Sunday, April 30, 2006
A JUNKIE'S A JUNKIE!!
US radio pundit on drugs charge
Limbaugh, Prosecutors Can Declare Victory
Davis Sweet: Free Rush Limbaugh!
Maia Szalavitz: Feeling Rush's Pain?
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Friday, April 28, 2006
25 TOP BAY AREA SONGS -- THE DEBATE IS ON
25 TOP BAY AREA SONGS -- THE DEBATE IS ON
THE CHRONICLE'S LIST
COMPILED BY AIDIN VAZIRI AND JOEL SELVIN
1. I WANT TO TAKE YOU HIGHER -- Sly and the Family Stone -- The Woodstock anthem from the psychedelic soul rockers
2. DARK STAR -- Grateful Dead -- Space is their place
3. SLOW DEATH -- Flamin' Groovies -- Every English punk band knew this one
4. MASTER OF PUPPETS -- Metallica -- Don't have to be online to be on our list
5. BALLAD OF YOU AND ME AND POONEIL -- Jefferson Airplane -- Like the band itself, awful and fabulous at the same time
6. CALIFORNIA ÜBER ALLES -- Dead Kennedys -- San Francisco punk from the Jerry Brown era
7. YOU MAKE ME FEEL (MIGHTY REAL) -- Sylvester -- Cross-dressing disco straight out of pre-AIDS Castro
8. Born On the Bayou -- Creedence Clearwater Revival -- El Cerrito swamp rock heard 'round the world
9. Dear Mama -- Tupac Shakur -- Marin City's finest; West Coast hip-hop got soul
10. Omaha -- Moby Grape -- Being underrated goes to the heart of being from San Francisco
11. American Idiot -- Green Day -- Duh
12. Black Magic Woman -- Santana -- Gypsy Queen -- The sounds of the Mission District from a band that once mattered
13. SATISFACTION -- The Residents -- Smarty-pants rock deconstructionists, willfully weird, intentionally obscure
14. Down to the Nightclub -- Tower of Power -- Keystone Berkeley lives and the lead singer's a killer
15. Roadrunner -- Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers -- The hipster's handbook from a faux-naif
16. White Punks On Dope -- The Tubes -- San Francisco in the '70s
17. We Care a Lot -- Faith No More -- "about the food that Live Aid bought"
18. Never Say Never -- Romeo Void -- Weird, wonderful, unexpectedly sexy
19. Midnight In A Perfect World -- DJ Shadow -- A dream built around samples and scratches
20. Freedom -- Sons of Champlin -- The real hippies
21. Wicked Game -- Chris Isaak -- Sex on the beach
22. John the Fisherman -- Primus -- Primus sucks
23. Living In the U.S.A. -- Steve Miller Band -- Somebody get me a cheeseburger
24. Loan me a Dime -- Boz Scaggs -- THE San Francisco blues
25. Ball and Chain -- Big Brother and the Holding Company -- What made Janis Joplin a star
THE ITUNES SONG LIST
1. TRUCKIN’ - Grateful Dead
2. SOMEBODY TO LOVE - Jefferson Airplane
3. PIECE OF MY HEART - Big Brother and the Holding Company
4. THANK YOU (FALETTINME BE MICE ELF AGIN) - Sly and the Family Stone
5. FORTUNATE SON - Creedence Clearwater Revival
6. OYE COMO VA - Santana
7. LONGVIEW Green Day
8. WE SHALL OVERCOME - Joan Baez
9. BLACK WATER - Doobie Brothers
10. LIGHTS Journey
11. WHAT IS HIP - Tower of Power
12. CALIFORNIA ÜBER ALLES Dead Kennedys
13. WICKED GAME - Chris Isaak
14. U CAN’T TOUCH THIS - MC Hammer
15. ROCKIN’ IN THE FREE WORLD - Neil Young
16. SUMMERTIME BLUES - Blue Cheer
17. WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE - Kingston Trio
18. WORKING FOR A LIVING - Huey Lewis and the News
19. SYMPHONY OF DESTRUCTION - Megadeth
20. EPIC - Faith No More
21. MR. JONES - Counting Crows
22. PRIDE OF MAN - Quicksilver Messenger Service
23. MIDNIGHT IN A PERFECT WORLD - DJ Shadow
24. LOWDOWN - Boz Scaggs
25. CAN YOU HANDLE THAT? - Graham Central Station
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