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@MickPuck XTC's English Settlement is the rare perfect, not sprawling double album. Not that I dislike sprawling.

Music writers find it hard to write the term "double album" without adding the adjective "sprawling". It's become an inevitable journalistic cliché: the "sprawling double album". First time I saw it was a 1970s description of the Beatles' white album, which really...

@jbillinson had The Hat, lost The Hat, miss The Hat.

Every man at some point in his life believes he has found The Hat. It’s an unavoidable stage of life. It comes for us all eventually.

@TKsAudioRoom I mean, I know it's the most important meal of the day, but thirds?

SUPERTRAMP BREAKFAST IN AMERICA

@TKsAudioRoom They had a great run. Big enough to sell out 2 nights at our hockey barn.

SUPERTRAMP Crisis? What Crisis? This album is on my turntable at least once a month

You get a voters list, you get a voters list, everybody gets a voters list!

@RaveDrool @thehipofficial Gift Shop. Owned th CD for a while before I realized the cover photo wasn't Gord hunched over on stage. (not saying much...I also thought Gord was a girl on cover of debut EP)

On this day 30 years ago @thehipofficial released ‘Trouble At The Henhouse. What are your favourite songs & memories of the album?

@OilersNation Cossa...when have the Oil Kings ever let us down?

The goalie position is always a hot topic in Edmonton. Who do you think they should target? Pictured are goalies that fans have suggested in the past year (Bobrovsky, Gustavsson, and Cossa)

@EnswellJones We are all richer for having learned of (from?) your mistakes.

This is a true story: Last week I was at the FIFA Congress in Vancouver. I was standing with the other reporters and introduced myself to someone. And then another reporter said, "Are you the Chris Jones who pissed on a guy on a boat?" I've made some mistakes, is the point.

Paul Weller, Richard Thompson, Rich(ard) Dawson, PJ Harvey, Guy Garvey/Elbow...

@Johncox21122 Put those top 6 on the sides of a dice, every roll a winner.

The Beatles Albums Ranked 1) Sgt Peppers 2) Revolver 3) Abbey Road 4) White Album 5) Rubber Soul 6) A Hard Day's Night 7) MagicalMystery Tour 9) Help! 10) With The Beatles 11) Please Please Me 12) Beatles For Sale 13) Yellow Submarine

@RaveDrool Easily house #1, but it better be next door to house #3.

Choose a house, #90s #Canadian edition. Graphic: Kirk Avery

@Bob_Janke Just picturing tartan flowerpot hats...

My friend John became convinced that the Bay City Rollers became Devo. You couldn't even talk to the guy about it.

@m_millsey ...over a cliff.

These idiots are leading the country.

@BWheelerglobe Root beet & orange pop. Good stuff.

What the heck is swamp water and who needs a gallon of it that's crazy.

@batcountry1980 Just wait...one reunion tour and Mike+The Mechanics will join Genesis (deserved) and Phil Collins (questionable) as individual honourees. 🤔

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has always been a strange proposition. The idea of a committee deciding what qualifies as “rock and roll” feels fundamentally at odds with the spirit of the thing itself. And yet, every year, it’s hard not to get pulled in, if only to have a wee moan when The Replacements are overlooked once again. Getting upset about who is in and out is all part of the game. The HoF thrives on it. But every so often, a decision stands out not as provocative, but as baffling. This year, it’s the decision to induct Joy Division and New Order as a single entity, a move that suggests not just contrarianism, but a fundamental misunderstanding of the music itself. Joy Division are one of the most singular bands in modern music. They are one of those “music as a complete world”bands. You know the ones? You put an album on, it pulls you under, and when it finishes you think “right, where do I go from here? What else is there to listen to but stark soundscapes as backdrop to an enigmatic punk poet’s visions of urban decay?” So you listen to them again, and again, till sleep takes you and you’ve escaped their world. Until next time. Not all bands do that, construct something so self-contained it resists anything that comes after it. And it’s a big part of why this decision feels so wrong. If you’re looking for a trapdoor to escape the world of Joy Division, New Order is not it. One does not lead to the other. Their debut album, Movement, serves as a mournful bridge between two worlds, but it is a New Order album. And very quickly, even that connection fades. What follows is something entirely different: a sound that fuses dance, indie and pop into a language of its own, a schizophrenic hybrid of euphoria and melancholy, like coming up and down simultaneously. To fold these two bands into a single induction is to miss what makes them so special. Joy Division represent one of rock’s most complete and self-contained statements; New Order, one of its most extraordinary acts of rebirth. Joy Division’s story ended, abruptly and tragically, but it did end. There is no mistaking that. What followed was a reset not a continuation. Where most bands absorb loss and carry on, New Order did something far rarer: they started again. A new identity. A new sound. The past set aside rather than built upon. A shy guitarist stepping forward to become a singular frontman. They share a history, but they are not the same band. To treat them as one is not to honour each group, but to overlook what makes them so remarkable.

It's official. Danielle Smith is leading the province over a cliff to a future none of us will be happy with.

@RaveDrool @hockeyesque Maybe the greatest leap from debut to sophomore album I can think of. I'm not even sure the band knew they were capable of this. Drove from Lethbridge to Calgary to see them open for BNL on this tour.

This week in 🇨🇦 music history #Rheostatics released their second album, Melville on April 9th, 1991. Happy 35th anniversary !! Tell us your favorite memories/songs/lyrics in the comments! @hockeyesque Karine 🎶🍁

@brianfauteux They've been together so long, they're starting to look alike.

Checking out some new Singles & EPs from the Canadian east coast rockers, Sloan.

@melnickjeffrey1 And it's usually that little post- it note that has the new password to that website you need to log onto.

You leave one little piece of paper in your jeans pocket in the wash and then just marvel at the havoc it will wreak. That’s real power.

Got the dangerous part right.