I was more of a Punk-O-Rama kid (and didn't really get into those until #5 I think…whichever one had both Refused and The International Noise Conspiracy on it) but the bargain pricing was always appreciated.

I don't think any song has bowled me over to the degree that "Here Come the Rome Plows" did on first listen.

On the plus side, it's ridiculously common in cut out bins for that exact reason and if you wind up paying more than 5$ for a copy of it (reissue aside) you probably didn't have to…

I always listened to it on headphones and had to remind myself not to sing along.

Oh I agree. Stunt is easily one of the best pop/rock albums of 1998 if I start it at track 2 and Gordon is one of the only albums I had as a kid that I still get enjoyment out of, plus they were my first concert when I was 11 (free show at a scout jamboree for the record). Yet they've done this awful…thing which makes…

Personally I just hate it because it's like if an episode of Family Guy decided to be a song instead. Like,the chorus is clearly about this toxic relationship that's making these people into passive-aggressive wrecks, but the verses are just POP CULTURE REFERENCES that have no bearing or relation to the rest of the…

I think it's more 'well, we can't afford Mary-Louise Parker, so…'

Only after they step on the brakes to get out of her clutches.

Also, The Watchmen are pretty OK…like nothing revelatory or great but definitely better than average middle of the road cancon-abetted radio rock.

I've always been partial to "When Prince Was a Kid (off their first 7" I think? I know I got it as part of my HIGHLY LEGAL online acquisition of Tremble but I never see it on any tracklists for the actual EP anywhere) as far as J*F*E goes. Really tough you can't go wrong with any of their stuff, though I'm not as big…

Oh I can't deny that it's got great songs - I'll rep for "Shoot" and "On the Strip" any day of the week - I just wish it had the same sort of edge that DDN and Goo had rather than the radio-friendly "edge" that all the alternative rockers were working with in '92.

I'd avoid recommending starting with Dirty because it sounds more like a band trying to make a Sonic Youth record than an actual SY album. The sound is right but it just feels that little bit too…clean I guess. I blame Butch Vig.

Washing Machine is criminally under rated. So is A Thousand Leaves. The former was actually my gateway so maybe I'm slightly biased in its favor but regardless, two of their best and they need more love.

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When are we going to get to the pig fucking?

I'd like it a lot more if it didn't already sound like it's own Glee cover.

Say what you will, but I don't think any album sums up 1994 better. That's more of an indictment of 1994 than anything else, but still…

In fourth grade one of my friends had his older brother make him a tape of Green Day's Dookie and The Offspring's Smash, two albums that none of my friends parents would allow any of my group of friends to have. Needless to say that my nth generation dub of that tape was a) never labelled and b) only ever listened to…

I actually think Cobra and Phases is their second best over all after Transient Random Noise and the meandering is a big part of that. I like albums that get lost in themselves to some extent I guess.

I think I mentioned this when it got discussed in the We're #1 column, but the used CD store I went to while I was in high school had a drawer devoted to copies of Razorblade Suitacase and Monster.

Both directed by Spike Jonze if I recall correctly.