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30 Bands/Artists Who Deserve To Be In The Rock Hall Of Fame
Views: 864 Dec 18 2011Well, they deserve to be there more than many who are in . . . I based my rankings not just on personal preference, but also on the type of criteria that the Rock Hall of Fame supposedly is about - being influential and breaking ground. As well as just ...
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Best Guitar Teams
Views: 1,603 Dec 16 2011Typical Best Guitarist rankings are not usually fair to the "team players" of great guitar bands. This list is for them - usually duos, but sometimes even triple-threat guitar teams. Some of these teams are "dual lead" guitars (they ...
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Rock Deaths That Left The Most Great Music Behind
Views: 856 Jul 24 2011Following the instructions of the Crowdranked list this contributes to, I didn't include non-rock genres (sorry Hank, Billie et al)
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Top 500 Musical Groups/Artists of Alltime
Views: 106,583 Jan 18 2012Top 500 Rock Bands isn't 100% accurate as this includes solo artists, and though it does not include jazz or blues it does include soul, R&B, Americana, reggae, and classic country (yes, that is somewhat arbitrary, but for whatever reason i listen to ...
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The 5 Albums in My Heavy Catalog Rotation the Longest
Views: 889 Jun 19 2011Albums that have never lost favor in my rotation, ranked by their longevity since i obtained them. I will be on my deathbed and still be listening to these, probably via some implanted computer chip. Criteria - it's hard to pinpont exactly what ...
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Best Cover Songs of Recent Memory pt. 1
Views: 1,584 Dec 19 2011How often do you see a non hit song with a killer original version get covered multiple times, by artists in totally different genres, with the end result of 3 unique definitive versions? "No One's Gonna Love You" by Band of Horses, produces ...
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Alltime Best Rock Guitar Players
Views: 4,026 Jul 5 2011I have never played guitar. But I have listened to as much of it as any man my age, or at least any non-Guitar Center employee my age. The common thread: just about everyone on this list has a totally recognizable, distinct sound. While all of them are ...
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Fave TV shows of past 10 years
Views: 4,795 Jul 5 2011Updated 3.8.11 to reflect Justified and Boardwalk Empire in otherwise-unspectacular TV season (and am really digging Season 2 of Justified as well - it's my fave new show). Also jumped Mad Men above my beloved Shield after a majestic last season.
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Best Albums of the 00's
Views: 13,887 Apr 19 2011The rock album theme of the "00s"? Consistency. There were unquestionably less amazing records this decade than any other decade in rock. I probably listened to 3000 or so discs that came out in the "oughts" and gave just 3 ...
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FYF Fest 2011 Review- FYF Festival Rankings
Views: 1,286 Sep 9 2011Reviewed FYF Fest 2011 in downtown Los Angeles on-the-fly liveblogging as it happened, ranking the highlights. Videos and setlists of the performances to hopefully be added as well. The show went off incredibly well - no hassles, great setup where you ...
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Why Do "Supergroups" Have Such Crap Names?
Views: 659 Sep 1 2011List of horribly-named Rock Supergroups. Why this trend? Do they not have access to a thesaurus? Is it because the bandmembers don't have shared-life experiences and can't agree on anything cool? Do they all just completely lack a shred of a clue living ...
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The Most Beautiful Eel In The World
Views: 1,638 May 7 2011Until recently I never understood the bond people had with their pets. Let's be honest - I have openly mocked it. I have scoffed as friends had to decline a last minute weekend trip because of their precious little pooch. Etc. But now I understand. I ...
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The Best Punk Bands Of Alltime
Views: 1,021 Jul 5 2011This is a tough one to rank - at certain peak moments, I would say all of the top 10 on this list could have been considered the best punk band on the planet. Which is what punk's all about, innit? It's also hard to decide the boundaries of punk - I left ...
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The Best Blues Artists of All Time
Views: 768 May 31 2011I tried to restrict my list to more pure blues players and therefore didn't include many blues-rock artists tho I did give SRV the nod. I noticed other lists have included artists like Billie Holiday and Solomon Burke but I would stick them in Jazz ...
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Coachella 2011 Review - Coachella Festival Rankings
Views: 13,669 May 29 2011Reviewing Coachella 2011 on-the-fly liveblogging as it happens, and ranking the highlights. Videos of the performances as well. Friday's Coachella was pound-for-pound the best day of music at Coachella yet, and I've been to them all. Overall the 2011 ...
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Best Albums of 2010
Views: 2,055 Feb 16 2011For the first time, I'm going with an unranked year-end list. Worst year for albums in ages (perhaps in my lifetime). There is always good new music though, and I did add streams to a few highlights you may not have heard (check out the Sufjan EP for the ...
