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All hail that bastian of principles Eazy-E. Lol, like what you like, but if you listened to N.W.A. and thought, "Eazy, that's my favorite," we listen to music much differently. Say what you want about Dr. Dre and Ice Cube as men, as political thinkers, or as anything else, they are still DR. DRE AND ICE CUBE. Let's not get any of this twisted, there is one reason we know either of their names and it ain't because they are up for citizenship awards. It's because they are all-time great talents in their genre. I see their flaws as people and have no problem pointing out those issues, but they stand as pillars in this hip-hop shit. My point with the above statement is mostly about understanding that someone who makes dope music, might also be a fucking dope in other parts of life. I'm done being disappointed in people's opinions about anything else when all I actually care about is the art they create. I literally don't really care about Ice Cube's opinions unless he's rapping them, and then I only care if the song is good. I just see him for who he is at this point, good and bad.

Ice Cube is one of a long list of people that think they're revolutionary when what they are is just contrarian. They don't actually have a point of view, they just want to go against everything everyone else thinks. If you love the police, it's "Fuck the police." If you hate the police, it's "Come on now, you don't think we need police?" I want everyone to go back and listen to Death Certificate, my favorite Ice Cube album, and ask yourself if this person has a political idealogy other than fuck everyone who isn't me or mine. Honestly, when someone you think is on your side says something that makes you understand that they are only on their own side, check their history I bet you they are just a contrarian. They have no real philosophy behind anything other than, this is what I want to do, fuck anyone who disagrees.

So, nobody is going to post "THE" video? Seriously, I can't think of another music video that matched song and visual better. Sinead O'Connor was a lot of things, a lot of them memorable, but I'm not going to remember any of them more than this video.

It's really weird, for some reason I wanted to hear Tom Jones' "I'll Never Fall in Love Again," last night but I couldn't remember the name of the song. I mistakenly thought Tony Bennett sang it, so I ended up listening to 5-10 Tony Bennett songs trying to find it. It's probably the most Tony Bennett I've ever listened to, and then I wake up to hear he died. Tony Bennett was a great performer who had an even more incredible career. RIP to a legend.

Stugotz is a moron, except their entire empire is his brain child. From what I understand, LeBatard never even thought about doing radio until Stugotz pitched it to him. If Stugotz doesn't stab his former employer in the back to start a new Miami sports radio station with LeBatard as the main drawing card, the show doesn't exist. I don't think the show works with anyone else. Stugotz being a moron, and LeBatard being utterly flabbergasted by his idiocy is the foundation the show was built on, and it doesn't work if Stugotz is not legitimately a complete moron. Somehow the moron understood this from the beginning, and they're going on 20 years together. He's also the single laziest employee ever, who never stops adding more work to his plate. Nothing about him makes any sense, but he's probably my all-time favorite radio personality.

I knew he was going to be great when he sneezed, blessed himself, then thanked himself for blessing himself. That is the kind of work ethic you cannot teach.

Aaron Rodgers could go on a 45 minute rant about pretty much anything on McAfee every single week. If he did that on Hard Knocks, they'd just focus on Zach Wilson. The NFL will just plain pretend like you don't exist if you step out of line.

Bill Belichick, who is the premier defensive mind of all time, tends to double the #1 receiver and put his best corner on the second best receiver. This is the most logical strategy in my opinion. A team's best receiver is too dangerous of a weapon to cover one on one, no matter who is covering them. First and foremost a defensive back starts at a disadvantage, because the offense knows the play and the defense doesn't. Second, receivers tend to be larger than defensive backs. There are plenty of 6+ foot receivers, but it is rare that you find a defensive back that large. So, instead of trying to depend on one player to shut down their best playmaker, you set up your entire defense to take away their best playmaker, while using you best playmaker to take away their second best playmaker.

I need to say that I absolutely loved American Gladiators as a kid. There were a few years where it was up there with pro wrestling for me. Now that I've said that, I have to say, if you trusted that Elvis impersonator for one second, you brought all this shit upon yourself. I'm not saying that I can't be scammed, conned, fooled, or anything else, but I wouldn't have trusted a damn thing he ever said to me. He reminds me of a cross of Eric Bischoff and Donald Trump. Him coming back after all the time trying to keep the documentarians from talking to Dan, saying he is happy they talked to Dan is one of the biggest crocks of shit of all time. I have to say, I 100% understand how and why the gladiators signed up to those terrible contracts. As someone who spent his late teens and early-20s trying to find a physical outlet, and while I was young and in shape I wasn't a crazy workout fanatic like most of the gladiators were. There just plain isn't a lot of opportunities to compete in physical sports, and quite a few people who desperately want to keep playing football or wrestling, or whatever else they used to do in high school. With that said, making them pay their own medical bills is fucking criminal. That show was fucking huge, and they couldn't take care of the people who made the show possible. I still want Wesley "Too Scoops" Berry to win everything. He is the only person who saw exactly what American Gladiators was and exploited the opportunity in the most positive use of that word possible.

