Yeah, Stephan Jenkins used to make a pretty big deal of that back when it was a hit — the fact that they could get a song about drug use and sex on the radio.

I met a guy a couple years ago — this was 2009 or so — and he was, like, 21 — and otherwise he seemed pretty cool and had good taste — and he was like, "I really like Third Eye Blind. I'm a big fan. I just really like them. I have all their albums and singles."

Nope, I know what you're saying, Heller, but while Steve Miller and Foreigner hold a special place in my heart separate from Nirvana and the Pumpkins, I still dig hearing them all on the same station. Heck, I even like hearing Collective Soul once in a while these days.

Dude, sconn, I dunno if you're aware of this, but a brief perusal of your commenting history reveals that you are kind of a total insufferable douche.

Or "Slow Dancing" for Willie Nelson. The original cut is about as close to perfect as music gets.

You're not wrong, but "Fast Cars" is easily the best song on Dismantle, even if it's technically not on Dismantle.

That's about right, although I'd argue that No Line is, conceptually, a much stronger and smarter album than it gets credit for. You can read it as a recap of the band's whole musical history, starting with the "Fly" riff in the title track. (Well, starting with the album title, actually, which is pretty obviously a…

You're flailing in the dark now. Walk away from the computer, take a deep breath, imagine your mom giving you a shoulder rub. It's gonna be OK.

I would have accepted "Internet commenter acknowledges he posted something clueless instead of doubling down by being a little dildo," but I have a feeling I'm gonna have to settle, huh?

Not that I am a great fan of at least four of those five, but they're all either certainly or arguably influenced by U2, and definitely not U2's contemporaries. Neither are Jack White or Patti Smith.

Yup, they should've gotten artists like the Killers, Snow Patrol, Damien Rice, the Fray, and Glasvegas.

That was indeed a shitty, shitty review of a shitty, shitty album.

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Ames wrote a profile of Lenny Kravitz for Spin a couple years ago that was just fantastic. (He did one of Marilyn Manson, too, which was also very good.) Yeah, yeah, I know, Spin, not good anymore, never that good, your reflexively dismissive comments have already been noted, but the Kravitz story is a…

I haven't heard this or her last album, but the 2005 one is pretty brilliantly consistently catchy all the way through — sugary and throwaway with just a little itty bit of a silly edge. Even when you're "just" writing commercial pop, it takes something to put together a whole album's worth that's genuinely any fun to…

@Bfred: No, the post (assuming all the reporting is accurate) says he was pulled over *after* the cops smelled weed.

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…smell marijuana (or anything) coming from a car? Was he stuck in traffic with all the windows rolled down?

Seriously, I think that *every time* I see his name. At this point, he's far more an advertisement for the A.V. Club to me than he is his own brand.

Sure, sure — I mean, if your A game involves using three syllables and ten letters where one and four, respectively, will do, then yes, absolutely.