Hey, you guys - remember you're supposed to comment on the CD you come up with, like Jeri did - and I think you're supposed to actually listen to the CD. I came up with Steve Goodman's Best of the Asylum Years, Volume 1. All Steve Goodman recordings are good, but this is one of my least-favorite Goodman recordings. I suppose my two favorite songs on the album are "The Twentieth Century Is Almost Over" (which somehow still doesn't seem out of date) and "Banana Republics" - but none of the songs on this CD show the best of Steve's crazy humor. Now, my favorite Steve Goodman album is No Big Surprise - The Steve Goodman Anthology, which has one CD of studio recordings, and one of live recordings.

Asylum Years is a nice recording and I'm enjoying it - but there are far better recordings of Steve Goodman to choose from.

-Joe-

I used to like Shawn Colvin, Jeri, but then I saw her in concert and she was grouchy and nasty and blamed her nastiness on having PMS. I was sorry for her suffering, but I didn't think that was a reasonable excuse for being rude and nasty to her band and audience. I seem to have lost my ability to enjoy her recordings since then.