I dislike ANAA a fair bit but beyond that the whole record is terrific. That said, it's still my fourth-favorite J.E.W. record.

What all-time favorite is on CTL? I can barely listen to it. Firefight and Big Casino are adequate and the rest is unforgivably bland and toothless.

Really, "maybe" Mixtape? I think it's the best song they've released since Futures. And I think Stop is amazing and that Heart is Hard to Find and Evidence and Invented are terrific and that Higher Devotion and Cut are quite good and that Coffee and Cigarettes and My Best Theory are decent. Movielike and Little Things…

I wonder sometimes if reviewers just feel compelled to contribute to a hive-mind where a given artist is ok at a given moment, even though the work being lauded is so clearly not as good as previous ones that were panned or dismissed. I keep reading how J.E.W. hasn't made an exciting record since wither Futures or…

I'm listening to that song right now and it's just not even similar to or in the same class as 23. I am perpetually baffled at how other human beings can process things so utterly differently from me (i.e. process them wrong).

He's the best drummer they ever had, on the best records they ever made. But Eddie didn't like him—I think he's a Republican—so it didn't work. It's ludicrous for Krusen to be included and for Abruzzese and Irons to not be.

There are way too many laughs in that movie for a big percentage of them to have been spoiled in the trailer.

"Fewer" than 100. Not "less."

You seem the type to list your 'desert island discs' as 10 wholly disparate, equally-hip things. As if anyone's actual absolute favorite albums include, like, Miles Davis, Sepultura, Nancy Sinatra, Nick Cave, Joe Tex, Sergio Mendes, Slint and Drake.

I'm a 44 year old rock/pop music savant and I've never heard the whole record.

Ah, you're one of those.

The Marianne Faithfull record in question really has no stylistic ties to the Stones or her affiliation with them.

Terrific fucking record.

A close friend of mine met Gano at a Fishbone show the Femmes opened in the early 90s, and they ended up dating (or fucking) for awhile…then a couple of years later he called her up and was like "by the way, I got married."

Coldplay was pretty great in the first years. KOL always sucked.

"Chili." Still.

Collins did eventually sell then out, but on balance the Collins Genesis catalog, especially A Trick of the Tail, And Then There Were Three, Duke and Abacab, is better than the Gabriel Genesis catalog (even though Gabriel solo towers over Collins solo).

Isn't that how everything human thinks, for the most part? I can't stand the Pixies and Sonic Youth and Pavement and other art-for-art's-sake indie-hipster shit, so I don't pronounce them "obviously great considering public opinion but just not for me"…I say they suck.

The Chili Peppers do really suck, though. They were a certain animal many years ago and did their thing very well. Then they let Frusciante have more of a dominant songwriting position, matured a bit, and clearly had Kiedis learn to sing "better"—all things you'd have thought would bring more stuff along the lines of…

"Chili."