You can fool some people sometime, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
 

I had occasion recently to do some perfunctory reading about the central tenets of Rastafarianism (thanks, Google!). I think you all know that I'm judgmental to a fault in all things except religion, but I gotta say that Rastafarianism is the stupidest fucking religion ever (shut up, Sebby; there are degrees of recockulousness).

I mean, when your god expressly denies being a god, you pretty much have to take him at His word, right? Cuz he's god and all? I mean, at least Jesus had the presence of mind to use double-speak when Pilate asked him the same question.

Shades of "Life of Brian."

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Pussy, don't let the bird off so easily.

I graduated pre-Legends, and still have heard this song several thousand times. (Almost as many times as the Best of Gregorian Chants)

Unless Bilmore's drawing social security, there's no excuse.

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"JC Auto" by Sugar.

Baddest motherfuckin' song ever penned by the very angry Bob Mould.

You can fool some people sometime, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
 

Um, yeah, maybe. And I'll consider going back to Catholicism when I see the Pope lighting up a Marley-size spliff of the righteous chronic.

Good enough for me
 

As the 7 people that actually bothered to listen to my college radio show will attest, this song was waaay overplayed.

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Single gun theory: words written backwards.
Miranda Sex Garden: sunshine (you'll like it, it's sort of a hardcore madrigal but with women howling like dogs).
Johannes Symonis: Puisque je suis fumeux.
Dimitri Shostakovich: Symphony 14 movement 4.

edited to add: those are sort of listed in reverse order of importance.

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Love is like a Bottle of Gin by the Magnetic Fields

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Evangeline by Matthew Sweet.

FWIW, his new group The Thorns (w/ Pete Droge and Shaun Mullins) has a cover of "Blue" out as a single now...

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Jane's Addiction's version of Ripple, on the Deadicated tribute album.

Good enough for me
 

was it a "wall socket" station? mine was.

You can fool some people sometime, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
 

Maybe this ties into your hippy-love thing, but Rastas are forbidden from washing their hair. This no Prell-act works better for people who's CD's you buy, than for people you socialize with.

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Speaking of folk rock, I have it on good authority that a single play of Pete Yorn's "Crystal Village" has exactly the same effect on female sexual response as an uninterrupted playthrough of the entire Cowboy Junkies "Trinity Session" album. It's potent stuff, so use this information at your own risk.

Whoever suggested HEM's "Halfacre" for this purpose a while back is insane. It's a beautiful song, but only for use in the bedroom if your mate finds despair and loneliness arousing. So basically Less, and I don't see him being a big folk rock fan.

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The musical equivilent of rohypnal?

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I can't resist giving two:

How to Make Gravy by Paul Kelly (bonus: contains a recipe for gravy; it's a better song than that comment makes it sound)

Dublin Blues by Guy Clark ("I wish I was in Austin / in a chili parlor bar / drinking Mad Dog margaritas / and not caring where you are. " - great stuff, despite screwing up the subjunctive case)

You can fool some people sometime, but you can't fool all the people all the time.
 

They don't diddle little boys, and they get really, really high while not diddling little boys. Sounds good to me. Sinsi sin sin.

(And how else was a group of dispossesed, hopeless, drifting slaves, fed a diet of christ and pain now/heaven later supposed to make it their own belief? Just be thankful they found a pic of Prince Tafari before one of Ross Perot. Imagine hordes of whacked-out Kingstonites trying to stretch their ears out wide.)