632. The Ovation acoustic guitar is invented
631. The Rolling Stones decide to continue making records after "Some Girls".
630. When record companies allow lawyers and accountants to make decisions regarding the music.
629. Ozzy Osbourne has current band members re-record the bass and drums on his two best albums Blizzard Of Oz and Diary of A Madman (sell your wife into slavery please!).

1.5 Ozzy gets a call from television executives. His business-minded wife gets to the phone before him.

1. John Peel dies, radio finally becomes 100% worthless.

john peel was enormously influential. can't dispute that. but with all due respect, he himself didn't create a single moment of noteworthy music.

hendrix chokin' on (his own) vomit is my pick for number one. completely revolutionized rock's primary instrument, then dead at 27. hard to beat for crappiness.

watching him play in the footage from _live at monterey_, or even woodstock, it's impossible not to wonder what the hell he would have done had he lived.

VII wrote:rick springfield's "jessie's girl"

I think that this song is a good pop song.

BRW, that woman in your avatar is beautiful. A young Faye Dunaway?

Where can I find a woman like that?


Hmm. I forgot to put the death of Timmy Taylor (Brainiac) in there.

tmidgett wrote:hendrix chokin' on (his own) vomit is my pick for number one. completely revolutionized rock's primary instrument, then dead at 27. hard to beat for crappiness.

September 17, 1970. That gets my vote, too.

Death of Hendrix, huh? If you must, and there is a concensus here, then that's fine...but I was hoping for a much more cynical, sacred-cow-toppling answer in line with the rest of the top 100.

PS: I wasn't alive when Hendrix died so it didn't mean squat to me, but i honest-to-god cried when Wesley Wills died.

mattw wrote:BRW, that woman in your avatar is beautiful. A young Faye Dunaway?

She is not Faye Dunaway.

But she is beautiful. The NBC makeup team must have done a good job covering up the bruises that day.

mattw wrote:Where can I find a woman like that?

You'll find her if you go to Yahoo! and search "mel korn martin fischbein chewy".

Her story is interesting to me because everyone finds it so tragic. Oh! How tragic! Whatever. Her story is just pathetic and boring.

Do not play along with her charades. Do not feel so dirty when she starts talking cute.

Bradley R. Weissenberger wrote:

mattw wrote:BRW, that woman in your avatar is beautiful. A young Faye Dunaway?

She is not Faye Dunaway.

But she is beautiful. The NBC makeup team must have done a good job covering up the bruises that day.

mattw wrote:Where can I find a woman like that?

You'll find her if you go to Yahoo! and search "mel korn martin fischbein chewy".

Her story is interesting to me because everyone finds it so tragic. Oh! How tragic! Whatever. Her story is just pathetic and boring.

Do not play along with her charades. Do not feel so dirty when she starts talking cute.

is that Jesscia Savitch?

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Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

placeholder wrote:96. 1973 - Aerosmith releases its first record.

I certainly don't want to set myself up as a champion of the 'Smith, but I was talking the great Wink O'Bannon last time I was in Louisville, and he agreed with me that "Mama Kin" (from Aerosmith's debut) is the equal of anything on either New York Dolls record--except "Vietnamese Baby."

Brett Eugene Ralph, I cannot agree with this. Not only do I strongly dislike "Mama Kin", but I thoroughly enjoy that first Dolls album (and the second one is pretty good too).

I'm with you, placeholder--I love both Dolls records. I was just trying to emphasize what an uncharacteristically killer song "Mama Kin" is.