cEvin Key's "The Dragon Experience" features the kid from the Nirvana album (twelve years later) getting hit by… something.
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I'm not as wild for this album as I was for their last three. I'm giving it a chance and hoping it'll turn out to be a grower. "Moon Palace" and "White Gold" are both winners, though. Also, their cover of Death in June's "Little Black Angel" was superb!

Big Black- "Fists of Love"
…could have been on the list. "Loverman" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, too.

The quality of Square's U.S. output has been in a decline since the original PSX. They've always had a few duds in their catalog (LiveALive, Treasure Hunter G, etc.), but it wasn't until the post-FF7 era when the chafe starting arriving in the U.S. along with the wheat (anyone remember Saga Frontier? Ehrgeiz?)

Playing "Catch-Up"
I got into a few bands that I had passing familiarity with but never bothered to pick up their albums. The Cocteau Twins, James, Liars… I could name a few of their songs, but I never dug any deeper until this year.

I preferred "Antics" to their debut, too. "Our Love to Admire" had its moments, but it got a little long in the tooth for me (and Paul Banks' lyrics got a little extra stupid a few times, too).

In the Loop
Great film! My favorite from last year!

I don't quite catch the Albini reference, aside from that he engineered their turd of a comeback record (that and any random song he wrote indicates that he's a fan). Explanation?

The Beatles Vs. The Stones?
The answer is "The Stooges."

The Cure
Really, anything off of Pornography could be a contender for this list, but "100 Years" opens with the lyrics, "It Doesn't Matter if We All Die."

No Scott Walker?
'30 Century Man' was released for the first time in the U.S. last Tuesday. It's a pretty insightful look at Scott Walker's history, and the audience even gets to see part of The Drift being recorded, including the infamous 'dude punching a slab of meat.' I'd give it an "A-," if only because it spends…

Yeah, I agree. This is definitely one for the Netflix queue, not the living room DVD shelf. And with that, I'm going to go add it to my queue.

Cokebabies, thank you so much! I've been wanting to watch that for years now!

Here's a short Primer/Gateway for Roxy Music:

Tracks
If you're brand new to Morrissey, five tracks to download on iTunes that will get you started:
"Every Day is Like Sunday"
"Glamorous Glue"
"Suedehead"
"The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get"
"The Last of the Famous International Playboys"

I think the song you're describing is "Cowgirl" by the band Underworld. You can find that track on their phenomenal album Dubnobasswithmyheadman.

The other great songwriting duo…
Aside from the comp that was released last November, The Smiths are woefully absent from iTunes. Not that it matters to me, because I already own their catalog on physical formats, but still. I'm hoping that Johnny Marr remasters their proper albums and those end up re-issued on CD and…

I'll concede to the New York Dolls, and chalk it up to a momentary memory lapse, but I stand by what I said about "Transformer." I never quite got that album, and I think it's highly over-rated. This is coming from a big VU fan, so don't think I'm some wanna-be iconoclast who just wants to start shit.

And I include "Transformer" when I say that, too.

Also where not to start
Jobriath's self-titled debut or "Creatures of the Street." Glam Rock just doesn't seem to work when it's American.