am I alone in not liking Search & Destroy at all? I think the mix (at least Bowie's, haven't heard Iggy's) completely neuters the song. Everything else is great though.

"would like to hear a mastering job that falls somewhere in between the two extremes."

I generally liked Lion King when it came out, but I think it's only the recent Le 90s Kids thing that has made me really hate it. I guess looking back on it, it feels really formulaic and stereotypical (in a bad way) DIsney. For what it's worth, Frozen felt like a huge step back towards that era of DIsney and I think…

yeah, this season felt like a giant introduction that often felt like it was moving forward in babysteps. I'm still on board for season 2, but only because I'm hoping that once all the introductory material is mostly out of the way, the REAL story can begin.

I like the album and it's one of their better stabs at eclecticism, but I don't really like the traditional Boris tracks (Vanilla is kind of bland and Quicksilver is mostly crap, bar its fantastic coda). I don't really dislike Siesta as a closer, but I think it would work a bit better with something in between it and…

I think Hannibal's plot, while often convoluted, moves at a more obvious pace. Penny Dreadful is fun to watch, but I get the feeling that nothing will really come together.

I'm in the same boat. Parts of it are great, but my complaint from the first episode has been that it seems like the on-going plot frequently comes to a complete stop in favor of world building or introducing more characters.

My only problem with the movie is that Lotso as a general plot device felt a little too much like Stinky Pete. I otherwise like Toy Story 3, though.

I can't imagine anyone disliking Kid A and liking Eraser and Atoms for Peace; they're not too dissimilar for one thing, but Kid A is also by far the better album of those 3.

I've put off watching Mad Men for a long time because I could never really get what the show was about outside of a generic "Ad Men from the 60s" description. My wife started watching recently and while it's generally enjoyable…I still don't really know what the hell it's about. Where I could watch Breaking Bad or…

I always thought the album was bloated in High School as well, but even the tracks I liked back then just made me cringe when I listened to it a year or two ago. I'm convinced most of its love comes from people who like the idea of an Epic Double Album rather than whatever's inside' Siamese Dream and Gish are easily…

I'm sure it's just a coincidence, but I really can't shake the feeling otherwise.

I'll get shit for it, but I feel the same way about Zapp Brannigan. Billy West does a good impersonation, but I can't help but wonder how much better it would've been if Phil was actually doing it.

I see it as Artier version of Grimm.

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eh, I like Alice in Chains (probably even more so around when the episode aired), but I've never thought their set was particularly noteworthy. Unsurprisingly, the tracks that were originally acoustic (read: anything from Sap or Jar of Flies and Over Now) fare the best, but everything else is just kind of bland.

I always wondered what people who were unfamiliar with the Critic thought of that episode. I love it because I was watching the Critic at the time, but I can see where it's a bit of an oddity in that it sort of assumes the viewer knows who Jay Sherman is.

LP sequencing:

I just think the tension and build up is done better elsewhere not only on the same album along but in the rest of their catalogue. I also didn't quite get what they were going for with the horse noises until I read an interview with Gira; it makes more sense now, but I'm not entirely sure it really translates that…

I like it for what it was, but I'm not entirely keen on the minor character centric episodes (i.e. James, Rootbeer Guy, etc.); they feel like a diversion to a very slowly unfolding larger plot.