I’ve never seen any of the Hammer Studios stuff (all the Christopher Lee / Peter Cushing / Vincent Price stuff).

The original James Whale directed versions of Frankenstein and Bride Of Frankenstein are stone cold five star classics. Bride in particular is amazing. 

My god, that movie is bad. The Happening often gets the focus as his low point, but nope. Just a total wet towel of a movie. 

I can’t recall a single action scene involving Fury in the entire MCU where his contribution to the proceedings went beyond driving a car or shooting a gun. Hand to hand combat and brawny heroics aren’t really his thing.

It’s hard to come by. I worked in a record store back when it was released, and I had to bring it in from Germany. The North American label just kind of abandoned it.

I mean, this is pretty much the greatest record of the 80s. Or at least on the very short shortlist.

Eroica, in particular, is stone-cold excellent. Rainbow Lake, Skeleton Key, Mother Of Pearl, Why Wait For Heaven... all killer tracks. Wendy gets an all-around guitar showcase on this record that she never got with The Revolution, and it’s glorious. 

Paranormal Activity 1 & 2. Saw both in the theater on respective opening weekends; both were incredibly enjoyable, but experiences that relied so much on the collective big-screen haunted house vibe, that would be impossible to replicate at home.

Wendy and her two brothers are amazed when a magical boy named Peter flies into their bedroom, in pursuit of his rebellious shadow. He and his fairy friend, Tinkerbell, come from a mythical world with an overgrown, abandoned labyrinth and a mysterious faun creature. 

I went to a 10th anniversary IMAX screening of Inception just three days ago. God, what an excellent film. I’m still gobsmacked that it got eight Oscar noms, but none for directing or editing... utterly nonsensical.

Machine Gun Etiquette, their third record, is every bit the classic the debut is - I actually prefer it to be honest. First album without original guitarist Brian James - Captain Sensible switched from bass to guitar and remains there to this day. Love Song, Smash It Up, Just Can’t Be Happy Today, Melody Lee, Plan 9…

OK you gotta be kidding me. The Damned have been my favourite band for about 30 years. Scabies is one of my drumming holy trinity. So I’m with you on your point. But nobody ever brings up The Damned.

Apples and oranges. Moon was all unbridled chaos and cheeky humor. Bonham was all boozy groove and raw muscle. Personally I prefer Bonham, but there’s argument to be made successfully for both. Neither tops the heap for me though. That’d be Stewart Copeland. 

The late period stuff is pretty awful. 

This is actually the origin of the sound. A happy accident due to the studio talkback mic being left on. Gabriel loved the sound and actually wrote Intruder around it. Collins later left a sonic breadcrumb in ITAT that links it back to its source - like the entirety of Gabriel’s  3 and 4, the song contains no cymbals.

ABACAB is a great record start to finish. No Reply At All is ridiculously groovy. 

It is simple, technically - it’s not challenging, you could play it with one hand. It’s the combination of that point in the arrangement, the long buildup to which the fill functions as the moment of release, how the sonic treatment goes hand in hand with the note choice. 

It’s about the musical choice for the moment, it doesn’t rely on flash or technique, it’s just an all-timer intersection of arrangement and sonic choice. 

Speaking as someone who plays and teaches drums for a living, I can attest to the awesomeness of this fill. Phil Collins has always been severely underrated as a drummer, because he’s such a poster child for sucky grampa rock, but dude could serve up a serious groove, and had chops to spare. 

My love for you is like a truck BERSERKER