interesting take! you're right — it's super weird.

wow, i've never heard of someone who liked that album! even my teenage self thought it was bad, and i was a huge fan of the band… until secret samadhi killed it. i still often cite some of its lyrics as the worst i've heard.

wait… i know that name… is that the guy who made the final sacrifice, as seen on MST3K? what the heck.

that's a fantastic song. here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

HUGE ACKMAN

i've never been interested in checking out "sports." even if i were, there've been so many seasons already, i'd never catch up.

agreed, another strong album from her. i enjoy the slightly different take on production style, but it's still her. she's a really unique guitar player, and i think characterizing her as a shredder does a disservice to her wonderful songs.

used to love this guy, but the last album i bought was cripple crow. i liked that one well enough, but there was definitely a huge shift in style/quality, and my interest waned. still think oh me oh my is underrated.

first time i heard this song, it sounded instantly familiar, like it was a strange remix of a song i love, and yet i couldn't quite place it. eventually, i figured out that the verse melody strongly recalls pavement's "perfect depth." http://www.youtube.com/watc…

re: edmund hillary's comment, mangum has not played any new songs, but he's dusted off some non-album tracks of his, and has also been playing a few covers (roky erickson, daniel johnston). as of right now only one post-aeroplane track has ever surfaced, "little birds." it was played live once at the tail-end of NMH's…

Nah, that's a fine pick. There's some awesomely weird songs on that, as well as clear works of rock brilliance like "Surgical Focus" and "Things I Will Keep."

Mag is 3rd best.

I nominate the perpetually underrated Mag Earwig and Pollard's solo album Waved Out.

Album three is the best of the bunch. "Dome Rust" is the tossed-off song of the century. There's this genius piano ballad called "The Military School Dance Dismissal" that goes into the classic-sounding, way too short "White Flag." Just a great one-two punch, love the sequencing.

Even though GBV is known for having catchy songs, most people don't realize that they still take a few listens to really sink in (this applies to the old classic stuff as well as the new stuff). I know that if you spin Bee Thousand a couple more times, you'll find parts of it inescapable and it'll just go from there.…

i was actually surprised at how this new one bucked the trend of diminishing returns in his songwriting. i thought it was excellent on first listen, and i pre-ordered the vinyl. can't wait to get it!

i was actually surprised at how this new one bucked the trend of diminishing returns in his songwriting. i thought it was excellent on first listen, and i pre-ordered the vinyl. can't wait to get it!

There's a detailed songwriting chronology in Marcus Gray's book It Crawled From the South. I'm gonna go through and list all the songs that predate Murmur which appeared on later records (excluding Chronic Town songs and a handful of non-album cuts like "All the Right Friends"):

I dunno, you guys, I love the demo sets way more than the live shows. The LRP demos in particular have some major gems, including my favorite ever version of "Bad Day" and the earlier take of "Fall on Me" with the different verse melody. It's a great companion to the album.

Fables side 2 took over a decade to really hit me, but now I think I prefer it to side 1. This is partly due to the over-hearing of some of the first half's singles, but also due to the guitar lines of "Green Grow the Rushes" and "Good Advices."