"Eat It" was the first Weird Al song/video I ever heard/saw…on Switchback with Stan the Man, and Rufus! Forgotten all about that, wow!

It may have been to keep the sides of the album to as close an equal length as possible, in order to use less tape. I had a cassette copy of A Nice Pair by Pink Floyd (which combined Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets into one budget-priced double album) where the first song on side two was "Bike".…

Well, let's hear it then.

I eventually bought the CD, but my first copy of Siamese Dream was taped over a copy of a copy of Body Count (the one with "Cop Killer" on it; I had taped off numerous copies in hopes of selling them at school and making some serious cash - for a 9th grader, anyway). But between songs the Body Count album bled…

My parents had Sports, and when I was seven I put the tape recorder I got for my birthday up against one of the speakers on their stereo and recorded the first side (the rest of the tape was filled with TV themes and other songs recorded the same way). Must have played that tape at least a hundred times, but to this…

Hysteria was probably my 3rd or 4th ever music purchase (bought the tape with my birthday money along with New Jersey). Can't say I listen to it much now, but I still love the drums on "Rocket".

Too hot to handle, too cold to hold

The self-titled debut was the next Weird Al tape I bought. Pretty sure I found it in the bargain bin at Sears Clearance Center for $4.99 - cheap! (in 1988)

First tape someone ever bought for me: Bad by Michael Jackson (Xmas '87)

In my case, compared to other genres I've listened to little in the way of rap music in this century (in part due to getting older and busier with work and kids and therefore having less time to discover new music). For me rap peaked with the late 80's/early 90's pre-sample clearance "golden age", and aside from…

Just finished listening to the entire album from start to finish and I quite enjoyed it. Can't decide which track is my favorite though: "Runway N" or "Runway E".

1. Exmilitary (definitely my favorite, but that's probably because I recognize most of the source material that was used for the samples)
2. The Money Store
3. Niggas On The Moon (like the way they used Bjork's voice)
4. No Love Deep Web
5. Government Plates

Just finished watching that Clash documentary, and even though I've seen countless other U.K. punk documentaries it really is well done - lots of previously unseen footage, too. Plus if you look at the crowd shots, Shane MacGowan, Adam Ant and a pre-Sex Pistols Sid Vicious are all visible at various points. It's on…

I just finished listening to the album now for the first time after reading about it here, and I loved it. When I read the name "Molly Rankin" I cringed and expected I'd hate it (since I grew up in Nova Scotia during the peak of The Rankin Family's overexposure) but the 90's indie rock sound and lo-fi/dreamy…

Prince classic, eh? Hmmm…let me guess…don't tell me…

It was for my younger sister too ('98) but since that song was not yet released in 1996 ours was obviously…"With A Little Help From My Friends" by The Beatles, which won by default after the #1 choice ("School's Out" by Alice Cooper) was rejected by the powers that be.

Never thought of that. Now I hate them even more.

Hasn't "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" been the class song for every high school graduation since the late nineties?

Another good but overlooked album by a once critically and commercially successful band that I found in the bargain bin this year is More Light by Primal Scream. Musically it's closer to Vanishing Point or the krautrock-inspired grooves on Evil Heat than the reheated Stones-style rock they unwisely decided to revisit…

Sound of silver talk to me
Makes you want to feel like a teenager
Until you remember the feelings of
A real life emotional teenager
Then you think again