No, Ben, no!
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A Thousand Leaves Screams
Plagiarism accusations have been following Led Zeppelin long before AV Club became a thing. They ripped off other artists for at least a dozen of their songs (including the opening of "Stairway To Heaven", which anyone with ears can hear was obviously lifted from "Taurus" by Spirit) without giving the original artists…
I agree that Loaded has a couple throwaway tracks (though what great throwaway tracks they are), but what parts of White Light/White Heat do you find unlistenable? Personally, I think the self-titled third album is damn near perfect (especially in the "closet" mix), but even though I love "The Murder Mystery" on its…
My first year in Japan, one of my students asked me if I knew the name of the song in the Vodafone commercial. Since I didn't watch much Japanese TV at that time I hadn't seen it, but by chance I caught a few seconds of it soon after and happily reported the next week that I was pretty sure that it was a cover of…
Good article. But when I first saw the headline, I flashed back to a few weeks ago and for a brief second thought it read, "The Stones invented slavery, sex, and (maybe) heroin".
Very true. The rampant use of steroids and other muscle and performance enhancers during that period also has to be a factor, as well as the high number of instances of self-medicating using legal and illegal drugs in order to deal with pain, get to sleep and/or have the energy necessary to perform night after night.…
Sad upvote. I watched WWF wrestling religiously from about 1988 to 1992, and it really is astounding how many of those wrestlers have passed away since then.
You're right - I just listened to it again and it really is too good to lose. Plus it does close the album nicely; if anything, by losing "Diminished" and "Parakeet" it will have even more impact as an album closer.
I would leave "Airportman" where it is, as at this point everyone was expecting there to be a departure from the "Buck/Berry/Mills/Stipe" era anyway, and I like it as a transitional piece between "then" and "now". Personally I would lose "The Apologist" and the last three tracks; again, there are no bad songs on that…
I think Up is way underrated too, but it suffers from being just a bit too long; I attribute this to CD-era bloat (and would argue that New Adventures in Hi-Fi suffers to an extent from the same affliction). There are no bad songs on that album, but a few of them sound a bit too similar. Had they made some tough…
I don't often sit down and listen to Gaffney tracks exclusively and I still think Barlow is the far superior songwriter, but what I like about the Gaffney-era Sebadoh albums is how eclectic they are. I've mentioned it here before, but to me even though Bakesale and Harmacy have some wonderful songs the lack of variety…
I think there are plenty of good songs on those last two Replacements albums, but the dated production on Don't Tell A Soul ruins it for me. All Shook Down is a Westerberg solo album in all but name anyway, but the DTAS songs sound a lot better (to me, anyway) on this bootleg:
Weed Forestin' and Smash Your Head On The Punk Rock by Sebadoh. Bakesale and Harmacy often get cited as their best, and of their earlier stuff Bubble & Scrape and Sebadoh III still get plenty of love (and got the deluxe reissue treatment a few years back along with The Freed Man) but those other two seem to have been…
That song, I'd forgotten all about it! My friend had a cassette version he'd received as a kid (with his name of course) and somehow it found its way into the bag with all the other tapes he brought to school to play on his boom box at lunch time. Into the mix of mostly punk, alternative and rap we usually played, one…
I much prefer Fables of the Reconstruction.
Don't worry - the concert's apparently being held in Edmonton, Saskatchewan, so Oilers fans can rest easy.
Aw, shucks. Thanks. And excellent username/avatar/comment synergy, by the way.
I'm planning on seeing more MCU films at some point, but so far I've only seen Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk. I suspect this puts me in a minority among AV Club readers, though most of my free time is devoted to listening to music so I guess I'm just a different kind of geek.