punch nazis

PETA are garbage. Can't be restated enough.

music is art

I think it's their best. Pioneer to the Falls, Mammoth, Pace is the Trick, The Scale, The Heinrich Maneuver, No I in Threesome - all classics.

Yes.

best non-hip hop albums of the 2000s:

Illinois

that's a great line

And I don't want to take your heart
And I don't want a piece of history
And I don't want to read your thoughts anymore - my god!

For me Hot Fuss is weakened by just how badly the rest of the album falls off. The Desired Effect is just 10/10 song after 10/10 song.

Brandon Flowers' last solo album was better than anything he ever did with the Killers, so I feel like there's gotta be an asterisk by their name if they're gonna be included with one-album wonders

And even that one had Barricade and Success.

hell no, he can be ridiculous but he has some amazingly evocative turns of phrase. I'll take a lyricist who swings for the fences and sometimes misses over one who takes no risks at all. And he has such an odd, monotone voice that even when the lyrics don't work he sounds alien enough that there's still something…

Barricade owns

Mammoth is one of their all-time best IMO.

Interpol stayed good - the only weak album they've put out was the self-titled. They just didn't get as much press because indie music coverage is garbage.

It's very hard for an opinion to be objectively wrong but this one is

Hot take: Our Love to Admire is better than Turn On the Bright Lights.

That was a funny tweet. Not tasteful, but neither is Trump.

what I'm getting from this is that you just smoked weed for the first time and came to the mind-blowing realization that, like, commercialization is bad, man