I get on kicks once in a while where I have to listen to "Dazzle" over and over.  The strings!  That tribal drumming!  THAT'S how you do "drama", kiddies!

Johnny wouldn't even go see Joey in the hospital there at Joey's end.  It would've been "fake" in his mind, what was the point?

I feel the same way about the Hook-less version of New Order.  I don't care how much you hate each other, you're either both in the band or it ain't the band.

Hipster Kansas?  Oof, no thanks.  They'll have to carry on without THIS wayward son.  Looks like I'll be…

@avclub-0a7d7a81e8e3a20e4c34748e98ef45f6:disqus - That was how I saw it too.  Pete has been pretty powerless this season, this gives him leverage over someone who he already knows is bold and shameless/quick-thinking. 

Bird is the

They know Where It's At.

in my opinion, woefully weak) Midnite Vultures

Not even a huge BoC fan, but am somewhat intrigued by this anyway.  But the review text sounds lower than "B" grade.  

It's a trick Manolo taught him.  Keeps you regular.

THANK YOU

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They made it a point earlier to show Don taking notice of a woman who strongly resembled Megan getting out of the pool; I assumed this woman is who Don was *actually* talking to, and between a boatload of strong-ass hashish and Don's usual Herculean alcohol intake, it's within the realm of possibility.

@avclub-ddf39be6eb089c51636d28ea68254f5c:disqus - You're not crazy (though you may have encephalitis) - I saw it like you did.  Both here, and over at Sepinwall I see people interpreting that speech as Jack showing he cares about Will.

re:  repetition - Homme has been open about his appreciation for Neu!; "Regular John" is just ridiculously great, simple, heavy motorik.

It's not a huge catalog studio-album-wise, but it can be a bit confusing with the alternate "unofficial" album versions, live albums,  multiple takes on the same song etc, fragments of song melodies appearing elsewhere (like on Dreamweapon).

You know, I was going to argue against including Marr, since "How Soon is Now" aside (which itself might count as a shoegaze precursor), he generally favored a "clean" bright sound; not too effects-heavy, more generated by fast picking of notes.

Yeah, if you want to go way back you've got Wire's abstraction, as you note; obviously the VU's heavy use of distortion as compositional element throughlines though JAMC to MBV; even "Kangaroo" by Big Star uses feedback as a compositional element.

This is where the sacrilege is?  Sign me up. 

@avclub-c2773f4f671f1d0915242a19ccec11f7:disqus , yep, Dino too.  I had never really considered Cure in the mix, but I can see that viewpoint, emotionally as well as sonically (even going back to Pornography they were "smearing" sounds); not to mention utilizing the sort of gender-blending that shoegaze often…