5. Knights of Prosperity was brilliant.

Why is it 'plain stupid'? Music videos, album art, live performances, promotional photos/art, posters, barges etc are all important to music fandom (to different degrees for different individuals). Not everyone needs to or wants to subscribe to a rockist form of authenticity where the sounds on the record must be…

Tone Set are great. It's a damn shame that they reissued their catalogue in a crazy expensive vinyl-only set.

Nah. Visuals/images/etc are as much a part of appreciating and enjoying music as the instrumentation. If we're going to start calling bands 'hoaxes' because the people in the videos or on tour didn't actually play on the record then…well there'd be a lot of hoaxes out there. I mean, how dare Paul Simonon act like he…

You're just too bad.

I'm more shocked that Wapner was still alive.

Also, never in my life did I ever mistake Bill Paxton for Bill Pullman, or vice versa. Hopefully we can also lay that stupid joke to rest.

Yeah, I was going to say something similar. Milli Vanilli came out of a Eurodisco scene where it was/is common for models to front for the actual vocalists. MV only got in trouble because rockist music critics got their panties in knots. MV's music was horrible but they didn't deserve the scorn they got, and I…

Goddammit. One of the great character actors of our time. Hell, maybe the greatest–is there a role he didn't somehow make memorable?

'Blue Dress' and 'Clean' are weak closers. Rest of the album is brilliant.

Look, this idiot's a Nazi and therefore should fuck off, but Black Celebration is Depeche Mode's best album, period. The correct order is:

Where's Firefly?

Well, Republican voters themselves are never going to change how they think or vote, and it's not worth chasing after them. They are the enemy! Democrats need to to go after people who didn't vote, including people hindered by voting suppression tactics.

Yeah, absolutely, and I don't blame Gahan at all–after he cleaned up in the 90s he decided to take being a musician more seriously, which is certainly a good thing. It's just that the music he wants to make isn't DM music (and his solo albums were horrible)

I think The Cure's Bloodflowers is up there with their 80s output. But generally yeah WIsh was where I got off the train.

Great topic. Another good one might be personal 'comeback' albums, those that got you back into an artist you were drifting away from (for me: New Order, Music Complete; Heaven 17, Bigger Than America).

I'll give the new Depeche Mode a shot (the new song's grown on me), but it does seem like Delta Machine might be my jumping-off point. I don't think Gahan's into the band anymore and it's really starting to show.

He's be a perfect Polonius.

More light need to be shed on conservatives' strategy of depicting themselves as an oppressed minority.

Kate Bush, 'Under Ice'
Mantronix, 'Bassline (Latin Rascals Edit)'
Ultravox, 'Passing Strangers'
Gary Numan, 'Bombers'
Spahn Ranch, 'Antibody (Conspiracy Mix)'
Gang of Four, 'I Found That Essence Rare'
My Dad Is Dad, 'Pile It On'
Wire, 'Once Is Enough'
SWA, 'Goddess'
Rapeman, 'Coition Ignition Mission'
Modern Eon, 'High Noon'
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