Well, you know what, you're not wrong. I apologize.

Don't worry, bro, it's all good. I'll invite you over next weekend to listen to some unheralded classics like Mass in B Minor, Loveless, and Appetite for Destruction. You. Will. Love it.

Yeah, OK. Now your standard is "it's not currently played all the time"? I just wanted to have a conversation about definitions, but only wo appears to be capable. It's fine, your definitions don't _need_ to mean anything objectively; hell, I think the Cocteau Twins' "Treasure" is the greatest black metal album of…

Granted, it's hardly as astute as calling a record that sold millions of copies and received widespread critical acclaim "underrated" simply because one song was more popular than others, but please, Brainiac, use whatever example you like.

So, e.g., something like Chavez's "Ride the Fader" or "Do You Know Who You Are?" by Texas Is the Reason would qualify then? I can get down with that kind of definition.

Ok, then I guess by your standards "Ready to Die" is underrated, since "Juicy" got most of the air time. To me, an actual underrated 90s album would be, e.g., "Beheaded" or "WhatFunLifeWas" by Bedhead, since only about 300 people actually knew who they were during the band's lifetime.

I just don't see any way that it can possibly be logically described as "underrated". Most respected publications rated it extremely highly (4.5 /5 on AMG, e.g.); as the above story described, it was well-received by the public and received a metric shit-ton of radio play. How is this underrated? Doesn't the term…

Is that the exact same curse that certain elements in the Orthodox Jewish community laid on Spinoza, after their attempts at bribery and assassination failed? I guess Dutch she-bears are some real fucking slackers…

You'd _love_ the currency in Idiocracy.

That's a wondrous skill, don't undersell it. I must have pulled something similar off last fall when a lady from HR asked me whether I watched it, because she doesn't talk to me anymore. Which, of course, I consider to be a huge personal victory.

Decent list, but major demerits for the failure to include the Panzer Dragoon Saga, released in the dying days of the Saturn, and which remains, to my mind at least, one of the finest JRPGs ever produced.

Out of curiosity, why exactly would you even need to mod a DC? Any standard DC could play hacked/pirated CDs out of the box: Sega's "copy protection" scheme consisted of making games come on "GD-ROMs" (a proprietary optical format which differed from CD-ROM only in that it was 1GB, instead of ~737MB). This meant…

"Seen"? No; my uncle gave me "Sweatbox" and a bunch of Rollins' other spoken word stuff after he stopped liking Rollins, back around '94 or whatever. I can't imagine the visual element adds a lot, but if it helps, I saw him in Johnny Mnemonic. I did like his stuff…as a college freshman.

I know of some South African stories involving the tokoloshe that should work pretty well…

If you're talking about unintentional comedy, I definitely agree.

Oh god yes. The part at the 2-pt shooting contest where he starts quietly talking to himself in his father's voice ("lazy good-for-nothing, never did anything in your life") practically killed me. It was such a spot-on indictment of a core strand of the Midwestern mindset. I can close my eyes and easily imagine my…

Oh come on, mailing lists were totally de rigueur in 1995. Not only would there have been a mailing list, '95 would've dropped a rare pr0n-free Usenet newsgroup on your ass, and maybe even some Gopher as well.

Enoch, Elijah and LOAD asterisk comma 8 comma 1. It's got a nice enough ring to it.

Even among country musicians, they're still only getting the tools. The artists who don't suck are independent or even Democratic….e.g. Willie (obvious reasons) supported Kucinich, Merle wrote a campaign jingle for Hillary, etc.

I saw the dude right next to me get hit in the head with a pitcher—a pitcher!!—someone else in the crowd had thrown at the 2nd-night show at O'Cayz during their "Fuck You, We Quit" tour. Fun times. I occasionally spoke w/ Michael Gerald a few times back in the day, and last being maybe in the early 00s; believe it…