Many of the songs on Rope are quite boring. "Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad," "Guns on the Roof," "Drug-Stabbing Time," and "Last Gang in Town" are all mediocre.

Are you serious? The Damned and early Buzzcocks were way better. And let's not forget that only The Clash's debut album is punk from start to finish. Albums such as Sandinista and London Calling do have demonstrate some punk influences, but certainly cannot be called punk. When's the last time you saw a punk album…

All of these British punk bands released music in the 70s (there were many more active in that decade, like GBH and Cockney Rejects, but their recording careers began in the early 80s):
The Clash (only their debut album is punk, by the way)
The Adverts
The Damned
U.K. Subs
Buzzcocks
Crass
Sham 69
The Slits

If you don't post a lo-fi Guided by Voices masterpiece like "Jabberstroker," "Jar of Cardinals" or "Smothered in Hugs" this week, Hear This needs to be discontinued.

I'm not a Flaming Lips fan, but I'll take The Terror over the banality of The Soft Bulletin. Along with In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, it's easily one of the most overrated albums of the 90s.

I know this site's music coverage is a long-running joke, but would it kill the staffers to pick great songs by bands that users don't already all know about? Air Miami, the Marked Men, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, The Chills, etc.? Thanks.

Tom Gabel OMG table

This didn't at all feel like a "mid-season" finale, and thank Christ for that. Screw AMC for trying to pull the same shenanigans that they did with their much pulpier dramas. This wasn't my favorite episode of the season (that would have to be "The Monolith"), but it left off the characters in a very interesting…

Jonathan Banks is (and looks) pretty old, so for the sake of believability, they won't be able to go too far back in the past.

AMC's desperation for another critical darling is the point of this show.

This show really should have been about Saul managing a Cinnabon in Omaha.

Heller severely undersells the excellence of Dillinger Four's Midwestern Songs of the Americas. It was definitely the best punk album released in 1998, and one of the best overall punk albums of the 90s.

I didn't say it was bad. Fugazi has never put out a bad album. I just said that it was stagnant and lacking the band's usual creativity. "Latin Roots," "Stacks," "Nice New Outfit," and "Polish" are decent post-punk songs that could have been written by any number of much inferior bands also on Dischord (i.e.…

It's definitely my favorite SDRE album too, but it isn't really emo-based in any capacity. They had evolved beyond that.

Had I purchased an Alkaline Trio album as a teenager, it would have long ago been discarded by now. An almost completely worthless, derivative band. How dare you place them in the same sentence as Jets to Brazil.

"Black Albino Bones," "Crooked Head," "Days of Last," "Son the Father," and "A Little Death" are just as catchy.

I've never understood Refused's appeal. Hell, I'd pick The International Noise Conspiracy over them any time. And Fucked Up is a million times better than both, obviously.

From a lyrical standpoint, Orange Rhyming Dictionary is one of the 4 or 5 best albums of all-time. Blake was never better than on this album. I'm not going to quote anything as it would take up too much space, but I recommend that you all go to Songmeanings and read the lyrics to "Sea Anemone," "King Medicine," "I…

Meh. This show pretty much had run its course in terms of finding new concepts to use. The only episode I truly enjoyed this season was "G.I. Jeff," and more because of its aesthetic than the actual writing. At least now we'll hopefully get more Trudy in Mad Men's final seven episodes, assuming Weiner hasn't…

ONE DAY THE DARK HORSE WILL RISE.
(Wrong album, but who cares? That song rips.)