interesting, considering that 90% of the best artists of the past 20 years have been in one or more of the lineups.

i love literally every song on the record. go and animal are monsters, daughter and elderly woman are basically classic acoustic-y ballads, glorified 'g' is as catchy and listenable as anything they've ever recorded, dissident, while a little bluesy for my tastes, sits in a certain groove pocket that really satisfies,…

dude! DUDE! abacab is an all-time fave of mine, and i have several copies on wax…and MCIS by the pumpkins is my favorite album of all time. and i have the original 1996 triple vinyl—i have 2 copies, actually, one sealed—that i bought in princeton, nj for $26 apiece. they're worth hundreds now.

yep. i think who dunnit is tremendously fun and totally listenable.

yeah, it's queer that abacab would have performed better than NRAA, although i do remember those chart peaks distinctly as i was a billboard geek.

split enz' true colours as well…a great later 80s example is life's too good, the 1988 debut from the sugarcubes (bjork's old band). 5 different colorways.

adrian was in NIN for about 10 minutes this year.

i used to listen to america's top 40 religiously from like '80 to '85, and i remember they'd occasionally play the full album versions of certain songs during the countdown (like, say, tot's rosanna, or stevie wonder's do i do). at least once casey kasem spun all of abacab, and it was revelatory to hear that on the…

paperlate would have been a rather odd closer, no? especially after the wrenching, yet somehow cathartic like it or not? another record seems a more apt denouement.

i like him in the terrycloth polos in i missed again and the football jerseys and full beard in the late 70s days.

forget about even brand x for a moment—just listen to his performance on "down & out" from ATTWT!

plant and page threw pc under the jitney with that one, but they were the ones who were a fucking shambles.

so not accurate.

what, crowded house? don't dream it's over, something so strong, weather with you, better be home soon, fall at your feet, locked out—that's "pop hell"?

yep. all that.

i actually think those 2 singles work, in their way, although they're extremely dated. it is an interesting poprockprog record, but not necessarily one that works. and union is a mess, albeit a well-intentioned one. i saw that tour in '91 (second row, in the round) and it was a gas.

yeah, cinema is a holdover from the prior sessions, albeit rerecorded. all those you named, plus city of love and hearts, are all great, all better than OOALH, though i don't mind that one either.

90125 is the second best arena-rock album of all time, just behind reo speedwagon's hi infidelity, and ahead of journey's frontiers and escape, boston's debut and billy squier's second record.

nope.

i don't get how anyone who likes genesis doesn't think MASJ is incredibly gorgeous. it changes direction and melody as many times as any song you'll ever hear, yet feels intuitive and organic all the way through…and from the "searching for a clue" part on, it's just magical…the "first i'm flying" passage is one of the…