Weird that if they really were rappers they'd get mocked.  But they're Animal Collective, so, instant street cred!

OK, I'm saying it.  I like this new guy.

While we're trying to set the record straight, I'll say:

Just passing along my own experience.  I had the greatest hits album and it didn't really grab me for like a year.  Bee Thousand (and Alien Lanes) floored me right away.  Check those two out for sure.

They're finally here!  And shit yeah it's cool!

Seventeen Seconds To Love?

When I was a young buck in 1984 I came home from school one day wearing a Motley Crue bandana.  My Mom asked me if I knew what the star inside the circle symbol was.  "Duh Mom, it's the Motley Crue symbol!"  "Well, no son, it's actually the symbol of Satan."  Ahh, the 80s.

This is a review of the

I was much more into GNR too, but to be fair, Appetite came out in 87 was multi platinum by 88.  Dr. Feelgood came out in 89 and went multi multi platinum as well.  It's not like GNR did to Crue what Nirvana did to hair bands.

Ha ha, I'm with you man.

Really, the chronology goes Van Halen, then Crue, then GNR.  The Sunset Strip sound started as more hard rock (stuff like the first two Crue albums, Dokken, Ratt, Quiet Riot - not the best, but not the worst).  After "Home Sweet Home" exploded in 86, everyone copied Crue (who sucked in that era) and went nuts with the…

I'm clueless apparently.  In "I Want My MTV" some video director said that Mick Mars has been wearing a wig since the Girls Girls Girls days.

The "Shout At The Devil" and "Too Fast For Love" albums hold a special place in my heart and they still sound pretty great.  The rest of their stuff though?  Theater of Pain?  Dr. Feelgood?  Ugh.

I love buying tickets to Madison Square Garden and being charged for parking, even though no body drives there and you have to pay for parking again if you actually do want to park.*

I often wonder, which behemoth is the worst?  Ticketmaster, Clear Channel, The IRS, or the New York Yankees.  Ticketmaster is better than Enron, I guess, but not by much.

So it was YOU that caused me to get shut out of tickets!  That's OK I saw them at Terminal 5 instead.

Blender Magazine gave Sound Of Silver a 10/10 rating when it came out, then apologized a few years later for beng so overzealous.  I think they were pretty close the first time.

Slap Your Mammy (Gut Feeling).

Favorite LCD song (after All My Friends):

Oh man!  It was like Russian Roulette.  You'd waste all that time building the playlist and burning it, only to have it fail to burn at the last possible second, for a reason no one could understand or rectify.  Still, it was better than Maxell tapes….