I have an amazing rock star friend whose first music purchase ever was "Bitch."  He harbors no illusions about it.

But it's got to be good because I remember it!

My main memory is that someone tried to trick me into buying it without listening to it.  A kindly storeclerk insisted I listen first, and he has my gratitude to this day.

Those came much later, but you still make a good case.

I'm baffled by the comments here.  The only one of these I haven't thoroughly enjoyed was Robyn Hitchcock's; the rest are spot on.

Feist sucks.

I've seen him when he wasn't in the best mood, and just when I thought I had him sized up, he's refused to let me pay for merch.

Only about twenty minutes?  No wonder you were disappointed.  They usually play for more like an hour and a half.

Nothing beats Twelve Angry Months.

I was vaguely depressed until I read your post.  Thank you.

I bought the line Bush was somehow terrible till I saw them open for Skunk Anansie in Italy.  No one seemed to have any idea who Bush was, but they played so well, I got over any stigma about liking them and saw them again a year later.  They were good then too.

I've always liked what I read, but I was unaware of his fatwa against Gavin Rossdale.

My favorite Silverchair memory is someone telling me I had to buy that album, and after I said I hoped the rest of it sounded nothing like that single, same someone telling me not to buy the album after all.

Still baffled how Gavin sounds anything like Kurt.

One of the dumbest reviews I ever read was that "Molly" is a great song because it's about birthdays, and "Wax Ecstatic" is a terrible song because it's about wax, and bands should sing only about things everybody relates to.

I maintain Twelve Angry Months is their best album.

I don't think I ever heard "Cold Contagious" on the radio, even though the station here listed it in light or moderate rotation on their web site.

YOU WILL GET YOURS over and over.  I like it, though.

"What I Got" still wants to make me kill myself, whether it's the original or any of ten thousand terrible open-mic covers.

"Sail" is top ten now?  Didn't Macy Gray cover it last year?