The Birthday Party's awesome, but I can't say their work ever hit me like the Bad Seeds' has. I think this conversation always winds up shitty because it tends to start with a Birthday Party fan popping out of the woodwork to say "Nick Cave never wrote anything good or as good after The Birthday Party," and any…

Surprisingly, Songs of the West by Burl Ives. While every listen makes me age about ten years, I've been craving some oldish western folk music for quite some time and this album hit the spot. Between its sublimely appropriate arrangements and Ives' golden voice, it's old-fashioned bliss. Somewhat related, Robbie…

Continental breakfast was unbelievably perfect.

I'm hoping Rogue Legacy keeps me going well into 2014.

Haven't seen Spy Hard in years but that song is guaranteed to drift into my conscious every 2-3 months or so.

Oh, so I'm the bad guy now?

Exactly. I loved seeing stuff like Gandalf and Galadriel shoot the shit like old friends again. Being in front of a screen with more of this stuff is still satisfying.

Yeah. When I realized The Hobbit wasn't going to reach the heights of Jackson's LOTR trilogy, I was at least able to enjoy it like an old favorite comfort food I haven't had in years. Maybe not as delicious as when you first had it, but it was still a pleasure to return to.

I feel like it's gameplay absolutely compliments the world The Last of Us builds. There's a harmony there that you just don't find in other shooters.

I wanted to like Brothers. I'm glad games like Brothers are being made. I think Brothers is a bad video game and doesn't fulfill its promise of heartache and adventure.

I can usually get into the band around most of "Your Funeral… My Trial" and "Tender Prey." The first couple of Bad Seeds records have some great sounds, but they're definitely harder listens for a number of reasons. I've heard similar things about Cave. He didn't think he was actually a singer when he started making…

I hear ya! Jubilee Street really becomes something else live. The setlists they've been playing also really make for great live album material. Live at KRCW is an in-studio, but definitely another good document of how beautiful the Bad Seeds sound when they keep things quiet.

Say what you want about the Pirates movies, but Davy Jones is a wonderfully designed villain. The tentacle beard is perfect.

Hard to tell either way. One thing that type of stardom doesn't afford people is the time and space to adjust to simple living, especially when you're hitting those peaks as young as he did. I feel like most people tend to fare better if they just swallow their pride so they can start finding themselves and stuff to…

I like to think that with perspective, smarts,and effort, you don't necessarily have to succumb to all the bullshit and can avoid crashing so damn hard. Then again, most of the people I thing are "big" were never as popular as Joey Fatone was at one point in his life, even if they also achieved international acclaim.

That part of "Lose Yourself to Dance" is deliriously blissful. It never gets old.

I find most QOTSA songs incredibly dense and intricate, either taking to them immediately or needing some time to digest. Like Clockwork stood out stylistically, even if most of it didn't hit me until later listens. When it finally did it… damn. Taken as a whole work, I might love it more than any of their other albums

That's a cool song, but it's not Daft Punk.

1. Daft Punk — Random Access Memories
2. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Push the Sky Away
3. Queens of the Stone Age — … Like Clockwork
4. Bill Callahan — Dream River
5. Torres — Torres
6. James Blake — Overgrown
7. Jenny Hval — Innocence Is Kinky
8. Danny Brown — Old
9. Phosphorescent — Muchacho
10. Arctic Monkeys — AM
11. The…

Fantomas - Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Rodriguez - Jane S. Piddy
Van Dyke Parks - Van Dyke Parks
John Coltrane - Cousin Mary (Alternate Take)
Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas