Wot, no RFTC by RFTC?

My insurmountable bias against the album is on account of how inescapable this was (in Canada) four years prior:

George Martin's role in helping the Beatles to realize their musical ideas cannot be overstated, and more than anyone else he should considered the "fifth" Beatle. However, this comment makes it sound as if he were some sort of svengali producer à la Phil Spector, or Dave Hassinger recording The Electric Prunes' first…

Indeed. And I would like to take this opportunity to let it be known that, even though I enjoy "Last Caress" by The Misfits, I do not necessarily agree with the views of the protagonist regarding the treatment of babies - or mothers, for that matter.

Obviously - it's not just anyone who can drop acid for the first time and write "California Girls". But there are so many examples of talented folks making their most interesting or groundbreaking music after experimenting with drugs. "I Feel Fine" is one of the first songs the Beatles recorded after meeting Dylan in…

But talented songwriters and musicians ingesting recreational drugs changed the world of music for the better, no?

True, all those amazing songs more than make up for the minor inconvenience of skipping "Crazy Beat" or just deleting it altogether. But I thought that Think Tank got the parental advisory warning for the profanity on the hidden track "Me, White Noise".

Both of those tracks are conspicuously absent from my music library as well, but what did you cut from Hail to the Thief? Other than "Scatterbrain", which is fairly by-the-numbers, I can't imagine losing anything else.

Upvoted for "This Is A Low". Floors me every time, that one.

Completely agree with you on 13, but I'd say that The Good, The Bad and The Queen is more than worthy of inclusion in The Essentials list (definitely more so than Leisure, or even The Great Escape).

I also like Think Tank a lot and think it's underrated, but "Crazy Beat" and the other Fatboy Slim-produced track sound totally out of place on that album.

That's about what it is in Japan now, and it's probably about that much in Canada these days, too. When I went to see The Phantom Menace I saw it at a matinee on a weekday and I was still a student, so it wouldn't have been more than five bucks (and being "starving students" we usually skipped the snacks and drinks,…

I am completely with you on this (though I also consider season 3 to be part of the Golden Age). There are some funny bits but the tone of the whole episode just feels off, and a lot of the jokes seem like they were written for a lesser TV show - the predictable "crab juice" joke always comes to mind as an example of…

You know, that's a really good point. I've been so determined to ignore anything new related to Star Wars since I saw the last of the prequels that I never even stopped to consider it that way. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother commenting on these sites, but getting a different perspective every once in a while is…

Nice try.

That sounds so Nova Scotian to me (I'm from Nova Scotia - south shore). I heard that all the time growing up: "I seen this thing on TV", "I seen Corey uptown the other day", etc.

Yes, it is. Thank you, Pink Floyd!

Even better if Tasha turns out to be a Bright Eyes fan.

That minority of Rush fans do seem to be a special breed of obnoxious though. To them, it's as if the band have fulfilled all the criteria for what the perfect band is (even though no one seems to know what that criteria is exactly) and anyone who doesn't agree that they are the greatest band of all time is somehow…

Upvoted for making me laugh. I still want my money back, though. And I believe the preferred nomenclature is "hobo".