Monday, January 27, 2020

Senator Ted Cruz's response to Impeachment trial

Then the Senate broke for an early dinner, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) made the rounds, talking to various reporters and journalists. He made the point that the Senate heard "just the beginning" of the corrupt relationship between Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma and Hunter Biden.
"Joe Biden, as vice president of the United States – and we just saw video, I'd encourage every news outlet here to show it – of Joe Biden bragging how he told the president of Ukraine that he was gonna cut off a billion dollars, gonna cut off a billion dollars in foreign aid to Ukraine unless they fired the prosecutor," Cruz told reporters around him. "And in Joe Biden's own words, 'Son of a b**ch, they fired the guy.'"
Another reporter injected, wanting to know what Cruz thought about the latest news in John Bolton's book. According to the Texas Senator, what Bolton's "bombshell" report says doesn't change the merits of the impeachment case.
"The legal issue before this Senate is whether a president has the authority to investigate corruption," he explained. "The House Managers built their entire case on the proposition that investigating Burisma corruption, that investigating the Bidens for corruption was baseless and a sham. ... That proposition is absurd."
Cruz cited Trump's defense attorney Pam Bondi's presentation about Hunter Biden and Burisma as evidence that proves the Democrats' assertion to be false.
"At a minimum, we've seen two hours of evidence that, at a minimum, it was not only reasonable and justified, but the president, I think, had an obligation to investigate corruption that extended to the highest levels of government," he said.
A reporter said Trump's defense team failed to show any potential crimes Joe or Hunter Biden committed.
"Basically, what they said is Hunter Biden got a job, his dad is vice president. If that's a crime, shouldn't half of your children be in prison?" the reporter asked.
Cruz clapped back at the reporter.
"My children are nine and 11 and I'm sorry you want to throw a nine-year-old in prison, but at this point, my third grader plays basketball and softball at her school," he said, with other legislators behind him laughing. "So stop playing the nasty Washington game–"

"That's not a nasty Washington game," the reporter replied.
"Attacking a nine-year-old?" Cruz asked, clearly flabbergasted.
The reporter said something inaudible, but Cruz shut him down. Another journalist jumped in to ask a question and the conversation moved on.

The fact that this reporter attempted to spear Cruz's kids, without knowing a single tidbit about them – most importantly their ages – shows how swampy the press can truly be. And it's why the American people trust very few that preside in the Beltway.

Hollywood will be dead by 2027

When I say Hollywood, I don't mean movies and the art of filmmaking, I mean Hollywood as a place and as a culture. Movies will continue to be made after Hollywood goes bankrupt, but the standards might be a bit different. Instead of big budget remakes and adaptations, filmmaking might become more auteur. There are signs that big Hollywood studios are heading into a black abyss and that the industry will be supplanted by the internet, independent artists and other places. Every year, the death of Hollywood gets so close we can smell the rot. It's so close now that we can safely put a date on it.

With the exception of Disney, the big budget Hollywood industry will probably be on life support by 2020 and near death by 2025, if not sooner. Revolutions in technology and delivery have changed the entire landscape to the point where Hollywood moguls can no longer keep up. The traditional formula for success no longer works. That's becoming more evident with the number of box office flops that have been putting major studios in the red for over a decade. Big blockbusters are under-performing and Hollywood doesn't know how to fix it. Even if they did, the mere act of fixing it would lead to bankruptcy.

This is why the screen will be flashing “Game Over” for Hollywood within the next decade.


Perpetual Debt

One thing that most people don't know about Hollywood is that all of the major studios acquire massive amounts of debt with each movie. Since the 1980s, the industry has operated in similar ways as the US government. Despite making profits on odd occasions when a blockbuster actually performs—or when a small, artistic picture exceeds expectations—studios are always borrowing more money and putting themselves deeper into debt.

Some could argue that Hollywood's growing preference for blockbuster films and adaptations is a direct result of studios needing to earn more to service their massive debts.

Hollywood has leaned more toward adapting novels, comics and video games since the 1990s, largely due to the proven success of such comics, novels and games. Even this formula fails more often than it succeeds. Studios and producers have learned the hard way that success in the comic and video game industries doesn't always translate to success at the box office. The same goes for novels and best-sellers. More often than not, Hollywood studios have spent more than they've earned from adapting popular novels.

Eventually, too many failures lead to bankruptcy. With almost every major studio in the red, the implosion is creeping closer. The trend started with Orion in the 1990s and then MGM back in 2010, followed by production companies like The Weinstein Company (almost bankrupt) and Relativity Media (bankrupt). Unlike studios, production companies come and go and rise and fold faster than dandelions. This is another sign that Hollywood's business model is becoming increasingly unsustainable.

Sometimes failing production companies survive, sometimes they don't. As Hollywood continues to implode, fewer producers will be as lucky as Harvey Weinstein, who was able to get out of a $450M debt following a restructuring deal in 2010 that including losing over 200 of his titles. It's doubtful that Weinstein would be able to survive if he repeated the same mistakes—which he probably will.

To give you a snapshot of the common struggle in Hollywood, we can look at Viacom, which owns Paramount. Paramount is one of the most successful film studios in Hollywood, which makes its current struggles a good example of what's happening in the whole industry.

The LA Times, 2016:


The Los Angeles film studio posted an adjusted $136-million operating loss for the January-March quarter. The movie "10 Cloverfield Lane" performed fine, and worldwide theatrical revenue increased 6% compared to the year earlier period, helped by ticket sales for the Oscar-nominated film "The Big Short," and Will Ferrell's "Daddy's Home," which were released toward the end of last year.

Still, that wasn't enough to mop up the mess. Studio revenue declined 1% to $655 million compared to a year earlier.

"Paramount's results were disappointing this quarter," Viacom Chairman and Chief Executive Philippe Dauman said Thursday during an earnings call with Wall Street analysts. The company expects Paramount to post a loss for the full fiscal 2016 year. 

Viacom is looking to sell a chunk of Paramount Pictures, in large part to raise money to pay down corporate debt. The company has winnowed the list to a handful of suitors, and Dauman said the company was "on track" to have a deal hammered out by the end of June.


Almost every major studio in Hollywood is currently struggling with debt, maybe with the exception of Disney. Studios are so swamped in debt, even their successes aren't enough. An increasing number of predicted blockbusters are flopping and the traditional formulas aren't working. With each passing year, profits shrink and debts grow. Combined with the shrinking number of theatre-goers and the rise of piracy, the recipe is one for disaster. To pay off their debts and to become sustainable again, most studios would need years worth of successful blockbusters—or films will need to cost less and earn more, which seems as unlikely as several successive years worth of high grossing blockbusters.  
Fewer People Care

The newer generations aren't feeling the nostalgia of cinema. Millennials don't have the same love for the theatre experience as Generation X. The generation after Millennials will care even less about sitting in a stuffy theatre to listen to people cough and crunch popcorn. Combined with the mounting debts, this will be what kills Hollywood culture. According to Cinemablend, only 10% of the US population goes to theatres.

Traditionally, expensive blockbusters have made their money by selling contracts to theatres who sell seats for $8-10. With the transition to digital distribution, films and expensive blockbusters have less potential to earn as much as they have in the past. That's just a fact. The sad part is that we can't change the trajectory. Within the next decade, theatres will be on the verge of extinction.

As of 2015, theatre attendance was at its lowest in two decades, as per The Guardian and Hollywood Reporter:


The number of people going to the cinema in North America has fallen to its lowest level in two decades, according to figures published by The Hollywood Reporter.
Around 1.26 billion filmgoers bought tickets to see a movie in 2014, the lowest number since 1995, when the figure was 1.21 billion. The disappointing return offers further evidence that the US, which makes up by far the largest portion of the North American box office, is likely to lose its position as the world’s largest film market to China before the end of the decade.
The average cost of a movie ticket was slightly up, from $8.13 in 2013 to $8.15 this year. But it is still estimated that overall revenue fell by 5% since 2013, to around $10.36bn – the biggest annual drop in nine years.


Before the internet came along, one viewer earned a Hollywood studio at least $7-8. Today, one non-theatre viewer earns a Hollywood studio an average of $3. This is mostly due to the vast distribution means of the digital marketplace and the growth of piracy. When theatres go extinct, all viewers will be non-theatre viewers. Because the profit margins have declined so much already, studios and the theatres have had to increase their prices. Contracts and licensing between the theatres and studios has gotten more expensive, ticket prices have risen and concession prices have skyrocketed. This seems contradictory to most free-market theories about supply and demand, but the theatre business operates a bit differently.

Theatres only exist because movies exist. Physical, brick and mortar cinemas rely on the marketing of movie studios and on the interest and hype created by advertising campaigns they have no control over. Theatres are similar to newspaper stands on the street corners of big cities. It's not the vendor who attracts the buyer, it's the headline on the newspaper. The newspaper stand only gets customers because it's nearby and convenient. Theatres work in the same way. People don't usually choose a theatre based on the theatre itself—they choose based on the theatre's location. With the exception of IMAX and 3D features, most theatres all offer the same identical products. Since the 1980s, most small and independent theatres have gone under and the market has been monopolized by a handful of giant conglomerates.

At the end of the day, movies will survive without theatres. But, Hollywood studios won't survive without theatres—not in their current form.

It's because they're saddled with multi-billion dollar debts that most Hollywood studios will collapse with the extinction of theatres. Theatres are still the biggest source of revenue for a majority of big Hollywood studios. When the $8 viewer no longer exists, the indebted studios will be sucked into an abyss. This is because leasing and licensing contracts between studios and theatres are still more lucrative than contracts with Netflix and various other digital streaming services.

