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Virgin Killer - Scorpions
Going For The One - Yes
Country Life - Roxy Music
Abraxas - Santana

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Surely you can pick 1 above the rest.

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Cosmo's Factory.

I bet they serve it every Sunday henceforth.

I want to say Linda Ronstadt?

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Hell, Jimmy Buffett has no range and a so-so singing voice, but he's had one hell of a career.

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True, and I like Jimmy Buffett a lot. However, I doubt I would have enjoyed watching him perform other people's music week after week on Idol.

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Why the hate for iTunes (excluding not being compatible with the penguin)?

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As someone who didn't use iTunes before last year, here are a few things that I like about it, with most of this being a comparison to Microsoft's crapware in the form of Media Player and "the Zune software":

1. iTunes does reliable gapless playback.
2. iTunes is fast with my large collection.
3. iTunes never grovels the hard drive looking for new files and deleted ones, if you configure it for manual operation.
4. iTunes never touches metadata after adding files to its database, causing more frequent backups.
5. iTunes has excellent filtering capabilities for creating smart playlists.

I turn off the "Genius" feature, "Ping", and other stuff like that, and I also hide 9 of the 13 sources that can appear under "Library", so I have only Music, Books, Apps, and Radio. So it doesn't appear "bloated" at all. I use the Column Browser mode exclusively, and some rather neat, subtle usage patterns fall out of that, which are not possible with the similar view in "the Zune software". Appearance-wise, after you disable stuff you don't use, it looks like any other similar software, actually cleaner and less busy than some.

Of course, when you buy into Apple, you're also able to use things like Airplay, and you can stream to an Apple TV or enabled receiver from iTunes or an iDevice. Works very well.

I like to use what works well. So it's iTunes for my library-based music playback on my PC, along with the management of my iPod Touch. When I want to play music files from Windows Explorer, I use foobar2000. For library-based video playback, I use XBMC. For playing video files from Windows Explorer, I use VLC. For CableCARD TV purposes, I use the only game in town, Windows Media Center, and that's all I use Media Center for.

Good one. I've never seen Justified, but it's been on my to-watch list for a few months now. I'm purposely avoiding the new episodes until I get caught up.

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That ending scene to Crawl Space was incredibly surreal. Epic.

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Hasn't anyone turned it into a GIF? I mean, she backed away like Homer Simpson into the bushes:



Skyler:

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ETA: THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I fail at the Internet sometimes. :dope: I didn't read the previous messages. I've always wished the forum had a "go to first unread" feature.

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Mars Needs Moms"?! WTF is that? Hard to believe a $150 million movie flew completely under my radar.



It as an absolutely horrible CGI movie put out by Disney. It's about some jackass kid who hates his mom because she makes him eat brussel sprouts (or some disgusting vegetable) and wishes she would disappear. Well aliens land on Earth and abduct a bunch of moms, including the jackhole's, somehow he is able to sneak aboard the ship where he is later captured. The rest of the movie is about him escaping and saving his mom. It is atrocious. I watched it on Starz one night because I couldn't sleep and there was nothing else on.

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My god.

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"Mars Needs Moms," a 2011 movie that cost $150 million to make and grossed $39 million worldwide

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"Mars Needs Moms"?! WTF is that? Hard to believe a $150 million movie flew completely under my radar.