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Companies I Have Founded
Views: 3,308 Apr 28 2010I am a serial entrepreneur. Ranker is my 5th startup in 15 years, and I'm not looking to start anything else for awhile - Ranker is pretty ambitious, and there is a LOT more that we will be doing with this platform, I think it will keep me happily ...
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The Best At What They Do
Views: 2,027 Feb 1 2012I give Maximum Respect to all on this list. Criteria: Must be currently active (at What They Do So Well). Though I am allowing some fuzziness to allow for their whole career as long as they haven't become a hack and are still at least showing flashes of ...
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Fave Bands to Ski To
Views: 901 Mar 27 2011I have a very carefully chosen skiing playlist w 100s of diverse tracks. But this year I didn't get to update it quite enough, and God forgive me if I would listen to the same song over a 3 day period, so I found myself going back and listening to albums ...
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Tiger Blood.
Views: 9,293 Mar 2 2011List of famous men most likely to test positive for what Charlie Sheen refers to as "Tiger Blood" in their veins.
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Rocktober 2010
Views: 2,681 Dec 17 2010For some reason, probably related to Global Tour Routing Schedules + The Weather, the month of October is always filled with more great pound-for-pound rock shows in LA than any other month. This has been the case since I moved to Los Angeles in 1992, ...
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18 Reasons Why 'Exile On Main Street' Deserves Its Rep
Views: 9,140 Mar 13 2011"Exile" is one of those rare records where every year or two a different song on it will become a special talisman to be played when I really need a fix of something deep. This list explains why this 18-song masterpiece deserves every bit of ...
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Ronnie James Dio's Greatest Album Moments
Views: 23,529 Jul 14 2010The best Dio albums, spanning his full career. For about a 10 year period from the mid-70s into the mid-80s, Dio fronted prime years of 3 of the greatest metal bands to ever walk the earth. Ronnie Dio recorded quite a few records in a long career, but ...
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Bonnaroo Review and Rankings: 2010
Views: 8,362 Apr 14 2011Manchester, Tennessee June 2010: Reviews of all the sets I could manage to catch at Bonnaroo 2010. Except for the first Bonnaroo in 2002 I have attended, and loved, every Bonnaroo Music Festival. 2010 lineup was not as strong as previous years line-ups, ...
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My Top Albums of 2009
Views: 3,150 Mar 14 2011UPDATED in early 2011. In retrospect, 2009 was a decent year, especially compared to the rock debacle that was 2010. The Top 8 records on this list all have turned out to be more consistently strong than ANY album of 2010, though there are a few 2010 ...
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Coachella 2010 Review - Coachella Festival Rankings
Views: 8,122 May 8 2010Overall, an excellent Cochella, though the huge crowds definitely added a bit more strain to the experience. Adding Coachella videos to the reviews as soon as they arrive on YouTube - great to see so many fast uploads. List is ranked by how much I liked ...
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Celebrities w/ Dishes Named After Them at Dan Tana's
Views: 4,091 Apr 1 2011Dan Tana's history is not just in the walls but on the menu. Dan Tana's restaurant, in West Hollywood on Santa Monica Boulevard, is an "Old Hollywood" institution. A number of old-school celebs or prominent entertainment industry execs have ...
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Must Read Newspaper Pundits
Views: 1,241 Nov 29 2011These are columnists whose editorial opinions I find most interesting, whether or not I always agree. Requirement: they must publish regularly, ideally once a week or more. This list is only loosely ranked; I find that people writing regular columns tend ...
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Alltime Best Bands from Illinois
Views: 5,832 Oct 27 2009Chicago bands and Illinois bands in general. As a native Chicagoan who went to school in Champaign, i feel entitled to weigh in on this matter. That said, i'm probably missing the boat on some less prominent Chicago bands of the late nineties and ...
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Phish Festival 8 Set-By-Set Review
Views: 3,958 Nov 19 2009Reviewing Phish Festival 8; a live review of the Phish festival. Liveblog is ranked by Set Quality. Full coverage and wrapup of Phish Acoustic Set. for additional coverage: Jambase http://www.jambase.com/articles/story.aspx?storyID=20251
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Bonnaroo 09 liveblog
Views: 1,277 Nov 30 2010“Liveblog” of Bonnaroo 2009. Bonnaroo 09 Reviews, some Setlists, etc. Listed in order of preference, not schedule order. Continually updated. 5PM Sat update: In the middle of a no-win situation; that would be the combo of Mule>Wilco>Volta (3 of my ...
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My Coachella 2008
Views: 1,311 Dec 10 2010A terrific, diverse year. Ranked them in order of preference but there were many highlights.
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My Bonnaroo 2008
Views: 1,051 Jul 7 20102008 Bonnaroo Review (sorta - mostly just rankings). 2008 was one of the alltime best Bonnaroos - huge headliner firepower, 2 days of Phil, and much more. Ranked in order of awesomeness.
