The Cake-era b-sides are also essential IMO… "Who's He" and especially "Drunken Chorus" (the latter appears on their live album 'Fez')

I initially heard the line "I'm Harry, hello" as "I'm happy alone"… I was a mopey adolescent well into my twenties… And thirties to be honest

The "alt-rock revolution" of course didn't happen overnight… Somewhere in a box in my basement I have a VHS tape or 3 of videos taped off MTV… It was actually cool how they would play Ozzy next to Nirvana… The Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion videos got tons of exposure (which got increasingly annoying when they…

Nadia: "I broke his Jew penis"

"She's Tight" is fantastic… But if they hadn't released it, Poison wouldn't have ripped it off and gotten their first breakthrough hit (Talk Dirty to Me) and the world might have been spared.

Oh, and there's also this amusing trifle the band has all but disowned, but it's catchy… Title track from the crappy 1984 comedy 'Up the Creek'

I would have gone with the *other* Heavy Metal soundtrack contribution, "I Must Be Dreaming"… There's an annoying left/right speaker-panning synth intro (and outro), but the actual song in the middle effing rocks.

For kids in the 70's who snuck in at the theatre, or caught it on HBO when their parents were being inattentive (or, in my case, had no objection to violence, but a bare female nipple resulted in a lunge for the cable box), The Omen was a Big Deal… That decapitation scene in particular made quite an impact on the…

New Toy oh-ay-oh! I need to hear that right now… And maybe follow it up with "Sick for Toys" by the Sugarcubes for good measure!

"Hyperactive" is just fanTAStic! I don't get how it wasn't a bigger hit.

The actions of Mike and Jimmy reminded me of what David Foster Wallace said in 'Pale King' about immunity to boredom being more important than any other possible attribute… They share a willingness to buckle down and spend endless hours just putting in the time and doing the work… I know that in the big picture things…

Okay… At least Horace died after a few fleeting moments of relative peace and happiness after years of resignation and sadness. I know that's a pathetically thin silver lining but it's all I've got… As for the first act, I was in my single-digits for the 70's but that whole patriarchal society thing with emotional…

Wow, that was… devestating.

They missed Young Marble Giants: "Final Day"… Baffling omission

*cues up Chubby Checker's "Limbo Rock"*

They're low flow toilets Jimmy!

The average 12-year-old will routinely say things like: "That band sucks because people who like their music are f***in' d**ks." It really is the lamest reasoning for not liking a band (and God knows it appears in this column all the time)… That said, I laughed out loud when I read: "I did a lot of things I wasn’t…

Saw this in the theatre when it first came out. "Her ______ gets so wet!" had the audience laughing so hard/loudly I think I missed Matthew Broderick's response. This movie is one of the all time great cringe comedies, heavy on the cringe.

Granted, I had the album when I was, like, 9 or 10, but I loved Ace's solo album, and I played it a few months ago and was surprised at how well it held up. No, it doesn't sound a lot like KISS, but it's really a solid slab of late 70's rock. It's pretty widely considered the best of the batch… https://rateyourmusic.…

I keep forgetting that I'm not the only one baffled by the apparent conventional wisdom that ranks 'Kid A' as one of the greatest albums of all time. there's like, what, 4 or 5 of us, right?