101 Best Songs of 1994 - #1 - Notorious BIG - Juicy (1 Viewer)

[FatMax]

Interesting.  I was lined up for Use Your Illusions I and II and Achtung Baby.  Can't remember even knowing of another midnight sale after that - maybe Metallica for the Black album?

Black album was actually released before the Use your Illusion albums (both in the Summer of '91, IRRC).  That was a very  hazy 16 year old summer for me.

Somewhat related .... my parents were idiots not to have picked up on all that.

 

[SFBayDuck]

Interesting.  I was lined up for Use Your Illusions I and II and Achtung Baby.  Can't remember even knowing of another midnight sale after that - maybe Metallica for the Black album?

Honestly at the time I didn't even know it was a thing.  But after wearing out Pretty Hate Machine and Broken (and less so, Fixed), I was so excited for TDS and found out about the midnight sale.  Grabbed a flask filled with vodka and Tang (hey, I was a broke college kid about to drop $13 on a CD) and waited with about 25 other diehards outside the record store to get my hands on it.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

This happens to me all the time. I will get an email about some nextdoor subject, and I scroll through it, and my fingers accidentally hit those emojis, and then I panic trying to fix it. It will be a serious subject, and my finger hits the laughter emoji. It doesn't happen if I read it on a computer.

I don’t know what nextdoor is, but it sounds weird and scary to me.

 

[rockaction]

Midnight sales. Weren't they on Tuesdays or something like that? 

 

[Pip's Invitation]

#5 - Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M.

Dolla dolla bill, y'all.

I don't feel particularly qualified to go deep on the Wu, even after watching all four parts of the Showtime documentary Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men last year (highly recommended).  Just way too many ins, outs, and what-have-yous regarding the personas, output, and legacy.

What I do know is that Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) dropped in November 1993 but word of its greatness didn't make it's way down to Florida till early the following year, coinciding with the release of C.R.E.A.M. as the third single and the associated video getting tons of play on MTV.  All of a sudden, kids I knew from Boca Raton and North Miami Beach started repping Staten Island like it was a thing ("yeah, man, don't #### with me, my grandparents grew up there.").

In a true life example of Wu-Tang truly being for the children, C.R.E.A.M. and Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin' Ta F#### With were  among the most requested songs on "it's scorchy's turn to drive the neighborhood kids to soccer practice" days.  A few years ago when we were in Philly for an Eagles game, my son even asked to visit the Gray's Ferry McDonald's where one Dirt McGirt was arrested : True Philadelphian Hero Boldly Seeks Historical Marker for the ODB McDonald's.

Here's what Rolling Stone had to say in ranking C.R.E.A.M. the #107th best song of all time:

C.R.E.A.M.

I was at my first newspaper job in early 1994 when I covered a Wu-Tang concert at Lakewood (NJ) High School. I wasn’t there to review the music. I was there in case an incident happened, as town and police officials feared there might be.

There were no incidents and the organizer complained that attendance was lower than expected because of fearmongering by the town and police.

 

[El Floppo]

I used to listen to WFMU a lot- like, all the time (maybe why I missed so much contemporary music these years).

my favorite show was a "new sounds" kind of thing 11pm-2am every sunday night (but of course, "new sounds" on fmu was totally subjective to each DJ)... that focused on music with beats- mostly electronica, which was my perfect background music while working 24/7 in the studio- but also hip-hop. I remember the first time the DJ put cream on... it had that much impact- on me, and on the DJ who went ape #### over it and played it regularly after that.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Midnight sales. Weren't they on Tuesdays or something like that? 

Back then albums were released on Tuesdays (it’s now Fridays), so midnight sales would have been Monday night into Tuesday morning.

 

[rockaction]

Back then albums were released on Tuesdays (it’s now Fridays), so midnight sales would have been Monday night into Tuesday morning.

Yep. Midnight on Monday for the Tuesday release. I remember there was an independent store that had all the new releases handwritten in cards on the wall. They were always on Tuesdays back then. So this sounds exactly right. 

 

[scorchy]

Yep. Midnight on Monday for the Tuesday release. I remember there was an independent store that had all the new releases handwritten in cards on the wall. They were always on Tuesdays back then. So this sounds exactly right. 

