Rock 'n' Roll has been around so long it often takes ideas from itself. Where so many bands the first couple times around named themselves after books or movies or out of thin air, there are now quite a few groups who have named themselves after another band's songs. The Mooney Suzuki went so far as to steal their name from the last names of the German band Can's two lead singers, Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki.

In some ways it's a shame bands didn't once name themselves after the songs of Burl Ives or Eddy Arnold. Imagine, if you will, Eric Clapton forming a power trio with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker and calling it Foggy Foggy Dew, Blue Tail Fly or Lavender Blue. In that case, there might now be a great old rock magazine fetching collectors' prices called Blew Tale Fly!

After all this research, I'm more convinced than ever that my band The Happiest Girls In the Whole U.S.A will bring much needed attention back to North Carolina's finest Donna Fargo. Besides, has there ever been a

Part Two of this 19-part blog on the year 1986 focuses on more albums released that year. As stated in the wonderful first part of this 1986 countdown, 1986 was the most important year in human existence, because I said so.

Fact is, I collected music because it was easier than making lots of friends. Music doesn't ask to borrow money from you. Music doesn't think your complexion needs work. Music doesn't wonder why you picked someone new.

Well, let's find more great music!

25) Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring: This is completely hindsight 20/20 here. At the time, I just figured Talk Talk were this Duran Duran cover-band without a sound of their own. Of course, now I know better. I've come to terms with synthesizers and realize now that they can be used in something other than a Cure album. It's just that pop music in the 1980s--as in what was actually popular--had horribly shallow productions, lots of gated snares and exaggerated reverbs and tons of new keyboards where no one had

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