>an alternate universe where the key difference is that Coleridge finished "Kubla Khan"

William Goldsmith is awesome on the first two SDRE records, but I think Grohl made the right creative decision replacing him on The Colour and the Shape. I don't know whether Goldsmith benefited from overproduction on the SDRE stuff or what, but on the material that he can be heard on with the Foo Fighters he doesn't…

Shoulda just stuck with the rake joke. Nobody would've argued with that one ;)

>Does anyone outside of Sweden really worship Satan anymore

There are several episodes in that season that I absolutely love ("The Mysterious Voyage of Homer," "The Homer They Fall" and "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson," for example), but for the season with Frank Grimes, Rodney Dangerfield, Mulder & Scully and Poochie, "masterpiece" seems a little strong.

>Bake them away, toys

>Sideshow Bob at his blatantly most Fraiserian

>The same thing, not coincidentally, drives the character of Sideshow Bob

What makes this band is OBN's ability to take a three- or four-word phrase and construct a lyrical idea around it without really adding many extra words. That's what struck me about "Do My Thing," and I didn't figure they'd be able to match it, but they do. "If The Shit Fits." "Communicated to Death." "Off the Grid."…

He may be right, but it's kind of not important how hard your songs are to play. Stewart Copeland has a complex about this too; I remember reading one of them talking in the liner notes of the box set about how Joe Strummer and/or Mick Jones always wanted to be Andy Summers because he was a better guitar player, which…

He may be right, but it's kind of not important how hard your songs are to play. Stewart Copeland has a complex about this too; I remember reading one of them talking in the liner notes of the box set about how Joe Strummer and/or Mick Jones always wanted to be Andy Summers because he was a better guitar player, which…

>it might not be any Fugazi fan’s favorite overall

>it might not be any Fugazi fan’s favorite overall

—- Not when you can listen to the music all you want for free, no, it isn't common sense at all.

—- Not when you can listen to the music all you want for free, no, it isn't common sense at all.

This is just rationalization. There's little, if any, evidence that having a presence on Spotify or Pandora has much of a promotional benefit at all, and even if it did, would that justify the fact that these companies are getting their products basically for free?

This is just rationalization. There's little, if any, evidence that having a presence on Spotify or Pandora has much of a promotional benefit at all, and even if it did, would that justify the fact that these companies are getting their products basically for free?

"The title suggests a throwback to the earliest, sludgiest Melvins era. But if anything, this revised trio sounds punkier than anything that’s ever carried the Melvins name."

"The title suggests a throwback to the earliest, sludgiest Melvins era. But if anything, this revised trio sounds punkier than anything that’s ever carried the Melvins name."

@avclub-23702f44044d8e75b1e238af8c801d0c:disqus If the odds of any particular artifact surviving are rare, then a good strategy might be to make as many copies of your work as you can and distribute them in as many different locations as you can. You might call this the "cockroach strategy."