Fewer Millennials care about celebrities either. The next generation might care even less. This is having a big impact on the traditional Hollywood formula, which relies heavily on using expensive celebrities to sell movies. One way films could become less expensive is by hiring less expensive actors. The only problem with that is that everyone has already stopped caring about theatres.

Since more people care less about theatres, it has been expensive actors and special effects that have been selling the most movie tickets. Hollywood is now stuck in a quagmire. Even their biggest celebrities are earning less at the box office, but movies without them are earning nothing at all and putting them deeper in the red. If Hollywood stopped using expensive actors and special effects tomorrow, their movies would cost far less but also earn them nothing when compared to their current debt burdens.

Hollywood is now in a position where it has to spend more money just to break even.


Anyone Can Do It In Niche Markets

Not only can anyone stream a movie online for next to nothing, more people are now able to make their own movies. The era of big profits might be over for the film industry as it transitions into an art form similar to painting.

Online and digital filmmakers are growing in vast numbers. Most smartphones are equipped with 4k HD cameras and higher quality, professional cameras can be purchased at half the price they were ten years ago. The process of combining visual sequences and audio is easier and more accessible than ever before—and it's only going to become more accessible for everyone.

Back when Quentin Tarantino wanted to become a filmmaker, film was expensive and editing and splicing were a pain in the ass. In 2017, filmmaking is a totally different experience.

This growing reality is undoubtedly pissing Quentin Tarantino off. It's probably pissing off every old generation filmmaker who spent months worth of labour trying to achieve the same things we can achieve now in just a few hours. By 2025, the average person won't need film school or friends in LA to make a movie, they'll just need creativity, drive and a few computer skills. We're already seeing an explosion of high quality, low budget videos on YouTube.

As big studios fold and their money and wealth vanish, demand for big brand licenses might drop as fewer companies are able to bid millions for usage rights. This means that smaller companies looking to make the next Batman or Ninja Turtles adaptation could do so for much less than what studios have been paying. This could open up a whole new world for artistic renditions of our favourite comic book characters or novels. With less big studio money to go around, there might even be less exclusive licensing, meaning there could be tons of new Batman adaptations at one time.

As more people make more movies for less, Hollywood will start to crumble. As more creative geniuses are given access to everything they need to mesmerize us, Hollywood will fade further into irrelevance. The place itself will empty out and Beverly Hills and the Pacific Palisades will see more foreclosures. The new millionaires will be the innovators and creators who started making smart, in-depth movies for a fraction of the cost Hollywood does now. This will be one of the factors that escorts Hollywood to its inevitable demise.


Shooting Elsewhere

The trend of shooting films outside of Hollywood has been growing since the late 1980s. Filmmaking has become so expensive that studios look to reduce their costs whenever they can while still being able to afford expensive actors, effects and marketing campaigns. One of the ways they do it is by filming in cheaper places. The biggest threat to Hollywood as a place of glitz, glamour and wealth is this.

When it comes to television, Hollywood has taken an even bigger blow. Most television studios are beginning to open studios elsewhere or film on location at places outside of Hollywood. In fact, physical studios themselves are becoming less common, except for sound design and other later additions. The actual act of filming a film or show in a studio is becoming less common. Aside from shows like House Of Cards, most Netflix productions are shot on sight and locally. Very few Netflix originals are shot anywhere near Hollywood. Scenes that still require a studio are more often shot at affordable sound stages outside of California and in places that offer special tax credits. The AMC show The Walking Dead and Netflix's Ozark are filmed on location in Georgia, with very few scenes shot at sound stages in Hollywood. The FX series Fargo is filmed mostly in Alberta.

Most of the biggest television shows of this decade cost less, appeal to smaller markets and earn enough to sustain themselves and their creators. That brings us to the next point, but also connects to the previous one about niche markets.


The Golden Age Of Television

Television has come a long way since the 1990s. In the 21st Century, big studios like NBC and CBS and others that lease studio space from the big Hollywood moguls are losing to newer upstarts and innovative companies like HBO, Netlfix and AMC. Subscription based providers are outselling the big network studios in a big way and this trend will help seal Hollywood's fate.

AMC has come a long way from airing classic movies. Since it evolved into an original content creator, it has produced some of the most successful, low cost, high quality television shows we've ever seen. AMC has given us instant classics like Breaking Bad, Mad Men and The Walking Dead—all at a fraction of the cost that major networks would have. They've made profits not by appealing to 30 million people, but by appealing to smaller, niche markets.

Not a single actor in The Walking Dead is a superstar, yet the show pulls in an average of 13 million viewers—the highest of any AMC program. AMC has mastered the art of appealing to niche markets using the least amount of money. Before Breaking Bad, no one knew who Brian Cranston was and, strangely enough, the show never pulled in more than 3 million viewers until its final season.

Niche markets have proven to be money-makers. They require less resources, but are able to maximize profits when done right. While NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox continue to spend hundreds of millions on production and marketing, companies like AMC, Showtime, HBO and Netflix are creating hyped up phenomenons that consistently outshine everything else. To top it off, they're winning Emmys.

The new formula is outperforming the old formula. Making money in television is no longer about appealing to 30 million people.

Due to the difference in cost margins, the standards for success at AMC and HBO are different than the standards for success at NBC and ABC. At NBC, a sitcom or serial drama is cancelled when it fails to consistently reach a minimum of 6 million viewers. At AMC, Showtime and HBO, success can come with as low as 500,000 viewers per episode. Such was the case with Showtime's Californication, which averaged around 500-600,000 viewers per episode and lasted seven seasons.

As a comparison, let's take ABC's How To Get Away With Murder and AMC's Better Call Saul. In it's first two seasons, the ABC crime drama averaged 10 million viewers per episode but has started to steadily decline to around 4 million in its third season. This means ABC will probably cancel How To Get Away With Murder after this season—or after a fifth season if they feel like being nice to their audience. On the other hand, Better Call Saul has barely ever done better than 500,000 viewers per episode and has been renewed for a fourth season starting in 2018. Chances are, AMC's quirky lawyer show will have more seasons than ABC's overrated, boring crime drama.

A part of Hollywood's demise will have to do with the collapse and failure of network television. Since the rise of the internet and other subscription based networks, larger indebted studios with massive operating costs—like NBC and CBS—have been in steady decline. In the 1990s, sitcoms like Seinfeld and Friends raked in anywhere from 20-30 million viewers, today those numbers are only half that. This is a big problem for the television studios who face the same problems as the biggest film studios. To survive, they need at least 6 million viewers per episode to keep their advertising slots profitable. That's proven in the number of shows that get cancelled when they drop below 6 million viewers.


The Expiry Date

If you look at the math and the trends, it points to Hollywood not surviving in its current state much longer than 2025. The town itself will start to lose its lustre as more studios liquidate and the industry transforms into something different. Hollywood as a place and a culture might not be anything more than a part of American history by 2050—just like Commodore 64, slavery and clowns.

It's hard for people to imagine a world where Hollywood no longer exists. A lot of us grew up with great movies, award shows and celebrities preening on red carpets. As ratings and box office numbers prove, we're moving away from award shows, celebrities and theatres. Every decade that passes produces more apathy toward everything that is Hollywood. When it finally happens and Hollywood fades away, we'll get used to it.

By 2050, your children and grandchildren will be going to Hollywood to visit museums that showcase a part of America's history. That could be all that remains of America's golden age of cinema after the studios vanish, West Hollywood loses 65% of its property value and LA becomes just another American city we forget to visit. If LA's current finances are any indication, the city might follow Detroit after its one big industry vanishes.

Only time will tell if Hollywood, as a place and culture, will be able to save itself. 

Thursday, January 23, 2020

Stop and Frisk literally saved lives in NYC and other U.S. cities

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) on Sunday defended Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's call for an expanded use of the controversial stop-and-frisk policing program.

"Stop-and-frisk literally saved lives in New York City when it was implemented, and it's been implemented in cities around the country," Pence said on "Fox News Sunday."

"It's on a sound constitutional footing. This gives law enforcement officers the opportunity, with probable cause, to be able to stop and question individuals that they think may be involved or about to be involved in criminal activity."

Trump last week called for using the stop-and-frisk policy when asked at a town hall about how he would address violence in black communities.

The GOP nominee said policies have to be "proactive" and noted the policy worked "incredibly well" in New York City.

“Now, we had a very good mayor, but New York City was incredible, the way that worked, so I think that could be one step you could do,” Trump said.

Pence, the Republican vice presidential nominee, said Sunday that Trump was specifically talking about the "crisis of criminality and murder in Chicago."

"Donald Trump is the kind of leader that's going to say, 'Look, let's take a policy that worked in New York City, that reduced violent crime in New York City, stop-and-frisk, and bring it to Chicago, Ill.,' " Pence said.

"And that's just the kind of leadership he's going to continue."

Trump for years has been an advocate of the controversial policy, which allows police officers to stop and search people if they have a reasonable suspicion that the person committed a crime.

Monday, January 20, 2020

The Fed Has Pumped $500 Billion Into the Repo Market. Where Does It End?

In September 2019, the interest rate for the overnight money market — a short-term lending market where banks borrow cash from each other to meet reserve requirements at the end of a business day — surged to 10 percent.

Banks weren’t willing to lend out capital for the Federal Reserve’s target interest rate of 2 percent. The Fed responded to the cash crunch by financing these so-called repurchasing agreements (repos, for short) directly. It offered the 2 percent interest on these short-term loans (they’re usually paid back in days or weeks) to bring the interest rate down and pump cash into a strapped lending market. It has been offering these overnight loans on a daily basis ever since.

When the Federal Reserve began offering these daily agreements in late September 2019 it was the first time it has intervened in repo markets since the Great Recession. The United States’ central bank has funneled roughly $500 billion into the repo market since then in what was originally pitched as temporary operations that would end on October 10, 2019 — but the daily repo bids are still coming. Currently, there is $229 billion in outstanding repos on the Fed’s balance sheet.

