This article seems to have conflated “Let’s Lynch the Landlord” and “I Kill Children” into “Let’s Kill the Landlord,” but I feel like the fact that it’s so easy to amalgamate Jello’s writing actually helps make his point stronger re: the consistency of this politics and pet themes...

If DK isn’t a ‘political band’ then ‘political bands’ just don’t exist. 

Jello once called the nu!Dead Kennedys “the world’s greediest karaoke band” and it’s a spot on fucking description.

I’m happy to see all the Rosenstock love this year, but every time I see it in a list, I can't help but think, "where was the love when Worry came out"?

Ha ha, I’ll take your word for it on most of those - but yeah, DC rips. Cheers!

I wrote a treatise on a thread below that’s still in the grays, but basically boils down to: where’s the hip-hop???!? Seems they haven’t had anyone literate in either contemporary and/or classic hip hop on staff for years, and it seems super pronounced in this year’s list. The line “RTJ4 benefited from a dearth in…

Things that are legit disturbing: the seeming lack of any contemporary hip-hop literacy at AVC anymore. “RTJ4 benefited from a dearth in major rap events this year.” Now I love RTJ and 4 RIPS but... what??? Putting aside the Jay Electronica debut accounted for on this list, there were major releases from other…

With AC/DC, I don’t really like to listen to them post-Bon Scott period (Back in Black and For Those About to Rock, We Salute You being the exceptions). Nothing against Brian Johnson, he’s been a great singer, but I like the rougher and dirtier sound of Scott-era AC/DC. However, I’ve heard so many good things about…

The sun has finally set on Laurel Canyon, yet the sweet sound still echoes in our hearts.

Funny, I was thinking the same about the lack of Dawes.

A disturbing lack of AC/DC on this list and all the ballots (if only Hyden were still around)!

You are incorrect. The two groups pushing the credit card companies and leading the effort to target porn sites, pornhub specifically, are “Morality in Media” and “Exodus Cry”. Both groups are dedicated to abolishing porn or anything else they deem to be obscene, and stopping all prostitution. They have both been…

Yeah this is a bit of a misconception, as from what I understand him and Frost approached the script as one large piece, as is how Lynch ran production — and clearly, it is. But on the other hand, they then intentionally split them into episodes, and for as much as people wondered wtf was going on, it was not for a…

Upon seeing this, Kid A and Amnesiac immediately came to mind.

Then I started wondering: Are you talking about spiritual successors/echoes, or explicit follow ups/“sequel” albums (ie: At Folsom Prison/At San Quentin vs Only Built 4 Cuban Linx/Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...Pt 2), as I think they’re two distinct things with…

re: Berlin trilogy- While Low and Heroes definitely share a sound and were recorded relatively close to each other, Lodger feels different, has more of a time gap, and explores (weirdly) a much more traditional rock approach to songwriting. I’ve always sort of felt it doesn’t really belong with the other two. 

Once I posted this, I actually thought more about the Berlin Trilogy, and I’m not so sure that they count because, as you mention, it’s more about the conditions in which they were made than purposefully linking the albums.

I would say that if a single recording session is split into two albums that you have to pay…

Same here - approaching the production of it as “one long film” is very different from it being presented that way. The pacing would be very different if it was supposed to be watched as one long film (the narrative probably wouldn't stop every 15 minutes for a music performance - but it's Lunch so hard to say) 

Delivered in 18 surreal hour-long installments, Lynch famously considers the work one long-form film.