So wait, is Stan a Zionist?

Brian, bring back the beard!

A.V. Club's track record for aligning with my musical taste is not faring so well right now.  And that's OK, but yes, this song is awful.  But I'm biased because I recently heard their other song, "Sex" with the singer constantly lamenting "she's got a boyfriend anyway."    Cry me a river.  Sucks to be you, young…

I loved the first few songs they put out, like Mansard Roof and Oxford Comma, because they did a very good job of borrowing ideas from The Walkmen and Paul Simon but adding a little unique flair to it.  Now, they are still borrowing ideas from The Walkmen and Paul Simon but not as much flair. The flair seems to be…

MICHAEL GINSBERG: 
In the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see. One chants out between two worlds, "Fire, walk with me." We lived among the people. I think you say convenience store. We lived above it. I mean it like it is, like it sounds! I, too, was touched by the devilish one. Tattoo on the left…

Wasn't it "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"?

I think this is all taking place in an autistic child's snow globe.

Uh, it wasn't pot.  It was hash.  Big difference.

Joe Walsh, in a near-death cocaine binge, underwent a soul bifurcation resulting in her birth.  To put it more accurately, she's a half-eagle.

Listen to the synth sounds on "Bourgeois" and "Drakkar Noir".  Reminds me of classic DP.

Especially because I'm too lazy to walk 5 feet to my turntable and actually put a real record on.  I can just load it up on Spotify.  Yes, I may have done this once or twice.  Don't ask me why.

I'm pretty sure it was never released in any form.  I'm just hoping to find a live version somewhere.  I think there's also a spot where he says something like, "Feel the blood rush through my neck."  They used to play it live before they released their first album.  Back around 2002, I remember watching a video…

I've been trying to find the name of an early Walkmen tune for YEARS:  It goes like, "On the couch, on my back" then later Ham screams, "I don't wanna be left out!"  Does ANYONE know the name of this song???  It didn't appear on any albums, but I miss it and I must find a live version if possible.

Oh I'm sorry, I thought the name was Steely Dan, not Steely Dans.  How silly of me to think that there was only one dildo in that group.

The bizarre thing is how much I wish the new Daft Punk record sounded like the new Phoenix record.  Don't get me wrong, this record technically sounds great and I get that they are paying homage to their heroes.

Maybe this has been brought up, but what's up with Don's coughing?  It may spell his end.

Ooh, can it be ∆pple ∑trawberry?  No, ßlueberry.  MAKE IT ßLUEBERRY.

B- for Bankrupt! and A for Modern Vampires?  Switched at birth, perhaps!

Hard to say.  Boring white people have co-opted everything.  But try these if you haven't heard them: 'The Unutterable' by The Fall, 'Bitches Brew' by Miles Davis, 'Trout Mask Replica' and 'Shiny Beast' by Captain Beefheart…as far as new music, try 'Fear Fun' by Father John Misty, 'Walking Papers' by Zachary Cale,…

It says more about these waiting-for-the-next-big-thing times we live in than anything else that this album has been so highly praised by the press.  It's not an entirely awful album.  There are a few somewhat decent tracks on it.  "Ya Hey" is a highlight, a song that works despite the obnoxious harmonizer effect on…