Hey, aren't we forgetting someone in STP? Weiland, the DeLeos… where's the love, or hate, for Kretzy? Eric Kretz, the drummer?

Does HDB owe you people money or something? All this hate can't be just about REM, can it? Or do REM fans always turn into ZMF when their little Stipey is attacked? DeadMcMahon, he CITED three songs by them, obviously he's heard many more. Does he need to list every single REM song he's ever heard in order to venture…

And for the record: In my opinion… which is entirely subjective, as all opinions are (we're not writing the Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock here, people!) REM's songs have zillions of wonderful hooks, as barefoot jim pointed out (also quite a few annoying hooks) but by and large not memorable enough to…

Jesus H. W. Moses, are REM fans ever thin-skinned! On behalf of HipsterDBag, I just have to say, SORRY…and I cannot capitalize those letters enough. Gotta say thank you, barefoot jim, for being the only poster who actually answers DBag's question… and was polite enough to respond to DBag's honest question with merely…

I guess you're right, Flaubert. Gene Simmons was just a little smoother about the it than Beefheart.

No shit, Bullshit! That "Monster" movie a couple years back? How many millions of actresses who don't look like movie stars would've been perfect for either of those hideous psycho-girl roles? And who'd the cast? Miss Perfect Features and Little Miss Sexpot With The Forehead! And then they had the nerve to make a big…

How can anybody get "sincerity" from it? Sincerity under duress? To me, it sounds like exactly what it is: three girls forced by their dad for hours a day to do something over and over again they're not good at, and prevented from getting any training or, it sounds like, much of any exposure to real music (being…

Zappa was a walking contradiction. Yes, he was a very technically accomplished musician who demanded an even higher level of musicianship from his band. And at the same time, he produced and "mentored" compelling-but-inept sideshow freaks such as Wild Man Fisher and the GTO's. (Not to mention collaborating with…

Sorry - just tired of
people like, "I wrote this hai-
ku, I'm so clever"

Haiku format is
A pretty lame-ass form of
Limitation, y'all.

Cliffy: brilliant! Yngwie Ramone! I'm stifling laughter here at work just thinking about that!

"modest kitchen of his Tennessee mansion"
See, that PROVES that Billy Ray's just a simple man who never made, um, a commissioned dime off his daughter! If he were some greedy parasite riding Miley's gravy train, he would have a big, ostentatious, mansion-y kitchen in his mansion!

What the hell is "left-footed"??
My first thought was "Oh yeah, I know what he means, Zach Galiafainaiakas is so, like, off-the, you know, mentally, just a little outside of the… oh, fuck it! I have no fucking idea what he means!"

They had me at six notes!
which were: "Bee-beep! Beep, beep, bee-beep!"

Mingus Ah Um was what instantly converted me to Mingus fanatic. The man's own bass notes that insistently open that album — "Doo-doo-doo-doomp! Doo-doo-doo-doomp!" — yanked me in, and following that rave -up with "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" is, to me, the greatest one-two in any jazz album.

We also have Willie Mitchell to thank for convincing Al Green to not be just another Wilson Pickett-style tuff-guy soul singer — which was the usual style Al sang in at the time — and instead, do more of that sweet, ultra-vulnerable singing thing he did occasionally. Though Al came up with that unique Al Green vocal…

I love that slow, suicidal-sounding version of "Mad World"! But I get the impression that if I ever watch "Donny Darko", I'll hate it.

Well, if Elvis qualifies, then Arthur Gunter — who wrote/appropriated the "rather see you dead little girl" line for his song "Baby Let's Play House" that Elvis covered, must qualify, and then we get into the long proud tradition of blues men singing about how they feel like killing the girl who left them, and they're…

"You're a strong mahn, Johnny."
"Aye, a mite too strong!"
"Well then, shower up with Irish Heartbeat!"

Astral Weeks is the ideal gateway to hating Van Morrison
Here's what happened when I used Astral Weeks as a gateway: I was a teenager, I had heard his hits and the "Moondance" album (so it was not QUITE a gateway), I had read in the Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock'n'Roll that Astral Weeks was the pinnacle…