Oh, and speaking of Xgau, his piece on SITKOL in Grown Up All Wrong is totally killer. Shame that it's not on his website, or else I'd link it.

Those Graham Parker albums hold up well—beats John Fucking Hiatt, that's for sure—though they certainly aren't Albums of Any Year. The Arrested Development fiasco was totally worth it just for Christgau's hilarious debunking of the poll results in real time: http://www.robertchristgau….

If you play the Portsmouth Sinfonia's version, you better throw a hell of a knuckleball: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Ciao, Ceausescu!