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Payback Time

Payback Time

By Adrian Mack
You force the music section to go out clubbing with Richie Sambora, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt, two recently released major-label CDs, and two tickets to a Live Nation club show taking place in Vancouver within the next four weeks. Here’s this week’s winning whine.

Who are you calling gonad herniating faux-grunge rockers?

By Adrian Mack
You force the music section to buy Vancouver Canucks seasons tickets, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt, two recently released major-label CDs, and two tickets to a Live Nation club show taking place in Vancouver within the next four weeks. Here’s this week’s winning whinge.

Payback Time

By John Lucas
You Photoshop Madonna’s sinewy man arms onto the music section’s scrawny body, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt, two CDs off the Straight’s Top 50, and two tickets to a Live Nation club show taking place in Vancouver within the next four weeks. Here’s this week’s winning whine.

Payback Time

By Mike Usinger
You invite Scott Weiland to the music section’s Matt Sorum fan appreciation night and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt, two CDs off the Straight ’s Top 50, and two tickets to a Live Nation club show taking place in Vancouver within the next four weeks. Here’s this week’s winning whinge.

Payback Time

By Adrian Mack
You invite Isaiah Washington to the music section’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy party, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt, two CDs off the Straight’s Top 50, and two tickets to a Live Nation club show taking place in Vancouver within the next four weeks. Here’s this week’s winning whine.

Glorious old rock songs about rockin’

By Rod Filbrandt
You invite Heather Mills and Paul McCartney to the music section’s dinner party, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt, two CDs off the Straight ’s Top 50, and two tickets to a Live Nation club show taking place in Vancouver within the next four weeks. Here’s this week’s winning whine.

Ditch the cliches and just play

By Adrian Mack
You invite Amy Winehouse to the music section’s crack party, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt, two CDs off the Straight ’s Top 50, and two tickets to a Live Nation club show taking place in Vancouver within the next four weeks. Here’s this week’s winning whine.

Metal-ist maligns metal list

By Lucas Aykroyd
You e-mail the contents of the music section’s My Photos folder to Perez Hilton, and we reward you with a Payback Time T-shirt, two CDs off the Straight’s Top 50, and two tickets to a LiveNation club show taking place in Vancouver within the next four weeks. Here’s this week’s winning whine.

David Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar: shut up and pick one

While I amazingly agree with much of his review of the actual concert, his claim that "It would have been cool to hear Roth tackle a tune or two from Van Halen's Hagar era" borders on verbal diarrhea...

Don't blame the labels for boxed-set boners

By John Lucas
Why would the artists in question decline to participate? Maybe they feel that to be on a compilation would be an admission of has-been status. Or perhaps they have a massive reissue project planned. At any rate, it seems unfair to lay the blame at the feet of Rhino, which is the way it comes across in both your reviews

Dear Mike Usinger: were you that "mike" Juliette Lewis picked up?

By Mike Usinger
Because we would be wondering what she was doing. Or could it be you simply did not realize that mic is in fact the short form of microphone? I suggest you invest in an updated dictionary

Why must opening bands suck?

By John Lucas
Who do I blame? The artists? The venues? Someone must be held responsible

Lay off the Maroon 5 ape jokes

By Adrian Mack
Calling Mickey Madden a "quasi-Neanderthal hairball"? Mickey is a rare nice guy in the world of pop, and is at the very least an Iron Age hairball. Take pity on him—it’s bad enough that he has to go on after the Hives
Pop Eye

Calling out Rod Filbrandt for calling out Bruce Allen

By Rod Filbrandt
Filbrandt obviously dislikes Allen, but he has to realize that his own freedom of speech is no more valuable than Allen’s, and that, as much as Filbrandt may want it otherwise, we are a diverse community with differing opinions

A pubesworth of analysis

I'm not sure I understood last week's Pop Eye column. Maybe it's because I don't speak elitist douchebag.