Wait — who wrote those operas, and are any of them on DVD?

No, he totally got where I was coming from; he likes In Rainbows a lot. But his heart belongs to OK Computer because he was the perfect age to get totally swept up by it. (And I, in turn, totally get that: it's how I feel about The Queen Is Dead.)

Did Jezebel not start out as a fairly credible feminist blog, before sliding into…whatever this is? Or am I imagining that?

I absolutely love In Rainbows, and just the other day I half-jokingly said to a Radiohead-obsessed coworker, "I think it might just be my favorite album of theirs. Is that weird?"

"Oh, Inverted World" was my favorite album of the '00s, hands-down, and I was genuinely curious to see what the criteria were for its inclusion on an all-time worst list (as opposed to just "eh, not my thing"). So like a chump I clicked. Joke's on me.

Yeah, you need some kind of parameter. A "Worst #1 (or top 10 or top 50 or what have you) Albums of All Time" list could be interesting.

Fair enough, but the 75-piece "orchestra" consisting entirely of kazoos, bouzoukis and glockenspiels was just one big sausage fest.

This is the only site where I actively want to discuss politics because I respect the people here and look forward to their reactions and perspectives.

And after all that, we still don't know whether Cookie Puss is there. Dammit.

He was a radical, fist-bumping ghetto thug and a limp-wristed elitist pansy who put dijon mustard on his hamburger. He contained multitudes!

Thank you.

Yeah. That band had so many rotten breaks over the years it's amazing they garnered what little success they did. Andy is like the Charlie Brown of new wave, or something to that effect.

Um, I'm gonna have to favor one of the great unsung songwriting geniuses of the late 20th century over the band I've never heard of. But that's just me.

Sad but true…

Way to touch on a sore subject there, dude. I've been a huge fan of XTC for (checks watch) a good 35 years now, and I never got to see them live, because Andy Partridge swore off touring just as I was getting into them. And now Andy and Colin are thoroughly estranged so there isn't even a possibility of just one more…

I agree, it struck me as an odd double-bill too, but I guess there's some overlap. TFF already attempted the full-on career revival, releasing new material and everything, and the public didn't bite, so I can't really begrudge them getting on the nostalgia gravy train. They were a damn good pop band that flamed out…

A nice benefit of living in New York: all you have to do is say "The trains are all fucked up" and no one will think to question you.

You mean the part where there's just a sampled voice holding a single note on "oooo" for about 20 seconds? That'll get those hounds singing along.

The dogs will get over it. Let it all out!

He's got zaz!