Thought "Salty Bean Fumble" was a Spacehog cover, myself.

Neko Case's time in my ears inspired a crushingly boring listen.

Nah, "Airportman" and "Lotus" work together so well.  Up: Another underrated R.E.M. album.  And I dare say, as much as people love Kid A here (and I do, too), that album would not have happened without these two R.E.M. songs.

Damn the haters to hell.  Monster is a fine album.  It really is.  Deserves rethinking.  "Kenneth" and "Crush With Eyeliner" may not be the best 1-2, but they exude the required amounts of sex, power and dread for that period.  Peter's amp never crushed like this.  I was bummed when only "Kenneth" turned up on the…

A controversial pick given the vitriol tossed in their face on a previous thread but the sequencing on Aerosmith's "Pump" has got to be one of the smartest I've heard.  8 measures of power chords and "Young Lust" is off to the races, a madcap drum solo and "F.I.N.E." struts its stuff without a pause.  A brilliant…