Looking at Husker Du's discography really underlines how far some of these bands had to go in terms of sound quality just to get to something that would be "acceptable" by today's standards. The first Deerhunter album sounds like Sgt Pepper compared to Land Speed Record.

@avclub-ca4fc44a59d0201cc7d4f760153cb00c:disqus , where do you see that? From the wiki article It looks to me like Watt only played with the Fog live. In fact IIRC Watt's Fog tour diary talked at length about how he didn't know any of the songs when they started the tour! 
Regardless, I saw Watt with the Fog and it…

Just worth noting for clarity, Spot did not produce Huevos.

I'm not sure you can really blame everything on Spot. Just limiting the discussion to the Minutemen, I greatly prefer the sound of Buzz or Howl and What Makes a Man Start Fires, for example, to Project: Mersh and 3-way Tie for Last. 
And have you listened to The Politics of Time or Tour-Spiel recently? I have a hard…

Grohl has more skill than is immediately obvious; he just doesn't use it in flashy ways. It's much more difficult to play as fast and loud as he does on a drumkit as large as the ones he sometimes uses than it sounds. If you listen to the difference between the album and the live versions of "School," you can hear how…

+1. Taylor Hawkins's work with the Foo Fighters is really not interesting at all.

"The Who (a band that, from 1965’s My Generation to 1975’s The Who By Numbers, tells you everything you need to know about the arena-ification of rock music)."

Pony vs. Wizard for me

+1 for weekly review.

Quirky suggestion: Unwound, New Plastic Ideas through Leaves Turn Inside You.

As much as I love Fugazi and had a knee-jerk reaction to not seeing them on this list, they don't qualify. Steady Diet of Nothing is pretty hard to argue for as a "great" album.

Is it on Youtube? Yes it is.

Yep, Rice U sold it to UH for basically no fucking reason.

Also out in '93: Polvo's Today's Active Lifestyles- and as purported KTRU lover Kyle Ryan ought to know, the Mike Gunn's Almaron. ;)

This is the thread where we quote Paul Rudd in roles that do not suck