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What the hey, I liked Vanishing Point. (Haven't yet had the chance to hear Rancho Deluxe).

And speaking of vanishing, how about a list of the coolest singles of all time? Here's mine, in no particular order of preference...

Duane Eddy and the Rebels, "Forty Miles of Bad Road"
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes with Ronnie Spector, "Say Goodbye To Hollywood" (they beat the living bejesus out of Billy Joel's original, as if that took all that much...)
James Brown, "Night Train"
James Brown, "Cold Sweat Pts. 1 & 2"
The Beatles, "She Loves You" (tells the whole damn story of rock and roll as it once was and still could be, and they rock the walls off without even breaking a sweat - now, that's what "cool" is!)
Elvis Presley, "Heartbreak Hotel"
Muddy Waters, "The Same Thing"
Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters (the original Drifters), "Money Honey"
The Impressions, "It's All Right"
GQ, "Sittin' In The Park" (took Billy Stewart's old hit and repossessed it)
Al Green, "Love and Happiness" (if Al and guitarist Teenie Hodges don't write the book on "cool" with this one, then someone screwed with the inkwell)
Otis Redding, "These Arms of Mine"
Brenda Lee, "All Alone Am I"
The Rolling Stones, "The Last Time"
The Spencer Davis Group, "I'm A Man"
Roxy Music, "Virginia Plain"
The Temptations, "Just My Imagination"
Undisputed Truth, "Smiling Faces, Sometimes"
The Beach Boys, "Please Let Me Wonder"
Bob Dylan, "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
Jr. Walker and the All-Stars, "Tune Up"
Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto, "The Girl From Ipanema" (though go for the unedited album cut, please!)
Astrud Gilberto and Walter Wanderley, "Summer Samba (So Nice"
Booker T. and the MGs, "Green Onions"
Clarence Carter, "Making Love (At The Dark End Of The Street)"
James Carr, "The Dark End of The Street" (Original)
James Carr, "Pouring Water On A Drowning Man"
Albert King, "I'll Play The Blues For You Pts. 1 & 2"
John Mayall's Blues Breakers (with Eric Clapton), "I'm Your Witchdoctor"

....just for openers...

Another few cool singles...

Derek and the Dominos, "Tell The Truth" (the original version, the one they played Ramones-fast several years before the Ramones existed, with Eric and Duane slithering out the best one-two slide guitar jerk of the 1970s)
The Yardbirds, "Over, Under, Sideways, Down"
Van Morrison, "T.B. Sheets"
The Who, "Mary Anne With The Shaky Hands"
Eno, "Seven Deadly Finns"
Chuck Berry, "Nadine"
Ray Charles, "I've Got A Woman"
James and Bobby Purify, "I'm Your Puppet"
Sam and Dave, "May I, Baby"
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, "Baby, Baby, Don't Cry"
The Kinks, "Waterloo Sunset"