Catchy title, eh?

Before I discovered the fine art of list-making, I didn't much notice "genres" or any kind of man/woman thing. My record collection was divided into two. Good stuff and junk rock (friends know the real term for that horrifying part of my collection that I kept in the living room just to watch new acquaintances stutter in confusion when they thought I only owned stuff like Chicago and crap-period Linda Ronstadt albums!).

Anyhow, it being March, Women's History Month, I thought I'd play along and use it as an excuse to draw attention to "Women In Music."

This blog focuses on women who are not yet household names. Some should be, while others should just have their music bought and appreciated. The list is in vague general order. Coming in #23 or #17 is more a matter of me having to put that person somewhere.

I'm including their websites, so you can learn more on your own. My own comments will be somewhere between banal and useless, with an occasional insight

Musicians love movies. Why wouldn't they? It's not like they're going to be good at science! Creative folks like other creative folks and when struggling to come up with a band name, they go to the movies that inspired them. Or to movies they've heard of. Sometimes, it's a happy accident. And, yes Golden Earring was #26.

Here are 25 of the best! Special thanks to Tom Fraser for his suggestions and help with this column. If there's a heaven in New Zealand, Tom, you're booked in advance! Meet ya there in 50!

25) The Knack (and How To Get It): The movie was directed by Richard Lester in 1965, the same year he directed The Beatles' HELP! Knowing how much The "My Sharona" Knack loved the Beatles, it's pretty obvious that this helped fulfill another step towards their total Beatles affiliation. I would've gone with calling my band The Fools On The Hill, but then again, I've only made three dollars with my recording career.

24) The Damned: There was a 1940s French film of the same title,

Art-rock, progressive rock, we consider them the same here. For creating a zillion sub-genres is for people who like to file records not listen to them. I've left off all the German bands, because they deserve a list of their own and may, in fact, have already received one. However, my battered brain can't remember.

So, basically, here are ten bands, many that sound better than they did the first time around. This may be because their music was recorded on better - i.e. more expensive - equipment than today's. Or maybe because each band back then only released the best material they were then working on and not every extra scrap.

While rock historians like to jump over the whole messy topic of "prog rock" and only assign kudos to deep thinkers such as Robert Fripp's King Crimson and then go on their merry way singing the praises of punk, it's time to stop skipping over complete sub-sects.

Time has taught us that all music can exist without affecting the fortune of another. Surely, the

Suze Rotolo, Bob Dylan's girlfriend, who appeared on his arm for the iconic album cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and was the source of inspiration for songs such as "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right," "Boots of Spanish Leather" and "Ballad in Plain D," died after a long illness at the age of 67. Her book, A Freewheelin' Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties, is an essential read for anyone with an interest in life and society in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

I'm sure there are plenty of muses in modern day rock and pop. But pardon me for preferring the old school muses for this column. Please write in your own suggestions in the box generously provided you by the good folks here at Y! Music.

I'm sticking, primarily, with muses who inspired a LOT of songs, with exceptions made for legendary songs and people.

In other words, this is my list. Your list will be yours.

Let's celebrate the love. And I hope you are A-MUSED by this list! (GET IT, A-MUSE-D. Ha. Ha.

Here is the list of albums from 1981 whose titles don't seem so bad. You might remember a few weeks back when I listed those others from 1981 in a classic blog that people around the world simply won't stop talking about.

So here are all the fine, fine albums that were also released in 1981: a year that is now long ago. Enough that the Rush album listed is up for a 30th Anniversary Edition in perfect sync with this column. 

25) Rush - Moving Pictures: From the front cover where people are literally moving pictures to the actual songs on the album -- "Tom Sawyer," "Limelight," "YYZ" - Rush get the most of their Canadian citizenship by returning Mark Twain to where he belongs: in a rock tune. If that last sentence didn't make any sense to you, Welcome to the Wacky World of Rock Criticism! You're going to love it here!

24) Motorhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith: What? WHAT? WHAT!!!! Nope. Still can't hear you. Motorhead are visiting.

23) The Gun Club - The Fire of Love: There are people

While others here at Yahoo! have given you the play-by-play,the highlights and low points and the grand analysis, I'm here to make profoundstatements that the average viewer would like to have said.

Everyone loves to hate the Grammys. Over the years, it'sallegedly gotten more painful to watch, but I wouldn't know, since I onlystarted watching it this year.

So my enthusiasm is HIGH! And no one can bring me down!

Let's relive that awesome night!

25) Someone IsSinging Too Many Notes To Aretha Franklin Songs.: When in doubt, blame Christina Aguilera. In fact, I think itis her. Someone buy her a muzzle. She's already ruining my enjoyment of thisfine program.

24) The Young LadySinging "Respect" Is Pretty: It says it's Jennifer Hudson. I liked her when she had a fewpounds on her and I like her now. I guess I'm a fan. My enjoyment of the showis going up!

23) Sade Is NominatedAs A Duo And/Or A Group: Well, this is a surprising development. I honestly thoughtSade was a woman. I need to pay

I rate romance. Sort of. Here's a list of 25 musicians who were involved with one another at some point.  Nearly all performed together. It sure is a shame about Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz. Now, there was some unrealized musical chemistry!

25) Les Paul & Mary Ford: For those who don't know, this probably sounds like a marriage between a guitar and a car. I hate bursting people's misperceptions.

24) John Lennon & Yoko Ono: Buy the album with the bag on it. Lenono was more than a relationship: it was a franchise.

23) Bob Dylan & Joan Baez: Recently re-watching Don't Look Back: The Bob Dylan Story, I couldn't help but wish he had been nicer to Joanie.

22) Richard & Mimi Farina: Anytime you see a pretty woman with an autoharp, you need to buy the album. Mimi was Joan Baez's sister. Richard died in a motorcycle accident on Mimi's 21^st birthday on April 30, 1966. She died in 2001. Their version of "Pack Up Your Sorrows" was pretty hep!

21) Richard & Linda Thompson: I'm more of a I

Naturally, there are those who believe I have gone on too long, but like Ozzy Osbourne once said, You Can't Kill Rock 'n' Roll! Or the parasites who leech off its very blood!

Having done the seminal and quite brilliant Ten Bands Who Broke Up When They Were Done blog, I now offer a look at the bands that have treaded on too long.

The main requirement to make this list is when a band is no longer really a band, when its main members are long gone and there are nothing but people who weren't there in the beginning to help them soldier on.

10) The Pretenders: I can't blame Chrissie Hynde for still calling the group The Pretenders after the death of her guitarist and bassist. It had only been two albums and her own name likely didn't yet have any selling power. But decades later, it's time to stop calling it The Pretenders. It's you, Chrissie. Jeez, even your album Break Up the Concrete had session pro Jim Keltner on drums. Sure, Martin Chambers came back to tour, but what kind of band