The Fed is even considering lending directly to smaller financial institutions and hedge funds through the repo market — an unprecedented move in the history of the century-old institution.

With the Fed gripping the reins of this obscure but essential sector of the U.S. financial realm for the first time since the 2007–2008 financial crisis, should the average American be anxious about the state of the U.S. financial market?
“Leverage Is Necessary”

“The key question is ... should the average American be worried?" Gang Hu, managing partner at WinShore Capital hedge fund, told Bitcoin Magazine. "If [the Fed] keep[s] going, then they should be worried, but if they didn’t do anything, they should worry more. It’s just, where do they stop? I don’t think anyone knows what the perfect balance sheet size of the Fed is. The Fed is guessing as much as we are.”

To finance these repos, the Federal Reserve buys U.S. treasury bills, mortgage-back securities and other highly liquid securities from the banks for cash. These securities act as collateral for the underlying loan, and the banks buy them back with interest over the course of a few days to weeks — hence, “repurchasing agreement,” or “repo”.

The repo market is necessary for keeping these banks solvent and satisfying their regulated reserve requirements (the amount each bank must keep in accounts at Federal Reserve member branches relative to the size of their balance sheet).

“All the banks are under regulation to control the balance sheet exposure they have,” Hu explained. These balance sheets consist of both cash and debt — any fiduciary obligation involving money. Banks borrow money against their assets (aka leveraging) to make investments and add to their balance sheets and even pay off other debt. So, when they don’t have enough cash in the bank, this can cause liquidity crunches and threaten the constitution of the lending market.

“The system cannot operate without leverage,” Hu said. “There’s simply not enough USD currency to support the number of assets that are floating around in the system. The financial system intrinsically comes with leverage.”

Hu added that this leverage is essential but can also be dangerous if managed incorrectly

“In a good economy, leverage is the greatest thing ever — you make more money,” he said. “But in the downturn, you induce financial crisis and financial instability. And right now, the financial instability is the biggest concern at this point with the Fed.”
Why Did the Fed Step In?

Ironically, the cash crunch that necessitated the Fed’s repo intervention arose from regulations that are meant to keep cash in reserves to prevent a run on banks or other liquidity crises.

Reuters, for instance, reported that bankers and analysts believe that J.P. Morgan, the largest bank in the U.S., may have had liquidity to finance these repos itself if it hadn’t withdrawn 57 percent of its cash ($158 billion from the Federal Reserve throughout 2019) and if new regulations didn’t mandate stricter reserve requirements.

Without enough cash in the bank to finance the repos and satisfy these reserve requirements, J.P. Morgan was more reluctant to lend out what it had left. During this time, Hu said, J.P. Morgan had the money, but it couldn’t legally lend it out

“There have been a number of supervisory and regulatory issues raised. We’re looking carefully at those,” Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said in a December 2019 press conference.

The U.S.’s second-largest bank, Bank of America, also drew in cash from their Fed account in 2019 but at a less drastic 30 percent.

As banks withdrew their cash, the Federal Reserve was shedding its balance sheet. Hu said that a cash-strapped status for J.P. Morgan and friends was certainly “one of the reasons” the Fed stepped into the repo markets, but another reason (which is also related to why the banks were drawing on their Fed accounts) may have been that, as the Fed sold off assets on its balance sheet, there’s less cash in the banks and the money market.

“When the base money continues to shrink with the balance sheet, even while the number of assets [like MBS, bonds, etc.] continues to grow, that means there’s more leverage in the system,” Hu said. “The solution that the Fed came out was to start buying [Treasury bonds], to provide repo to the market. All these actions were aimed to increase the base money in the system.”

This cash is necessary to keep leverage afloat, Hu continued.

“If you’re levered, you have to be levered every day,” he said. “If you have one bad day, you go bankrupt. That’s why in September [2019] people were paying 10 percent [interest for repurchasing agreements], because if you don’t have money, you go bankrupt.”
The Fed May Extend Its Repo Reach

And that’s why the Fed stepped in, not just to control short-term money market rates, but to flush the system with cash to balance out debt obligations. These report markets are vital not only for the lifeblood of big institutions, but for smaller ones, as well.

Per Reuters, “Without reliable sources of loans through the repo market, the financial system risks losing a valuable source of liquidity. Hedge funds, for example, use it to finance investments in U.S. Treasury securities and banks turn to it as option for raising suddenly-needed cash for clients.”

Hedge funds like Hu’s and other small institutions can only participate in the repo market if a bigger institution brokers the transaction, but now the Fed is considering lending directly to smaller institutions like hedge funds.

Hedge funds typically operate on high leverage with the goal of providing steady and significant returns for their investors. If the Fed lends to these offices and other smaller ones like it directly, it would be in a bid to ease leverage in this sector of finance, as well.

“The Fed is not only preserving the reserve [of member banks] but increasing it, but the key is: to what extent?” Hu queried.

“The Fed has been hesitant to go the last step,” Hu continued, referring to the fact that it hasn’t loosened reserve requirements to allow more leverage from the banks. “They decreased the leverage in the system, but they did not allow the banks to have looser regulation … I think the Fed is reluctant to increase leverage in the system because they understand that leverage goes both ways.”
Where’s the Limit?

And what if it goes the wrong way? That’s the sane question that any American might ask when confronted with the fact that banks have been greased with $500 billion in Federal liquidity to keep financial markets from stalling. So far, the repo operations have somewhat calmed a roiled repo market, but the Fed keeps on lending with a market intervention originally billed as temporary in September 2019.

The question now is, when is enough enough? Or as Hu put it, “If they overdo it, then we’re going the other way” — economic downturn.

“If you listen to the Fed, the Fed is aware of this,” Hu said, referring to the gravity of adding several hundred billion dollars into these markets. “If this $500 billion becomes $1 trillion or $2 trillion, then the average American should worry. But now, the Fed’s argument is that we’ve gone too far with shrinking the balance, that since September [2019] we’ve had too little in reserves and that this has hurt the system.”

Dennis Lockhart, former head of the Atlanta branch of the Federal Reserve, likened the Fed’s open market operations to a “trial and error” exercise in a CNBC interview. Lockhart also noted that he doesn’t equate these liquidity injections with quantitative easing — the Fed’s practice of purchasing long-term Treasury bonds to print new cash.

Quantitative easing, Hu assented, tries to control long-term interest rates with reliable, long-term liquidity; repo market intervention, conversely, controls interest rates for immediate short-term liquidity.

Still, the final effect is the same — the Fed purchases assets to flush banks with cash. And like the Fed’s quantitative easing during the Great Recession (which led to the inflated balance sheet of over $4 trillion we have today), the uncharted territory for these repos is that ultimate question: Where do they end?

Hu believes that they will begin winding down and the market will stabilize around April 15, 2020 — federal tax day. But he said that it will be a “challenge to unwind this thing” and that it will be a painstaking process.

“I trust that they will do it slowly, gradually, because you can’t ask the bank to pay you $100 billion in one day,” Hu said.

With no clear end in sight and billions in liquidity entering a little-known yet crucial market for the U.S. financial system, some Americans might be wondering if and when the dam is going to break. Or how much capital needs to enter the system to keep the leverage from flooding the levee.

“In September [2019], we’ve seen the limit of the system,” Hu said.

Halfway through the first month of the new year, with the Fed still sponsoring repo agreements, we might now be asking, “Does the limit even exist?”

The Democratic Party Central / National Committee can't choose Presidents

 

The Democratic Party may be shocked to hear this, but we live in a country where citizens say who gets an elected position, not a political party. The 2016 election proved that democratic principles are alive and well when then-candidate Trump beat Hillary Clinton. The left has never been able to accept the defeat. The Democrat-led House of Representatives voted along party lines to impeach President Trump, but over what? Hurt feelings?
We live in a country where our voting voices should be held in high regard. Democracy gives citizens a way to speak out against the government and their actions every two, four, and six years. The Democratic Party does not appreciate the ability to elect whom we want. Instead, they are trying to undo the election still three years later. The Democratic Party is trying to stifle the First Amendment rights of American citizens.
Trump’s reelection opportunity is in approximately nine and a half months. Yet, Democrats voted to impeach the president. A sure sign that they think he will win a second term.
James Madison correctly forewarned that impeachment is a potential political tool. He feared the possibility of sharp division amongst the citizenry if impeachment was misused. It was as if Madison knew that the Democratic Party would be what it is today in America.
Our Founding Fathers came from a system that operated actual oppression. Not a social justice warrior crusade over false “injustices” and imagined offenses. They wanted a government that was limited and restrained. The Electoral College voting system was set up in a way that every state had a say so, and it was brilliant. Since the Democrats cannot get what they want, they have weaponized impeachment as a way around the will of Americans.

Please make no mistake about it: Democrats hate our system of voting. They want to ultimately get rid of it and be the ones who choose the president through the popular vote since large liberal cities are primarily Democratic voters.
In the 2016 election, Hillary won the popular vote by 2,868,518 votes but lost the Electoral College votes 304 – 237. The population of New York City is approximately 8.54 million, and Los Angeles County is around 10.1 million people. These are both Democratic strongholds that will likely never turn Republican and gave Hillary the bump to win the popular vote. As long as these large cities grow, and the left is successful in bringing in illegal immigrants with the goal of amnesty, the Republicans stand losing the presidency for decades, if not longer.
The popular vote, as of right now, is on the Democrat’s side. The last time a Republican presidential candidate won the popular was in 2004 with George W. Bush’s reelection.
Democrats are on a mission to end the will of Republican voters. Their impeachment is a sham, and their new-found love for the Constitution is a lie.
Trump’s policies are the left’s worst nightmare. The cultural war has shifted back towards the right. Our military is active and powerful again, operating by the philosophy of peace through strength – ask Iran. The economy has picked up steam since Trump removed burdensome regulations. The courts, from district courts to the Supreme Court, have new lifetime originalist constructionist judges on them.
Nancy Pelosi does not want that list to grow. She understands that if Trump gets four more years, then their plan to remake America is severely damaged.