Yep.  The stores would all close at the normal time on Monday (like 9 pm) and then we would line up outside for them to reopen at midnight.  It all seems so quaint now.

 

[rockaction]

It all seems so quaint now.

Instant gratification in this instance sort of rules, but it disassociates content from effort, which is all psychologically part and parcel to the attachment of us to music, which prompts lists and remembrances like this. 

Nobody really starts lists going, "Hey! Remember in 2021 when we spent a whole minute trying to download Olivia Rodrigo's newest concern with her love life?" That just seems absurd, really. 

But we will talk a mile about the effort we spent making a show or scene or something like that. 

 

[scorchy]

I don’t know what nextdoor is, but it sounds weird and scary to me.

It's an app/website with a forum for seemingly every neighborhood/town in the country.  At first, it was a good way to get info on lost pets or new restaurants.  Now it's mainly nutjobs complaining about politics, (perceived) hoodlums, and one actual scourge - people who don't pick up after their dogs.

 

[Pipes]

Honestly at the time I didn't even know it was a thing.  But after wearing out Pretty Hate Machine and Broken (and less so, Fixed), I was so excited for TDS and found out about the midnight sale.  Grabbed a flask filled with vodka and Tang (hey, I was a broke college kid about to drop $13 on a CD) and waited with about 25 other diehards outside the record store to get my hands on it.

I'm still shocked how much we paid for CD's back in the day outside of BMG/Columbia House.  I was working as an Asst Mgr at a local grocery store making $5.00 per hour (minimum was $4.25 at that time I believe) while going to college.  It's stunning to me that CDs were about 3 hours worth of work.  I spent so much money on music back in the day.  

 

[SFBayDuck]

It's an app/website with a forum for seemingly every neighborhood/town in the country.  At first, it was a good way to get info on lost pets or new restaurants.  Now it's mainly nutjobs complaining about politics, (perceived) hoodlums, and one actual scourge - people who don't pick up after their dogs.

I think of it as Facebook for people not smart enough to figure out how to get on Facebook.

 

[SFBayDuck]

I'm still shocked how much we paid for CD's back in the day outside of BMG/Columbia House.  I was working as an Asst Mgr at a local grocery store making $5.00 per hour (minimum was $4.25 at that time I believe) while going to college.  It's stunning to me that CDs were about 3 hours worth of work.  I spent so much money on music back in the day.  

Yup, so expensive, especially for us broke youngsters.  Of course I did run through two or three Columbia House 11 CD deals for the price of one, until they put our fraternity house address on a list so nobody could sign up from there anymore.  There was a period of time when like 4-5 shipments of 11 CDs were showing up every day, all addressed to aliases.  Pledge sorting the mail - "Who is Dr. Tater Rogaine (that was me)?  There's not a Michael Hunt in the house, is there? How about Haywood......"

 

[massraider]

I'm still shocked how much we paid for CD's back in the day outside of BMG/Columbia House.  I was working as an Asst Mgr at a local grocery store making $5.00 per hour (minimum was $4.25 at that time I believe) while going to college.  It's stunning to me that CDs were about 3 hours worth of work.  I spent so much money on music back in the day.  

Crazy. 

My high school job was at a Record Town at the mall, and there was a flourishing black market barter system among the mall employees. I definitely worked at the most valuable store in the mall. 

One Bruce Springsteen boxed set could get you a new wardrobe from Chess King. 

 

[Van Dyman]

#6 - Nine Inch Nails - Closer

Seems a little early in the morning for this... The Downward Spiral was easily the most anticipated album of '94 among the industrial/goth set but it wasn't remotely the kind of thing that record stores would stay open past midnight to sell on the day it dropped.  Totally shocking to all of us how huge it got, which created a little bit of a crisis in conscience in the community.

In the early 90s, I would roll around in my POS car with the black NIN sticker adhered to the bumper.  It was a kind of a little club - see someone else with the sticker and give a wave, like the same kind of thing that happens with Jeep Wrangler drivers except with misfits instead of d-bags (apologies to any jeep owners here).  In the first few weeks, everyone in the scene loved The Downward Spiral, recognizing it as a giant leap forward that expanded on the best attributes of Pretty Hate Machine and Broken.  Until MTV put the Closer video in heavy rotation...

