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Meth Lab Shenanigans
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Ill-timed, sure. Clueless, sure. But the way people have been renouncing her like she's just called for the return of Hitler… it's disturbing. Are we really that unforgiving?

I was homeschooled too, and for me it was the internet that led me to music. I first found "Smells Like Teen Spirit" when I was in middle school, long after it came out.

I love the little beep… beep… beep… beep at the end of "Airbag" that leads right into "Paranoid Android." I can never listen to one without the other.

Man, that descending synth line followed by the chopped-up "Kid A - Kid A - Kid A" vocals. Such a great way to kick off the album.

Sia's performance on "Chandelier" reminds me a great deal of "Twist and Shout." I love how her voice gets raspy and cracks and she makes no effort to hide it - it's very refreshing given the typical "splice together 200 takes so it sounds perfect and then autotune it" practice.

Tears in Heaven is a gorgeous song that gets far too much hate from gen-x hipsters.

Actually, it's a little-known fact that after the lineup change, James Mercer briefly employed a platypus named Frank to play the triangle during live performances of "The Rifle's Spiral."

They're coming to take me away, ha-ha.

Maybe she doesn't really pay attention to politics? It's crazy to me that we're judging somebody we don't know so harshly for making a fairly lukewarm statement.

Oh my god! I HAVE TO BURN ALL OF MY KATE BUSH ALBUMS NOW!

NUANCE DOES NOT EXIST

It's so hard to pick a single Weezer song. Pinkerton was an album that I didn't really get at all on first listen, but in the weeks that followed one by one each song became a revelation.

Bono gets a lot of shit for his mid-concert political speeches (often fairly so) but the "FUCK THE REVOLUTION" rant during "Sunday Bloody Sunday" is just viscerally righteous to this day. Every time I watch it I get goosebumps.

We did it! Comment loop! Woooooo!

They're not innovative, but they've written some of the best indie pop ever, so I'd say it's a fair description. My life has sure as hell been improved by the presence of "Australia" and "Phantom Limb."

Somebody on Twitter the other day said something like "imagine being the first person to hear In the Air Tonight not knowing that those drums were coming." I listened to the song again with that in mind and it gave it a whole new life.

"Iris" is a legitimately great song that has been unfairly lumped in with a lot of shitty radio rock because of when it came out. It gets me pretty emotional too (partially because of memories associated with it).

Bon Iver, hell yeah! "Re: Stacks" is the song off For Emma that I'd love to experience again for the first time. That first chord change is a kick in the gut. Ba-dup ba-dummmm-dummm…

"Forever Young" guts me. Wonderful song, but hard to listen to.