The Democrats are not happy with the choice of regular Americans who elected Trump. They want to cancel our voice and implement leftist ideology more deep-seated into our culture and society.
Democrats are trying to remove our votes from history. They do not like that citizens can speak for themselves. As the left tries to cancel anyone who disagrees with them in pop culture, the Democrats are trying to quiet our loud voices from November 2016.
The Democratic Party needs to know they do not get to choose the president. Just because they are not happy about the outcome, does not mean they can abusively use impeachment to remove our choice for president. The Democratic Party is overreaching, and we must not tolerate it. We have a critical responsibility this November, and that is to turn out in droves and take back the House of Representatives. That is the only way this madness will cease.

The Democratic Party is full of the tyrants our Founding Fathers warned us.

Democrats’ impeachment of President Trump is the Founding Fathers’ “greatest nightmare.”

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said the Democrats’ impeachment of President Trump is the Founding Fathers’ “greatest nightmare.”

Speaking with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, Dershowitz, a Democrat who is on Trump’s legal defense team, made clear that the impeachment articles contain no crimes.

“Is it your position that President Trump should not be impeached even if all the evidence and arguments laid out by the House are accepted as fact?” Stephanopoulos asked.

“That’s right,” Dershowitz replied. “When you have somebody who, for example, is indicted for a crime -- let's assume you have a lot of evidence -- but the grand jury simply indicts for something that's not a crime, and that's what happened here, you have a lot of evidence, disputed evidence, that could go both ways, but the vote was to impeach on abuse of power, which is not within the constitutional criteria for impeachment, and obstruction of Congress.

“Those are both the kinds of things that led Hamilton and Madison -- talk about nightmare -- to regard that as the greatest nightmare, number one, giving Congress too much power to allow the president to serve at the will of Congress,” he continued. “And number two, as Hamilton put it, the greatest danger is turning impeachment into a question of who has the most votes in which House, and rather than having a consensus and a broad view of impeachable conduct.”

    .@GStephanopoulos: "Is it your position that President Trump should not be impeached even if all the evidence and arguments laid out by the House are accepted as fact?"

    Alan Dershowitz: "That's right." https://t.co/lpd9l8H85g pic.twitter.com/auxhsVu5lG
    — ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 19, 2020

Dershowitz said his role in the case is to "determine what is a constitutionally authorized criteria for impeachment" and despite Stephanopoulos's pressing, refused to give his personal opinion about whether he believed the president acted improperly.

"I'm a liberal Democrat who's been critical of many of the policies of the president. I'm here as a constitutional lawyer, a lawyer who's taught for 50 years constitutional criminal procedure at Harvard, taught a course on impeachment, taught a course on constitutional litigation," he said. "I'm here to lend my expertise on that issue and that issue alone, because that's the primary issue."

Saturday, January 18, 2020

The Most Haunted Places in Minnesota


Schmidt Brewery


St. Paul

Certain developers and condo hunters won’t want to hear this, but the august, architecturally arousing Schmidt Brewery building—erstwhile home to Minnesota’s Ur-lager maker, site of affordable artists housing, and next door to Keg and Case Market—is mad haunted. Like, people-died-there-in-horrible-ways haunted.
The Schmidt family’s cinematic history—random shootings, gangland kidnappings—has made it a magnet recently for ghost hunters. In fact, Adrian Lee, a London-born historian and founder of the International Paranormal Society, claims it as an inspiration for his book, Mysterious Minnesota. The place “still sends a chill down my spine,” he says.
In 1884, Jacob Schmidt, a Bavarian immigrant, settled in St. Paul and began making beer as a joint owner with the North Star Brewery, located at Commercial Street and Hudson Road. Nine years later, he was detained by police—but never charged—for allegedly shooting some random pigeon hunters docked on the river behind the brewery. In the late 1890s, Schmidt Brewery was officially born. A year later, it burned to the ground. At the height of Prohibition, in 1934, the son of the owners, Edward G. Bremer, was kidnapped by the infamous Ma Barker Gang and held for $200,000.
But intrigue aside, most of the hauntings have to do with ordinary brewery workers dying in horrendous ways. In 1896, two perished in an explosion. In 1902, a cooper plummeted down an unmarked elevator shaft. And in 1904, Matthew Kohler, a guy whose job it was to light gas lamps in the brewery, died from (no kidding) “inhaling flames.”
During a recent investigation, Lee communicated with Kohler in the bowels of the building. It was, he says, “a complete vindication” of ghost hunting and the psychic process. And it creeped him out. Bad.

Palmer House Hotel

Sauk Centre
thepalmerhousehotel.com

Forget being the most haunted site in Minnesota. The Palmer House Hotel, in Sauk Centre, is one of the most haunted sites in America. No joke. Big-city ghost hunters—including, most recently, the crew from the Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventurers—flock to this antique 1901 hotel with such frequency that owner Kelley Freese has had to gently insist on some Midwestern spook manners: “Here, as in life,” she warns, “Please and Thank you go a long way.” In other words, don’t be a jerk to the ghosts. Especially Lucy.
The hotel’s most notorious “permanent, unregistered guest,” as Freese calls the ghosts, resides in Room 17.  Guests can sit in one of the two high-backed chairs facing the bed, but not both, not at the same time. Why? It forces Lucy to the mattress. And she doesn’t like that, says Freese, “because of what her employer made her do there.”
Legend has it that Lucy was a prostitute working at the Sauk Centre House, a grim frontier brothel that occupied the current site of the Palmer. The Sauk Centre House burned down in 1900, and the Palmer was erected in its place the following year. But the new joint couldn’t shake the legacy of abused and murdered women. Lucy is said to dislike men. She reacts to male guests by slamming the room door so hard it rattles the artwork on the wall and aggressively dropping the temperature. During a recent investigation, a Chicago ghost-hunting outfit allegedly recorded a temperature of negative-one-degrees Fahrenheit during their stay.
Other active areas include the bar and Room 22, home to a rancorous entity named Raymond—rumored to be Lucy’s pimp. “My favorite is when guests complain about how noisy the people above them were,” says Freese. “Then I remind them: you were on the top floor.”

Soap Factory (Closed)

Minneapolis
soapfactory.org

If the Palmer House is the most famous haunted site in Minnesota, then the Soap Factory—a cavernous 1883 warehouse on the Minneapolis riverfront, once an experimental art venue—was the fiercest.
It is “one of the most paranormally thick environments I have ever had the displeasure to investigate,” says Lee. And while Lee is loathe to speak in religious terms, he considers the entities there “bordering on demonic.” His four-year investigation of the space has found men getting attacked, a darkness so profound it blotted out infrared imagery, and—perhaps most disturbingly—the smell of sulfur. It seems this is the one place that truly flaps the unflappable. Lee doesn’t go in without a couple of pastors.
The Soap Factory was, of course, an old soap factory, pumping out suds during the soap boom of the 1880s. And you know what soap’s made from, right? Animal carcasses. Thousands of them. The flow of bloody skins through the factory rivaled the current of the great river next door, and at the turn of the century, the building’s appetite for flesh made it a repository for stray dogs that the city paid to be rounded up and strangled. Not gruesome enough for you? Consider, then, that before the warehouse was built, the site was home to a small business that produced artificial limbs for soldiers wounded in the Civil War. That’s some creepy stuff.
For many Halloweens brave souls were invited to venture into the Soap Factory’s bowels for the gallery’s annual Halloween Haunted Basement event. Even braver souls volunteered to play ghouls for the production. But exorcists take note: “There’s a spirit that kind of takes over our actors,” says Tom Loftus, a past director. “It can get pretty wild.”
The Haunted Basement moved to Rosedale Center in 2019.

Chase on the Lake

Walker
chaseonthelake.com

You’ve got your EVPs, your Ghost Boxes, your EMF meters. But sometimes the best gauge of a hotel’s spookiness is to simply poll the teenagers working the front desk. “Oh, this place is SO haunted,” chirped one young employee. This summer, she said, a coworker was downstairs servicing the resort’s retro, two-lane bowling alley, when the nearby jukebox jolted to life. “And it was, like, playing his favorite song.” OMG. Other employee tales involve phantom children playing in the hallways, unplugged phones ringing, and the grandfather clock in the lobby spitting its key from its lock.
It’s all due to the Leech Lake resort’s “meta-narrative of death, violence, and sorrow,” claims Lee. While researching Mysterious Minnesota, Lee found that not only was the original Chase Hotel used as a temporary morgue for dead soldiers during the 1898 Battle of Sugar Point, but later, on the cusp of the resort’s first major renovation, the son of hotel founder Lewis “Bert” Woodruff Chase died of pneumonia, on May 27, 1922. The grand reopening, 11 days later, doubled as a wake.
When the Chase celebrated its 2007 renovation the family’s original funeral garb was trotted out for an exhibition in the lobby. And teen employees take note: guests witnessed the frocks sway in an unexplained gush of wind.

