I'd have to go listen to the first one again, but I think that the second is slack hippie nonsense. But that's just like, an opinion, man. And it's better than "O-bla-di, O-bla-da".

For a second I thought they were talking DisneyWorld or DisneyLand or something. Now that I could get excited about.

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But now you can go and get yourself a nice, shiny Bat for Lashes.

"Sabotage" is one of the few songs that people seem to love that I think is just a bunch of noise. And I like lots of songs that are just a bunch of noise.

He doesn't really release albums these days, but I've never heard a Burial track I thought was really awful.

Counterpoint: most songs Let It Be that aren't the title track.

Both of those bands bet the house on sonic drama. Either you're into it or you're not, and when you're not, it's embarrassing (cf: how I feel about Queen records). I liked Arcade Fire's "Funeral" well enough, but I knew that I had a real limit there, and one album was enough. Also, I sort of resented how obviously…

I think the issue there is that the economy was pretty good, the compact disc was at its height, and it was a slightly fuzzy alternative record by a name band that knew the form so well because they'd more or less invented it. So of course it ended up in a lot of used bins. Which doesn't make it bad, merely of its…

Okay, but we're telling stories about personal relationships with music, and so there's going to be a lot of looking back. If you're not comfortable with that, there are lots of other websites or streams or torrents or under-code-relay whatsits that I'm sure you can fuck off to, never to return.

"My Friends" is on it, though. Their slow songs always did more for me than the "I'm a macho funk hedonist" thing.

Does that one have "Touch Me" on it? Jim's "Fat Elvis in Vegas" moment, and one of the only Doors songs I like. Gorgeously embarrassing.

The Amazon 5 dollar bin is a lovely place, and it's increasingly deserted now that they seem to be emphasizing streaming over mp3s. Still, for people who don't want to streaming services or illegal downloading and have an Abraham or two to spend it's great: a good place to explore new music (or music that's new to…

I suppose that if you were into R.E.M. for all the jangly riffs and indecipherable-but-meaningful Stipe-isms, "Nightswimming" might sound disastrous. (I would also suppose that you liked a lot of R.E.M.-inspired college rock, lots of bands from New Zealand and Scotland, and lots of stuff on Sarah Records).

I bet he survives mostly on elephant livers.

Robert Mugabe is 93 years old.

Hey, Alexa, SNAP INTO A SLIM JIM!

Frankly, News of the Weird compilations make for some very good reading. I had volumes two and three, I think.

Mike Jones, presumably.

The Clean?