The trouble with Elastica is they were 100x better when they were just doing Peel Sessions. The pre-album versions of Hold Me Now, and Car Song (4 wheeling) are way more groovy and sexual. When it became time to do their album, they had lost a guitarist, and they decided they needed to be more electronica, and that…

My pick will always be "Lightning Crashes" by Live.
It's just an empty shell of 90s bullshit mysticism, melodrama, a 3 line terrible lyric sheet, and 2/3s of the song is dedicated to over-singing. Then when you're setting quietly at the ba with a pint, this song will come on, and the guy next to you will start gushing…

You just can't go after the girlfriend/boyfriend of an unrequited love. You can be a friend looking out for your friends best interest, or you can be a third-party talking about your feelings, but you can't be all WTF I have the better hair cut. Unless of course you're 14 and it's just a prom date.

Connecting The Doors to punk is laughable. The general roots of punk can be found in early R&B, rock 'n roll, garage rock, and the lesser known glam and power pop bands of the 70s. One aspect of punk is getting rid of the grandiose high budget studio-to-stadium oeuvre that rock had developed by the mid 70s, and make…

Keith Richards and Leonard Cohen also trained on flamenco and I'm sure you'll find a few dozen more if you look. Nothing against Krieger, but it's hard to ignore the fact that finger-picking was always a very common thing for electric guitar in the 50s and 60s. What really made the doors unique was that the guitar…

It's always been there, you just hear about it more now, The opportunity comes from having the Internet to give it an accessible platform, and the motive comes from fact that infatuation for Jim Morrison hasn't been isolated to people who were teenagers in the 70s.

It sort of helps that we're in the middle of the vinyl revival. It also helps that "classic rock" is a ubiquitous radio format and most of these bands still get better promotion than the average contemporary band. Perhaps the big difference now is there's more recognition for funk and soul.

Jim's lyrics could also wrought with terrible rhyming couplets and bullshit attempts at being mystical.

By impenetrable the author is trying to say that there isn't a lot happening below the surface. IMHO, "Riders on the Storm" is as on the nose and unwavering as any Cold Play would do. It's partly why the Doors are often referred to as a transitionary band.

Sorry, it's a lot more like being a Pink Floyd fan because you bought Dark Side of the Moon.

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers are America's least necessary band.

That's because there's 'hipsters' that just don't like popular music and then 'hipsters' that have actually listened 70s funk, and actually utilize things like youtube instead of scoffing at people for mentioning bassists they've never heard of.

Not a lot of depth to RHCP. Not a lot of funkyness either.

I thought they went around the outside.

What makes the Shaggs outsider music is the fact that their output is intrinsically interesting simply because they are not trained musicians, or connected with the industry. One thing that connects outsiders is a sense of persistence and a general DIY approach. I'd argue the only thing that makes Manson's music…

It doesn't become outsider music just because it's weird, incompetent, or obscure. He's a failed recording artist who recorded some really bad folk music. He'd be one in a million without his other reputation. At best he falls in with the thousands of awful cult recordings that are out there.

Not by any stretch of the word concept, or key. Manson's music is a curiosity for people interested in serial killers. If you want outsiders look for Tiny Tim, Joe Meek, Captain Beefheart, Harry Partch, Wesley Willis, the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Moondog, and Lucia Pamela. People who made careers out of not playing…

Yup, if you think Cliff Williams plays the way he does because he's not good, you need go home. You can do a lot on bass but there are times when you have to be at the root playing the ticks and tocks.

If you're looking for a musical equivalent to the Shaggs you're probably looking for Jandek, Daniel Johnson, or R. Stevie Moore. There are plenty of others that don't have an interesting enough backstory to be cared about.

Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between hard-core music fans being tongue and cheek, and poseurs trying to imitate the insiteful. Music fandom is overflowing with hyperbole and oddly misplaced worship.