COLD TAKE: I disagree. The music remained great for the most part and he always had strong production that suited the songs well, but I prefer the narrative focus and the perceptive descriptions of people living in desperate situations that he wrote on the early records. All of that started to become sort of a…

I'm betting that the people who hold the most fear and vitriol in their hearts for gay marriage and LGBTQ rights will never acclimatize or, if they do, it is a process that will take several lifetimes.

Harmonia - Cass McCombs
California - Bob Dylan
B.L.U.R.E.M.I. - Blur
Alexander's Ragtime Band - Bessie Smith
Arnold Layne - Pink Floyd
Some Kinda Love - The Velvet Underground
Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road - Woody Guthrie
Thank You For Talkin' to Me, Africa - Sly and the Family Stone
Drone - Panda Bear
A Message to Pretty -…

The first Deerhunter record has helped in exorcising a lot of anger, aggression and panic when those feelings became unmanageable.

Mine might be Tallahassee as well because of it being my entryway into the Mountain Goats' catalog, not to mention the extremely high caliber of songwriting, but lately I've been enjoying the records that came after the Sunset Tree where they seemed to extend their style in a whole bunch of different directions. It…

It won't be an "alt-right" ban, though non-shithead refugees will be given priority.

Thank you for pointing it out. His M.O. over the past 8 years (perhaps more?) appears to be to publicly feign some resistance to the GOP's fuckery long enough for it to stick in the public's memory before eventually capitulating.