Good article. Scream, Dracula, Scream! was the first RFTC album I was able to track down after hearing some of their songs on late-night radio a year or so before. Had they not been signed to a major label, finding it would have been undoubtedly a lot more difficult and expensive, living in an isolated rural area…

Since it got a mention today, it's unlikely that a full article will be devoted to The Bends this week. It's a good album, but honestly I hope they dig a bit deeper - a lot of great albums came out in 1995, some that seem to have been all but forgotten.

The track listing for Lifes Rich Pagaent is incorrect on the covers of all the previous issues of the album as well. The order on the album cover is 1-5-10-8-2-7-4-9-3-11, leaving out "Superman" and "Underneath the Bunker." The track listing is correct on the actual record label, cassette, and on the original CD. In…

Os Mutantes from Brazil (singing in Portuguese). The opening track is my favorite, but their entire debut album is a tripped-out, psychedelic masterpiece:

Keep the comments coming, Internet. Honestly I find the majority of the music articles on this site lazy and embarrassingly amateurish compared to most of the other articles, but the comment sections are interesting, informative and fun, and therefore make coming here worthwhile. So let's do our best to keep the AV…

Surprisingly I haven't read that one yet, though if I came across a copy I'm sure I'd read it cover to cover fairly quickly as I have a tendency to devour music histories and biographies. My "gateway to geekery" as far as the Beatles are concerned was The Beatles: An Illustrated Record.

Helluva way to end an album.

Cribbage is huge in my family. Growing up rarely would we visit with my grandparents without the cribbage board coming out and they and my parents playing several games, and my sister and I joining in when we got older. I haven't played in ages and can't remember playing cribbage with anyone outside of my immediate…

I remember seeing commercials for it on CBC as a kid but I don't remember ever watching it. But apparently it was on for six seasons and won several awards - and Mark McKinney made an appearance pre-Kids in the Hall.

I think a lot of us who love music have had a similar experience with the Beatles. For me, hearing the mono versions of the albums with all the subtle differences (after playing the stereo versions to death back in high school) got me listening to those albums with fresh ears again after many years.

I can acknowledge that it is a great song, but these days I more often than not skip "Let It Be" too. This is from so many years of being asked/forced to sing it at karaoke for work-related drinking parties. The Beatles are known and loved in Japan, but I think about 95% of the Japanese (or at least 95% of the people…

I ended my last show with "Ghetto Supastar", played at exactly 6:26 am - same as almost every other show I ever did. I wanted it to be kind of like a Groundhog Day thing, where someone in our fair city would wake up to that song playing on their clock radio yet again and briefly swear they were stuck in the same…

"KICK HIM IN THE NARDS! KICK HIM IN THE NARDS!"

If anyone else has seen these or remembers them please let me know:

Well, I suppose this is as valid a reaction to the list as anything else. Tell me more!

Who needs love when you can get $109/hour?

One of the great things about having one's music library on the computer is the relative ease at which albums can be "improved", or at least edited or resequenced to reflect one's own preferences. In the case of Rubber Soul, I got rid of "Run For Your Life", moved "Drive My Car" to the end of the album as an upbeat…

I could honestly do without "Run With Your Life" at the end of Rubber Soul - probably one of the only picks I agree with on this entire list.

I generally listen to whole albums, but I think that sprawling doubles such as the White Album and Sandinista! are better in small doses. I had both of those albums on cassette and would play them in my walkman for the 15-minute bus ride to school or the 10-minute walk to the corner store and back, and the eclectic…

I'd easily take the throwaway songs on the White Album over the tedious "Apple Jam" that takes up a third of All Things Must Pass though.