Really, one of the most unpleasant drum sounds (with a few exceptions, certainly) ever laid to tape. And the fact that it's now used for the nostalgia shorthand of cynical junk like Bleachers just reinforces the unpleasantness.

"Re-Mit" is also pretty terrific, too. But I stopped keeping current once they began releasing more live albums per year than studio albums (or at least it felt that way).

That was insufferable. Then again, more fool me for clicking on a bit titled "Hamilton Leithauser rates everyday things using the Pitchfork scale" and expecting anything else.

There are many, but I'll plump for "Pop musik" by M.

Just ask Whistler's mother.

Oh! And "Yesterday." Forgot about that one, probably because I used to dismiss it as shlock when I was younger. Then hearing the life version on "Anthology 2" made it connect, full force.

Ha!

Personally, there's no contest. I adore the Beatles, but there's not a single song in their canon that has brought me to tears. "Pet Sounds" makes me openly weep on four different songs - and gives me chills throughout - every time I listen to it.

Nonsense. Say what you will about their limited sonic palette, but they put on a great show. And the guitar height is part of it.

Oh, ARE they…

Hurrah! Toothless critique of modern consumer culture that uses pan flutes AND sounds like a tune from a proposed sequel to "Hair" circa 1984!

Oh, is that a Lovecraft reference? Eurgh. Okay.

Right on!

I champion his forays into dance music, myself. Shows that he's not so hung up on genre as a lot of his contemporaries, and isn't afraid to try something different.

Oh - and does anyone know if there's a specific reason they chose "Colour" over "Color?" Just curious…

I dunno, that line isn't particularly…anything to my ears.

I've always considered "Everlong" to be a very good song given a leg up with a truly exceptional video, and "Monkey wrench" is a fine blast of post-grunge pop punk. The rest of the album is pretty nondescript, though. Apart from "My hero," which is utterly awful, just tailor made for the rousing climax scenes of…

Oh, I absolutely agree.

I've had a complicated relationship with this movie. The first time I watched it (in the theater, opening weekend) I was positively giddy, thought it was the best thing I'd seen in ages. I think this was also the first time that I left a theater still under the spell of the film (saw a matinee, walked out into bright,…

"Am I alone in interpreting Emily’s interaction with the wife (billed as Grace in closed-captioning) as surprisingly compassionate? She’s trying to spare Emily the pain of a sexual encounter after FGM, correct?"