Album of the week: Wilco – Here Comes Everybody (soniclovenoize reconstruction) Downloaded this from Albums That Never Were. This reconstruction presupposes that Ken Coomer and Jay Bennett were not kicked out of the band, Wilco was not dropped from Reprise Records and that the resulting album, while slightly more…

Too many favorites to choose from honestly, but I can easily say that my least favorite "WTF" moment was finally getting to the Minus World in the original NES game only to discover that it really did consist of nothing more than swimming through the same underwater level over and over again until time ran out.

THIS IS A TRUE STORY. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred.

My Mom watched Another World religiously from the late seventies up until it was cancelled. She even set the timer on the VCR to tape it everyday once she started working again, and I still remember her freaking out after we got back from a week-long holiday to find that the power had gone out and she had missed an…

Turn to channel five.

Streaming that Nick Waterhouse album right now, and it's really good. Thanks, Matt Gerardi!

First time I ever took magic mushrooms, I listened to the Ziggy Stardust album for the first time just as they were kicking in, and at the end of the night when I was coming down I played "Five Years" over and over again until I fell asleep. Whether it was because of that experience or not, I still can't listen to…

Be a winner. Eat to get slimmer.

Iggy Pop! Amen!

My gateway into rap music was the PolyTel compilation Rap Traxx, released in 1988. A pretty solid collection of late 80's popular rap songs overall, but the first rap album (or first album, period) to blow my mind was Fear Of A Black Planet, for much the same reasons you described. The moment when "Contract on the…

Been busy as it's the first week back to school (aka work), but the Permanent Records article on Late Registration last weekend prompted me to listen to that album as well as Graduation, 808s & Heartbreak and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy; except for MBDTF, which I listened to several times last year around the…

And EXTRA SUGAR EXTRA SALT EXTRA OIL AND MSG!

Good choices all around, but whenever I hear the words "insanely complicated one-shot music videos", this video from 1985 is the one that instantly comes to mind:

Nina and Pablo? Who the hell are they?

One of my favorite Primus songs from my favorite Primus album. I have yet to check out any albums post-Tales From The Punchbowl though - is it worth it?

I took the article as being dismissive not of the music on the Forrest Gump soundtrack, but of the fact that it was reissued as an expensive triple LP when the CD can be found just about anywhere for a fraction of the price (and if one really wanted to have those songs on vinyl and did enough searching, they could…

1. Yeezus
2. MBDTF
3. Late Registration
4. Graduation
5. College Dropout
6. 808s

Exactly. My oldest listens to the same J-Pop as most of her friends, but also likes songs by Daft Punk, Queen, The Beach Boys and Sloan that she happened to hear me playing around the house or in the car. She's also been a Beatles fan for several years now - and in fact got me to copy all of my Beatles albums to her…

As I've told the kids many times: when you're driving, we'll listen to your music.

It really is a treasure trove of great music. And if you're finding yourself on a Who kick, there are at least three reconstructions available (Introducing The Who, Who's For Tennis and the double album Lifehouse). None are as good as the albums that were actually released, but all are well worth checking out.