Looking back, the idea that TDS and Closer marked some sort of sellout by Reznor is nuts.  Start to finish, the album is as dark and dense as anything in my collection, particularly compared to the generally dance-oriented PHS that all of us adored.  But for a while it didn't matter.  I can vividly remember walking to class one day and hearing Closer blaring out of the open top of said Jeep Wrangler - one with a Pi Kappa Alpha sticker on the back - driven by the same kind of meathead who yelled "freaks" as we walked by his frat house on University Ave on the way to Netherworld.

Do I sound bitter?  I sound bitter, don't I?

For a while. the true scenesters would vacate the floor when the DJ played Closer, rec.music.industrial became over-run with arguments as to whether Trent sold out, and NIN stickers starting showing up on a much nicer set of automobiles.  All good now, though.  Ridiculous to think that a song with the lyric "I wanna #### you like an animal" was some sort of craven attempt for commercial viability, and even if it was, so what?

Closer

Sorry to come into the NIN talk late. For a few years in the early nineties my phone number was listed in the Nashville white pages (phone book) under the name Trent Reznor.

Trent got more calls than I did, mostly silly kids looking up their idols in the local phone book. Fans, some haters, one radio station. I had a nice collection of voice messages on my old answering machine. The only one I still remember was a girl (sounded tween-ish) saying she hopes NIN will come to Texas and if they do he can stay at her house and she'll even let him have the top bunk.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

It's an app/website with a forum for seemingly every neighborhood/town in the country.  At first, it was a good way to get info on lost pets or new restaurants.  Now it's mainly nutjobs complaining about politics, (perceived) hoodlums, and one actual scourge - people who don't pick up after their dogs.

Yeah, my wife is on a Facebook page that basically serves the same function for our town, with the added feature of banning the political trolls. Lots of complaining about perceived hoodlums and the school district, though.

 

[Manster]

Bowie had to tell many a young "fan" after his shows that he was not, in fact, covering a Nirvana song.  

This reminds me of my son, who at like 7 years old, would play Ice Ice Baby over and over.......THEN we fired up Under Pressure and I watched his little mind blown!  He was like "This sounds like ice ice baby.". And I was like "Nope!....you got it backwards son!"

 

[Manster]

It's an app/website with a forum for seemingly every neighborhood/town in the country.  At first, it was a good way to get info on lost pets or new restaurants.  Now it's mainly nutjobs complaining about politics, (perceived) hoodlums, and one actual scourge - people who don't pick up after their dogs.

I call it Karenbook 

 

[FairWarning]

Midnight sales. Weren't they on Tuesdays or something like that? 

Yes

 

[scorchy]

I'm still shocked how much we paid for CD's back in the day outside of BMG/Columbia House.  I was working as an Asst Mgr at a local grocery store making $5.00 per hour (minimum was $4.25 at that time I believe) while going to college.  It's stunning to me that CDs were about 3 hours worth of work.  I spent so much money on music back in the day.  

My first job paid $3.35 an hour and I got maybe 15 hours per week.  I put more thought into each tape/CD I bought back then than I did an engagement ring 10 years later.

 

[FairWarning]

I can say that this is the first - and last time I listen to a Wu Tang Clan song.

 

[scorchy]

I'm collapsing both of these here for two reasons: (1) it's a tossup for me as to which is #3 and which is #4 and (2) I need to be done this thing by mid-afternoon tomorrow so time is of the essence.

#4 - Green Day - Longview

The song that made Green Day famous.  As I said earlier, I think I like Basket Case a little better but I'm not sure the band would have broken out the same way if it had come first.  There's just something about Billie Joe's snarl- a great song and video at just the right moment of the 90s.

Longview

#3 - Oasis - Live Forever

I think you're the same as me
We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever

The tiebreaker between Oasis and Green Day comes down to me loving Live Forever from the moment I first heard it (and Noel being largely responsible for my Manchester City fandom).  Over the years, Oasis put out plenty of crap, but their best 10-15 songs hold up against any artists who have come on the scene since.  Live Forever is almost the perfect distillation of Noel's penchant for hooks with Liam's snotty vocals - could anyone draw out vowels with a bigger sneer than him? 

