I started doing it after I moved to Japan, as "foreign" (i.e. non-Japanese) artists are alphabetized that way in record stores here and I wanted to get into the habit of looking for artists in the correct bins - e.g. David Bowie filed under "D" or デ (de) instead of "B" or ボ (bo). I've actually come to prefer it, and…

Damn, am I the only one here who likes Merriweather Post Pavilion?

And I can’t part with Archers Of Loaf Vs. The Greatest Of All Time, even though those songs are on the Icky Mettle bonus disc, because it’s one of the greatest EPs ever released.

And a bit ironic considering the opening riff from "Just What I Needed" bears more than a passing resemblance to the opening of "Yummy Yummy Yummy" by The Ohio Express:

Yeah, or someone who actually thinks that John Lennon had a propensity for violence against women because of "Run For Your Life", ha! As if!

The same thing happened to me a while back after I commented on this article:

That's a cool story. For some reason I was thinking Check Your Head slipped in under the line before sample clearance became the norm, but I guess O'Sullivan vs. the Biz went down a bit earlier than I thought.

My second favorite Dylan reference in a Beastie Boys song - the first being the brilliant use of the sample from "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" in "Finger Lickin' Good".

YouTube has been keeping the tradition alive - just type "Don't Worry Be Happy" into the search bar and see which artist's name pops up.

YOU SCREAM, I SCREAM - WE ALL WANT EGG CREAM!

Getting into music pre-Napster, cover versions were sometimes the only way to hear songs by some bands. Growing up in the sticks, you couldn't just walk into a record store and find Joy Division or Stooges albums, and ordering them in would have been either prohibitively expensive or simply not possible.

I know, right? I liked the Rod Stewart version when I was a kid, but hearing the Tom Waits original 3/4ths of the way through Rain Dogs a few years later blew my mind. I was just sitting there, thinking, "How did Rod Stewart hear this…and then somehow turn it into that?"

"Downtown Train" by Tom Waits (as performed by Rod Stewart)
"Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" by Al Green (as performed by UB40)
"Search & Destroy" by Iggy & The Stooges (as performed by RHCP)
"Last Caress" by Misfits (as performed by Metallica)
"Dead Souls" by Joy Division (as performed by Nine Inch Nails)

Absolutely. Hit the right Goodwill or second-hand shop, you can probably scoop up every album from Infinity up to Trial By Fire on vinyl for just a couple of bucks.

I agree with all of this, particularly "looking at what is popular without preconceptions". And whether one agrees or not, Murray makes a fairly solid argument for Journey's place in the "pop/rock canon".

I think we've actually reached a point where it's more acceptable to like Journey than it is to disdain them. Similar to the recent "poptimism" movement, openly disliking Journey and their ilk may leave one at risk of being called an elitist, a curmudgeon or - god forbid - a dirty hipster.

Who's playing that music?

Absolutely. Along with Altered Beast and 100% Fun, that's a damn fine trilogy of albums.

Most of these artists weren't exactly "MTV Buzz Bin" material at the time, but 1991 also brought us:

I can see it being enjoyable from that perspective, but in the context of the film it just seemed like overkill piled on top of more overkill.