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My Lollapalooza 2008
Views: 1,293 Nov 29 2010My Lollapalooza 08 rankings and mini-reviews. Powerhouse lineup - great year, especially for the headliners.
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My Lollapalooza 2007
Views: 1,110 Jan 22 2011An enjoyable festival, to be sure, but there just weren't many jaw-dropping sets compared to other fests. Ranked in order of preference, and including in many cases video footage from the show.
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My Bonnaroo 2007
Views: 589 Jan 22 2011This was a Bonnaroo that I probably anticipated more than I actually enjoyed, mainly due to The Police being just OK. Ranked in order of enjoyment.
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My Coachella 2009
Views: 1,931 Oct 27 2009As good as any year- maybe the best ever. was like a Bonnaroo as far as me cramming tons of different sets into 3 days. Definitely the most music I've seen at a Coachella to date, and I've been to all. Perhaps the best thing of all was that for my tastes ...
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Women Who Have Gotten Hotter With Age
Views: 34,640 Jan 24 2012I suppose you could call this a CougList. But it's not just all Cougs, it's women that have not just kept it up but improved- at least for awhile. Impressive. And it's not all MILFs either. The definition here is that she has to have gotten noticably ...
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2008 My Top Albums
Views: 1,015 Nov 19 2009NOTE: these are the rankings as they stood at the end of this particular year (typically produced in January, because it's important to give Q4 records a chance to breathe and i am not one to listen to a record over and over again right when i get it (i ...
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My Coachella 2007 Review and Rankings
Views: 2,010 Jun 5 2010Not my fave lineup overall, though the Rage Against the Machine reunion was the all-powerful draw for me at the time. Lotsa bands on this list that I am not a fan of and only saw becuz I was with people who wanted to see them, or there was nothing else ...
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2002 My Top Albums
Views: 1,253 Dec 2 2009NOTE: list is "as is" at the end of 2002; my opinions have definitely changed a bit since then and I will update a revised version of this at some point. There were a TON of damn good records this year, but I didn’t find any that completely ...
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2003 Albums of the Year
Views: 1,059 May 28 2010My original 2003 list was a top 25 which i have pasted below - I decided in this case to rank the full list as I currently (late 2009) feel. Most of the mini-reviews or notes about the records are from the original list. In retrospect, a solid year of ...
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1999 - My Top Albums
Views: 1,653 Oct 27 2009This is my list (and my notes) from the time - in retrospect I would certainly disagree with at least some of my summary about the year (not a lot of quality releases, BUT at least 6 or 7 EXCELLENT ones) as well as some Rankings, but the "revised ...
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2000 My Top Albums
Views: 1,458 Nov 29 2009NOTE: this is my list "as it stood" at the end of the year - time has updated my opinions since then and I will probably at some point publish a "revised" list (in retrospect, there are like 12-15 killer records that came out this ...
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My Lollapalooza 2006
Views: 1,583 May 17 2010My first "weekend festival" Grant Park Lollapalooza (I attended most of the touring festival ones in the 90s) - a very solid show and one that has kept me coming back to Lolla. Great weather and the perfect location in Chicago, my hometown. Met ...
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2006 Albums of the Year
Views: 1,333 Nov 21 2009NOTES: these were my rankings at the end of 2006; opinions have changed a bit since then and I will do an updated version of this list at some point (I've already cheated a bit because my original list only ranked the top 40; the rest were all ...
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2007 My Top Albums
Views: 879 Oct 27 20092007 Y/E list - NOTE this reflects my feelings at the end of 07; since then as albums breathe and I discover things I may have missed, opinions change and at some point i will regenerate a revised 2007 list. Not a great year for albums, but there's ...
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Best Albums of 2011
Views: 0 Jan 8 20122011's releases easily topped the Best Albums of 2010, but that is faint praise indeed. 2011 was a slightly sub-par year by recent (the last 5 years) standards, but IMHO new rock (and related) music has been ebbing for quite some time (see the best ...
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The Funniest TV Characters of All Time
Views: 0 Dec 7 2011A tough, tough list to rank. Do you treat supporting characters like Leon Black or Moe Szylak equally if they crack you up whenever they are on? Fringe characters (Towlie, Dr. Spaceman)?
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30 Bands/Artists Who Deserve To Be In The Rock Hall Of Fame
Views: 864 Dec 18 2011Well, they deserve to be there more than many who are in . . . I based my rankings not just on personal preference, but also on the type of criteria that the Rock Hall of Fame supposedly is about - being influential and breaking ground. As well as just ...
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Rock Deaths That Left The Most Great Music Behind
Views: 856 Jul 24 2011Following the instructions of the Crowdranked list this contributes to, I didn't include non-rock genres (sorry Hank, Billie et al)
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Top 500 Musical Groups/Artists of Alltime
Views: 106,583 Jan 18 2012Top 500 Rock Bands isn't 100% accurate as this includes solo artists, and though it does not include jazz or blues it does include soul, R&B, Americana, reggae, and classic country (yes, that is somewhat arbitrary, but for whatever reason i listen to ...
