Welcome to themusicaddict's blog #644.
The following song brings back a lot of bad memories, one bad thing about listening to angry music:
Here's a slightly happier song, Tift Merritt's "Mixtape". This doesn't sound like a Tift Merritt song.
Various NFL thoughts first. Hey ESPN and national press, Tampa Bay is 4-2, when is the respect and the coverage going to begin? Obviously they aren't going to win the Super Bowl, but they are doing a lot better than expected. I would have loved to see the highlight of Freeman to Williams winning touchdown pass this morning while exercising.
It's time for Brett Favre to retire. At the end of the season you ask? No, right now. The 41 year old and very durable quarterback has finally been affected by age too much to overcome. He looks old and rusty. His strategy of forcing the ball in a tight spot is working even less than it use to.
Overall his stats this season are okay. He has completed 104 of 179 passes for 1,191 yards. He has completed 58.1% of his passes which isn't terrible. He only has thrown for 7 touchdowns. Unfortunately he has also thrown 10 interceptions and been sacked 14 times. His quarterback rating (there's a wikipedia.org page if you want to know more) is 68. A perfect quarterback rating is 158.3 yards. Without knowing much about the quarterback rating, obviously he's nowhere close to where he could be. But the more important stat is that Minnesota is 2-4.
Yesterday's game is a good microcosm of his whole season. He was 16 for 29, a 55.2 completion %. His quarterback rating was dreadful at only 50.4%. He threw 1 touchdown pass, but had 3 interceptions. Not only that but Minnesota lost.
Brett it's time for the 'Ol Gunslinger to hang it up. You need to let Minnesota prepare for the future, to see if Tavaris Jackson can be the quarterback you can no longer be. Clean up your mess with the former Jets employee and apologize to your wife. While your NFL career is pretty much over, maybe your marriage has a chance?
Update: Now according to espn.com he has two fractures in his ankle and he's questionable for this weekend's game against the Patriots. Even if he can play does Minnesota really want an even more ineffective Brett Favre?
Speaking of needing to retire, Wade Phillips it's time to man up and step down. (No Jerry, Norv Turner isn't a viable new head coach either. His Chargers dropped to 2-5 yesterday with their third straight loss.) Even if Dallas wins tonight, which they won't, you won't make the playoffs. A win tonight would just delay the inevitable, it's time to retire. Not to just quit from the Cowboys, but to retire from the whole NFL. With old outdated people like you and Norv Turner, you are taking up the spaces where younger coaches could begin to move up. Younger coaches with newer and possibly better ideas. Norv and Wade, it's not like you will be the head coach of a Super Bowl winning team anyway.
After he has mercifully quit or been fired, this is the Wade Phillips I will think of:
I couldn't find the perplexed look that he uses so much, but this is the closest picture to that I could find. If you watch Monday Night Football tonight, you will see the perplexed look tonight several times. Depending on how the game goes, I'll be watching at least some of it. If it's going at least decent I probably won't be watching "The Event" or "Hawaii Five-0". If I so desire I can always catch those on Comcast On Demand.
Here's the beginning of the roll out of themusicaddict's Top 50. The key component of this Top 50 is who would I rather see in concert. That can include in person, on TV or even on-line in these modern days. First of all, the bands who came close to being on the Top 50. In other words the close but no cigar bunch. A lot of the following are young bands or bands that still have some gas in the tank and may be in future Top 50s. Those bands are Soundgarden, Morissey, Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, Taylor Swift and Rush.
Nine bands have completely fallen out of the Top 50. Here they are and in parenthesis is what number they were in the first themusicaddict Top 50. I'll also include why they've fallen out.
1) The Eagles (22). I've actually seen them in concert and they were good. They played for about 2.5 hours and they played most of their good songs. However their music isn't the kind that rocks. A truly great concert has to rock, that's not the Eagles style of music.
2) Garth Brooks (25) I've seen him in concert twice. The first time he was the opener and he was amazing. He ran around the stage and sang a lot of amazing songs. His band was good and he pulled you into the concert. The second time I saw him he sang a song, stopped and received applause, repeat about 15 times. That stopping and starting can kill what could have been a good concert. It's one of the many reasons why Nickelback will never be a good band. That show was when Brooks was close to the top of his popularity, but it was a boring performance. He has gone away for a few years. The last I heard was that he has a show in Las Vegas. It's just him by himself singing with only an acoustic guitar. I have no interest in seeing him in a concert like that.
3) Steely Dan (28) A band that has a lot of good songs. But they have a lot of jamming in their shows from what I hear. After about a minute I get very bored by that.
4) Peter Gabriel (33) see above. Also his latest CD was a collection of covers, "Scratch My Back". His interpretation of a lot of those songs is boring and the kind of song that doesn't work in concert. If he's playing even a few of those songs in concert, that would suck any life out of the show.
5) Elton John (38) I've seen him in concert too and he was okay. He has a good mix of rock and pop songs. Unfortunately he hasn't had any new hits in a long time, so it's an oldies show now.
6) Alabama (42) A band that has broken up and before that also had become an oldies act.
7) James Taylor (43) see the above two acts.
8) Pat Benatar (48) ditto
9) BB King (50) I would love to see him in concert. Although he's very old now and his show is quite expensive. In spite of that I would still love to see the old Blues master in person.
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