Disagree. I think this is a rare situation where they succeeded at having it both ways.

Lennon showed with the Playboy interview that he was eager to make distinctions between which songs he wrote and which ones Paul did, so I don't think anyone involved would really care that much if the credits were swapped, so long as the flow of money didn't stop. I felt Paul's desire to McCartney/Lennon a few songs…

Yeah. Sometimes when I can't get to sleep I "listen" to Sgt. Pepper or Abbey Road in my head. I know them so well, I don't need to hear them anymore.

Good thing you don't sound like a douchebag when you write, then.

Check out the Live at the BBC albums. They're pretty great!

Yeah. I remember when 1 came out, the rapper Eve talking about getting it and being amazed by how many Beatles tracks she loved. That's what those compilations are for - introducing the band to newbies. Old fans need not apply.

Or the 20 Greatest Hits album, which is how I was introduced to them as a tyke.

Yeah, that Drive My Car/What You're Doing mash up is worth the cost of admission. Love should have been a little bit weirder, if you're thinking of it as just an album and not a soundtrack, but it has a few things on it that make it worthwhile, for committed fans at least.

In a sad way, I think the Beach Boys are kind of underrated. Most people I know remember them as basically Beach Blanket Bingo soundtracks and Kokomo. Of course critics and AV geeks like us are in the know, but I even meet fellow musicians who aren't really aware of Pet Sounds or SMiLE.

I was the admin of a 200,000 member Facebook group at one time - the largest on Facebook before they redid groups and deleted us - and even I'll agree that the Beatles hype goes to far. My default favorite band, but Boomer nostalgia means that they can't just be a band, for some people they had to be the saviors of…

Yeah, absolutely. Rolling Stone is just trying to move product. If One Direction was really like the Beatles, then they would have assembled by themselves from working-class neighborhoods, played multiple trips in shitty dive clubs in a red light district in Germany for several years, built up a loyal local following…

For me, the big thing was Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck comics. Yeah, I loved DuckTales as a kid, but I'd never really looked at the source material - at least not intentionally as an adult - and I came to really appreciate Barks' storytelling and artistry. Also got some Don Rosa stuff, though I really…

Oh man, I forgot about that song. Big Empty, right? Time to listen to it!

Honestly? I think it was mostly the complaint of old people who couldn't hear the difference.

Also, looking at that photo up there, when did Scott Weiland turn into Mike Love?

I remember MTV really getting behind that album when it came out. I certainly saw that ridiculous Barbarella video quite a bit, back when.

That's a fair point. In fact, I'd say that critical hatred was less about any problems with Core and more about who STP were and who they weren't. I mean, let's face it, grunge was an insurrection. For true believers, grunge was there to take out L.A. hair rock phoniness. But STP were from L.A.. One of the guys had…

For Bush, I'd add "Everything Zen", "Alien" and "Swallowed". And you could put "Little Things" down for filler, which isn't bad for filler. I know a few people who stand behind "The Chemicals Between Us" and other stuff off of the third album, but it never really spoke to me. So maybe Bush has enough for a full,…

I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on the critical backlash against Stone Temple Pilots. I was a teenager when Core came out and I loved it right from the start. In retrospect, it's not as solid as the work of their contemporaries, but it still doesn't feel like it was simply calculated to ride coat-tails of the…

Pretty much agree, though I'll slightly defend Core for things like 'Creep', 'Plush' and 'Dead and Bloated'. It's not magical or anything, but if that's as bad as the Pearl Jam wake-swimmers ever got, we'd be doing alright.