Oh, Sea of Sin. DM used to have such wonderful b-sides.

Harry Nilsson and Blondie? Very good.

Upvoted for Happy Mondays and The Raincoats (who I was just listening to earlier today!). Also, I haven't heard Daughters of the Koas in forever. Will have to get that out tonight.

Upvoted for Lene!

I decided to mix things up this week, and use the shuffle from my last workout.

X and Go-Go's? That sounds fabulous.

Ouch. I feel your pain.

I suppose that's true. I had started getting into his late 70s era albums a couple of years earlier thanks to my boss at the record store I worked at, and had been spinning Outside quite a bit, but he certainly had a rough patch before that.

That sounds about right. The frustrating thing is that when they were actually performing, they were good. But they'd play a two minute song and then Courtney would spend three minutes heckling the guy in the audience, and then just go back and forth for the whole set. It's like just shut up and play.

Yeah, it's sometimes puzzling to see awesome bands that are huge in the UK or Europe that just can't make a dent over here.

I've been to a couple of his speaking tours too, and I really liked the show he had on IFC a few years back. But musically? Not so much.

Yes, they did play several songs together. I vaguely recall some people rushing back to their seats when they realized Trent was still there.

I always kind of wondered if some of those kids weren't kicking themselves for leaving a few years later. I would have been. I can't imagine what that was like for Bowie, who has his own pretty fanatical fan base.

I was at that Lollapalooza, although Sonic Youth was one of the draws for me. A ton of people left after Hole's set though. Also, apparently Hole (well, most likely Courtney) and Cypress Hill didn't get along, so while Hole was playing, the Cypress Hill guys came out and started wandering around in the crowd, thus…

Apparently some NIN fans are very focused only on Trent. Their loss. The NIN/Murphy double bill sounds like a lot of fun. The dynamic was reversed when I saw NIN at Red Rocks, and a reformed Bauhaus (and pre-Cookie Mountain TV On The Radio) opened. That show was front-to-back amazing.

I saw Rollins Band on the first Lollapalooza, and they were actually great live, but you couldn't pay me enough money to listen to their terrible, terrible albums.

On Depeche Mode's Devotional tour, both Stabbing Westward and Rocks-era Primal Scream opened. That was a weird bill.

Okay, now I have to ask what your experience was like seeing the Femmes as an opener, because I've seen them live three times, but always as part of an all-day bill, and the quality of their performance seemed directly tied to their placement on the bill. First was Lollapalooza, where they were midday, and they put…

Rufus Wainwright opened for Tori Amos after Poses came out. I believe I had heard one song on the radio and was unimpressed, but I ended up picking up and loving the album after seeing him open for Tori.

I remember irritating some friends in college when, after seeing U2 live in concert, I thought they were outperformed by opener the Sugarcubes.