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Alltime Best Rock Guitar Players
Views: 4,026 Jul 5 2011I have never played guitar. But I have listened to as much of it as any man my age, or at least any non-Guitar Center employee my age. The common thread: just about everyone on this list has a totally recognizable, distinct sound. While all of them are ...
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Fave TV shows of past 10 years
Views: 4,795 Jul 5 2011Updated 3.8.11 to reflect Justified and Boardwalk Empire in otherwise-unspectacular TV season (and am really digging Season 2 of Justified as well - it's my fave new show). Also jumped Mad Men above my beloved Shield after a majestic last season.
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The Best Punk Bands Of Alltime
Views: 1,021 Jul 5 2011This is a tough one to rank - at certain peak moments, I would say all of the top 10 on this list could have been considered the best punk band on the planet. Which is what punk's all about, innit? It's also hard to decide the boundaries of punk - I left ...
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The Best Blues Artists of All Time
Views: 768 May 31 2011I tried to restrict my list to more pure blues players and therefore didn't include many blues-rock artists tho I did give SRV the nod. I noticed other lists have included artists like Billie Holiday and Solomon Burke but I would stick them in Jazz ...
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The Best Martin Scorsese Movies
Views: 0 Aug 6 2011Ranking this list simply brought home that although he is my favorite director of all time, I really need to re-watch some of his late-70s and early-80s films (for example - King of Comedy, After Hours - both of which I may have been too young to truly ...
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The Greatest Film Actors & Actresses of All Time
Views: 0 Jul 25 2011Admittedly skewed towards the last 40 years as I'm not an aficionado of old movies.
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The Greatest Science Fiction Novels of All Time
Views: 0 Jul 25 2011My actual rankings for this list aren't particularly airtight as most of my reading of "classic" SF authors was when I was an adolescent or teen and I just don't remember the nuances of how much I loved some of those books. But Stranger In a ...
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The Funniest Movies of All Time
Views: 0 Jul 17 2011Disclaimers: There were a number of mid-to-late-80s movies on the (excellent) master CrowdRanked list here that I did think were hilarious at the time, but since I've never seen them again, and my memory has faded a bit, I've left them off. I'm also ...
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Vegetables I Won't Eat
Views: 0 Jul 20 2011way fewer than I thought. I must be getting soft in my old age.
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The Greatest Soundtracks of All Time
Views: 0 May 21 2011Shocked that I was the first person to add Singles to this list - one of the rare killer soundtracks all the way through, and mostly all original songs on the soundtrack for the first time.
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The Most Important Battles in US History
Views: 0 May 11 2011NOTES: I added the Vicksburg Campaign instead of Battle of Vicksburg because I felt the impact was greater for the full campaign. Yet I added Battle of Atlanta as a proxy for Sherman's March because there wasn't an item for Sherman's March. Messy ...
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The Funniest Stand Up Comedians in Entertainment
Views: 0 Mar 20 2011I don't pretend to be a standup expert - I'm sure there are some great talents whose standup I just haven't really seen.
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Oscar Nominations 2011: Rank The Best Picture Oscar Nominees
Views: 0 Feb 18 2011Of the 7/10 that I've seen thus far, here's my rankings of the 6 that I felt deserved to be nominated (did not like The Kids Are All Right at all). I must say some excellent films in the mix - any of my top 5 could be faves-of-the-year in lighter years.
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Top Coen Brothers Films IMHO
Views: 0 Jul 5 2011Gonna go out on a limb and put Grit at the top. Maybe I need to see Lebowski again but I really didn't think much of it when it first came out. Did not much care for A Serious Man and didn't even make it thru Intolerable Cruelty. The handful of others ...
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Pound-for-Pound Best Directors
Views: 0 Jul 5 2011I wouldn't call myself a cinefile, and also am not one who loves old movies, so my list consists entirely of directors from the '60s onwards.
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Alltime Fave Movies
Views: 0 Jul 5 2011Yeah, not exactly packed with surprises for the tastes of a 42 year old US male. I love a good film as much as anyone, but am by no means a cinefile. I'm sure I'm missing a few movies on here that i loved but only have seen once - for example Shawshank ...
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Books That Changed My Life
Views: 0 Apr 10 2011Not 100% definitive - books are a tough thing for me to Rank, but here's some high-impact ones, mostly from my formative years as I guess given the "changed my life" concept they should be. I used to devour 50+ books a year but workload has ...
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The Worst Cars Ever
Views: 0 Dec 27 2010I'm far from a car guy but suck is still suck. I did get to go to the AMC plant in Wisconsin on a cub scout field trip once though, so I think I'll spare the poor Pacer, though the Gremlin . . . yeah . . .
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