I'm generally happy with the inclusion of bonus tracks, and back when a new CD still cost $20 to $25 I considered it an added incentive to buy an album I may have already owned or would have been able to find cheaper used. I prefer it though when there is a brief gap between the original album and the bonus material.…

Pop is a slightly flawed but unfairly maligned and extremely underrated album, and I'm pretty sure PowerThirteen would agree (except about the slightly flawed part).

Chiming in for the fifth time here today just to say I really like these Music Roundtable articles and wish AV Club would consider doing them more often. There would probably be more comments by now if today's AVQ&A wasn't so ridiculously popular (which is understandable as it is a good topic), but I think if this…

I like how "Negativland" by NEU! from 1972 moves along in a steady motorik groove for four minutes, and then there's a rip in the time space continuum and we're briefly pogoing at a Sex Pistols show four years later for about 40 seconds before being sucked back into the groove again. Also how Can's "Halleluhwah" from…

I've posted this before, but Matt Groening on his first encounter with Trout Mask Replica:

Issues with clipping aside, I prefer the 1997 Iggy remix of Raw Power to the original Bowie mix. Love 'em both, though.

The remixes I usually enjoy the most are less about getting a dance floor moving and more about doing something that is an interesting departure from the original yet still enjoyable to listen to.

"Does anybody actually enjoy these modern remixes of classic songs tacked on to reissues? Serious question."

Even though I like most of the stuff on your list (exceptions: I also dislike the Dead and most Zappa, indifferent on Anne Hathaway and post-Downward Spiral NIN), I upvoted you because not giving a fuck about what one is "supposed" to like and just liking what you like is an important step on the way to becoming a…

Still not as bad as the flowers, letters, ticket stubs and occasional picture of fucking Leonardo DiCaprio that got left on the actual grave of a "J. Dawson" at Fairview Cemetery in Nova Scotia, where 121 Titanic victims are buried.

Based on "Red Red Wine" alone they're basically indefensible, and for years I had them pegged as nothing more than that lame-ass band that makes reggae-ified versions of old pop songs. But then a friend with similar tastes in music who grew up in the UK during the time of Thatcher and high unemployment (a "UB40" is…

Given the numerous crimes UB40 have perpetuated against music since 1983 I get your skepticism, I really do. Obviously reggae originated in Jamaica and practically every worthwhile reggae single or album ever made came from there. But there are a handful of solid reggae albums from other countries, including the UK: Ba…

UB40 deservedly get a lot of shit, but believe it or not their early stuff is actually good; their debut album Signing Off is arguably a reggae classic. But then again, if your main issue is Ali Campbell's voice, it still may not be to your liking.

Thing I'll have to check out that new Dead Weather album; the second one didn't make much of an impression at the time I heard it, but I really like the first one and played it a lot when I first got it. And I bought a copy of Naked at a yard sale for 25 cents about twenty years ago, listened to it once and forgot…

And no mention of Sideshow Bob's short-lived stint as host of The Krusty The Clown Show either.

I did a 2 to 7 am show for about two years and there was a guy who called almost every time to request "Sweet Child O' Mine". At first I humored him, but I soon found out that this guy called the station almost every single night requesting the exact same song. Eventually the record disappeared, and I later found out…

I actually started doing a 2 to 7 am show once a week with the intention of eventually graduating to a daytime slot, but I loved having the record library to myself all night to explore, make mix tapes and tape off albums I'd read about but hadn't heard yet. Spiderland, Astral Weeks, Zen Arcade and On The Beach (which…

I got the Suburbia soundtrack from Columbia House as one of my "8 for a penny" based solely on the artists and having never seen the movie, which is not terrible but coming after Dazed and Confused is definitely disappointing. Great soundtrack though: along with "Unheard Music" and GvsB I also count "Berry Meditation"…

SHUT THE FUCK UP DONNY!

The Police were a tight band and I like some of their songs (even some of the bigger hits, overplayed as they were/are) but I find Sting's solo stuff bland to the point of being offensive. I do like to keep an open mind about these things though, so if you can recommend some "deep cuts" I'll be sure to check them out.…