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    I'm not saying that he was useless to the Beatles and that they would have been as good with someone else, but I AM saying that the credit he gets is excessive. George and Paul were better musicians, singers, and songwriters. Ringo was a better musician and singer. To many people, John Lennon is the definitive Beatle. To me, he's the guy that brings the least to the band.
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    That's a power lunch right there.
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    My Beatles take for this thread is that John Lennon is the worst member of the band, and not all that compelling of an artist in general. He was a self absorbed sociopath who hit women and somehow became the face of "peace and love, man". He was third place (at best) in everything he did for the band (guitar, vocals, songwriting) and was the worst musician overall of the 4. Everything he did in the Beatles, multiple other members did better. And he was a shit person to top it off.
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    This is an unpopular opinion?
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    And of course, the cover so original that it preceded the original's release.
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    Tonight Show with Leno I guess.
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    Even Bush had a cover on Letterman or something that I like. It's from the height of their popularity and instead of playing one of their own Nirvana rip-offs they were just like "nah, we're doing the greatest fucking song of all time".
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    They're big co2. I honestly don't remember the cost, but it was cheap as hell for the amount of uses. IIRC you didn't have to refill it, but the cost of a new bottle really cut into the savings.
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    You got a lot more than one liter out of a fill on the soda streams. At least as I recall it. It's been 5-6 years at this point.
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    I have absolutely no clue who that person is, and I'm probably glad about that.
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    This might be an unpopular opinion, but at this point it's on him. And who in their right mind would want to live with their parents while married? I barely understand single people over the age of 18 living with their parents.
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    That's a step down from what was getting thrown around in the early rumor mill, but he's had a pretty solid last half a decade.
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    And that's kind of the rub with them at the end of the day. They have a history of excellence, but so few people give an active shit about Stanford athletics. I understand why the Big 10 wouldn't want them, I'm just making the comment that by having that game in the fold of the Big 10, there would be almost nothing left in terms of opponents they care about for the Domers not to come willingly.
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    Something like this seems really likely to be the final result. The football playoff model will look similar to the way it currently does (SEC and Big 10 will retain the bigger payouts) and they'll probably fuck up March Madness to make it heavily (like 80%+) out of these 3. If the Big 10 just added Stanford they might finally join willingly.
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    They stay Independent in football and keep some kind of scheduling alliance with either the Big 10 or Big 12 and then play hoops in that league.
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    We had a soda stream and loved it, but my wife quit working in a town with a Wal Mart where we can refill it, and now refills are inconvenient to the point where we just went back to cans.
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    I'm in the camp of Season 9 not quite measuring up. It still has quite a few classic episodes and absolute series defining moments. I think it lacks the same quality of dialogue as the Larry David years, and while I get what they were doing with the whole meta-absurdity thing, it just doesn't work for me. They introduce some new ancillary characters that just don't quite develop like the earlier ones did and almost distract. Like FDR - why even bring him in? Newman was already the perfect overweight foil. It's still really good, and mostly suffers by comparison to the greatness leading up to it.
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    Drive-By Truckers

    Al_4_ISU replied to Al_4_ISU's topic in Music

    Yeah, I've never understood why anyone would pay a bunch of money to go to a concert and talk. If some dude's playing guitar in the corner of a bar for ambiance? That's different. But an actual concert? The fuck's wrong with you.
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    I probably drink more seltzer water than any other beverage. It's all straight up crack to me. Topo is among the best, but far and away the priciest other than the European stuff.
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    Although I grew up with the Stones always around, the only album my old man had in CD format (his preferred format in my memory span) was Let It Bleed. I knew and loved every note of that album, plus all the radio hits, but never actively started listening to the rest of the Stones' catalog until I was 18 and started moving past music being made FOR younger people. "Wild Horses" blew me away on the first listen and has remained my favorite song of all time ever since. I don't know I had avoided it in the first 18 years of my life, but whatever. When my wife and I got married, she walked down the aisle to it. It always moves me. What they did in that period is the absolute pinnacle of rock and roll, full stop.
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    My wife diligently tracked this until she went back to work and then all of a sudden it was all "who cares? Kid's fuckin' fine."
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    Drive-By Truckers

    Al_4_ISU replied to Al_4_ISU's topic in Music

    It absolutely is. And it’s probably their 3rd best album
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    Drive-By Truckers

    Al_4_ISU replied to Al_4_ISU's topic in Music

    The timeline for this is awful for me. Every western Midwest show is either during harvest, or on a weekend I have previous commitments. This should be an absolute blast if you can go though.
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    His role as George Sr.'s translator on Arrested Development was incredible as well.
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    If ensuring making a summit is important, you need to start early. Not everyone views it that way. I did when I was younger, but now I'm more in your camp.

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