BUT WHERE IS SPACEHOG?

The Toadies' Rubberneck made me speed.

I bought a Butt Trumpet tape on vacation at some record store in Vail on band name alone. I was pleasantly surprised.

Weird feels, listening to this.

Oh yeah, the slow builds are one of their strengths. I think some of those are their most muscular, loud songs (Huarache Lights being a prime example). they don't really have FAST songs, so I was using that as a relative term.

Huarache Lights is already in my top 5/6 Hot Chip songs. I like the new album, but I don't think I will ever unconditionally love one of their albums, as they always include a few too many schmaltzy, way-too-saccharine songs for my taste. Love the dancier, louder, faster songs.

Metal Circus is the best HD album. While they have some bona fide "classics" later in their career, the sound of the drums and the ridiculous solid state chorus guitar sound make them practically unlistenable. Very rarely do I think to myself, "I think I am going to listen to an entire Husker Du album right now",…

Definitely my favorite Minutemen release.

How does TFTC lack intensity? Anyway, to me,

ME TOO. I was 14. AND FAITH NO MORE.

Actually I think 7.1 was a great rating from Pitchfork. They rarely give legacy white-guy-in-his-30s guitar rock anything higher than a 6-something.

Here are some "underrated" songs I completely and totally love, but I get the sense that the majority of fans would not consider to be a part of the core canon: Made-up Dreams, Stop the Show, Center of the Universe, Sidewalk, Bad Light, Temporarily Blind, Time Trap (although I think this is pretty universally loved),…

I am perhaps willing to concede that the lead guitar at the end of the song is beautiful.

Two things:

No, it is my least favorite on the album, which means I still like it more than 75% of You In Reverse. It falls into my least favorite category of BtS songs: slower, putzing along with no real melodic hook. It just doesn't really go anywhere for 8 and a half minutes. AMOTF arguably has 3 of these songs.

I am in the minority of my friends that also love BtS, but I don't like Now You Know at all.

I did this for someone that wanted 10 songs to get into the band: https://open.spotify.com/us…

Velvet Waltz and the second part of Untrustable are the things that drop PFNO below KILAS.
This opinion may be affected by the fact that over 50% of the shows I have seen BtS, they end with a 20 min version of Untrustable and it pisses me off because there are inevitably 4 or 5 other 3-4 minute songs that they didn't…

Here's my rundown from best to worst:
Keep It Like A Secret
Perfect From Now On
Untethered Moon
There's Nothing Wrong With Love
There Is No Enemy
Ancient Melodies of the Future
You In Reverse
Ultimate Alternative Wavers

I have seen the Rev upwards of 40 times, and it is always a blast. It helps that I was living in Dallas in the mid-to-late-90s. Liquor in the Front is his best (if not necessarily most psycho-billy-ish).