The Cure's "Disintegration" is a winter album for me. I bought it my freshman year of college around the Christmas season, so its heaviest rotation in my old Discman coincides with walking through the snow-covered streets of my Wisconsin hometown. Hearing certain parts of it now will make me immediately…

The Cure's "Disintegration" is a winter album for me. I bought it my freshman year of college around the Christmas season, so its heaviest rotation in my old Discman coincides with walking through the snow-covered streets of my Wisconsin hometown. Hearing certain parts of it now will make me immediately…

'Here Come the Warm Jets,' Taking Tiger Mountain,' 'Another Green World,' and 'Before and After Science' are four of the most finely constructed, amazing, timeless, "HOLY-SHIT I DIDN'T KNOW MUSIC COULD BE THIS GOOD" albums ever recorded.

'Here Come the Warm Jets,' Taking Tiger Mountain,' 'Another Green World,' and 'Before and After Science' are four of the most finely constructed, amazing, timeless, "HOLY-SHIT I DIDN'T KNOW MUSIC COULD BE THIS GOOD" albums ever recorded.

Reformed Calvinist: "Drum's Not Dead" only works for me as a singular piece of music. I love the album as a whole, but I've never, like, put any of its individual tracks onto a playlist or mix CD. The songs just need the context of each other to make sense.

Reformed Calvinist: "Drum's Not Dead" only works for me as a singular piece of music. I love the album as a whole, but I've never, like, put any of its individual tracks onto a playlist or mix CD. The songs just need the context of each other to make sense.

You probably ARE the only person who thinks they peaked with that album. I'd say that "They Were Wrong…" is a clear example of your username. ;)

You probably ARE the only person who thinks they peaked with that album. I'd say that "They Were Wrong…" is a clear example of your username. ;)

I've always thought that PiL's later recordings have been unfairly chastised. "Album," "This is What You Want…" and "Happy?" are worth owning (though the latter of the three has a very 1980s sound to it).

The Joy Division comparison is totally accurate. Listen to the title track off of "Exploding Head," for example. I can absolutely imagine Ian singing that.

"Exploding Head" is one of my favorite albums of the last ten years or so. It's a perfect pop album buried under a layer of distortion, not unlike "Pschocandy."

I'm sure this album is complete garbage, and I didn't even know that Korn still existed as a band, but whatever… The "Twisted Transistor" video from a few years ago was hilarious, so I'll cut them some slack:
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

It's funny how a single line can completely transform my enjoyment of something. While Annie was singing her song, I was thinking "Oh, this is cute… Send up of the sexy Christmas girl song." Pretty funny, but nothing amazing. After the "boopie doopie boop doop SEX!" line, I'm pretty sure it became my favorite gag of…

So I was telling a friend of mine about this show, and she mentioned that she had seen "Remedial Chaos Theory," and thought it was funny but nothing special. I explained to her that to truly get that episode, you need to have seen a few before it to better understand the dynamic between the characters and how the…

I'm guessing what Lee means to say is, "Yeah, it's pretty much over."

Studio 60 could have been a great series, had Sorkin kept his ego in check and refrained from attempting Big Statements every episode. I remember watching the show in its initial run and constantly thinking, "You know, I sort of agree with his viewpoint, but Jesus, he seems to think his audience is stupid."

Alright. I stopped by the used record store (Silver Platters in Seattle, if anyone cares) and picked up "Sister" on CD. They had a copy of "Washing Machine" and "Goo," so I'll probably be back for those in a few weeks…

Funny, I've actually been thinking about picking up a few more Sonic Youth albums this week.

Can anyone comment on the remastering job? Does it follow the trend of the Loudness War and brick wall everything, or did they actually remaster it to sound good?

Weird… the link worked last night… Take two:
http://www.discogs.com/view…