Yeah, I'll pass on the Haim mashup. Instead, I'll watch the montage at the end of season 2 again and enjoy Steve Earle's "Feel Alright" as I watch scenes of industrial decay in Baltimore's harbor zip by me.

Season 2 is still my favorite. 4 is brutal and depressing even by the standards of that show (which isn't to say it's bad, by any means). 5 was the stepchild of all the seasons.

"Radio Free Europe", "Driver 8", "Country Feedback", "Man on the Moon". "Man on the Moon" probably at the top. It's the song that made my 13 year old self sit up and take notice of the band. I still love "Automatic for the People".

Seriously. How many vinyl snobs are there who are also big Taylor Swift fans? I imagine the Venn diagram of that would have precious little overlap.

Yes, this, this this. The use of "Late for the Sky" in that scene is as powerful as any Scorsese use of pop music in any of his films, much more so than any of the aforementioned Rolling Stones "boogies".

Sniff….I LIKE "Let It Be" by The Replacements. But otherwise….holy cow, I really want to hang out with this dude and just listen to music with him.

My last experience seeing them (All Points west in NY in 2009) was sullied a bit by the douche with the backwards Red Sox hat in front of me who kept yelling "play 'Sober'!". Fortunately, his airhead girlfriend complained about the music being "scary" enough that he left. Then they launched into "Flood" and I was…

Lateralus is my favorite album of theirs. Crisp production that was sorely missing on "Aenima", and most of the best songwriting. Lyrics are a bit overwrought IMHO, but that's just their style, and I think they're laughing to themselves over stuff like "Saturn ascends, choose one or ten"

As a Tool fan (and yes, I used to be one of THOSE kind of Tool fans, but I've stepped back from the ledge in my older age and stopped trying to find some Higher Truth in the lyrics or liner notes and just started enjoying the music), there's no way they take themselves as seriously as their fans do. They seem…

"Down on the Street" - The Stooges, Fun House (this one should be on everyone's list, goddammit!)
"See No Evil" - Television, Marquee Moon
"Whole Lotta Love" - Led Zeppelin, II
"Only Shallow" - My Bloody Valentine, Loveless
"Ugly Truth" - Soundgarden, Louder than Love.

I'd like to thank this movie for introducing me to the 13th Floor Elevators. "You're Gonna Miss Me" is probably what I would play if aliens showed up and wanted to know what garage rock was.

I'm also convinced that Thurston Moore stopped aging around 35.

I'll agree with you on NWA wholeheartedly, but I don't think rock went off a cliff after Nirvana any more than it went off a cliff after Led Zeppelin. Sure, you can trace shit bands like Bush to the trends started by Nirvana, but all the cookie-cutter 80s hair bands could be traced to Zep. Meanwhile, the 80s gave us…

I dunno, I guess it depends on your definition of what rocks. I feel like the Replacements (and, for that matter, Mission of Burma, Husker Du, the Minutemen, etc.) had far more of a lasting influence on rock music than Hall and Oates, particularly given the lasting popularity of Nirvana.

Hall and Oates get in, the Replacements do not. Sure, that makes sense. It's like the RnR Hall of Fame is trying to rival the baseball one in losing any credibility it might have ever had.

Yeah. At least Chris Cornell got Soundgarden back together to help me forget that song with Timbaland he did.

Wesley Willis has multiple greatest hits volumes. He earned it.

Many years ago, there was a dive bar in DC that had the Stooges' first album on the jukebox, but somehow, they had screwed up the track order of the album in the jukebox, so when I attempted to select "I Wanna Be Your Dog", instead "We Will Fall" came on. Oops.

On that note, does "Real America" listen to Ralph Stanley or the Drive-By-Truckers or Lucero? Or am I so disconnected from that part of the country that I don't realize that such music is only produced for export to Blue-State yupsters.

I would listen to Ugly Kid Joe for 48 hours straight before I'd listen to Creed for 10 minutes.