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Brian Benben in 1998 is a dead-ringer for current Oscar nominee Jean Dujardin.

Whew! Love to hear her lend her cotton candy voice to "The Girl From Ipanema."

The live band she brought with her on last night's "Tonight Show" actually improved on this studio recording. Quite a family affair with what looked like brothers on drums and keyboards and identical twin sisters on backing vocals. Just a killer vocal arrangement and performance.

I know they're very different films, but go back and watch "Dr. Strangelove" and see how convincingly all the actors disappear into their characters. In "Eyes Wide Shut" I was acutely aware that actors were "acting" in virtually every scene. And why set the film in N.Y.C. and then create a ridic...

Kubrick made a big mistake naming Kidmon's character "Alice." When Cruise argues with her I can't think of anything else but Jackie Gleason lashing out at Audrey Meadows in "The Honeymooners."

When my wife and I saw them in Portland, Ore. they were nearly an hour late taking the stage. It was this song that finally made the crowd forgive them. Thanks, Blondie.

The band and their producer were truly blessed by the music gods when they created this masterpiece. One of those rare recordings where you wouldn't change a single note.

@TheNemesis1365 Yessiree, and at 8:25 it's still too damn short!

Scott's voice reminds me of Jesse Colin Young, and that's high praise indeed.

Really fine vocal blend, but it's hard to ignore his lack of stage presence. His dad always made you feel that playing rock 'n' roll for a live audience was the greatest job in the world.

This song brought the house down when I first saw Steely Dan live in April 1974 at the University of Toledo. During the long instrumental outro Fagen left his keyboards and conducted the band with upraised arms like a true rock 'n' roll maestro. Skunk and Denny on lead guitars, Jim Hodder and Jef...

@serenitycomes Truer words have never been spoken. Saw them live in Toledo, Ohio in April 1974, and it's still the best concert I've ever seen. Skunk Baxter and Denny Dias are what made Steely Dan the best guitar band of the '70s, brief as it was. It's a damn shame they didn't produce a concert f...

@rwells47 Thanks for continuing to fill the holes in our musical knowledge. When Brooks & Dunn had the huge hit with "My Maria" it made me feel a bit guilty for forgetting what an incredible job B. W. had done on the same song. So good in fact that Ronnie Dunn sang it almost note-for-note like t...

@Bessameculo You're a Democrat my ass. Don't like it when the left fights back? Well you needn't worry. The right has been waging class warfare against the working people of this country ever since they got Reagan elected in 1980, and they've won the war at this point. The middle class is decima...

A top 30 list that doesn't include The Kinks "You Really Got Me Now"? And how do you leave off Elliot Randall's intro to Steely Dan's "Reelin' In the Years"? Jimmy Page said that hearing that song forced him to rethink everything about lead guitar.

@FABIOANT0NIO Couldn't agree more. Also, as a 14 year-old kid at the time, I remember being so impressed by the drum intro to "What You're Doing." Was that Ringo or Paul?

A genuine thrill to see John's part played up close. I was a 13 year-old kid in 1964 when I bought The Beatles Second Album on Capitol Records and was instantly addicted to this song's guitar arrangement and John's tough as nails lead vocal. Anyone who thinks The Beatles were soft hasn't listened...

To paraphrase an old Monty Python joke about American beer: Why is Keurig coffee like making love in a canoe?

Because it's fucking close to water!

I remember buying the "Roadie" soundtrack on warm, wonderful vinyl just to get this song. More than 30 years ago and no one's done a better duet than this yet.

Like an Indian raga in slow motion. Wouldn't change a single note.

So right about the lyrical similarity to the early Petula Clark hits. Too bad the Montez voice doesn't pop out of the A.M. radio speaker the way hers did. One of a kind that woman.

If Lady Ga Ga or Katy Perry ever performed this way on national television they would be laughed right out of the business. This is an adult woman performing like a musically immature 12 year-old child. If she's singing live at all she is unmiked. All we hear is the studio recording at full vol...

Thanks Mike. Finding your channel is the best Christmas present ever. What a collection of musical talent on one small stage. And big props to the guy playing dobro with that cast on his hand. Talent triumphs over injury.

@mnaran Couldn't agree more. "Bouncing Off Satellites" didn't come out of my car's cassette player for at least 6 months back in the late '80s. Best female vocal blend and Keith Strickland's guitar work is way underrated.

Great posting, rev. Is their vocal arrangement of this Dave Alvin song John and Exene's most inspired collaboration? It just knocks me out every time I hear it.

@mikeandjoeyjesusshow Yep. The camera work on KEXP videos is the best of the best. They really convey the experience of performing live music.