Everyone’d written off shoegaze in favor of Britpop by 1995, which is not only wrong because Britpop is for the most part terrible, but because there were some excellent shoegaze albums in 1995. Bowery Electric’s self-titled, Slowdive’s Pygmalion, and Flying Saucer Attack’s Further are all stone-cold classics. At…

Oh yeah, the lady from Teen Witch.

BUTTS!!!!!!!

Were you on The Great British Bakeoff? That could have something to do with it if you were. Think back.

/beverlycrusher voice

I caught one of those Sanford and Son episodes where Grady was the lead on TV one day and it was actually surprisingly funny. I can understand the temptation to try to replicate that success weekly, but yeah that was a bad idea.

There are assholes in every genre of music. The no-wave asshole is just a very particular breed of asshole. James Chance used to jump off stage and start punching people in the audience, for example. Shame he was a skinny kid, though. Robert Christgau was at his show once and ended up kicking his ass.

Yeah, because what the Republican Party needs now is a video of their leadership screaming “Visions of swastikas in my head, and plans for everyone!”

I wasn’t expecting some kind of vaginal inquisition.

Too vague a title. If it’s stuff I already know, tell me up front! I don’t want a whole book of “Vaginas are located in the crotchal region” and “Vaginas have two holes” bullshit.

Did you try degaussing it?

At this point, I read shit like this and say to myself, “Well, violations of campaign finance law are American as mom’s apple pie, baseball, and gun violence” and move on with my day.

This is only marginally more unhinged than his last ad, where he claimed he had proof Obama burned a lot of evidence of secret deals with Iran or something? Anyhow, the fact that I saw the ad in the DC market (which is a pretty expensive place to buy time, especially it just gets you the panhandle) says a lot about…

I liked him as the witch running for Senate in Delaware, forget which movie that was.

Yeah, and they could put a statue or something there. To honor Drake.

Delthafunkee homosapiens.

Yeah, what kind of asshole writes lyrics like THAT

I think a lot of the genius of New Order comes from the juxtaposition of Bernard’s vaguely off-key, frequently silly vocals against the always-on-time programmed synth lines and beats. It’s electronic music that never sounds like it’s made by a machine.