First Avenue

Minneapolis
first-avenue.com

Yup, it’s not just club kids and rockers that haunt this legendary music venue. Ask any employee and they’ll confirm that, indeed, just as that ’80s Australian dark wave band insisted, the Dead Can Dance.
Dave Schrader, the bald-headed, bad-ass host of 103.5 FM’s nightly paranormal show “Darkness Radio,” has investigated the venue numerous times, and alleges that the upstairs dance lounge, the Record Room, is one of the most active areas of the site. “Deejays frequently report hearing strange things over their headphones,” he says. “Growls, voices, screams. It’s pretty off-the-hook-bizarre.”
But the greatest First Ave legend has to do with the building’s former self: the great Art Deco Greyhound Bus Center that opened on Seventh Street in 1937. The story goes that a young woman went to the station to meet her boyfriend, who was returning home from World War II. When she was informed that he had died in combat, she lurched into the restroom and hanged herself. In recent years, multiple First Ave staffers have reported seeing a ghastly scene in the fifth stall of the women’s bathroom: a full-bodied apparition, throat wrenched to the side by a noose. The woman—always in a green army jacket—is sometimes seen dancing at the club, along with other legless ghosts. Cue the “Thriller” video.

Mounds Theatre

St. Paul
moundstheatre.org

If you’re an actor, all the world’s a stage, right? So why wouldn’t the next world be one, too? For the spirits of the Historic Mounds Theatre, considered the most paranormally active building in St. Paul, it is. The 1922 playhouse enjoys long stretches of emptiness—the jewel-box theater only opens a couple times a week for rehearsals and productions—and is professionally equipped, making it the perfect space for fame-hungry phantoms to privately act out their dreams. Consider it the haunting version of singing in the shower—and the ghosts get just as peeved when they’re interrupted.
Jackie Day, who re-opened the theater in 2001, attests to getting physically grabbed by a spirit while working late one night on a poster. Investigators prowling the basement have left with claw marks on their backs. And in the projection booth—still dominated by a pair of hulking reel-to-reels—a foul-mouthed entity named Red has been known to hurl both obscenities and objects at women. (Actors, man.) But the spooks aren’t all jerks; the theatre’s most notorious ghost is a young girl in a pink dress, often seen bouncing a ball on the stage.

Father Hennepin

Bluffs Park
Minneapolis
realghosttours.com

St. Anthony Main, along the Mississippi Riverfront, is old. Super old. It’s the city’s most elderly street, its limestone buildings bellied up against the cobblestone pavers since 1855. “If the spirits aren’t there,” says Curt Hansen, “where are they?”
Hansen’s a guide for the Real Ghost Tours of St. Anthony Main, Minnesota’s only year-round ghost tour outfit. On Friday and Saturday nights, he escorts the curious along the “Spirit River,” a metaphysical subway line that tour organizers believe carries entities beneath the buildings on Main. But ask him nicely, and he’ll give you a bonus spook: an investigation of the shadowy green spaces beneath the Hennepin and Third Avenue bridges. That’s where the real action is.
A few years ago, he snapped some photos of the dark tunnel where a tailrace enters the Pillsbury A Mill. The images revealed hundreds of “white bats”—an orgy of spectral beings, bursting from the tunnel in a murder of avian frenzy. Why so much death?
Hansen notes that when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers came to Minneapolis, in the 1950s and 1960s, to construct two sets of locks at the lower end of the falls, they destroyed the old Spirit Island—a body of land used as a burial ground by Native Americans. Bad juju.
Then, too: “There have been hundreds of suicides off the Third Avenue bridge. There were four last year. Every time they take a body out of the water, the shore line lights up with EVP”—electronic voice phenomenon—“for two to three weeks.”

Thursday, January 16, 2020

Always wanted to renounce American Citizenship

I always wanted to move to Canada and become a Canadian citizen or New Zealand or Australia.  Nobody talks on my Youtube, twitter, facebook, instagram, PInterest, email.  Neighbors only wave. Popular people on Facebook like Leninist Bernie Sanders.  They get lots of comments.   They like Leninism.  Canada/Australia doesn't vote for Leninist politicians.  Wisconsin already voted for Leninist Bernie Sanders 2016.  Wisconsin votes for Maoist communist Tony Evers.

Would love to move to a more moderate country like Canada or Australia or New Zealand.

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

10 Little Known Haunted Places in Minnesota

We know that Minnesota has more lakes than hot dishes, but did you know that the Land of 10,000 Lakes is crawling in creepy-crawly paranormal activity? We really shouldn’t be surprised. after all, Anoka, Minnesota, is the Halloween capital of the world. C’mon ghouls and goblins — let’s explore these little known haunted places!

