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I never was a Michael Jackson fan  (or even a Jackson 5 fan for that matter) even pre-weirdness so I’ll just shut the hell up about him. Let’s just say that "Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough" was the bain of my existence in the 70′s and thank god for the Clash.

New additions this week: Tinted Windows (which is not as good as it could have been since Adam Schlesinger is a terrific pop songwriter) and Radio Retaliation which is awesome.

Also. This is just so wrong.

Jon Bon Jovi considers writing classic songs as a way of being remembered throughout time.

"It’s the closest thing to immortality as we’re ever gonna see here," he said.

There may be another way: the Songwriters Hall of Fame. And on Thursday night, the New Jersey rocker and his writing partner, Richie Sambora, joined Crosby, Stills & Nash for one of music’s top honors.

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Chris Daughtry of the multiplatinum band Daughtry inducted Bon Jovi and Sambora Afterward, Bon Jovi, with Sambora on a double-neck guitar, performed "Wanted: Dead or Alive," one of Bon Jovi’s many signature hits.

Earlier in the evening, Daughtry talked about the impact Bon Jovi had on his band.

"They’re a huge influence on our career as songwriters, as performers, as people," he said.

As if that isn’t crime enough:

I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back
I play for keeps, cause I might not make it back
I been everywhere, still I’m standing tall
I’ve seen a million faces an I’ve rocked them all

I’m a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride
I’m wanted dead or alive
I’m a cowboy, I got the night on my side
I’m wanted dead or alive
Wanted dead or alive

Awful. Just fucking awful.

Not in the Songwriters Hall of Fame: Tom Waits, Laura Nyro, Leonard Cohen,  Gram Parsons,  Townes Van Zandt, Becker & Fagen, Natalie Merchant, and Roseanne Cash.

But Glenn Frey and Jason Mraz are in, so it’s cool.

Moving onward, because we must:

The Cedar Room – The Doves
Shadows – Paul Motian
Time of No Reply – Nick Drake
This Is The Sea – The Waterboys
Holy Spirit – Michelle Shocked
Shaking Through – R.E.M.
Better – Regina Specter
Life In The Air Age – Be Bop Deluxe
That’s Not The Way That It’s Done – The Minus 5
Black Cadillacs – Modest Mouse
and one more to make "I’ve seen a million faces an I’ve rocked them all" go away:
Truth Is Out of Style – MC 900 Ft Jesus