I think "counter-critical" is a euphemism for shitty

Dawes Your Illusion II

I think you're thinking of Buckethead

Yes, and I was actually watching Comedy Central for a couple hours prior to the show, so I saw that line in the promo about a dozen times and it made me chuckle every time.

no, urrong

Yeah, I didn't expect this list either, but I'm actually pleasantly surprised.  This almost made me briefly think about setting foot in Atlantic City.

Definitely add the Raveonettes to that list of the JaMC-esque.  And yeah, great hugely influential band.

yeah, I admittedly need to check out their earlier stuff.  Luckily it's on spotify. I just started up the Gay Parade, so far so good.

you know, maybe I just didn't give Skeletal Lamping enough of a chance when it came out.  At the time it just seemed really off-puttingly ADD like all the songs would take pointless left turns, or 180s, right before I could get into what was happening.  It seemed more like an labored exercises in weirdness and…

Yeah, Dour Percentage is great and catchy.

1.  Hissing Fauna
2.  Satanic Panic
3.  Sunlandic Twins
4.  Paralytic Stalks
5.  False Priest
6.  Skeletal Lamping

It's funny how opinions on the same records can be so different.  I thought Skeletal Lamping was the sprawling hookless mess, and I don't get any "trying to be Fiery Furnaces" vibe on this record at all.  I've listened to P-Stalks a lot though, so maybe you just need to give it a few more spins.

Yeah, records like Satanic Panic are instantly enjoyable, but they can get a bit cloying on repeat listens.  I'm personally really glad he's pushing himself to evolve beyond that.

This was one of those times where I felt like Pitchfork reviewed a completely different record than the one I had been listening to.

I think the thing about the Tom Petty show that was cool for me was the whole, "oh shit, I forgot how effin awesome Tom Petty is!!!" factor.

@avclub-e1e84d33778737c0a16ede94d51f3752:disqus  sure, but there are people saying they'd be happier if it was Lady Gaga, so I'm asking what's so much worse about this dude?

Rick Santorum

well, this guy can sound like Freddie Mercury at least.  I'm pretty sure Adam Levine can only sound kinda like a shitty Stevie Wonder.

A friend of mine had the same reaction.  Can someone explain why this is so bad?

eh, I'm surprisingly ok with this.  I mean they already went out before with the singer from Bad Company a couple years ago.  I saw this guy on American Idol a couple times and he can sing.  If it was the Clash or something I'd say, "HEY WAIT, NO!", but Queen was always a little campy and ridiculous anyway.