Da-da-dum..... The January Synopsis

Well we were down 2 men, and though we had no subs we coasted to an easy win. And lucky for us we had 4 extremely loud intrusively inquisitive chaps next us- mind you there were 15 empty tables that apparently were not up to their standards in the old Spigot. With that said.....

We don't have comprehensive voting on Cursive, as D'Arcy, Greg and senile Jay misplaced their discs, but as of time of press it was the big winner. There was nary a negative thing said about it. Joybang! was the Cinderella disc of the month and was the smiled favorably on in general and tied (which is rare) with the Waterboys' selection. In essence none of the above were spoken about negatively. That brings us to Mars Volta.

We had probably the most discussion about this one. One of the members absolutely hated it, 2 loved it (one with asterixes) and the rest felt that if the stoopid stuff was eliminated; like excessive crickets, organ noodling, unneccessarily long outros- it could have been a real good find.

And now about the Fugs- half got it and enjoyed it, the other half got it, but only sorta, and didn't enjoy it. This was probably better than to be expected as we are talking about the Fugs.

In regards to our idolized bastards selling out to Madison Ave, most said they could deal with it as long as a song was not totally used out of context. There were other stipulations but you can read the individual blurbs to get those. One of us abhors the thought of artists "whoring" their music, which everyone was able to apprecicate to an extent. Our best of last 10 years brought no duplicates and wavered all over the place. As for the top tens- interesting note only 3 overlaps among all with only 1 group

February Meeting- February 21, 2006 at the Spigot, 7:30 pm

Discs up for Review

New- Odyssey- Fischerspooner (Ken)
New- One Way Ticket to Hell and Back- Darkness (Byron)
Old- Tonight's the Night- Neil Young (Mike H)
Old- Your Majesty- The Anniversary (Jen)
Ghits- Pre-Suck Steely Dan (Jay)

Topic

Inspired by Mike's Guitar CD, I began to think about exactly what constitutes a "great guitar song or CD." Do a paragraph on that subject and then give us your top ten "guitar CDs" of all time. You can do a sentence on each of your choices if you like, but don't wear us out.

For March those with homework are:

New- D'Arcy/Neil
Old- Byron/Greg
Host- Mike L.A. - Ghits and topic