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Since I received a few requests for this (very few, actually), I figured I'd share with you 10 songs from the 80's, and the same rules apply here - they are essential listening for me, and maybe you'll like them so much you'll seek them out yourself. However, there is one variation of a theme here. Instead of just talking about the song (if and when you find it), I'd ask you give the WHOLE ALBUM a whirl, because some of the songs I've listed here you may have heard of, but I think there are a lot more that you haven't - maybe. Now for the first song, I'm coming out, guns blazing... after the jump.

I've noticed that TV companies are getting increasingly aggressive in their attempt to win my share of TiVo, and I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore (probably).

We've been a TiVo household for going on 5 years now, and have gotten to the point where only our kids watch live TV. Completely dedicated to watching our shows how and when we want, the TiVo has become our RSS feed to the networks, as we set our Season Passes and trust they will be delivered.

But lately, I noticed shows kept not recording, especially newer additions like American Inventor. Then I realized why - for the last few weeks, ER has been starting at 9:59pm. The only reason to break out of the grid system by one minute can be to defeat a TiVo, because if one show doesn't end till 10pm and another begins at 9.59, TiVo will not (as a human would) just end one show a minute early, it will see them as a conflict, and record one or the other, depending on a preferential order determined by my list of season passes. And as that list - unless I manually change it - is ordered by date of addition, then older shows will always trump newer upstarts.

So, I propose to create a “Grid Insurgents”, those shows who pathetically attempt to keep an audience away from another network by starting or ending their show one minute before or after the top of the hour. I'll start by nominating Lost, ER and American Inventor, all of whom try this tactic - feel free to add to the wall of shame in the comments.