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Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band's London Calling Live In Hyde Park (2010).

Best tracks: "Racing In The Street" and "Jungleland."

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Ringo Starr's Y Not (2010)

Best Song: "Can't Do It Wrong"

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Cheap Trick's Sgt. Pepper Live (2009)

This CD was a lot better than I expected. Cheap Trick does the songs from the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper straightforward and in order. Cheap Trick covers the Abbey Road 'medley' at the end of the CD. I recommend this CD to Cheap Trick fans.

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Bob Dylan's Unplugged (1995)

The best songs on this DVD are "Rainy Day Women #12 and 35" and "Dignity."

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Bryan Adams's You Want It You Got It (1981)

Best songs: "Don't Look Now" and "Tonight."

Reading Update...

Bob Dylan by Daniel Kramer (1967)

This book has classic photographs of Dylan from maybe 1963 to 1965. Kramer's essay about the photographs is good too.

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Enuff Znuff: Animals With Human Intelligence (1993)

Best songs: "Right By Your Side," "One Step Closer To You," and "Rock N World."

"Takin' A Ride" is a classic 'drug song.'

"Mary Anne Lost Her Baby" has to be one of the few, if not the only, anti-abortion rock songs since the Sex Pistols' "Bodies."

Reading Update...

Shoot Out The Lights by Hayden Childs (2008).

This book is from the 33 1/3 series of books.

Overall, this book was disappointing. My rating is 2 1/2 stars out of five. The music criticism in this book raised the rating by about one star.

The fiction part of the story was not good. Sample quote: "Bonny didn't die the night I went to murder her, but twenty-five years later she did. Sandy Denny didn't die the night she fell down the stairs, but a month later. After the fall, it doesn't matter whether you fell on your own or if there was a hand there to push you. What matters is who you touched along the way, and how fast they'll come running when you need them."

Blech.

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Weary Blues From Waitin' DVD (2010)

This documentary covers the years of 1966 through 1978 in Dylan's career. The best parts of this DVD are the interviews with a couple of the musicians that played on Blood On The Tracks.

Music and Movie Update...

U2: Live, Under A Blood Red Sky (CD/DVD)

Recently, the CD and DVD were re-released as a combination CD/DVD package. I borrowed the re-release combination CD/DVD from the local library and I have to say that the CD and DVD hold up pretty well. I had not watched the video release since about 1990 and I still liked it. Of course, the DVD has its turgid moments, but it was 1983 and Bono is the lead singer, so what do you expect?

Anyway, "Electric Co." still is my favorite song on the CD side of the equation.

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Faster Pussycat by Faster Pussycat (1987)

I've been listening to this album on my MP3 player. I agree with Robert Christgau that side one is much better than side two. This band may be a poor man's Aerosmith or New York Dolls, but most of their songs on this album still rock.

When did they stop making these kinds of cassette cases?

Last week, I bought this cassette at a Half-Price Books for $0.50. The album is the Mamas and the Papas' "If You Can Believe Your Eyes And Ears." I don't think that I had seen this kind of cassette case. By the way, the sound of this cassette is ... awful. Does anyone know why the sound is so awful?