Wait, so his movie is just that documentary they did about the recording of "Wasting Light"/the band's history, right?

If they'd cut out three or four filler-ish tracks on "Wasting Light", I'd have been willing to at least take seriously an argument that it was on par with "The Colour and the Shape."

Yeah, there was a pretty big drop-off after TINLTL; the albums after that pretty much consisted of 3 or 4 solid songs each and a bunch of filler, but I thought "Wasting Light," their latest album, was probably the best thing they've done since "The Colour and the Shape".

Even if I think the Foos' stuff ranges from pleasantly listenable to pretty great, I can see where you're coming from.  But can you think of a better modern hard rock band that's found the same level of success as the Foos?  They're pretty much the only decent mainstream rock band around these days.

That's pretty awesome, seeing as how the last QOTSA album with Grohl was probably the best hard rock album of an admittedly tremendously shitty decade for hard rock.  Although I'm assuming the new QOTSA and Foo Fighters albums are going to push back a hypothetical second Them Crooked Vultures album even further.

I tend to agree that Cake is nowhere near as interesting as Jake.  That being said, I really liked the moment where Fionna is carrying Cake away from Marshall Lee and she's looking back at him in the most smug actual-cat-like way.

This is probably my favorite comment on this comments page.

Page/Plant released a couple of decent albums from that though.

In addition to his producer work and work on Them Crooked Vultures, his two solo albums are uneven (there's a good reason why JPJ never sang on anything for Zep), but better and more whimsically interesting than any of Page's solo stuff.

Queen(minus Freddie Mercury and John Deacon) was probably the least essential classic rock band reunion of all time.

@avclub-33807fbc68d335db8080d3c10cb78822:disqus Like the Who(minus Kieth Moon and John Entwhistle).

I've heard that Plant has had inconsistent live performances throughout his career, which makes me very leery of anything more than a very short tour (like 12 shows or less) or a one-off appearance at a festival like Coachella or something.

To be fair, even if Bonzo had lived, his and Plant's descent into heroin addiction/alcoholism would probably have led to albums of ever-decreasing quality.  There's a reason that their worst studio album (In Through the Out Door) was the one where Page too fucked up on heroin to truly be the artistic leader of the…

Listen to "II" or "Houses of the Holy" next, followed by "I", and "III", then "Presence" and "In Through the Out Door" and you'll be pretty good.  At some point you'll need to listen to non-album song "Hey Hey What Can I Do?"  Then you should probably go listen to "The Song Remains the Same" and watch the live "Led…

@avclub-97b2f7d1015bd8015ffbb0983360632c:disqus Does your local rock station's music library literally consist of some dude's mix tape on cassette 20 generic rock hits?  Because that's incredibly weird and sucks tremendously.  I hated the local stations where I grew up, and yet I've probably heard about half of Zep's…

I'd rather JPJ spend 2014, (or this year, for that matter) writing and touring new Them Crooked Vultures material with Homme and Grohl.  That has got to be better than Plant's voice on an extended tour, not-John Bonham drumming for Led Zeppelin, or the inevitable rumors of a new studio album that will start swirling…

Ah, I missed the "identical" in "identical gender-swapped BMO".  My bad.

Yes.

"I saw the flirting stuff less as a sign of actual romantic interest on Marshall's behalf, and more as him acting as his/Marceline's own prosecutor."

Two points: