Any China Mieville book by the Flaming Lips.

House of Leaves by Nick Cave.

"Ambient gay" I think it's called: the amount of campy nonsense that straight people ate right up in the 70's and 80's without batting an eye. Setting aside people who actually were gay, it's the only reason these clowns had careers in the first place.

It's like, how do you take a song about sex, whiskey, and weed and make it sound so fucking boring? That's some real special talent.

or how some particular motion picture was akin to an illustrated text from the Orient that none have ever read

The local 'variety' station really had a thing for 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' and only that one, for some reason, which is my least favorite of Queen's big hits. I think they took "From the 80's to now" very literally, which meant nothing off the 70's albums, but even with that in mind, Under Pressure or hell,…

A lot of kids in middle school and such liked Queen, even though they dropped certain slurs like punctuation. Funny old world. I guess they didn't know or just had some cognitive dissonance going on. More importantly, to a 13-year-old, "We Will Rock You" doesn't sound "gay", it sounds like the exact opposite.

A lot of kids in middle school and such liked Queen, even though they dropped "gay" and "fag" like punctuation. Funny old world. I guess they didn't know or just had some cognitive dissonance going on. More importantly, to a 13-year-old, "We Will Rock You" doesn't sound "gay", it sounds like the exact opposite.

I'd take News of the World over any other album. You didn't even mention "Who Needs You", which is a great little old-fashioned pop tune, and "Sheer Heart Attack", which kicks ass.

I thought it was our lack of Pakistani hip hop that proves we're all racists.

I want the next three music primers to be Zep, Floyd, and Sabbath, just to see you throw a hissy fit.

Best of all, they're all very easy to get! Just leave some other CD in your car for at least two weeks.

I'll also go with Nick Cave: "Up Jumped the Devil"

Is it some kind of rule that if the star of a new movie is getting interviewed, the actual review will be lukewarm at best?

Facing a loss of business as well as USDA fines, Dr. Clay Haskett (Harry
Connick Jr.) is pressured to pair up newly acquired dolphin Mandy with
the despondent Winter.
I've got depression, and trust me, sexing up a dolphin is not an effective cure.

Ted Cruz always looks like he's straining to take a shit. Has he tried taking laxatives?

Hopefully someone grabs Hardy's character by the lapels and goes "WHERE'S THE TRIGGERRRRRRGGGHHHH?!?!"

I don't really care for hip-hop myself, to be honest. It's probably because I spend more time here than on youtube or Reddit, but I find the assumption that anyone who sticks up for classic rock is some kind of reactionary is more annoying than the 'music defener' kids.

Thumbs up for that last sentence. It's probably the douchiest way to smugly dismiss a band, and in the world of music criticism, that's saying something.

But…the whole thing about Robert Plant's post-Zep career is that he isn't just trading on nostalgia, and that he's trying new things with every album. Even lukewarm Zeppelin is what his fans want, that's not what they're getting.