Watched the first three episodes tonight because of this recommendation. You're right. It's pretty great.

I like the song "Hands Down" but basically everything else they did was terrible.

Give me Steve Martin over Jay Leno.

I basically hate Sandler and have for years, but I disagree with the advice given here. Sandler had a choice to make back in the days of Punch Drunk Love - try to court critical success in smaller, more complex movies or go out there and play to his brand - dopey movies aimed at slightly dopey Gen Xers. Oh, and the…

I think you can make a case for the Green album being a fun little pop trifle, particularly at a time when rock had become so self-serious it wasn't fun to be a fan of the genre anymore. But I can't really defend the Red album or anything after that. I usually don't agree that a band can destroy their legacy by…

Non. Stop. Splatoon.

I like the color scheme there and I've always seen it as a scribe writing something down. But that's why it's ridiculous. What does an ancient scribe have to do with new music from the band that did freaking Appetite for Destruction?

I remember really loving that album, but last time I tried to listen to it it left me pretty cold. Space seemed to have two kinds of songs: Ironic send ups of old genres (Dark Clouds, Female of the Species) and songs where some crazed bastard rants about whatever pops into his head (Voodoo Roller, Lovechild of the…

Doctor Who

Should have called it Straight Flush.

Well, time to get a Kickstarter account.

For that matter, what's up with the cover of Pet Sounds? Is there a more iconic album cover that's as bad as that?

I love the goofy cover of Era Vulgaris, though.

Even as an uptight conservative pubescent pre-teen wracked with Lutheran guilt and body issues I never had a problem with the baby's tallywhacker on the cover of Nevermind. Because, come on. It's a baby.

Too many exceptions to that rule for me to sign on with you.

Also Elvis Costello grew a beard and it was clearly a C- as far as beards go. Sometimes a critics gotta take a stand. A stand against a terrible beard.

I bought Tarkus just for the cover. Was disappointed when I got home and realized it was an ELP album and not some weird outsider thing.

Is that Hold Steady album art really that bad? It just looks nondescript to me, like something a roots rock band from the early 90s might shit out. That's not a ringing endorsement, but it doesn't really seem like a prime example of this sort of thing to me.

Objectively I agree, but there's something about that album cover that really fits the music inside. It looks like the last known photograph of a bunch of terrorists.

Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque is my go to example for this. It's the one with the MS Paint drawing of a yellow moneybag on a hot salmon background. Atrocious. But dear God what good music inside that bag.