I'm with you on CK, Wuggles: like and enjoy his stuff; don't think he's the second coming of Carlin, Pryor or Eddie in his prime, tho. Just a solid guy.

"[L]isteners have curbed their purchasing habits."

Let's agree on Achtung being a classic and the multiple themes of the ZooTV tour. Now I gotta turn my back on you.

…or hardcore Radiohead fans, also.

"Rolling Stone … named Bush the worst band of 1996 and Razorblade Suitcase the worst album. (They also called Weezer’s Pinkerton the second-worst album of the year, so…)"

Despite being a Soundgarden fan I will admit to finding that video to be horrible and the song itself becoming a bit tiresome over the years but, honestly, the AV Club has to do better than just getting some celebrity type—and in this case, one really low on the totem pole—to pick a random song they hate and give us…

Just like anyone who heard something "revolutionary" in the Sex Pistols' music must not have known The Stooges ever existed. What's your point?

FWIW, I once met and very briefly chatted with Kim Gordon—at a Thurston Moore solo show, no less—and she was quite aloof and rather full of herself, so…

Daft? Yes. Punk? Heavens, no.

There's more artistry in "I Am One" than the entire Pavement catalog. Fire away. 

In my record store clerk days I had a similar designation which I discussed with a couple of my hipper co-workers. But mine was based on the 3-5 solid-to-great album run long-lasting artists had somewhere in the middle of their careers. And the main example was…The Cure: from Head on the Door to Wish.

Um, Mr Hyden…

Um, Mr Hyden…

The late Roger Ebert actually referenced that in his review of the movie.

While I actually enjoy singer/songwriter fare, I too am grateful to the Almighty for the appearance of the great VH. However, what the collective of Eddie, Diamond Dave, Alex and Michael begat—through no fault of their own, of course—was far worse than navel-gazing, acoustic strummers: hair metal.

In fact, if I recall correctly, the studio behind Ghostbusters either asked to use "I Want a New Drug" in the movie or approached HL+N to write a song for the movie and were turned down.

Wikipedia:

If a mega corporation or some foreign leader you're not completely familiar with offers you “north of $1 million” to perform, shouldn't you at least look into the general details of who/what they represent before accepting? Reckless or stupid; not performing due diligence or simply not caring. I dunno which is which…

Silly me, I always took this song to be about not pining for some pie-in-the-sky romance with an unattainable person and instead being with the one who you can actually be with. In other words, settle.

So now we can't distinguish between the singer and a character in a song he's singing? Yeah, the song is misogynistic but b/c Jenkins is a douche-y dude with questionable taste we're gonna brand the guy a rapist, Stretch Armstrong?