Thanks - fun read. How about "Red Medicine," next?.

Bought at the same time from Waxie Maxie's in Lakeforest Mall: The Monkees Then and Now… The Best of the Monkees and Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet. My enthusiasm for Bon Jovi proved fleeting; I only remember the singles from that tape. The Monkees, however, remained my favorite band through elementary school (until…

It's so weird to me that everyone always has Steady Diet at the bottom. *Production aside*, it's a pretty great collection of songs, probably my favorite. And it's weird to me that people have The Argument at or near the top. It's not bad, I guess, but I've always thought Ian's songs were pretty weak, except for…

The one I've never understood, which I'm sure people will disagree with, based on various top-100-of-all-time lists and comments I've seen here, is "Everlong" by Foo Fighters.  I just don't get the appeal at all.  I don't hate it, I don't think it's a terrible song, it's just kind of meh.  Generic mid-nineties rock.…

It's funny, everyone here seems to agree that MacKaye > Picciotto, while it seems like most people I've talked to have thought Picciotto = badass motherfucker, and MacKaye = just OK. I had a friend who made me make him a Picciotto-only greatest hits, because he couldn't take Ian's voice or sermonizing. Ian's got…