Much like Green Day was a welcome change of pace from grunge, Oasis's "we're all  just a bunch of lads" vibe seemed positively alien on modern rock radio in 1994.  Noel explains:

At the time . . . it was written in the middle of grunge and all that, and I remember Nirvana had a tune called 'I Hate Myself and Want to Die', and I was like . . . 'Well, I'm not ###ing having that.' As much as I ###king like him, I'm not having that. I can't have people like that coming over here, on smack, ####### saying that they hate themselves and they wanna die. That's ####### rubbish. Kids don't need to be hearing that nonsense." 

Yeah, so Noel was a bit of an ###, but he wasn't totally wrong either.  Still love the guy.

Live Forever

Live Forever - Liam with Chris Martin at the One Love Manchester benefit concert for victims of the Manchester Arena attack

 

[massraider]

The tiebreaker between Oasis and Green Day comes down to me loving Living Forever from the moment I first heard 

Easy tiebreaker: one lead singer had a real English accent, and the other one had a fake one.

 

[rockaction]

I like both songs. That bass from "Longview" is memorable in rock and roll history, and that's no small statement to make. "Live Forever" is one of the few of the Oasis songs I like. I can't profess to being all that into them other than knowing some songs on the surface, but they certainly weren't bad by any stretch of the imagination. 

Green Day sort of burst on the scene with "Longview" and never looked back. They are the longest-lasting, big, late-Generation X band. It's sort of ironic in a way, because punk rock and all, but they'd been together for quite some time before Dookie, so maybe one shouldn't be surprised. 

 

[Mr. Mojo]

The tiebreaker between Oasis and Green Day comes down to me loving Live Forever from the moment I first heard it (and Noel being largely responsible for my Manchester City fandom).  Over the years, Oasis put out plenty of crap, but their best 10-15 songs hold up against any artists who have come on the scene since.  Live Forever is almost the perfect distillation of Noel's penchant for hooks with Liam's snotty vocals - could anyone draw out vowels with a bigger sneer than him? 

Good call here.

I confess that I love Oasis' music. Their best CD came a year later.

 

[Manster]

Oasis sucks.....I'm sorry but Liam Gallagher is the biggest poser of all time.  Noel is talented, but Liam is a little #####.  Lanegan shoulda kicked Liam's ### when they toured together.  Maybe a good ### whoopin woulda done him some good.

 

[rockaction]

Oasis sucks.....I'm sorry but Liam Gallagher is the biggest poser of all time.  Noel is talented, but Liam is a little #####.  Lanegan shoulda kicked Liam's ### when they toured together.  Maybe a good ### whoopin woulda done him some good.

How you feel about that, Manster? 

 

[Manster]

How you feel about that, Manster? 

I actually like the song D'you know what I mean.

But yea, for the most part Liam Gallagher is the quentisential diva lead singer.

 

[FatMax]

Good choices.  I was never a huge Oasis guy ... the only music I owned was the Wonderwall single.  But the folks that loved them really LOVED them so I paid attention.  They are one of those bands that I like more now than I did back then.

Green Day, completely opposite. Probably because I wore out the cassette deck* in my Chevy S-10 playing that album.  I'm still a little sick of them. But their spot here is earned without question.

*yes, with all this talk of CDs, I was still a rube in 1994

 

[rockaction]

Good choices.  I was never a huge Oasis guy ... the only music I owned was the Wonderwall single.  But the folks that loved them really LOVED them so I paid attention.  They are one of those bands that I like more now than I did back then.

Green Day, completely opposite. Probably because I wore out the cassette deck* in my Chevy S-10 playing that album.  I'm still a little sick of them. But their spot here is earned without question.

*yes, with all this talk of CDs, I was still a rube in 1994

Oh, I loved me some cassettes. They were analog and cheaper than CDs. I used to be able to buy three cassettes to two CDs, and I bought a lot of music over the years. 

 

[TripItUp]

#6 - Nine Inch Nails - Closer - Terrific

#5 - Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M. - Terrific, but overranked here

#4 - Green Day - Longview - Terrific

#3 - Oasis - Live Forever - Terrific

All worthy of lofty rankings sans CREAM which would make my top 100 but not close to top 10.

