I present you with the political strategist with the best taste in music.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

Mr. Warren Kinsella. Former Special Assistant to former Canadian PM, Jean Chretien.

These are his top 10 favourite records.

http://www.warrenkinsella.com/topten_rr.htm

(I can't click and paste on his blog, so here are the highlights)

1. Ramones - Ramones
2. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
3. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
4. Joy Division - Closer
5. Television - Marquee Moon
6. Wire - Pink Flag
7. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions...
8. The Replacements - Let It Be.
9. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
10. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.

[asthmaticeog]

1. Wow -

I have EVERY SINGLE ONE of those albums! Maybe I should move north and go into the public sector.

[tigereye]

2. impressive, nice to hear

[tigereye]

3. However, some public servants may be revealed

as your new sigpic....

[Screaming Lord Byron]

4. Yes. Which prominent Republican donor is he?

Hmmm. I vote for Conrad Black.

[tigereye]

6. good one

head of some pizza corporation? how much time do you have?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

8. There's also a distinct resemblance to Tom Delay.

[tigereye]

13. great!

there are too many to ponder...

[Whitacre D_WI]

5. Well, I have all but one of those albums, and I am a former candidate.

Tell me I wouldn't have been the coolest fuckin' congressman ever!


(BTW, the one I lack is the first Ramones album. I mean, it's a good record, but why bother?)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

7. Oh my God! All this time I've been conversing with a man who

doesn't own the first Ramones album! FOR SHAME.
Nah, me neither. I had Ramonesmania, Rocket To Russia and that was about it.

What Congressional committees would you sit on?

[Whitacre D_WI]

10. That's just the thing.

I've got just about all the songs on comps, why would I spend my hard-earned funds on the record? I mean, if I find it used for cheap....

[tigereye]

11. what?! blasphemy!

did you really run for office... (almost typed another word there)
I seem to remember something about that when I first came to DU. Yeah you would have been a veerryy interesting congressman.... especially with your bird on your shoulder... sorry been reading too many pirate books!

[Whitacre D_WI]

17. Pirate books?

You mean the kind with the heaving oceans and the rigid masts?

[tigereye]

20. no, Pirates who say AARRGH and have a parrot on their shoulder

I do a mean Pirate accent!

leave it to some to make innocent books about pirates into something lascivious! Arrh me hearty.

[Whitacre D_WI]

24. Well, since piracy is all about thieving, killing, and rape...

...I'm hard-pressed to think of anything "innocent" about pirate books. :shrug:

[tigereye]

27. well not the kind you read to the little ones

although that subtext is always there. We got a book at the beach that went into a little too much detail.. but young kids, my son is almost eight, love that kind of thing. He loved Pirates of the Carribean.

[Whitacre D_WI]

28. The ride or the movie?

[tigereye]

29. the movie

silly me. I always forget that people actually don't know what I am thinking (sarc), I actually have to explain it to them. This is hard since I am surrounded by software and computer people and I think that they always require "documentation" and more precise language. This is not a problem in my work life for some odd reason.

Also: It is fun to watch Johnny Depp mincing around with all that eyeliner!

[blondeatlast]

19. WHY BOTHER? I, being the selfish, whining woman that I am,

would have abstained for that reason alone, Mr. Santorum!

The Ramones are gods. Gods, I tell you!

[asthmaticeog]

23. 8 good reasons to bother

Blitzkrieg bop
Beat on the brat
Judy is a punk
Now i wanna sniff some glue
I don't wanna go down to the basement
Loudmouth
53rd & 3rd
I don't wanna walk around with you

[Whitacre D_WI]

25. I have all of those on comps.

[XNASA]

9. What? No Cheap Trick or XTC?

He'll never get my vote. LOL!!!

[Screaming Lord Byron]

12. I think his career revolves around cheap tricks.

Terrible, terrible pun.

[Az]

14. Hey, no fair changing companions just like that

:grr:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

15. I'm just trying out a few new faces. I don't think I'll stick with this.

[Az]

18. If you need to change

Consider the 2nd Romana or Leela. Can't go wrong with them.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

21. Check out my poll. I go for the 2nd Romana. Hubba, and indeed, hubba.

[blondeatlast]

16. Wow--very impressive. Ramones #1, I would move up the Replacements,

but I can tell this is a very cool human!

[Paul Hood]

22. Shouldn't he include more Canadian content? :) n/t

[jpgray]

26. Holy crap! Good albums all (nt)