No, man, fuck YOU.

He's a white guy, but he's living with a white guy.
The neighbors think it's a little weird, honestly.

Uh, wouldn't count on it. The man's not known for being subtle.

Back in the day that I was about the right age to discover that album (2001, which makes me a relatively early adopter) I told my then-girlfriend that I had something she absolutely had to listen to. She heard the band name and opted out. Six months after she broke up with me, she couldn't stop listening to it. Your…

To be fair, that's the only song on the album I don't absolutely love.

Are you kidding? Sean O'Neil and the comments are the only reason I still come here.

Eh, I dunno. Mark Arm came up with the term, so I think it might have some validity if you're talking about the peculiar meld of classic rock and punk influences that percolated in the Seattle music scene from about 1987 to 1992. No scene's bands sound exactly the same anyway, so I think it's fair to expect some…

Kim Gordon, maybe Sean Ysault (sp?) from White Zombie, if you like 'em trashy.

What's described in the first sentence is called the "Steig Larsson method"

"No blank spots in leopard eyes/ could only serve to jeopardize/ the lives of lambs, the shepherd cries" — Wire, "Outdoor Miner"

Piano Magic "Music for Annahbird"
Slowdive "Rutti"
The Fairfield Four "Lonesome Valley"
Minor Threat "Screaming at a Wall"
Subhumans "Firing Squad"

I'm a condescending shit, now? You're the one declaring someone you don't even know "vain" and "fake." So glad your boy-heroes are totally authentic, though.

Not exactly what I was referring to, Elrond. Google "Belladonna porn star" and be amazed, turned on, and sort of frightened.
Her earlier work is her best, of course.

Eh, certain lucky male people are also hung.

"So, why did your parents call you 'Belladonna?'"

You gonna call your kid "NewFortran," then?

"Incense and Peppermints" is a great tune. It was even on the "Nuggets" comp!

"Whitebread: a Novel"

Well, there's no accounting for taste. I purchased a CD copy of "Le Jardin de Heavenly" and was more or less "You gotta be kidding me." I'm fine with the Vaselines and the Softies and Belle and Sebastian, but everyone has their limits.

Frankly, Oasis is pretty terrible. But I'd think they'd even be ashamed to put "Champagne Supernova," "Don't Look Back in Anger" and "Wonderwall" on the same stupid album. These are the sort of tunes that bands would, once upon a time, include as "slow numbers" for their female fans. The rest of their albums wouldn't…