Or Nixon.

Also funky, if not funkiest: "Love TKO".

Unlike l'affaire Sleigh Bells, Pitchfork and the AV Club are in agreement on Lambchop:

I'd start earlier, when Kurt's voice had more range. The falsetto is not for everyone, but I like it. Check out "What Another Man Spills" in addition to "Nixon". A good comp is "The Decline of Country and Western Civilization", if that's more your cup of tea.

I was thinking the same thing while I was reading the article.

Good call on the Spin Doctors

I have it and it is available on Amazon, but it is an import. There's a lot of live tracks but some of the outtakes are great. My personal fave is "Pinned Down/I'm Alone in the Wilderness" but it's all worth a listen if you can borrow it from someone.

I'm not disagreeing, I think that your explanation is correct. It's also in Our Band Could Be Your Life, IIRC. I was just offering up another view.

Sonic Youth was supposed to release Daydream Nation on SST but didn't believe they could pull off the gatefold printing and the distribution, so there probably is something to your story.

I've also heard that it's slang for a double (nickels) album on the turntable (dime).

Agreed, and that book then got me to read "Can't Stop, Won't Stop", which is older but also a great read on the hip-hop culture.

I hope the winning team for The Wire trivia contest were "Humble Motherfuckers with Big Dicks".

Soylent Green? IMDB says 1973.

It got a mention. But check this out:

His second solo, "Moonflower Plastic" is also good too. Not as many highs as Carnival Boy but also a somewhat distinct sound from GbV. He also does photorealistic paintings if you're into that sort of thing.

Biblical naming was very big with English Puritans (New English too, for that matter). Also Christmas-hating. Also money-grubbing. So I would make that connection before I think anti-Semite. But, being one of those New England Puritans, of course I would.

If you want Stax/Volt, then you want the 9-CD Singles box ('59-'68). The catalog is much deeper than you  might think, and 4 CDs doesn't get you much beyond Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Booker T and the MGs, and Rufus and Carla Thomas. Some of (for example) Eddie Floyd, Mabel John, or William Bell's output is just as…

Not that it's an excuse, but his pregnant wife was murdered by the Manson Family too. Talk about your anti-Europa Europa life.

The Chess brothers' reputations rest on their having recorded the greatest trove of Chicago blues ever, Chuck Berry, and Bo Diddley, not on upstanding business practices.

No; they could have paid Freed off out of their own portion of the profits. To say the only way it could have been done was to give him co-writing credit is just wrong.