Exactly! Honestly, that is probably where much of my lack of zeal is coming from at this time.

I like most everything Lagunitas puts out fine (more than fine, honestly), but I often feel I can barely differentiate much of it from each other sans the bottle labels.

Found one sixer of that Ballast Point Pumpkin Down at my local Wegmans, so I picked it up (you never know when/if it will show up again, it seems). Certainly decent, but I seem to recall liking it a bit more last autumn.

Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind
The Bats - Made Up In Blue
Mercury Rev - The Happy End (The Drunk Room)
The Wedding Present - Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft
Peter Tosh - Brand New Second Hand
Eric Donaldson - Cherry Oh Baby
Alice In Chains - Would?
Husker Du - Makes No Sense At All
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Cream…

Let me know when you find out. Nothing seems to stick to this fuckhead, & this dates back to his shitshow of a campaign. It's infuriating.

Right? It'd all be almost too on the nose for a really over the top villain in a poorly made B-movie, but it's all real. Depressingly so.

You're absolutely correct, but he can't even do that right.

Yeah, I remember that all of those attractions were sponsored by major corporations when I originally went as a kid in the 1980s (near certain Exxon was the sponsor for that one). I didn't realize that ride was ending, that's too bad. Jamie Lee Curtis is great in her little part too.

Well put. It's entirely offensive, in every conceivable way. As exhausting as it all is though, it can't be ignored.

You can keep the shirts, but you've got to bone up on your Simpsons references.

When you find yourself in the thick of it, help yourself to a bit of what is all around you.

That was also the year of Montreal's only postseason appearance!

New Adventures in Hi-Fi is an example of a terrific album that was somehow lost in the shuffle upon its release. Considering their popularity in the first half of the decade, I'm still not sure how it wasn't a mega hit. It's their last great album in my estimation (also their last with Bill Berry, almost certainly…

Ha ha, I'd venture that the whole of Television's Marquee Moon is worth your time if you enjoyed Friction. There's distinct echoes of it in a lot of subsequent alt music, even post-Rattle & Hum U2.

That's a great entry point to a terrific band. Skylarking is a truly wonderful LP too.

Just listened to Zoo Station this AM. The Joshua Tree is pretty much THE album that made me an ardent music lover as a youngster, but Achtung Baby is right there as well as far as quality goes imo. The Edge slays on that whole LP & Bono's vocals were probably never stronger.

Mazzy Star - Blue Flower
Robert Wyatt - Heaps of Sheeps
Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver
Electrelane - I'm On Fire (cool Springsteen cover)
Sonic Youth - (I Got A) Catholic Block
XTC - Grass
Sebadoh - Brand New Love
The Records - Starry Eyes
Brian Wilson - Heroes and Villains
The Smiths - What Difference…

It's really a damn shame.

But they seem so happy..

Near certain it was 1998, but that is a really cool album from one of the greatest bands of the decade.