Wow cool! I did not know that was Steve Vai! I'm listening to it again right this second. That solo is epic. Indeed, one of my favourite things about the album is the unapologetic use of very 80's huge sax/guitar. Excellent musicianship.

Yeah that video is ace! Even my non-punk enjoying friends loved it :)

Holy shit PUP are amazing. The new album is one of my favourites this year, for sure. I'm neither Canadian or American :)

Here are some amazing albums that I have been enjoying that are not mentioned here. I'm not sure why.. either too mainstream or not mainstream enough? The criteria is confusing…

IKR!? Steam tells me I have sunk 235 hours into that beauty… and I still suck!!

Holy shit, I have basically only played Rocket League all year and it is now a year old! Stupid addictive game.. I'm off to Steam to buy some new games!

I am a big fan of Rock Action, but for some reason I never really got into Happy Songs… maybe I should give it another try. Have you seen Mogwai live? I've seen them a couple of times, and they are so good. And so loud. So, so loud.

Stranger Things - I have watched 2 episodes of this and so far it is excellent! Very impressed as I knew nothing about it going in.

So far I have most enjoyed: Better Call Saul, Lady Dynamite, House of Cards.

I had a similar experience. I had been meaning to check them out for years, and then listened to To Be Kind at the laundrette when my washing machine was broken. Sitting there for hours, bored, half asleep in this mundane/dirty place surrounded by bored strangers listening to this intense building music was somehow…

One of my albums of the year for sure. In my opinion Swans are the greatest modern rock band. Perhaps the only truly great one. I will miss this current incarnation, there will be a gaping hole in the rock genre.

I'm late to the party on this one. I needed some to find some time to sit and listen to this properly (very loud on a good stereo). This album is incredible. It works as an album, it walks that happy/sad serious/silly tightrope the whole way through. Just lovely. It doesn't matter that it's "too long" - it's rambling…

The chorus was so annoying to me at first, but yeah Danny Brown FTW. Can't wait for his new album to drop!

Great avatar - Shiina Ringo?

I feel like Into Darkness came out in that dark period where every summer movie was trying to go dark just like The Dark Knight. Don't get me wrong, I think TDK is awesome, but in this period every single bad guy wanted the world to burn and would purposely get themselves 'caught' about two thirds through the movie to…

Agreed, such an awesome book!

This gets my vote!

I am just finishing off Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson. It's… pretty good. It's very brutally un-sentimental about space travel which is fun/depressing. I will reserve full judgment until I have finished (gonna plow through the end today.)

…Campaign Trail is brutal. Vaguely related but …in Las Vegas is the only novel I have read straight through twice in one sitting. I finished it and could not think of anything better or more enjoyable to do than devour that crazy thing once more!

This is a fascinating question and I have enjoyed (and been surprised by) a lot of the responses here. A lot of variation in how people enjoy books.