Was that the tour that Mindless Self Indulgence opened and got booed every night?

The college television music video show I worked on in 1997-98 played that incessantly, along with Miss Modular, Come to Daddy, Tubthumping, Paranoid Android, Karma Police, and that Verve song.

Also, they cheated. It was bad enough they licensed old short hardcore songs, but a bunch of the tracks on that CD were edited versions of longer songs. The GWAR track is the one that immediately springs to mind.

And singer. I guess that makes sense if you hate the band because his playing is such a big part of the sound, all the way through from the beginning. The reason Division Bell sounds more like a Pink Floyd album than The Wall, The Final Cut, or A Momentary Lapse of Reason, Roger Waters or no, is Rick's involvement in…

Absolutely. I just skimmed a bunch of it and it seems like the entire point of the piece is as a vehicle for him to talk about how terrible he thinks Pink Floyd is. Is everything at Vulture this shitty. Mind you, I can't be bothered to look.

No, you used it correctly. But it's not in common usage here now.

That's not really surprising, though, considering it's generally much easier for straight white men to get away with anything.

I think that went away so quickly largely because Gira's wife came out quickly saying that the accusation was the ramblings of a crazy person.

I first had Shake Shack in 2010 when I lived in Fort Lauderdale. I was up in NYC for a week and my brother wanted to try it. At the time, it was better than most places. They opened a location near us (Miami Beach) shortly after. Within a year, we had Elevation Burger, 5 Guys and a bunch of other places. It just…

Damn. That sounds amazing. Must go buy some instant coffee.

It's so long I had to stay up late to drive it.

It would have been, but I didn't have two hours on Saturday morning to stand in line outside the beer store.

Absolutely Ask Godflesh about that. Their label encouraged them to come over from England in 1990 and play a couple of gigs without work visas. They were deported and the US immigration authorities have been fucking with them (and Justin Broadrick's other bands) ever since.

I worked in a CD store in the mid-90s and we used to be able to tell what the recent CDs of the month were for the two record clubs because we'd get a ton of them when people accidentally bought them or bought them to check out. For example, we got a ridiculous number of copies of record club editions of Faith No…

For me, it was the Black Album that did it. I still love "Enter Sandman," but I hated the rest of the album from the first listen and I've never listened to one of their albums all the way through since. The singles are bad enough.

AFAIC that album he did with Nick Hornby is the only thing he's done since Rockin' the Suburbs that's had any life to it. Including the BFF reunion album.

AFAIC Old Granddad Bonded is one of the best bargains on the bourbon shelf. It's only a few bucks more than Jim Beam and is better and stronger. That and the Evan Williams single barrel are my staples.

There's only about 15 people who want to see them, but they're willing to pay for it?

He did a one-off show a few weeks ago at the Rochester Fringe Festival and debuted some of his new material. The overriding thing that I got from it is that he's really trying to keep it together for his daughter. Also, it was really funny while being heavy and serious in parts. Continuing to work is probably helping…

That's fair. The bits of Tommy that I like were far better live. I originally heard the finale on the Woodstock film and was really disappointed when I heard the album version.