because signals is where the transition is more fully complete. new world man is a good deal poppier than anything prior.

how about rubber soul, revolver, sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band and the white album?

"compared" is where you're going wrong.

"racism" implies a hatred of a race, or a desire for that race to be eliminated or to stay far away. that's a major and important difference between racism and racial insensitivity, which usually also sucks but is not necessarily EVIL.

do you rofo?

couldn't agree more with all of this. abacab is among the records i use to "convert" phil-haters, or at least to teach them that he wasn't always so dull and antiseptic. even his voice, which elicits groans from so many, was a different instrument, used to far more passionate, soulful and versatile effect, on this…

i'm not much for 8DAW either. mccartney's masterpiece, by a pretty wide berth, is maybe i'm amazed (live '76 version, of course)..although blackbird is certainly in the conversation.

spot-on on the vocal performance, in terms of both your description of it sonically and your assessment of how much it makes the song.

do you have that on good authority?

Die Hard 43: Ah, Fuck It

Die Hard 17: Still Dead

girls don't join frats.

"Alhendro"?

shut the fuck up.

"O'Riley."

this is a c minus? sounds like a k, at best.

and he bagged avril lavigne somehow, who i would imagine is the most irritating girlfriend/wife in the history of women, but is sorta hot, really.

yeah, same exact deal with me. i was ok with no rain and tones of home for what they were, but galaxie i actually found interesting.

i can hardly believe no one else has commented on this, but: september 31?

totally agreed, with this and your comment below. i have no hipster problems whatsoever with good pop music, and could name dozens of fine examples from the past decade (though definitely not nearly as many in the past few). HER pop songs are just flat, silly and unexceptional, nothing hooky, nothing uniquely…