Fun Fact: I bought a Lightning Seeds album at a used cd store and this disc was also inside the case. 'Now My Heart Is Full' is my favorite Morrissey song.

Spotify has a Ned's album from 2004 called 'Session'.  It seems to be a live-in-the-studio recording of a bunch of the band's more familiar songs.  The versions are straightforward and the performances are decent but not very energetic. It's real Least Essential Albums material.  Garath 'Rat' Pring and one of the…

Let's start up a Kickstarter to get Kyle Ryan to sneak 'Happy' onto the A.V. Club Undercover list.

YES YES YES YES YES and if you can find it, Adorable's second and final album, 'Fake', is equally brilliant.  Adorable and Ned's are the two most underrated 90's britpop bands.  

In the late 90's I had both of those shirts in regular rotation.  I must have enjoyed the attention.

Brainbloodvolume is a strange album.  It opens with a set of industrialish heavy guitar rock, followed by some weird attempts at radio pop, then ends with two classic Ned's songs, 'Traffic' and 'Song Eleven Could Take Forever', that would fit on earlier Ned's albums.  It has its highlights but kind of comes off as a…

'Kill Your Television' bumper stickers were very popular at the time, which was funny because the actual lyric (if looks could kill, I'd kill your television) is about a guy who watches tv all the time.

'Kill Your Television' bumper stickers were very popular at the time, which was funny because the actual lyric (if looks could kill, I'd kill your television) is about a guy who watches tv all the time.

I've listened to 'Are You Normal?' more than any other album.  It began when the video for 'Intact' aired on NBC's Friday Night Videos.  It was introduced as a 'staff pick', then they aired half the video, went to commercial, then played the rest of the video under the closing credits.  It was enough, I was hooked.

I've listened to 'Are You Normal?' more than any other album.  It began when the video for 'Intact' aired on NBC's Friday Night Videos.  It was introduced as a 'staff pick', then they aired half the video, went to commercial, then played the rest of the video under the closing credits.  It was enough, I was hooked.

Best episode was the one where the little nerdy girl befriends the gruff Russian bodyguard.  They play monopoly and the girl turns the screws on a trade deal.  '…and the railroad.'  'No railroad.'  'RAILROAD!'  At the end, he gives her a Russian nesting doll.

Best episode was the one where the little nerdy girl befriends the gruff Russian bodyguard.  They play monopoly and the girl turns the screws on a trade deal.  '…and the railroad.'  'No railroad.'  'RAILROAD!'  At the end, he gives her a Russian nesting doll.

My first-ever radio job, I went by the name of Big Time Operator.  Joe Jack Talcum is the world's greatest bad guitarist - every note is sloppy, crude, and brilliant.

My first-ever radio job, I went by the name of Big Time Operator.  Joe Jack Talcum is the world's greatest bad guitarist - every note is sloppy, crude, and brilliant.

Is NOBODY going to defend the Spin Doctors here?  Pocket Full Of Kryptonite was a great album, overplaying of 'Two Princes' (which sticks out from the rest of the albums' funk/jam sound) notwithstanding.  Don't hate them because they got big right before grunge broke.  There were FAR worse 90's bands that got…

My favorite Christmas special of all time.  This was really quite a departure from the typical animated Christmas specials of the time.  No big plot about 'saving Christmas', no A Christmas Carol knock-off with three ghosts.  Just great music, and incredibly detailed and funny animation.  But my favorite thing about…

I once sat at a table with Lady Antebellum eating Chick-Fil-A.  I didn't know it was them.

Why wound ESPN's body with bullets, when I can set their soul afire with a slanderous mambo?

No, Hank Jr. doesn't get played at all on country radio, outside of 'country gold' stations that might still play Family Tradition or Country Boy Will Survive.  The 30 seconds of 'Keep The Change' that country jocks play while talking about it today will be the most mainstream airplay he's gotten in decades.

You mean Mick Jagger appears on this Damian Marley solo album?