"I think women and seamen don't mix."

Dad?

No shame in that, it is a perfectly fine little song. Plus a lot of people have forgotten or are unaware that it was produced by the Dust Brothers (Paul's Boutique, Odelay!) which is one of the reasons why it sounds so damn good.

That makes a lot more sense - I googled "Stanton Brothers" and all the top hits were for an American-based business specializing in free-range eggs.

The Stanton Brothers!?

After the article about the Fugazi-inspired opera a few days back, I ranked their albums in the comment section but then realized I hadn't revisited them in ages (apart from tracks popping up on shuffle play from time to time). So aside from In on the Kill Taker and Repeater, which are the two I spent the most time…

He laid more chicks than Mother Goose.

It must have been like a breath of fresh air hearing Infidels after three non-secular albums in a row, and there are some good songs on there. But I think it suffers from dated early eighties mixing and questionable song choices - leaving off "Foot of Pride" and "Blind Willie McTell" (arguably one of his greatest…

Fair enough, I see where you're coming from now. And I apologize for being snarky earlier.

HOW IN THE HELL DID I MISS GBV!?

I owned and/or listened to the vast majority of those albums.

The (new) A.V. Club

Love and Theft and Modern Times have a lot of good songs, but I think both suffer to an extent from the absence of Daniel Lanois as producer. And the covers albums are better than many expected, but again are a far cry from the best of his '60's and '70's work.

Save it for the worst two weeks in A.V. Club commenting history retrospective (which will presumably be hosted on a site that is not using Kinja).

I'd argue it's the only classic album he's made since Blood on the Tracks.

It samples a great song ("Going the Distance" by Bill Conti) and even though Biggie's verses were recorded the day before he was killed and attached to the song posthumously, they still work in context.

1997 was the year electronic music and rave culture broke in North America. That was the year everybody started going to raves and taking E - close to a decade after Madchester.

Oh, it was championed for sure; I still have the issue of Uncut Magazine where both Vanishing Point and OK Computer received 5 out of 5 stars. But it barely made a dent in North America at the time, and had the media not been so (understandably) focused on OK Computer as the best album out of the U.K. that year it…

Personally I think it's their best. Screamadelica deserves all the love it gets but it sounds of a certain time and place, whereas the music on Vanishing Point has a cinematic quality that transcends its era. If OK Computer hadn't been released in the same year, I seriously think it would have been championed by the…

I'm the same age as O'Neal. Those records were awful then, and two decades passing hasn't made them any better.