@avclub-fbca7c48c185890bd31f538b91ba5fbb:disqus  Hm? Oh, no, I was just announcing it.  This is twitter, right?  We're tweeting right now?

I'm putting together a band and I believe we now have a name.

My understanding is that singles were also usually mixed differently, out of anticipation of getting flattened by FM radio distortion, and because they didn't need to be mastered to the album.  They would have hotter compression, thumpier/brighter drums, all that.  I noticed in the late-80s that MTV video mixes also…

My favorite slang for this was the ol' "Fifteen Dollar Single."  Nothing like holding a pristine CD in your hands, price sticker still stuck on the jewel case by some kind of military-grade superglue, thinking "there is only one goddamn good song on here."   

Agreed. I think it peaked with The Beast With A Billion Backs, immediately hit its nadir with Bender's Game, and hasn't really recovered from that.  I can't put my finger on what happened; the best I can say is the jokes feel a bit lazier, and the show seems geekier without being any smarter for it.  If my wife wasn't…

Super hot compression is an artistic choice like painting a picture and then coating it completely with hunter-orange paint is an artistic choice.  Which is to say, "yes," but really only the first time.  Then it's just lazy and ugly.

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Ah shit, he totally did, and now I remember reading it and thinking it was interesting.  My stupid dream came true and I'm still complaining.  Welp, nevermind then.  Good catch, tho.  I bow to your superior data retention.   

Yeah, that's very true.  I think there's even a website devoted to the ol' I-vi-V-IV. I was just trying to reach for an example.  I'm fascinated by the process of songwriting and its tricks and pitfalls (I myself am self-taught and pretty terrrrrible).  I always hope to learn something new in these articles, even…

True that.  And FWIW I'm really enjoying these articles.  Mark Korvette's was fucking hilarious.

Good on Marah Eakin for trying to extract some actual concrete, music-based arguments from a professional musician, even if he didn't exactly bite.  My own stupid dream is that one of these times the interviewee will point out that the song uses, I don't know, some kind of cliched chord structure that fights against…

I just watched it (all praise the DVR!), and I'm still not convinced it wasn't intentional.  The entire second half (as well as her subsequent interviews) felt like it was some kind of meta-joke-slash-commentary on comedy specials.

"for good"?  Oh, it's still a little too early to throw around words like that.

Sounds like you're committed to this search.  Perhaps unreasonably so. 

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Goddamit, world, you're already so stupid.  Stop getting stupider!

Oh my god, I think my blood just froze.  I barely survived nu metal the first time.  If it comes back, I'm joining the survivalists in the jungles of Costa Rica.

Let me answer your question with a question:

You, too, huh? 

Finally, an explanation I can understand!