your comment is all shit ;)

my top picks for reunion albums are English Little League and Motivational Jumpsuit.

the reviews OK at best; the albums are uniformly excellent. it's hard to believe, but pollard's been at the top of his game (or close) for the last ten years at least. as for solo albums, check out Elephant Jokes and Honey Locust Honky Tonk. and if you liked boston spaceships, the SIX (!!!) new GBV albums largely…

wonder if r.e.m. didn't make the cut because their composite was one giant eyebrow..

against all odds, the smashing pumpkins turn out to have the most attractive composite. but then, they're the only band on this list with a woman.

i posted this in the other article, but green day ripped off "walking contradiction" from a kinks song called "do it again."

Green Day ripped off the Kinks earlier when they took the riff and a bit of melody for "Walking Contradiction" from a Kinks track called "Do It Again." Listen:

beer thousand is delicious, i was pleasantly surprised at its taste relative to the alcohol content.

I was hoping they'd dig deeper into this utterly bizarre case, which also involved Adnan's attorney Cristina Gutierrez: http://www.ydr.com/ci_16877516

Guys, as the first "blockbuster" podcast, there's really no precedent for the kind of cultural heft Serial has. It's like you're asking "so.. before he was a comic book character, did anyone care about Superman?" the answer is, obviously, no. But it makes total sense for AV Club to be reporting on post-podcast events…

mccartney is so, so, underrated. and lennon is slightly (sliiightly) underrated. especially if you look at their solo careers.

actually, i recall that being a very enjoyable episode, despite not understanding the references. i didn't even know who jerry lewis was.

holy shit, archmage. if you're serious, you are the most reprehensible fool i've yet come across on this great internet of ours.

i mean… that's kind of subjective, but he's certainly way up there.

Guess he's not a household name, but Al Johnson's (U.S. Maple) cameo in High Fidelity is pretty great: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Robert Pollard. For sure.

grandaddy - AM 180

aside from having some pretty decent piano skills, it's the passion johnston had when he pounded on an old acoustic guitar or chord organ that really sells his early work. the songs are mostly good (some are excellent), but as a performer he had something special going on — the ability to convey emotion in a really…

Haha! So right after I posted that, I listened to John Henry two times in a row and didn't skip anything. So…

John Henry is one of their weaker albums, but still great. There's plenty of genius ("Destination Moon" among them), and a handful of songs that are skippable. After a nearly perfect run from the self-titled through Apollo 18, John Henry was a kind of awkward transition. They grew into the full-band arrangements by…