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Maybe "Stone Mountain" wasn't as bad as I remember, but I mostly just remember it as the culmination of that non-starting NYC-vs-flyover-country plot arc. Seriously, that shit might've been relevant in 2004, but it seemed like a weird thing to bring up on the cusp of a new decade, when that binary represents like the…

Dude's gotta get paid. And when I say that, I don't mean it sarcastically, I mean it like, Andy Partridge probably literally has to get paid to pay his mortgage and shit. If you read the book XTC Song Stories (HIGHLY recommended, btw), it becomes clear that XTC pretty much made dick from Virgin.

@Prof. Horatio Hufnagel

I touched on that in my post. In addition to knowing all their albums front to back, I'll definitely vouch for some underrated XTC b-sides. WE'RE HEADED FOR A HEATWAVE BITCH

I dunno, Nabin ripped the Christmas episode a new one, and that was pretty recent.

Failed worsties.

Just a bunch of real obvious stuff
- The Beatles (though their obscure stuff isn't really that obscure)
- R.E.M. (though they haven't had any real b-sides since the 80s)
- Smiths/Morrissey ("Wonderful Woman" is the shit)
- XTC ("Instant Tunes" and "Jump" = where it's at)
- Woody Allen (although I've gotten lazy in recent…

They're perfectly fine with Africans starving.

Yeah, when I saw that I was like "good luck with that."

You people already had your de facto Prince Regent cameo. GOD LET US HAVE BRENT RETURN AND BRING THE GUITAR

STOP IT

From what I've heard of them, I'd go ahead and put Cocteau Twins in with dreampop, just because for me at least, a pretty crucial component of shoegaze is the juxtaposition of pretty melodies and vocals with huge distorted guitars. That's what I meant when I was talking about Slowdive - they're probably the prettiest…

It's weird, because I don't like, despise solo Don Henley - I would never go out of my way to listen to it or anything, but stuff like "Dirty Laundry" is at least pleasant. But most Eagles stuff is flat-out intolerable for me. I can deal with "Hotel California" (the song) if I absolutely have to, but after that,…

Not to mention the fact that when people think of Steely Dan, they're thinking Aja/Gaucho with the slick session players and whatnot, but remember that on their first three albums at least, Steely Dan was a full-on rock band. People who hate their slickness would do well to check those albums out (especially Countdown…

I don't necessarily hate ELP, but I am conscious of the fact that when people criticize "prog-rock," 99% of the time they're really just criticizing ELP. So when I'm trying to sell people on it, I try to downplay them and play up edgier prog, like Red-era Crimson or Lamb-era Genesis. But yeah, I'm not even gonna try…

Yeah, that was my thing last summer after he died and all these well-wishers came out of the woodwork to sing his praises, I was like "where the hell were all these people for the last 15 years when he was being ripped limb from limb by every single media outlet in the world?" Whatevs. Haters, you know what to do.

I mean, sure I resisted them when I was little, but that's because all I listened to was Nirvana. When I was 14, I listened to "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" and it was like a religious conversion.

Also, this isn't such a hard thing now, but you should've tried defending Michael Jackson back before he died. I tried to convince people of both his innocence and the brilliance of HIStory Continues, but people were not having it.