 

[TripItUp]

Oasis sucks.....I'm sorry but Liam Gallagher is the biggest poser of all time.  Noel is talented, but Liam is a little #####.  Lanegan shoulda kicked Liam's ### when they toured together.  Maybe a good ### whoopin woulda done him some good.

uhhhh, "What's The Story" is one of the greatest albums of the 90s man.

 

[foxco]

Love Oasis, they put out some of my favorite all time songs.

Manster is correct when he says Mark Lanegan should have kicked Liam's ### though (love Mark too).  Still, Oasis has a special place in my heart and they're a regular part of my playlists. 

 

[scorchy]

Oasis sucks.....I'm sorry but Liam Gallagher is the biggest poser of all time.  Noel is talented, but Liam is a little #####.  Lanegan shoulda kicked Liam's ### when they toured together.  Maybe a good ### whoopin woulda done him some good.

Yeah, Liam is a jackass, but he's perfect for the songs.  Plus, I would still rather hang out with Liam than Billy Corgan, Axl Rose, or plenty of other lead singers for bands that I like.  He would for sure be more entertaining than Thom Yorke.

 

[rockaction]

Thom Yorke

The older I get, the less I get Yorke, to be honest. I'm really not sure what ails him all day every day. 

Oh yeah, the world. Well...

 

[foxco]

The older I get, the less I get Yorke, to be honest. I'm really not sure what ails him all day every day. 

Oh yeah, the world. Well...

I mean that tortured soul of his helped put out some truly great music, but maybe not a guy you want hanging around at your barbecue.

He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins

 

[rockaction]

I mean that tortured soul of his helped put out some truly great music, but maybe not a guy you want hanging around at your barbecue.

He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins

Criminy. I've heard that song over a hundred times and just skipped the lyrics. I just Googled that little stanza, and there it was. Just goes to show you that rock lyrics generally suck once understood anyway. Might as well sing the alphabet to me, I guess. 

 

[otb_lifer]

Yeah, Liam is a jackass, but he's perfect for the songs.  Plus, I would still rather hang out with Liam than Billy Corgan, Axl Rose, or plenty of other lead singers for bands that I like.  He would for sure be more entertaining than Thom Yorke.

yep, much like as i said about Weiland earlier, it was refreshing to see the full on embrace of ROCK ####### STAR amidst the whiners. 

also something about Mancunian swag that just seems so natural, as opposed to the posh London boyz. 

and he's really not such a tough in'nerview

oh, and Oasis >>>>>> Green Day.

not even close for me. 

 

[DocHolliday]

#6 - Nine Inch Nails - Closer - Terrific

#5 - Wu-Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M. - Terrific, but overranked here

#4 - Green Day - Longview - Terrific

#3 - Oasis - Live Forever - Terrific

All worthy of lofty rankings sans CREAM which would make my top 100 but not close to top 10.

Agreed.  Strong tunes.  

 

[massraider]

Completely understandable if anyone hates Liam, but there isn't a dishonest, poseur bone in his body. 

The reason you know he's a little ***** is because he doesn't attempt to conceal it, he never has. He's been the same snotty brat from day 1. 

 

[foxco]

Highly recommend the Oasis: Supersonic documentary for anyone who enjoys the band (& maybe if you hate them but love to hate them?). The Gallaghers' arrogance is on full display but there's something awesome about it. These guys just embraced it all without caring what you or I think in the slightest. 

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Cannot help but think of Smoosh whenever someone brings up Oasis

 

[scorchy]

If Mark Lanegan should have punched Liam, what should Eddie Vedder, Jerry Cantrell, or Scott Weiland have done to Kurt Cobain?  Before I get into a bit of Cobain hagiography in the next post, I can't help but note he could really be kind of a d###:

I can’t comment on Soundgarden because I know them personally, and I really like them a lot, but I have strong feelings towards Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains and bands like that. They’re obviously just corporate puppets that are just trying to jump on the alternative bandwagon – and we are being lumped into that category.

Those bands have been in the hairspray/cockrock scene for years and all of a sudden they stop washing their hair and start wearing flannel shirts. It doesn’t make any sense to me. There are bands moving from L.A. and all over to Seattle and then claim they’ve lived there all their life so they can get record deals. It really offends me.