Saturday, January 11, 2020

Top 1000 Rock Songs

1000 Crosby, Stills & Nash - Long Time Gone
999 Van Halen - Best Of Both Worlds
998 The Who - The Seeker
997 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Roll Me Away
996 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Crosstown Traffic
995 Pat Benatar - You Better Run
994 U2 - Angel Of Harlem
993 Traffic - Glad/Freedom Rider
992 Paul McCartney - Too Many People
991 The Allman Brothers Band - Ain't Wastin' Time No More
990 Spirit - I Got A Line On You
989 Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - The House Is Rockin'
988 Pat Benatar - Promises In The Dark
987 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Stone Free
986 Queen - Keep Yourself Alive
985 Santana - Soul Sacrifice
984 Eagles - James Dean
983 The Who - Gettin' In Tune
982 John Mellencamp - Paper In Fire
981 Grateful Dead - Uncle John's Band
980 Sammy Hagar - There's Only One Way To Rock
979 KISS - Shout It Out Loud
978 Rolling Stones - Rocks Off
977 Van Halen - Love Walks In
976 Eric Clapton - Pretending
975 Bruce Springsteen - Badlands
974 The Doors - The Crystal Ship
973 Van Halen - Dreams
972 The Who - The Kids Are Alright
971 Triumph - Lay It On The Line
970 Nazareth - Hair Of The Dog
969 Robert Plant - Little By Little
968 Yes - Yours Is No Disgrace
967 Pat Benatar - Hell Is For Children
966 Guns N' Roses - Patience
965 .38 Special - Rockin' Into The Night
964 David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
963 Crosby, Stills & Nash - Dark Star
962 Elvis Costello - Pump It Up
961 The Who - Slip Kid
960 Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
959 Bryan Adams - This Time
958 Ozzy Osbourne - Mama, I'm Coming Home
957 Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
956 Bad Company - Good Lovin' Gone Bad
955 Clash - London Calling
954 Paul McCartney - Hi Hi Hi
953 Stevie Ray Vaughan - Cold Shot
952 Billy Idol - Hot In The City
951 Steve Miller Band - Space Cowboy
950 Heart - Even It Up
949 Nazareth - Love Hurts
948 Bob Seger - Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight
947 KISS - I Was Made For Lovin' You
946 J. Geils Band - Give It To Me
945 Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky Is Crying
944 Guns N' Roses - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
943 Rush - New World Man
942 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Manic Depression
941 Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
940 Fixx - Saved By Zero
939 Def Leppard - Bringin' On The Heartbreak
938 Neil Young - Down By The River
937 Van Halen - Right Now
936 John Mellencamp - Check It Out
935 ZZ Top - Waiting For The Bus/Jesus Just Left
934 Kinks - Destroyer
933 Loggins & Messina - Angry Eyes
932 Great White - Once Bitten Twice Shy
931 David Bowie - The Jean Genie
930 Blondie - Dreaming
929 Rolling Stones - Waiting On A Friend
928 John Lennon - No. 9 Dream
927 Eric Clapton - She's Waiting
926 Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
925 Billy Idol - Cradle Of Love
924 Badfinger - Baby Blue
923 Sammy Hagar - Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy
922 Glenn Frey - Smuggler's Blues
921 Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug
920 The Who - The Song Is Over
919 Pink Floyd - On The Turning Away
918 Paul McCartney & Wings - Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five
917 Journey - I'll Be Alright Without You
916 Genesis - Home By The Sea
915 Van Halen - Dancing In The Streets
914 Bad Company - Rock Steady
913 Pat Benatar - We Belong
912 Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
911 Rod Stewart - Mandolin Wind
910 U2/B.B. King - When Love Comes To Town
909 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
908 Billy Joel - Pressure
907 The Who - Athena
906 Police - Driven To Tears
905 Eric Clapton - It's In The Way That You Use It
904 Byrds - So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star
903 U2 - Desire
902 Donnie Iris - Ah! Leah!
901 Bob Seger - Feel Like A Number
900 Heart - Kick It Out
899 Bad Company - Burnin' Sky
898 Billy Squier - My Kinda Lover
897 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - I Need To Know
896 George Thorogood - I Drink Alone
895 Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love
894 Raspberries - Go All The Way
893 Police - Can't Stand Losing You
892 Def Leppard - Rock Of Ages
891 Pat Benatar - Treat Me Right
890 Paul McCartney - Helen Wheels
889 Journey - Feeling That Way/Anytime
888 INXS - The One Thing
887 Janis Joplin - Down On Me
886 Pat Benatar - I Need A Lover
885 Steely Dan - Black Friday
884 Rainbow - Since You Been Gone
883 Steve Miller Band - Living In The USA
882 Dire Straits - Skateaway
881 REO Speedwagon - Time For Me To Fly
880 Thunderclap Newman - Something In The Air
879 Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noize
878 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Sweet Hitch-Hiker
877 Pete Townshend - Rough Boys
876 Traffic - Empty Pages
875 ZZ Top - Got Me Under Pressure
874 Foghat - I Just Want To Make Love To You
873 U2 - One
872 Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life
871 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday's Gone
870 Def Leppard - Foolin'
869 Eddie Money - Think I'm In Love
868 Lynyrd Skynyrd - You Got That Right
867 George Thorogood - Move It On Over
866 Guess Who - Hand Me Down World
865 Foghat - Fool For The City
864 The Allman Brothers Band - Revival
863 Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care
862 Police - Walking On The Moon
861 Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield
860 Heart - Heartless
859 Lee Michaels - Do You Know What I Mean
858 Van Halen - When It's Love
857 The Firm - Radioactive
856 The Beatles - Rain
855 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Listen To Her Heart
854 Elton John - Border Song
853 Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen
852 Rod Stewart - Hot Legs
851 Bob Seger - You'll Accomp'ny Me
850 Gary Wright - Love Is Alive
849 Gregg Allman - I'm No Angel
848 Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well
847 Canned Heat - On The Road Again
846 Foreigner - Dirty White Boy
845 Buffalo Springfield - Mr. Soul
844 Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
843 John Mellencamp - R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.
842 John Fogerty - Rock And Roll Girls
841 Supertramp - Bloody Well Right
840 Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle
839 Deep Purple - Space Truckin'
838 Clash - I Fought The Law
837 Billy Squier - The Stroke
836 Bad Company - Movin' On
835 ZZ Top - I Thank You
834 Tom Petty - You Don't Know How It Feels
833 Journey - Only The Young
832 REO Speedwagon - Ridin' The Storm Out
831 John Mellencamp - Rain On The Scarecrow
830 Grateful Dead - Casey Jones
829 Van Halen - Finish What Ya Started
828 Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster
827 Rare Earth - I Just Want To Celebrate
826 Outlaws - Green Grass And High Tides
825 Grateful Dead - Touch Of Grey
824 David Bowie - Starman
823 Bon Jovi - Runaway
822 Steve Winwood - While You See A Chance
821 Head East - Never Been Any Reason
820 Creedence Clearwater Revival - The Midnight Special
819 Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly
818 Billy Squier - Everybody Wants You
817 Doobie Brothers - Takin' It To The Streets
816 Tom Petty - Yer So Bad
815 Fleetwood Mac - Monday Morning
814 Cat Stevens - Peace Train
813 Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55
812 Tesla - Signs
811 John Fogerty - The Old Man Down The Road
810 Guns N' Roses - Paradise City
809 Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
808 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Saturday Night Special
807 Eddie Money - Shakin'
806 Billy Joel - Allentown
805 Elton John - Take Me To The Pilot
804 ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses
803 Stevie Ray Vaughan - Crossfire
802 Queen - Bicycle Race
801 The Doors - Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
800 Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey 
799 Genesis - Paperlate
798 Electric Light Orchestra - Strange Magic
797 Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
796 Edgar Winter - Free Ride
795 U2 - Mysterious Ways
794 Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
793 John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - Give Peace A Chance
792 Pretenders - Middle Of The Road
791 The Animals - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
790 Boston - Amanda
789 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Even The Losers
788 Santana - She's Not There
787 Jefferson Starship - Find Your Way Back
786 Jethro Tull - Hymn 43
785 Bryan Adams - Cuts Like A Knife
784 Jethro Tull - Bungle In The Jungle
783 Black Crowes - Hard To Handle
782 Billy Joel - Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
781 Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pride And Joy
780 Bad Company - Shooting Star
779 John Mellencamp - Authority Song
778 The Allman Brothers Band - Blue Sky
777 George Thorogood - Who Do You Love
776 Genesis - No Reply At All
775 Bryan Adams - Run To You
774 Foreigner - Long, Long Way From Home
773 Outlaws - There Goes Another Love Song
772 Elton John - Honky Cat
771 Billy Squier - Lonely Is The Night
770 Bob Seger - Rambin' Gamblin' Man
769 Mike & The Mechanics - All I Need Is A Miracle
768 Rod Stewart - (I Know) I'm Losing You
767 Police - De Do Do Do De Da Da Da
766 Gary Wright - Dream Weaver
765 Joe Walsh - All Night Long
764 Eric Burdon & War - Spill The Wine
763 Dr. John - Right Place, Wrong Time
762 J. Geils Band - Love Stinks
761 INXS - New Sensation
760 Cream - Tales Of Brave Ulysses
759 Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself
758 U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
757 Rolling Stones - Hang Fire
756 Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World
755 Pretenders - My City Was Gone
754 Doobie Brothers - Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me)
753 Meatloaf - Paradise By The Dashboard Light
752 David Essex - Rock On
751 KISS - Rock And Roll All Nite
750 George Thorogood - Bad To The Bone
749 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Don't Ask Me No Questions
748 Bob Seger - Her Strut
747 Joe Cocker - The Letter
746 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Fire
745 Joan Jett - I Love Rock 'N' Roll
744 Fleetwood Mac - Sara
743 Bad Company - Ready For Love
742 Billy Squier - In The Dark
741 Foreigner - Head Games
740 Van Halen - Intruder/Pretty Woman
739 Jethro Tull - Teacher
738 Genesis - Invisible Touch
737 Deep Purple - Highway Star
736 Bob Seger - Like A Rock
735 The Beatles - I Want You (She's So Heavy)
734 Asia - Only Time Will Tell
733 Spencer Davis Group - I'm A Man
732 Talking Heads - Take Me To The River
731 Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky
730 Billy Joel - It's Still Rock And Roll To Me
729 Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - Devil With A Blue Dress On
728 John Mellencamp - Hurts So Good
727 Grand Funk Railroad - The Loco-Motion
726 Byrds - Eight Miles High
725 Steve Winwood - Higher Love
724 The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
723 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's Last Dance
722 Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone
721 Atlanta Rhythm Section - So Into You
720 R.E.M. It's The End Of The World As We Know It
719 J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame
718 Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
717 Eric Clapton - I Can't Stand it
716 Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight
715 Paul Simon - Me And Julio Down By The School Yard
714 Lynyrd Skynyrd - That Smell
713 Electric Light Orchestra - Fire On High
712 Boston - Feelin' Satisfied
711 Jethro Tull - Cross-Eyed Mary
710 Doobie Brothers - Jesus Is Just Alright
709 INXS - Need You Tonight
708 Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home
707 Steve Winwood - Valerie
706 Jefferson Starship - Miracles
705 Loverboy - Turn Me Loose
704 Grateful Dead - Truckin'
703 Billy Joel - It's Still Rock and Roll To Me
702 Rolling Stones - *****
701 Dire Straits - Walk Of Life
700 Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy
699 Santana - Winning
698 Foreigner - Urgent
697 Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
696 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
695 Genesis - Turn It On Again
694 Loggins & Messina - Your Mama Don't Dance
693 Cream - Strange Brew
692 Cat Stevens - Wild World
691 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Into The Great Wide Open
690 Eric Clapton - Forever Man
689 Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Roll On Down The Highway
688 The Beatles - Back In The U.S.S.R.
687 Bob Seger - Old Time Rock & Roll
686 The Band - Up On Cripple Creek
685 Elton John - The ***** Is Back
684 J. Geils Band - Must Of Got Lost
683 Sugarloaf - Green-Eyed Lady
682 Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler
681 Alan Parsons Project - Games People Play
680 Paul McCartney - Listen To What The Man Said
679 Rick Derringer - Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo
678 Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger
677 Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
676 Styx - The Grand Illusion
675 Janis Joplin - Mercedes Benz
674 Stevie Nicks - Stand Back
673 Jimi Hendrix Experience - The Wind Cries Mary
672 John Mellencamp - Crumblin' Down
671 Guess Who - Share The Land
670 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Hey Tonight
669 Tom Cochrane - Life Is A Highway
668 Zombies - She's Not There
667 Jimmy Buffet - Margaritaville
666 The Who - I Can't Explain
665 Night Ranger - Don't Tell Me You Love Me
664 Golden Earring - Radar Love
663 Crosby, Stills & Nash - Marrakesh Express
662 David Bowie - China Girl
661 Elton John - Crocodile Rock
660 Deep Purple - Woman From Tokyo
