In my opinion, this is one of the best albums I’ve heard this year. Up there with Discovery, if not better. I wasn’t looking for a party album. I was looking for an awesome audio treat. I feel Daft Punk delivered. I’ll be getting the vinyl.

so far only up on NPR, also I misremembered. House of Circles

You missed Mr Gnome’s House of Leaves video… it kills every other video on this list. You should at least acknowledge its existance

Dirt was a big album for me. It was the first album I bought by myself (using allowance money), and the first “heavy” album I ever heard. In retrospect, it was an album that led me from grunge to metal, and it still has a mythic quality to it. The subject matter was so dark (has anything really surpassed it as a tale of drug abuse?), I understand how a lot of people couldn’t go for it. The singles were great (Would?, Them Bones, Rooster), but I stayed for the depressing and evil horror that was Dirt, Angry Chair, and Junkhead. Those songs are mean, ugly, and rotten, and for a small skinny adolescent boy growing up in the sticks, it was the soundtrack for inner turmoil.
Over time, I grew passed it, grew passed metal (though have been coming back to it lately), but when it comes down to it, Dirt is my favorite, a monolith of a time in my life.

Dave: Oh by the way, you don’t mind if we’re taking pictures right now, right?
Unknown man: Not at all. I used to be a fashion model for Appalachian Monthly.