 

[otb_lifer]

If Mark Lanegan should have punched Liam, what should Eddie Vedder, Jerry Cantrell, or Scott Weiland have done to Kurt Cobain?  Before I get into a bit of Cobain hagiography in the next post, I can't help but note he could really be kind of a d###:

see, also: Johnny Rotten on the Clash, Stranglers, etc. back in '77

 

[massraider]

I had to google Lanegen/Liam, because I didn't know this story.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-truth-behind-the-mark-lanegan-and-liam-gallagher-feud

Recalling the time his former alma mater Screaming Trees supported Oasis as part of their 1996 US tour, Lanegan writes of falling out with Liam Gallagher after the Mancunian singer mocked the Seattle band as “Howling Branches”. The way he tells it, Oasis abandoned their 13-date tour after eight shows to save Liam from a kicking when the two bands were scheduled to play together again in Miami.

Naturally, Liam Gallagher sees things in a different light, tweeting: “Mark Lanegan, here’s how I saw it: I asked you your band’s name, I was ####### around and called it something else. You being an uptight junkie and not having a sense of humour, got your little grungy knickers in a twist. Another bull####ter trying to sell a book.”

Liam really is an All-Pro at insulting people, it's a shame for him his brother is a Hall of Famer.

 

[scorchy]

#2 -Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night?

A legendary performance that is absolutely impossible to separate from its context.  Nirvana MTV Unplugged first aired on December 16th 1993 (the record was released in November 1994).  It was the end of finals week in Gainesville and I was packing up to drive back home to Maryland, but took a break to sit and watch the show with my roommates.  Obviously, none of us knew that it would form our final memories of Kurt Cobain.

I was in the same exact room on April 8, 1994 when Kurt Loder broke in and reported Cobain's death.  Did I really just leave MTV on the tube back then?  Did someone else bust in and tell me the news and I turned on the TV?  I swear it's the first one, but memory is a funny thing.  I do know for sure that MTV aired Nirvana Unplugged nonstop over the next few months and every song, but especially the last one, would take on a whole new weight.

Judging now, Where Did You Sleep Last Night has to the most anguished vocal performance by a rock star ever captured on video.  That last verse, where Kurt absolutely shreds his vocal chords - my lord...  Quotes taken from the oral history of the show published by The Ringer:

When he did Where Did You Sleep Last Night it wasn’t one of those things where a month later, or a week later, or a year later, you’re like, “That was great,” even though you didn’t really know it at the time. You knew the dead second that it was happening that you were witnessing something phenomenal. 

The thing he did, and he did it in a number of Nirvana songs, you’ll notice, [is] where he’ll be singing full bore, going all out, but then in the final verse he’ll go up an octave. And then really ratchet the energy up

It ####ing killed me—particularly where he paused before the end and gasped.  The breath in between the breath. He made time stop. Time just stopped.

Even Kurt seemed to know.  When MTV tried to get the band to go out and do an encore, he replied:

Well, I don’t really think you’re gonna top that. I think you’re done.

Where Did You Sleep Last Night

 

[foxco]

I had to google Lanegen/Liam, because I didn't know this story.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-truth-behind-the-mark-lanegan-and-liam-gallagher-feud



Liam really is an All-Pro at insulting people, it's a shame for him his brother is a Hall of Famer.

Don't want to derail the thread but Liam/Noel trolling each other on Twitter has given me much joy over the last few years.  

 

[scorchy]

Liam really is an All-Pro at insulting people, it's a shame for him his brother is a Hall of Famer.

One of my favorites was when Noel said that Jack White "looks like Zorro on doughnuts."

 

[rockaction]

"Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" is one of the greatest, deeply-felt acoustic renderings of a blues song one can imagine. It just slays. The quotes above are right. By that time, I had sort of had it with Nirvana and the whole grunge scene, but that performance was breathtaking right away. I still listened to it back about five years ago regularly. Now, things are a little different, but it was such a heartfelt blues masterpiece that I could absolutely see the genius of the performative element of Nirvana. I used to think Mudhoney was a better band. That song pretty much spoke to the opposite side of things. 

On less of a emotive note, the part where he's ####### around with his guitar and telling the story of trying to get David Geffen to buy Leadbelly's guitar from Leadbelly's estate is funny. Right before he launches into...that.