The Stars Are Projectors is beautiful. Good News For People Who Like Bad News could probably be on this list too. I actually think that might be my favorite Modest Mouse album. That and The Moon & Antarctica are probably the only two I'd listen to straight through.

i love folk, country, and bluegrass, but i never ever got the attraction to the "freak-folk" like joanna newsome and devandra banhart or the "folk-punk" stuff like This Bike Is A Pipebomb and Bread and Water. just not my style i guess. i don't really get the Sufjan Stevens thing either. i even bought Michigan…

My mom says I'm cool.

also wanted to mention that i was in high school when this album came out and it was one of the defining albums of my teen years. i was into all the bullshit epitaph and fat wreck chords bands (incidentally, i feel like this record doesn't get enough credit because it was on epitaph) and the shape of punk to come…

yes, i said this in one of my posts too. one of the best punk/hardcore albums of the past 20 years. to this day, what, 10 years or so later, no one in the punk and hardcore worlds has produced an album that even comes close to the virtuosity and stylistic diversity displayed by Refused on that album. the closest…

Siamese Dream is generally considered the high point of the Pumpkins though, isn't it?

I had the reaction to Aeroplane that a lot of people described earlier for Loveless. It had been built up so much that by the time I heard it, it couldn't possibly live up to the hype. That being said, it's a terrific album. The melody through the first minute or so of the title track is unbelievably catchy.

for the record, The Moon Is Down by Further Seems Forever is much better than any of the Dashboard Confessional stuff. That first FSF album is a high point in the "emo"/pop-punk genre. Chris Carrabba of Dashboard was the original FSF singer, btw…hence the comment.

coheed and cambria isn't just insanely pretentious, they're also a really shitty band. they're like rush and hawkwind and gong and all those bands combined with the shittiness of whiney new-school pop-punk/emo. not a good mix.

Loveless as a whole doesn't necessarily blow me away, but "Sometimes" definitely does. It's such a gorgeous song.

how can you argue with The Girl From Ipanema?

By the time that Dark Side of the Moon gets to Brain Damage, the end of the song where it's just soaring and pounding away and the lyrics go "if the band you're in starts playing different tunes / i'll see you on the dark side of the moon", I always get goosebumps. Dark Side of the Moon may have an annoying…

I'm not sure I've ever actually listened to Queensryche, but in my mind, they have a reputation as one of the nerdiest bands ever assembled. Probably right there with Hawkwind.

Fuck Villanova.

I saw Cursive with the Blood Brothers just after The Ugly Organ came out and they were excellent. I wasn't even really into Cursive at the time (and really still am not a big fan), but they were terrific live.

Not just girl groups and soul and r&b and hip hop, but country music as well has traditionally been singles-oriented and still is largely singles-oriented. When people ask about the best way to get into older country acts like Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn, the answer usually is Best Of albums, live sets or more…

The Kindness of Strangers is one of my favorite songs on Murder Ballads. I don't want to skip it.

Well, you Nebraskans better be prepared, because when the Ruskies invade the U.S., they're coming straight down from Canada into the Heartland to divide this country in two. WOLVERINES!

I'm not sure Demon Days has a plot, per se, so much as an arc with recurring themes of environmental disaster and societal decay.

Deltron 3030 is amazing. Coming from someone who in general isn't a huge rap fan, I have to say that that album is just flat out brilliant. The music is so atmospheric and trippy that you can visualize the album like it's a movie soundtrack. Del is funny and incredibly smooth and interesting. I love that album.