still way ahead of anything Blink 182 could hope to accomplish.

Steve Albini disagrees

I don't think the results were bad, but the concept was pretty groan-worthy. the Be-Sharps/Beatles thing seemed a bit more self-aware, Sadgasm was a bit too "DAE 90s?"

how odd that season 8 is a somewhat controversial season in terms of debating its quality.

you must not have been on the internet in the late 90s. The sequels kind of killed all that though.

it's more accessible, but Loveless is by far the more creative album. I'd still say other albums are more consistent than Nowhere too, Catherine Wheels Ferment being one of them. In all honesty, Nowhere really benefits from the bonus tracks that have been tacked onto it; otherwise the main 8 tracks are half great,…

nah, as cliche as it is, Loveless rightfully towers over the genre.

I wouldn't call Gauntlet Hair shoegaze. Though I also think that between their 2 albums and EP, you've got one good album between them.

nah, people covering Shoegaze songs are always either slavishly devoted to the original to where it just sounds like a not as good version of the original or it's awful piano ballads with acoustic guitar accompaniment that seems to miss the point of the original.

yeah, I like Ride and all, but I think they're a bit over-rated and I don't think they have it in them to put out anything near on par with their best material.

Loop performed a new song last night and has a new EP coming out.

A C might be slightly too low, but it's not too far off. I thought it started off rather well, but it takes a huge dive in quality once Happy Idiot rolls around and it becomes fairly generic TVOTR (but without the quality); though Love Stained and Test Pilot are easily among their worst tracks. It picks up again…

eh, I'd say Murder House is the show's most consistent season, even if the other seasons had better moments. Asylum had a great middle run, but the first and last 2 or 3 episodes felt really rushed with way too much going on that never really added up to anything. Coven started off great but completely fell apart…

Hum's stature has increased since the 90s. They've become a reference point for the more post-hardcore-influenced Shoegaze that's becoming a bit bigger (i.e. Nothing, Cloakroom (who actually has Matt Talbot on vocals on this track), etc.)

I always come off with the impression that there's a bit of condescension when someone covers pop songs acoustically. It may not be intentional, but it comes off as "this isn't real music until it is done on a serious instrument" and it almost always sucks the life out of the original.

it worked well within the movie; on its own it's really limp and just generic "Guy singing into his webcam and covering a pop song on his acoustic guitar on youtube."

eh, it generally suffered form the same thing brought up in that Stephen King thread from a few days ago: Generally works well on paper, but a very literal translation to another medium makes some of the tolerable-but-sort-of-cringe elements of the book sound/look much worse when played out.

Also known as the "Simpsons are still good" defense.

Alex’s Working Girl-inspired costume was among them, because the idea of Alex being obsessed with Working Girl is lovable and absurd.

Swifties are the music equivalents of Bronies.