Whoever created OTAs owes me a fucking apology. Every single offseason, I have to hear about what happened not a practice, but prepractice. Who didn't show up for imaginary practice. Who got injured at fake practice. Who stayed late at some shit that was optional in the first place, so now they can't have any more optional practices where you can't actually practice.

Lol, my answer to the question, "what would you do with your time if you didn't have to work any more?," has always been I'd write the definitve history of modern(post-rock & roll ) black American music. The crazy thing is I think I have enough time to write it, I just don't have time to do the years and years of research it would take before I start writing it.

Tina Turner is on the short list of performers who if she covers your song, I don't give a fuck how good your version was, it's her song now.

Tina Turner was an 80s icon, but she had a 20 year long legendary career before the 80s even started. Ike was an abusive piece of shit, but he's also one of the most important figures in the history of American music. His band in my opinion has the best case for the inventors of rock and roll, but that was kind of a happy accident. The most important thing that he did on purpose was introduce the world to Tina Turner. She was as much of a total package as we've ever really seen as a performer. First, she had a fucking great singing voice, and not just her range and tone, but the power of her voice was fucking incredible. Then you add the charisma. We talk about star power, but I can't think of a performer who was more magnetic on stage. She's absolutely on the short list of best live performers of all time. She was also a sex symbol of the type that didn't really exist before her. If you go back and watch young Tina Turner performances on YouTube, you'll see a woman who is built like a modern Olympic athlete. She was so strong and so muscular, but also undeniably feminine in a way that we still rarely see. She was beautiful, talented, charismatic, and absolutely impossible to ignore. Rest in Peace to an absolute legend and one of the most innovative and groundbreaking women in the history of American music. Every single female performer who came after her owes her a debt of gratitude. She's like James Brown where everything looked, felt, and sounded one way until she came around, then it looked, felt, and sounded a little bit like Tina for everybody who came after her. There will never be another Tina Turner, because she kicked down so many doors and broke through so many walls that everyone has room to be who they are because of how openly she was who she was.

Everything you say here is exactly why I chose 1970, but it's also the reason why I felt like I needed to jump back to 1965 or so. I feel like the Motown assembly line was instrumental in the artistic growth of both Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. Stevie is someone who got really experimental with almost everything, but never really got too far away from basic song structure. Stevie was able to be crazy creative while never really coloring outside of the lines. My intention was to track the evolution of not just the music, but the artists who made the music. Part of me wants to go back to Sam Cooke, because I feel like he's a foundational figure, but that makes me want to find the foudational figures and kind of build a R&B/Soul family tree. I feel like James Brown, Sam Cooke, and The Isley Brothers are definitely bricks in the foundation, but then I start looking at people like Ray Charles, Ike Turner, and Etta James. The more I think about it, the more bricks I find, and the less likely I'll actually start this project, lol.

If you get tired of music from 1983, give "Shout" a listen. Everything you say about "The Hurting" absolutely applies to "Shout," except they are better at it in 1985 than they were in 1983. It's a great song, that is full of interesting percussion layering, and it is constantly evolving and growing. The greatest thing about early 80s music is the expeirimentation that came along with the technological advances of the time. A lot of 80s music doesn't hold up very well, because the experimentation didn't quite hit its mark. It may have sounded good at the time, but sounds kind of rinky dink after time passed. Tears for Fears' experiements all seemed to work, and their music holds up really well. It helps that they were fucking great musicians, and while they embraced the technology, their musical chops kept everything in it's proper place. They're one of the greatest bands of the 1980s, and "Shout" is one of the best songs of the 80s. It's a song that you may not have heard lately, but if you give it a listen, I'm sure you'll enjoy it. Oh and this year in music thing is great. I actually tried to do something similar a while back, but I didn't write anything down. I started in 1970 and tried to listen to every relevant R&B album. I realized pretty soon that I probably should have started in 1965 or so, and that the idea of an album in the 70s was completely different than it is now. Someone might drop 4 albums in the same year, and for the most part there is no unifying theme. There just was no way for me to listen to all of the music and even remember what were my favorites, because it was just an overwhelming amount of very similar music. I remember I went to the Motown Museum a while back, and they basically said they were an assembly line for music. You don't really understand what that means until you listen to 4 albums from The Supremes and realize that Diana Ross isn't even in the group any more. It was just an endless stream of good, but definitely not great songs from a group that only really existed as a name. It's the opposite of the music I find interesting. Diana Ross has a surprising number of absolute bangers that moved into a funkier more complex direction. By the 1970s, The Supremes had run their course and were still pumping out 3 albums a year. I say that to say this, I really need to figure out what relevant means before I try to listen to every relevant R&B album of all time.

