Not all of it. Most of "20 Jazz Funk Greats" is pretty listenable, and sometimes even pleasant. But "D.O.A: The Third and Final Report" as some of the most horrific music put to tape in the history of recording, but that's what it was intended to be. Coil's "Horse Rotorvator" is no picnic either.

Got pummeled by a couple of Chicago nazis at a Einstürzende Neubauten concert, circa 1993, because I felt like pogoing near the front of the stage. Lost my watch, and could barely walk for a week. But it was a good show.

This news makes me Egg-static! I thought the hopes of a DVD release were all but Egg-stinct! Now I can buy it for my wife, to help make up for my Egg-stramarital affair!

You could be right, "Beneath" is incredibly awful. It could be the dullest film in the series. But I still dislike "Escape from" the most for its fish-out-of-water cuteness and its ridiculous, desperate premise.

In my haste, I got two of the titles wrong. I meant "Rise of", and I meant to say "Escape from" instead of "Return to".

I would rank them thusly:
Planet of > Conquest of > Battle for > Beneath the > Return to. But all of the sequels suck, in vastly different degrees of suckage. I liked "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" quite a lot, and Tim Burton's movie is worthless garbage.

No, the third film in the series has Cornelius and Zira going back in time to our present day, leading to lots of wacky montages of them going shopping for expensive human clothes and haberdashery.

We caught "Going Ape", starring Tony Danza and some other apes, on cable over Thanksgiving weekend while staying with family, and it made everything better.

They've always been a circus act. Their music is contrived and their musicianship is messy. A festive, immersive stage show and oddball merchandising is all they ever had.

The above newswire is a little misleading when it says "packaged in a life-size chocolate skull". It's actually a record accompanied by an irrelevant, gimmicky, stupid chocolate skull.

Besides lots of catchy songs, it sounds magnificent. I don't care for the grunge genre in general, but Butch Vig's production on "Dirty" is largely responsible for it being a masterpiece.

Me too. "EVOL" and "Dirty" are the two albums I return to the most, in that order, over 20 years later.
But I would also argue that EVOL, Sister and Daydream Nation are pretty similar to each other in how unique and artistically daring they are, then they changed to a more accessible sound with "Goo" that continued for…

You're calling "Love at First Sting" early Scorpions? That's their ninth album.

I can understand if the content is too much for some readers. But it's her story, and she tells it with intimacy and conviction and tremendous insight. She's also a crackerjack illustrator.

I think you mean "egg burrito".

That's assuming they checked each other's work, though. I read the whole book as well (in a day, if I remember correctly), and Tommy Lee comes across as such an imbecile that he could be illiterate. They didn't necessarily corroborate each other's stories, and I doubt they remember much of the details anyway.
Tommy is…

How bizarre would it have been if he went the Elvis route and only sang about Jesus for the last five years of his life?

That's the CD/cassette. The original EP was just the six songs, and it could be the best of all their albums. I think it was their pinnacle as a band. Too bad Kid Congo split.

I rented that on VHS from my local record store way back in 1985, when I was fifteen. I think it was the first video I rented on my own.

I have "Lux and Ivy's Favorites"mixed in with a huge collection of Grindhouse radio ads on an ipod playlist, and there are about 200 mp3's of each.