an annoying choice of words, as I've always felt that HAPPY DAYS and ADAM & EVE were their masterpieces. The former was a bold statement of ROCK in the middle of the 90's when bands like that from the UK and elsewhere were far to meek (also an album that preceded songs like Blur's Song #2 in the Heavy Brit Department), while the latter album, ADAM & EVE was a late-century masterpiece that in my opinion is up there with the likes of Pink Floyd and Radiohead's best records.

Now, enough about Catherine Wheel.

The Cult - Sonic Temple. Always on rotation.
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime, also always on rotation.
Some of you guys have the right idea, although Rath I have to say when it comes to U2, they haven't had an interesting or un-cliche'd album since the giant beautiful misunderstanding called POP, yes another always-in-the-iPod album.

Here in no particular order are some more that I will never tire of:

RUSH - Everything from 1979 - 1989
JETHRO TULL - Everything from 1977 - 1983
BAD RELIGION - Stranger Than Fiction
ZAPPA - Joe's Garage
MISFITS - American Psycho (Fuck You, Purists)
SOCIAL DISTORTION - White Light, White Heat, White Trash
and yes, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Original Cast Recording.
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post #35 of 52
3/2/07 at 9:05pm
VoiVod's Killing Technology from '87 still gets plenty of play in my house. When my wife isn't around, mainly.
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post #36 of 52
3/2/07 at 10:18pm
Oh hell yeah. R.I.P Piggy. That gets play all the time at my place. My lady just has to stifle. I never get tired of Rose Tattoo, Sweet, Steve Earle, Hawkwind, The Melvins less experimental, more straight forward rockin stuff, Guy Clark, David Bowie, The Faces, Lou Reed, and Townes Van Zandt. The Replacements have been rockin my ass since 1984.
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post #37 of 52
3/2/07 at 11:41pm
I still can't get enough of any of the three Coheed and Cambria albums. Go ahead and flame me, they fucking rock. On the other side, I also can't get enough of The Wrens' Meadowlands, and The New Pornographers' Twin Cinema. On the classic rock front, I've been cranking Yes every time they pop on the ol' Sirius. By the by, for any other Sirius subscribers, have you been enjoying the new 90's alternative station as much as I've been? Such consistent great music there.
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post #38 of 52
3/2/07 at 11:47pm
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With the exception of the love for RUSH, I think Andrew Collins might actually be me.
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post #39 of 52
3/3/07 at 3:26am
Sigg'd...
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post #40 of 52
3/3/07 at 2:18pm
If we're talking about the stuff that's stuck to me for years, then we're talking Bad Religion's Recipe for Hate, Hard Volume by the Rollins Band, and Fighting the World from ManOwaR.

Fuck an iPod - the songs on those albums play in my head when the albums themselves aren't handy.

And I third the Operation: Mindcrime love. No shame in it.

Of late, the CD player has five discs in it (out of a possible twenty-five) - Dragonforce's Inhuman Rampage, In a Million Pieces by The Draft, The Darkness' One Way Ticket to Hell...and Back, Costello Music from The Fratellis, and Fuck World Trade by Leftover Crack.

Go get those - and you're welcome!
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post #41 of 52
3/3/07 at 4:25pm
Although all 3 albums are almost equal, I find that Dragonforce's first two records, VALLEY OF THE DAMNED and SONIC FIRESTORM to be better than the new one. Check them out if you haven't already.

I also forgot to mention New Model Army, PRINCE, and the Iron Maiden albums Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, and Somewhere in Time to my list.

But who cares about anyone's lists, we're just chit-chatting music.
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post #42 of 52
3/3/07 at 4:35pm
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Originally Posted by Mad Man Mundt
Oh hell yeah. R.I.P Piggy. That gets play all the time at my place. My lady just has to stifle.
Have you heard anything from Katorz yet?

EDIT - actually, I just listened to "The X-Stream" - solid.
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post #43 of 52
3/3/07 at 5:58pm
Poison Idea - Feel the Darkness
Sheer terror - Love Songs for the Unloved
The Ergs - Jersey's Best Prancers
Fucked Up - Hidden World (one of the best bands on the planet at the moment)
Rites of Spring - End on End
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post #44 of 52
3/3/07 at 6:35pm
As much as they sound like Black Crowes on steroids, I do enjoy cranking 'Crazy Bitch' from the last Buckcherry CD. I like the later stuff by Clutch for good straight-up rock. And everything Zappa.
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post #45 of 52
3/3/07 at 10:48pm
Nice to see there're so many Bad Religion fans. My poison of choice would have to be Against the Grain.
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post #46 of 52
3/4/07 at 1:52pm
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Against the Grain is probably my favorite, as well, but like HAM says, Recipe For Hate is never far out of my mixes, and as someone earlier said, STRANGER THAN FICTION is probably the one I listen to the most.

Probably because I have that one in digital format, whereas Against the Grain has disappeared.

*grendel reminds himself to re-acquire this again immediately*

Oh, and in that punk vein, Propaghandi's HOW TO CLEAN EVERYTHING plays an awful lot, too.

Girl at Propaghandi show 12 yrs. ago: I kind of like them, but do they have any songs that don't say 'fuck' in them?

Propaghandi: THIS NEXT SONG IS CALLED 'FUCK RELIGION'!

Me: No.
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post #47 of 52
3/4/07 at 4:34pm
I am a fan of every Bad Religion album (including the synth-laden INTO THE UNKNOWN), except THE NEW AMERICA which was really bad. My favorites are the glory days of course (SUFFER - AGAINST), the in-between major label albums mentioned above and the two most recent are all nearly equal in quality, but they were on some sort of magical roll when it comes to STRANGER (for me).

They are in the studio right now, but they are taking too long.
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post #48 of 52
3/4/07 at 5:07pm
Process of Belief's phenomenal. But I never got into Empire. I do have a serious soft spot for The Gray Race, though. I think it's a lot better than people give it credit for.
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post #49 of 52
3/4/07 at 5:08pm
bad religion used to be fantastic. Recipe for Hate is my favorite and they were actually the first show I ever went to. the last few albums have been disappointing over all though(imo).

and if you like the old angry, political bad religion stuff, do yourself a favor and check out Fucked Up.
http://www.myspace.com/fuckedupdawg
http://www.myspace.com/stillcirclingthedrain

and if you like Propaghandi, make sure you listen to the Weakerthans, some of the same members completely different style.
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post #50 of 52
3/4/07 at 5:38pm
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No idea that the Weakerthans were former Props. Heard them. Never would have thought it.
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