All Things in Moderation

I’m taking a page from Ace of Spades,

http://minx.cc/?post=336709

What are the best whole albums? The one’s where every song is great. The author of the post listed the following:

“#1 Dark Side of the Moon, #2 Back in Black, #3 Led Zepplin IV, #4 Who’s Next, #5 Joshua Tree, #6 London Calling, #7 Van Halen, #8 The Cars, #9 Purple Rain, #10 Appetite for Destruction,, with Honorable Mentions to: Quadrophenia, Synchronicity, Making Movies, Los Angeles (X), Bloodletting, Pet Sounds, Armed Forces, Yellow Brick Road, Revolver, Holy Diver, Paulie’s Boutique, Hysteria, OK Computer, Violator, and In the Court of the Crimson King. “

Some I agree with and some I think are wrong. I would add (or substitute):

Allman Bros., Eat a Peach as well as
Live at the Filmore East
Led Zepplin, Led Zepplin II
Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bullocks
Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks
AC/DC, Dirty Deeds
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pronounced

I’ll add more in the comments. Ace’s commenter’s skew younger than me, but there are some great suggestions in there.

What about your favorites?

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I hope everyone’s holidays are going well. I wanted to show you some pictures of a dog my wife and I rescued, we call him Puppa. About 6 months ago he showed up in my neighborhood, starving and looking forlorn. Whoever had him had put a shock collar on him:

Puppa was very scared of people, yet wanted companionship. If you walked a dog, he’d follow you, but at a distance of no less than 10 feet. We took to feeding him, he loves hot dogs, and leaving out water. It took us two months to lure him over to my street and in front of my house. We couldn’t catch him however. No matter what we did, he’d never come any nearer than 10 feet. we even got some tranquilizers from my vet, with no luck. On Christmas morning I went out to feed him his holiday hot dogs when a SUV approached me, a woman inside asked me if Puppa was my dog. I told her it was a stray that I’d been trying to catch. It turns out she lives in an adjoining subdivision, works for a private animal rescue, and had noticed Puppa on a walk with her dog. She agreed to set up a trap that day, and if we caught him, to get him to the vet. Well, sure enough it worked! That afternoon, Puppa was in the trap!

The vet cut off the shock collar: though I wont torture you with pictures of the horrible wound it left.

I take Puppa home on Wednesday and have visited him everyday. Yesterday he put his paw on my hand:

I haven’t had all that great a year, but it sure is ending well.

I miss commenting here, so I am going to resume

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

George

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