As you know by now, if you're a reader of this blog, the Sonics are back!

No, not the basketball team. Who cares about those guys? They're movin' to Oklahoma, anyway. I'm talking about Tacoma's garage rock legends, the ones that have been on ice for the better part of four decades.

They're playing a couple of reunion shows and recording a DVD this weekend in New York City. And after I'd heard so much about how reclusive they were, I was stoked that I was able to get ahold of not only guitarist Larry Parypa, but also lead howler and keyboard player Jerry Roslie, the most elusive Sonic of all. (He spells his name with a "J," by the way, instead of the usual "Gerry" spelling you see, his wife informed me.)

Click on the links below and check out some of what the guys had to say. Then check out tomorrow's News Tribune for more coverage.

"We all kind of missed it ..." (Roslie)

"Jerry's never heard a monitor before ..." (Parypa)

"Picture the audience naked ..." (Roslie) (I think he meant four years, by the way.)

"They don't speak English, do they? ..." (Roslie)

"Nobody was doin' a lot of that stuff ..." (Parypa)

"I'm squeezin' out polkas right and left ..." (Roslie)

"We've always hated that album ..." (Parypa)

"It might just be a one time shot ..." (Roslie)

I was just reading Blender's hilarious "40 worst lyricists ever" story (in the November issue) and I was pissed at the inclusion of KRS-One, easily one of the best rap lyricists of all time. You say too-may-to, I say toe-mah-to. And of local interest, they dissed Queensryche (No. 19) and our man Ben Gibbard (No. 16). Of Gibbard, Blender writes "... he's got five albums of come-ons so abstruse the ladies will barely notice him tugging on their ankles." Ouch! Getting dissed in glossy mags is the price of fame, I guess.

Here's Blender's top 5 worst lyricists:

1. Sting

2. Neil Peart

3. Scott Stapp

4. Noel Gallagher

5. Dan Fogelberg

I have a few ideas. I agree with Diddy and Anthony Keidis, though the Chili Peppers at least make up for it with a killer live show. Scott Stapp is too obvious to put on another list, but I'd throw in his separated at birth brothers in lyrical suckiness, Sully Erna and Chad Kroeger. (Defend Nickelback's "If Everyone Cared." I dare you!) If you read a Kanye West post I wrote a while back, you know I'm a lot more impressed with his beats than his rhymes (and I'm less and less impressed with both on the new album.)

But what are your picks?

Sunday was the 30th anniversary of the Sex Pistols' seminal album, "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols." And I asked you to vote on the best song (and then promptly forgot to post the results. Heh.) Well, here they are:

Coolest songs from "Never Mind the Bollocks":

1. (tie) "God Save the Queen" and "Anarchy in the UK"

2. "Holidays in the Sun"

3. "Submission"

"God Save the Queen" and "Anarchy in the UK" topping the list? That's a surprise. And hey, where are all the "Pretty Vacant" fans? Whatzamaddawitcha? Out.