659 Steve Miller Band - Jungle Love
658 The Animals - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
657 Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick
656 Robert Palmer - Bad Case Of Lovin' You
655 Grand Funk Railroad - Some Kind Of Wonderful
654 Fleetwood Mac - Say You Love Me
653 Def Leppard - Photograph
652 Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
651 Rainbow - Man On The Silver Mountain
650 John Mellencamp - Lonely Ol' Night
649 Queen - You're My Best Friend
648 The Beatles - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
647 Don Henley - The End Of The Innocence
646 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
645 Journey - Faithfully
644 The Yardbirds - For Your Love
643 Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies
642 Bad Company - Feel Like Makin' Love
641 America - Tin Man
640 Talking Heads - Life During Wartime
639 Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
638 Led Zeppelin - Gallow's Pole
637 The Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out
636 Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell
635 Jackson Browne - The Load Out/Stay
634 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More
633 Eagles - Victim Of Love
632 Moody Blues - I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band)
631 Heart - Straight On
630 Crosby, Stills & Nash - Wooden Ships
629 Ace - How Long
628 Foreigner - Hot Blooded
627 Youngbloods - Get Together
626 Eddie Money - Baby Hold On
625 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Hey Joe
624 Paul McCartney - Junior's Farm
623 Genesis - Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
622 John Fogerty - Centerfield
621 Jackson Browne - Doctor My Eyes
620 Pretenders - Back On The Chain Gang
619 The Allman Brothers Band - Whipping Post
618 Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
617 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Hate Myself For Loving You
616 Outfield - Your Love
615 Jackson Browne - Boulevard
614 Elton John - Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
613 The Cars - Moving In Stereo
612 Rush - Subdivisions
611 Boston - Hitch A Ride
610 Joe Cocker - She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
609 The Who - Tommy Can You Hear Me?
608 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Travelin' Band
607 The Beatles - Golden Slumbers
606 Van Halen - Jump
605 Ten Years After - I'd Love To Change The World
604 Styx - Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)
603 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Three Steps
602 Jefferson Starship - Jane
601 George Harrison - Give Me Love
600 Eric Clapton - Lay Down Sally 
599 Foreigner - Double Vision
598 Don Henley - All She Wants To Do Is Dance
597 Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
596 Eagles - New Kid In Town
595 Cheap Trick - Dream Police
594 Derek & The Dominos - Bell Bottom Blues
593 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Learning To Fly
592 Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
591 David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
590 Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
589 Bob Seger - The Fire Down Below
588 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Who'll Stop The Rain
587 Black Crowes - She Talks To Angels
586 Rod Stewart - You Wear It Well
585 The Beatles - Don't Let Me Down
584 AC/DC - Shot Down In Flames
583 Mountain - Mississippi Queen
582 Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
581 Marshall Tucker Band - Heard It In A Love Song
580 Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
579 Elton John - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
578 Sammy Hagar - Heavy Metal
577 Alan Parsons Project - I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You
576 INXS - What You Need
575 Pink Floyd - Empty Spaces/Young Lust
574 David Bowie - Golden Years
573 REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You
572 Troggs - Wild Thing
571 John Mellencamp - Pink Houses
570 Queen - Killer Queen
569 Rolling Stones - She's So Cold
568 Journey - Any Way You Want It
567 Edgar Winter - Frankenstein
566 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Breakdown
565 Crosby, Stills & Nash - Our House
564 Bob Seger - Still The Same
563 Pat Benatar - Shadows of the Night
562 Night Ranger - When You Close Your Eyes
561 Van Halen - Runnin' With The Devil
560 Paul Simon - Kodachrome
559 Robert Plant - Big Log
558 Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes
557 The Who - Summertime Blues
556 Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face
555 The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
554 Joe Cocker - Feelin' Alright
553 Faces - Stay With Me
552 Steve Miller Band - Swingtown
551 Rolling Stones - Happy
550 Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
549 J. Geils Band - Centerfold
548 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Down On The Corner
547 Genesis - Just A Job To Do
546 Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
545 Steely Dan - My Old School
544 The Who - 5:15
543 Bruce Springsteen - Prove It All Night
542 Steve Miller Band - Rock N' Me
541 David Bowie - Young Americans
540 Rolling Stones - Shattered
539 Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name
538 Led Zeppelin - Dancing Days
537 Eddie Money - Two Tickets To Paradise
536 Jethro Tull - Living In The Past
535 George Thorogood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
534 Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
533 Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead Or Alive
532 Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride
531 The Cars - Shake It Up
530 The Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
529 Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me (Not To Come)
528 Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle
527 Moody Blues - Question
526 Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
525 Guess Who - These Eyes
524 John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band - On The Dark Side
523 The Who - The Real Me
522 Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band
521 John Lennon - Whatever Gets You Through The Night
520 Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You
519 The Doors - Back Door Man
518 Bruce Springsteen - Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
517 Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking
516 Elton John - Someone Saved My Life Tonight
515 Electric Light Orchestra - Do Ya
514 Clash - Train In Vain
513 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Mainstreet
512 Van Halen - Top Of The World
511 Pink Floyd - Have A Cigar
510 David Bowie - Suffragette City
509 Styx - Too Much Time On My Hands
508 Bachmann-Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
507 David Bowie - Let's Dance
506 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Here Comes My Girl
505 Van Halen - Where Have All The Good Times Gone!
504 Traffic - Dear Mr. Fantasy
503 Kinks - Come Dancing
502 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Suzie Q
501 Billy Joel - My Life
500 Lynyrd Skynyrd - What's Your Name
499 Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side
498 Black Sabbath - N.I.B.
497 Rolling Stones - As Tears Go By
496 Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature
495 The Beatles - Lady Madonna
494 Crosby, Stills & Nash - Just A Song Before I Go
493 Manfred Mann - Blinded By The Light
492 John Mellencamp - Small Town
491 The Who - We're Not Gonna Take It
490 Phil Collins - Take Me Home
489 Dio - Rainbow In The Dark
488 Loverboy - Lovin' Every Minute Of It
487 Pretenders - Brass In Pocket
486 Moody Blues - The Story In Your Eyes
485 Eagles - The Best Of My Love
484 Journey - Who's Crying Now
483 Doobie Brothers - Rockin' Down The Highway
482 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around The Bend
481 KISS - Detroit Rock City
480 Elton John - Daniel
479 Led Zeppelin - How Many More Times
478 Badfinger - No Matter What
477 Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line
476 Bob Seger - Katmandu
475 The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man
474 Peter Frampton - Show Me The Way
473 Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
472 Jethro Tull - Aqualung
471 Van Halen - Dance The Night Away
470 Eric Clapton - Let It Rain
469 Emerson, Lake & Palmer - From The Beginning
468 Bruce Springsteen - Hungry Heart
467 The Cars - Drive
466 Rolling Stones - Angie
465 The Beatles - I Feel Fine
464 Talking Heads - And She Was
463 Yes - Long Distance Runaround/The Fish
462 Robert Plant - In The Mood
461 Grand Funk Railroad - Closer To Home/I'm Your Captain
460 David Bowie - Changes
459 Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
458 Genesis - Land Of Confusion
457 The Who - I'm Free
456 Led Zeppelin - Communication Breakdown
455 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Run Through The Jungle
454 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - The Waiting
453 Chicago - Saturday In The Park
452 Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Let It Ride
451 Bruce Hornsby & The Range - The Way It Is
450 T. Rex - Bang A Gong (Get It On)
449 Scandal - The Warrior
448 Neil Young - Southern Man
447 Boston - Smokin'
446 Kinks - All Day And All Of The Night
445 Cream - Badge
444 Doors - Twentieth Century Fox
443 The Cars - It's All I Can Do
442 Rolling Stones - Beast Of Burden
441 Doobie Brothers - Long Train Runnin'
440 Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
439 Police - Spirits In The Material World
438 Elton John - Tiny Dancer
437 Chicago - Feelin' Stronger Every Day
436 Supertramp - Take The Long Way Home
435 Led Zeppelin - Four Sticks
434 AC/DC - High Voltage
433 Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town
432 Traffic - The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
431 Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
430 The Who - Long Live Rock
429 Van Halen - Mean Street
428 The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
427 Steely Dan - Dirty Work
426 Stevie Nicks - Edge Of Seventeen
425 Moody Blues - Ride My See-Saw
424 Aerosmith - Angel
423 Janis Joplin - Piece Of My Heart
422 Free - All Right Now
421 Journey - Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin'/City Of The Angels
420 Eagles - Take It To The Limit
419 John Mellencamp - Jack And Diane
418 Scorpions - The Zoo
417 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin' Out My Back Door
416 Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another
415 Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
414 America - A Horse With No Name
413 Bad Company - Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy
412 Asia - Heat Of The Moment
411 Rolling Stones - Wild Horses
410 Genesis - Abacab
409 Aerosmith - The Other Side
408 The Doors - The End
407 Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine
406 ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'
405 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Call Me The Breeze
404 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - American Girl
403 Eagles - Desperado
402 Billy Squier - Rock Me Tonite
401 Deep Purple - Hush
400 Bad Company - Bad Company 
399 Styx - Fooling Yourself
398 The Beatles - Got To Get You Into My Life
397 AC/DC - Thunderstruck
396 Steely Dan - Hey Nineteen
395 Elton John - Rocket Man
394 Foreigner - Cold As Ice
393 Bob Seger - Against The Wind
392 Van Halen - Jamie's Cryin'
391 Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
390 Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
389 Led Zeppelin - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
388 Genesis - Misunderstanding
387 James Gang - Walk Away
386 ZZ Top - Legs
385 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - You Got Lucky
384 Eagles - Witchy Woman
383 Romantics - What I Like About You
382 Journey - Stone In Love
381 Rolling Stones - Start Me Up
380 Foreigner - Feels Like The First Time
379 David Bowie - Fame
378 Fleetwood Mac - Gypsy
377 The Doors - Soul Kitchen
376 The Cars - Bye Bye Love
375 The Who - I Can See For Miles
374 .38 Special - Caught Up In You
373 The Rascals - Good Lovin'
372 Pete Townshend - Let My Love Open The Door
371 James Gang - Funk No. 49
370 Supertramp - Give A Little Bit
369 Grand Funk Railroad - Bad Time
368 Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man
367 John Mellencamp - I Need A Lover
366 The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
365 Blondie - One Way Or Another
364 Tom Petty - You Wreck Me
363 Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me
362 Led Zeppelin - Good Times Bad Times
361 Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
360 Genesis - That's All
359 Rush - Freewill
358 Doobie Brothers - Listen To The Music
357 Eric Clapton - Cocaine
356 Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
355 Boston - Let Me Take You Home Tonight
354 The Band - The Weight
353 Steely Dan - FM
352 Rolling Stones - Tumbling Dice
351 The Beatles - Drive My Car
350 Neil Young - Heart Of Gold
349 Foghat - Slow Ride
348 AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
347 Phil Collins - I Don't Care Anymore
346 Steely Dan - Rikki Don't Lose That Number
345 Billy Joel - You May Be Right
344 Styx - Come Sail Away
343 Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon
342 Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
341 Doors - Roadhouse Blues
340 Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A.
339 Aerosmith - Janies Got A Gun
338 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born On The Bayou
337 Chicago - Does Anybody Know What Time It Is
336 Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
335 Led Zeppelin - Thank You
334 The Who - Squeeze Box
333 Santana - Evil Ways
332 Rolling Stones - Time Is On My Side
331 The Beatles - Something
330 Don Henley - Dirty Laundry
