Calculated - whereas Black Flag just soaked it up out of the ether and music came out in this splurge of integrity, right? All those accidentally great albums.

DISQUS!

I thought Telephone was the closest thing to weird pop she'd done before, but it might just be the oddness of the video colouring my opinion. Amazing song though.

@joelbarish:disqus Wow, what lucky kids.

I watched it when I was six or seven. For some reason the scene that vividly depicts

Possibly apocryphal Don McClean quote:

See, I love TVOTR, but Golden Age does sound pretty generic '00s indie rock to me. They've definitely smoothed out a lot of their weirder edges on the last two albums, but try the Satellite off Young Liars, or The Wrong Way from Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes, or I Was a Lover, Playhouses or Blues From Down Here…

Let England Shake turned out to be one of my favourite albums by anyone.

I really hope that takes off, I've seen a few bars putting up signs identifying their vodka as non-Russian recently.

Like with the Domedevo airport privatisation, right? Privatised, modernised, set for an IPO, then Putin cronies come and try and intimidate the owners into selling them a huge stake pre-IPO on the cheap.

One piece of good news today, Iceland is in the process of severing political and cultural ties with Russia over this. The fact that a huge proportion of Iceland's power and heating comes from geothermal power, hydro energy and magical elves means they're less exposed to oil and gas repercussions from Russia, and…

Urgh, it's not all good though: The legend underneath her picture is the line "I declare that there is no delight like reading!", which is from Pride and Prejudice. Which, fine, but it's a line by Caroline Bingley, who's only saying it to ingratiate herself to Mr Darcy.

Surely that was the song Arcade Fire were formed to one day cover on a tortuously titled compilation cd? Guess Lou Reed gets what Lou Reed wants. Apart from contentment.

Latch is probably my favourite track of the year so far, for sure.

I've always thought "if the devil wear prada/Adam & Eve wear nada/ I'm in between only way more fresher" off Can't Tell Me Nothing is one of the best bad lines of all time.

That's not very generic or indie of you dude. Everything okay?

This is actually what makes London ComicCon good, in a back-handed way. You buy a ticket for entry to a gigantic aircraft hangar wherein you are marketed to.

@avclub-59b56df526623711cec52969c5d5cfe9:disqus I always quite liked the "that song doesn't usually last three hours, but we got into a real thing" line, but it's definitely low-tier, for sure.

Empirically speaking, the worst episode is Route of All Evil.

If alcoholism was a piano, Harmon would be considered a brave and unpredictable new talent.