12 AM to 6 AM AKA The "I'm super fucked up, what can I put on and fall asleep to?" shift.

My money is on that Steve King wad.

Pretty much. I like to tell my Deadhead friends that they could have been the best country band of the 1970s if they had just stopped playing live. I love the two albums you mentioned, heck, I love the debut record too, but the noodly live stuff…..hard pass.

The first politician that uses one of these dead kids as a political prop can go get in the "Straight to Fucking Hell" line with the assholes that did this.

He makes local brown people do all the work for him!

Yeah, for me it is. It's one action piece followed by five minutes of dialogue followed by an action piece repeated for two hours. It's a perfect long form rendition of the old serial format.

I have an original pressing of this, it's just fine. I'm not about to shell out $50 or $60 for another one. I swear to Christ the recording industry is going to screw themselves again. There is no reason you should be paying more than $12 or maybe $15 for an LP.

It's almost like these talking heads will test the waters of public opinion and then just say whatever their intended audience will get behind whether they really think so or not.

That Hayes Carll record was my favorite album last year. He's always been a fantastic songwriter, but this is probably the most consistently "serious" record he's made but not without losing that little grin you can picture him having when he turns a good phrase. If you get a chance, go ahead and see him live, great…

Doing some back catalog digging this weekend. Specifically the Dylan/Band records and the Beach Boys Smiley Smile to Surf's Up period. Related question, are 20/20 and Wild Honey worth checking out?

Aaron Lee is pretty awesome and a great live act. He was a hired gun by the NY Dolls about a decade ago, so the dude can really play, which doesn't always come across on record. Great storyteller too. Well worth the $10 or $20 it'll cost you to go see him play some small club.

That was always my complaint about Nirvana worship. "Kurt couldn't handle the fame mannnnn". Well, he could've just broken up the band if that was the issue. Obviously there was more to it than that.

I mean, they could've just not played the songs and that would be that instead of cocking off about it. They deserve some shit for not being smart enough to just not bring it up.

I mean, I wouldn't bitch about it openly, but it'd still suck I don't know. I get it from the artist perspective more than the fan perspective I guess.

full disclosure: I could not tell you the name of one Linkin Park song. They did a record with Jay-Z right? I think I saw a concert video of them in Central Park or something once. Maybe that was Simon and Garfunkel.

To be fair, having to play those old songs probably kind of sucks since they're over them. I hate doing the same fucking thing at work every day too.

I'm pretty sure it was used in a newspaper or something to describe how he beat a pretty solid statutory rape case against him.

That's pretty heartwarming.

The Black Lips can be a pretty fantastic band, but they haven't put out anything I've loved in since the first record on Vice (sidenote: Holy shit, that was 10 years ago?) and I'll miss Joe Bradley's vocals on this one, but I'll still give it a shot. Review makes it sound promising.

Try one of the live records, either Old Quarter or At the Bluebird with Guy Clark and Steve Earle. Much better than the strings and flute stuff that Jack Clement insisted be on the studio stuff.