329 Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
328 Van Halen - Beautiful Girls
327 Van Morrison - Domino
326 The Clash - Rock The Casbah
325 Loverboy - Working For The Weekend
324 Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression Part 2
323 Ozzy Osbourne - Shot In The Dark
322 Cheap Trick - Surrender
321 Eagles - Peaceful Easy Feeling
320 Peter Frampton - Do You Feel Like We Do
319 Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Takin' Care Of Business
318 .38 Special - Hold On Loosely
317 AC/DC - It's A Long Way To The Top
316 Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown
315 The Doors - Love Me Two Times
314 Bruce Springsteen - Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
313 The Beatles - Hello Goodbye
312 Rush - Closer To The Heart
311 The Allman Brothers Band - Melissa
310 Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
309 The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!
308 Journey - Wheel In The Sky
307 The Who - Magic Bus
306 Led Zeppelin - Trampled Under Foot
305 Rod Stewart - Maggie May
304 Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl
303 Crosby, Stills & Nash - Teach Your Children
302 Rolling Stones - Mother's Little Helper
301 Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
300 Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me
299 Police - Message In A Bottle
298 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Foxey Lady
297 Neil Young - Old Man
296 Kinks - You Really Got Me
295 Aerosmith - Love In An Elevator
294 Van Halen - Feel Your Love Tonight
293 Billy Idol - White Wedding
292 Doors - People Are Strange
291 Creedence Clearwater Revival - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
290 The Beatles - The Ballad Of John And Yoko
289 The Who - Pinball Wizard
288 AC/DC - Rock And Roll Ain't Noise Pollution
287 Janis Joplin - Me And Bobby McGee
286 The Cars - Magic
285 Moody Blues - The Afternoon: Forever Afternoon(Tuesday?)
284 ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
283 Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man
282 Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
281 America - Ventura Highway
280 U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
279 Toto - Hold The Line
278 Led Zeppelin - Misty Mountain Hop
277 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves
276 Steely Dan - Reeling In The Years
275 Santana - Oye Como Va
274 Rolling Stones - Let's Spend The Night Together
273 Eric Clapton - After Midnight
272 Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley
271 Doors - Hello, I Love You
270 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Ohio
269 Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill
268 Queen - Somebody To Love
267 Kinks - Lola
266 Stealers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You
265 Tubes - She's A Beauty
264 AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
263 Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
262 Pink Floyd - Money
261 Aerosmith - Same Old Song And Dance
260 Jackson Browne - Running On Empty
259 Golden Earring - Twilight Zone
258 Rolling Stones - Miss You
257 Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave
256 The Beatles - Revolution
255 The Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man
254 Kansas - Dust In The Wind
253 Tom Petty - Free Fallin'
252 The Who - Goin' Mobile
251 Led Zeppelin - D'Yer Mak'er
250 Blondie - Call Me
249 Hollies - Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)
248 Van Halen - Panama
247 Heart - Magic Man
246 The Cars - You're All I've Got Tonight
245 Queen - Under Pressure
244 Billy Joel - Big Shot
243 Eagles - Tequila Sunrise
242 Rolling Stones - Ain't Too Proud To Beg
241 Doobie Brothers - Black Water
240 Blue Oyster Cult - Burnin' For You
239 Badfinger - Day After Day
238 Stephen Stills - Love The One You're With
237 Wings - Let 'Em In
236 Led Zeppelin - All My Love
235 Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London
234 Guess Who - American Woman
233 The Who - Eminence Front
232 Aerosmith - What It Takes
231 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary
230 David Bowie - Modern Love
229 Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon
228 Rolling Stones - Get Off My Cloud
227 Cars - Dangerous Type
226 Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'
225 Don Henley - The Boys Of Summer
224 The Beatles - Norwegian Wood
223 Santana - Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen
222 Led Zeppelin - What Is And What Should Never Be
221 AC/DC - Girls Got Rhythm
220 Elton John - Funeral For A Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)
219 Boston - Rock & Roll Band
218 Electric Light Orchestra - Evil Woman
217 Scorpions - No One Like You
216 The Doors - Break On Through (To The Other Side)
215 Paul McCartney & Wings - Live And Let Die
214 Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
213 Aerosmith - Dude (Looks Like A Lady)
212 Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone
211 America - Sister Golden Hair
210 Rush - Limelight
209 The Allman Brothers Band - Jessica
208 The Who - My Generation
207 Zombies - Time Of The Season
206 Heart - Barracuda
205 Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
204 Police - Every Little Thing She Does
203 Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love
202 The Beatles - Ticket To Ride
201 Van Halen - And The Cradle Will Rock...
200 Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb 
199 Kansas - Point Of Know Return
198 Steve Miller Band - Jet Airliner
197 Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin
196 Jefferson Airplane - Somebody To Love
195 Rush - The Spirit Of Radio
194 Cars - Let's Go
193 Led Zeppelin - Hey Hey What Can I Do
192 Journey - Lights
191 Elton John - Levon
190 AC/DC - T.N.T.
189 Doors - Riders On The Storm
188 Chicago - Beginnings
187 Dire Straits - So Far Away
186 Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
185 Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale
184 Yes - Roundabout
183 Paul McCartney - Another Day
182 Electric Light Orchestra - Don't Bring Me Down
181 Pink Floyd - Us & Them/Any Colour/Brain Damage/Eclipse
180 Heart - Crazy On You
179 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
178 Police - Roxanne
177 The Who - Join Together
176 Led Zeppelin - Dazed And Confused
175 Black Sabbath - Sweet Leaf
174 Cars - My Best Friend's Girl
173 Van Morrison - Wild Night
172 Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
171 Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
170 Billy Joel - Piano Man
169 Steely Dan - Do It Again
168 Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger
167 Paul McCartney - Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey
166 Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
165 Judas Priest - Living After Midnight
164 Eagles - Life In The Fast Lane
163 Ozzy Osbourne - I Don't Know
162 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Woodstock
161 Steve Miller Band - Take The Money And Run
160 Pure Prairie League - Amie
159 Joe Walsh - Life's Been Good
158 Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
157 The Beatles - Come Together
156 Elton John - Your Song
155 AC/DC - Have A Drink On Me
154 Bob Seger - Hollywood Nights
153 Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See
152 Aerosmith - Back In The Saddle
151 Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
150 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
149 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Carry On
148 Van Halen - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
147 The Who - Bargain
146 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son
145 Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
144 Paul McCartney - Jet
143 ZZ Top - Tush
142 AC/DC - Hells Bells
141 Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart
140 Fleetwood Mac - Gold Dust Woman
139 Van Morrison - Moondance
138 Led Zeppelin - The Ocean
137 Police - Every Breath You Take
136 John Lennon - Instant Karma
135 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Purple Haze
134 Steve Miller Band - The Joker
133 Ozzy Osbourne - Flying High Again
132 Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
131 Rolling Stones - Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
130 Eagles - One Of These Nights
129 Cars - Good Times Roll
128 Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper
127 Bob Seger - Rock And Roll Never Forgets
126 The Beatles - Hey Jude
125 U2 - With Or Without You
124 Chicago - 25 Or 6 To 4
123 Boston - Don't Look Back
122 Doobie Brothers - China Grove
121 Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
120 Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
119 The Who - You Better You Bet
118 Doors - Love Her Madly
117 Bruce Springsteen - Cover Me
116 Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run
115 The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun
114 Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop
113 The Allman Brothers Band - Midnight Rider
112 Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
111 War - Low Rider
110 Police - Synchronicity II
109 Bob Seger - Turn The Page
108 Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar
107 AC/DC - Shoot To Thrill
106 Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way
105 Guess Who - No Time
104 Styx - Renegade
103 Van Halen - Everybody Wants Some!!
102 Ringo Starr - Photograph
101 The Who - Who Are You
100 David Bowie - Space Oddity
99 Night Ranger - Sister Christian
98 The Beatles - Get Back
97 Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay
96 Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
95 Led Zeppelin - Ramble On
94 Rush - Tom Sawyer
93 George Harrison - What Is Life
92 Cars - Just What I Needed
91 Black Sabbath - Iron Man
90 Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock 'N' Roll
89 Cream - Crossroads
88 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
87 Pink Floyd - Hey You
86 Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark
85 Aerosmith - Walk This Way
84 U2 - New Year's Day
83 Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
82 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Don't Do Me Like That
81 Judas Priest - You've Got Another Thing Comin'
80 Led Zeppelin - Going To California
79 John Lennon - Watching The Wheels
78 Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
77 Doors - L.A. Woman
76 Supertramp - The Logical Song
75 Boston - Peace Of Mind
74 Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane
73 Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
72 Eagles - Already Gone
71 Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
70 Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy
69 Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath
68 Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
67 The Who - Love Reign O'er Me
66 Judas Priest - Breaking The Law
65 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain
64 Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me
63 Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson
62 The Beatles - Nowhere Man
61 AC/DC - For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
60 Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash
59 Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
58 Tom Petty - I Won't Back Down
57 Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
56 Crosby, Stills & Nash - Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
55 Black Sabbath - Paranoid
54 Yes - I've Seen All Good People
53 The Beatles - Penny Lane
52 Van Halen - Unchained
51 Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
50 Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Women
49 Led Zeppelin - Rock & Roll
48 Black Sabbath - War Pigs
47 The Beatles - Let It Be
46 ZZ Top - La Grange
45 Queen - We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions
44 Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
43 AC/DC - Highway To Hell
42 The Who - Baba O'Riley
41 Tom Petty - Runnin' Down A Dream
40 George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
39 Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
38 Ozzy Osbourne - Over The Mountain
37 Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
36 Aerosmith - Dream On
35 U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
34 Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
33 Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed
32 Eagles - Take It Easy
31 Doors - Touch Me
30 Pink Floyd - Time
29 Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
28 Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
27 Led Zeppelin - Over The Hills And Far Away
26 The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
25 The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
24 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Refugee
23 Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
22 John Lennon - Imagine
21 Cream - White Room
20 Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
19 The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun
18 AC/DC - Back In Black
17 U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
16 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
15 Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
14 Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2
13 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
12 The Doors - Light My Fire
11 Boston - More Than A Feeling
10 Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
9 Van Halen - Eruption/You Really Got Me
8 Eagles - Hotel California
7 The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
6 Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
5 Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
4 Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower
3 Derek & The Dominos - Layla
2 The Beatles - A Day In The Life
1 Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven