Someone do that and I'll vote for you regardless of whatever else you say.

Yeah, the fact that there are any good Streets albums at all is surprising.  I don't know if he considers what he does rapping or if it's more storytelling, but it's barely meeting the qualifications of rapping.  I don't know much about the word "flow" in hip hop terms other than to say that he has no flow.

That album was great.  Seriously great.  And the details are what sell it; when he's talking about looking around the bar when the girl is on the phone, or looking at the line at the girl's bathroom.  The follow up was just putrid.  I still can't figure it out. Was he trying to make us hate him?

I thought it was Jesse Camp.  He's someone I look up to and respect. Who is Jesse Thorn?

I thought it all went together well.  The musicians frequently changing instruments between songs was pretty interesting, and that drummer was destroying his kit.  I've seen a few other shows this year that also put videos up during their songs (Devotchka, Album Leaf), so that's somewhat common. I've never seen Sigur…

I watched Thin Red Line and subsequently got the album of the Melanesian choirs that sing on the soundtrack.  After rewatching the movie, I detected some of the melodies that the choirs sang in Hans Zimmer's melodies, so I don't know if he wrote them and fed the melodies to the singers, but maybe that doesn't matter…

No Kid Rock!?? You MUST be deaf.

I just cut out everything that's not a Buckingham song, and what remains is a 9-song EP of wonderful guitar pop.

Around 2004, I was in love with that band, and while I enjoyed the forays into more and more arrangements on the 2005 EPs, I was pretty disinterested with Shepard's Dog.  The new one is worse.  The whole whisper-singing thing was fine; you could still do that with a full band ("Belated Promise Ring" is a good…

He's on my fantasy team! Colston, not the moon.

DJ Shadow's "Endtroducing…" I had heard the hype for how good it was, and just never got around to listening to it for years.  Finally gave it a go this year, and it was an outstanding album that really lived up to the hype.  I can't imagine what people in the 90s thought when that came out; it still sounds…

That cover, at least the one on Wikipedia for the Japan import, is awesome.  Why didn't they keep that one?

ooohhh I hope no one I know is reading this, I do that way too much.  Where's my iPhone so I can record a voice memo?

And when did it become Krist? Wasn't it Kris at one time? I never got that. I think it was his birth name, but I'm convinced he swapped it out to be less "ethnic" for a while.

I had already assumed that after reading your initial post. 

My exposure to this album was that my cousin used to live in the sticks, and he knew had a neighbor that was a garbageman.  This neighbor would collect tons and tons of junk that was tossed out but new, and keep it in this big barn.  My cousin brought me over to peek at this junk warehouse, and, amongst all the phones…

Cheating is awesome. Hard work is for suckers.

Sleaze metal? Didn't you hear pandering metal ballad "The Ballad of Jane"? It was a shame whatever happened to her. That's not entirely clear from the lyrics. 

Speaking of "nadir" and Metallica, I used the word "nadir" in a paper about Lord Of The Flies in 9th grade English, learning it from "The Shortest Straw", and, being a long-haired metalhead at the time, my English teacher thought there was no way I could have used such impressive words without plagiary.

Well, the point was made that individuals in this country define themselves as "conservative", but break down progressive  on individual party issues.  Obama in California is a case with people voting more progressive candidates, but voting conservative on individual issues.  Are people more conservative on specific…