I just watched it, and it's cool to see. With that said, it's still so little because nobody seemed to value game footage until NFL Films came around in the early 60s. We really owe a debt to the Sabol family, because they valued footage in a way that made every sports league outside of the ABA, and to a certain extent the NBA, value footage enough to keep it.

You expected this to suck? Tears for Fears is fucking awesome. Songs From the Big Chair is one of the best albums of the 80s, and they were always taking risks and trying new shit. Of all the 1983 albums you have reviewed, this is the album I would have assumed was the best just based on the band.

My two holy grails of sports footage are Jim Brown as a lacrosse player and Jackie Robinson as a football player. Jackie Robinson was a 4 sport star at UCLA, and all reports say that football was his best sport. Not only that, he shared the backfield with Woody Strode and Kenny Washington, who were first two black players to integrate the NFL.

I was born in Northeastern Ohio in 1981, and for most of my formative years I lived with my maternal grandparents. So, when I took interest in sports, the person who taught me the most about sports was my grandfather, and to hear him tell it, there was no greater athlete than Jim Brown. Jim Brown is the most legendary athlete of all time in my eyes. He's bigger than Babe Ruth, Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, Bill Russell, Jesse Owens, and everybody else. My lifetime Browns fandom has much more to do with Jim Brown than it has to do with any player in my lifetime. He's was a flawed man, who had some pretty terrible moments over the years, but he was also someone who dedicated most of his life to helping others. I don't know what he means to anyone else around here, but this is a pretty huge loss for me. I lost my grandfather in 2021, and when I got this news it put me right back in his living room watching Bernie Kosar or Emmitt Smith, or Barry Sanders, and my grandfather telling me, "those guys are good, but you should have seen Jim Brown." He was a hero to me, despite the fact that I never seen him play. If the man I respected the most respected Jim Brown, that's all I needed to know. The world legend gets thrown around a lot, but there are very few people that have absolutely earned it. Jim Brown earned it. We lost a legend today, there have been plenty of great players over the years, but very few transcend to the mythical realm of legend. If there is a Mount Rushmore of American sports figures, Jim Brown's face needs to be on it.

This needs a thread of its own.

If a tree falls in the woods and Martha Stewart is wearing a bikini under it, will anyone notice? I feel like I haven't seen a single issue of Sports Illustrated in at least a decade. They could have Nell Carter on the cover and I wouldn't know. If it sells an extra copy, good for them, the magazine business is the very opposite of booming.

Not only did he play for the Texans the Texans helped him hire the women masseuses he...do we have a single word that actually means what he did? It feels more than harassment, less than assault. He seems to have thought to himself, "where is the line for me going to jail?, I'll stop right before that." Either way, all known malfeasance happened in the uniform of the Texans, as far as we know he's a changed man who has never had a single massage since becoming three quarterback of the Cleveland Browns.

I finished Dune last night and really enjoyed it. I have no idea why anyone thinks they can adapt this book as a movie. I don't think this book works without the internal dialog of the characters, which is the hardest thing to get across in screen. Then you have the fact that the coolest characters are the coolest characters because they're so rarely in page. Duncan Idaho is more fleshed or in the first 30 minutes of the 2021 movie than he is in the book, but the mystery of him is what makes him compelling. The book isn't perfect, it doesn't pay off quite a bit of the foreshadowing which is weird in a book with the main character's relationship with time. Not only that, there are about 2.5 characters who have a full character arc, and about 10 who I wish had more time in page. Kynes, Chani, Count Fenring, Tuek, and most of the Harkonnens all felt like they should have been in page more. I feel like the book would have been even better if we had an emotional connection to any of those characters, but it's just not enough there to make me feel anything about them. You kind of only relate to them in how they relate to Paul, which is not enough in an almost 800 page book. If I'm into a book at 800 pages another 200 isn't going to make me put it down. Give me the extra character moments that build our relationship with more characters, the extra pages won't bother me. With that said, I thought the book lived up to the hype, but it could have been even better.

RIP. I've been here a very long time and DEAN is one of the first voices I really latched onto when I found the board. I've been around the internet wrestling community since the mid to late 90s, and so many people act like wrestling is some sacred cow. DEAN talked about wrestling how I felt about wrestling. He treated wrestling as a fun past time to share with friends and I always loved reading his thoughts. I'm going to miss him. I hope people around here know how much this board means to me and the role it fills in my life. I don't believe I've ever met anyone here in person, and I live a pretty full life outside of the board, but this little corner of the internet has been a consistent part of my life for a long ass time. I have been through multiple jobs, relationships, friendships, etc., and through it all this board has been a constant. I want you all to know that I appreciate you and enjoy arguing about the dumbest parts of wrestling, sports, video games, and all types of other shit, with all of you.

I agree with Crow and The Spinners, but I believe RATM, George Michael, and Willie Nelson are worthy to be in. @odessasteps I always preferred this version.