avclub-a29664bf3d977c774e32e31652f81ee9--disqus
troutmask
avclub-a29664bf3d977c774e32e31652f81ee9--disqus

If you wanna get technical "Teen Angst" was their biggest hit chart-wise…

Was gonna suggest this too.

That EP is pretty great, but "Don't Call Home" >>>>> "Safari." I like it when the ladies get more menacing, sorry (probably why I prefer Pod to Last Splash on the whole too)

"Dream Thrum" or gtfo.

I can't think of the "Runaway Train" video without immediately replacing it with the AlTV version where he replaced all the missing children with child actors and other has beens.

Man, the 80s were awful weren't they?

It's about fucking. It's the most singularly unsexy song about fucking ever recorded probably, but it's still about fucking.

So this is where they're finally going to talk about Clone High, right?

The one thing that I remember about This Conversation… vividly is that it sounded like the emo version of Matthew Good Band, which will mean nothing to you if you're not Canadian probably but it's what stuck out for me. Well that and "Catherine the Grateful" being one of the better poppy emo openers of the decade, but

See, I hated the sanitized version (the last half of the chorus was replaced with 'my *"sexy" groan*/Just like dat') so I never sought out the uncensored version until it popped up in a Diplo (?) megamix/mash up or something. Then I was both aggravated by the awfulness of the song and by her demands of a half-hearted

Until the final showdown at least…Chuckie's attack face looks like some sort of rat was used as the basis and it makes me laugh like mad every single time.

I remember my English teacher talking about how he firmly believed that Stephen King had been raped as a boy based on how many of his stories feature childhood sexual abuse.I thought he was full of shit until I remembered that one because Jesus Christ that's one fucked up set up.

Every time I try to hate The Police, "Next to You" starts playing in my head and I just CAN'T HATE THEM ALRIGHT?

'Hope" is the better word…I think.

If I limit my hatred to post-The Unforgettable Fire U2 am I spared your hatred?

Rymes With Orange were partly from my hometown so I have to give them props even if those props amount to 'they had that one song that was pretty OK, I guess…' (http://www.youtube.com/watc… for the record)

Ah, 151, the undoing of so many drinkers…

My problem is that unless I get drunk a very specific way (read: quickly) I get hyper-aware of all the things I'm doing right/wrong in a given situation, basically going a bit OCD to make sure that I don't do anything too stupid (you can tell how this generally turns out can't you?) So now I just have a few drinks

The stuff typified as "skramz" here I've heard referred to mainly as 'emoviolence' which is…slightly less aesthetically awful I guess?