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Can Lars shut up about Napster now?
+8 | 8/28/12 12:19 PM
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Hey, wait. That resembles my music collection! Am I a hipster now? No Bon Iver, though. I must be safe!
-1 | 8/24/12 10:59 AM
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I am in complete agreement on this point. All you fugazi fans should sit down and give it another chance. It is my favorite, but choosing a favorite seems impossible.
+2 | 8/23/12 3:59 PM
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The first album I was really truly obsessed over. My tastes have changed since then, but goddamn if I couldn't sing along with just about every song on that record (and have a goofy grin on my face while doing it). There's stuff on that record I probably haven't heard in 15 years--"Gods of War", for instance, which immediately popped into my head when I read the mention of it. It'll always have a special place for me, even if I never listen to it again.
+4 | 8/3/12 1:23 PM
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Though I think if you weren't expecting the horns, you probably didn't listen to their last couple of records. Seemed a pretty natural progression to me. Also, it's catchy as hell, and I can't wait for the rest of the record.
0 | 8/1/12 10:18 AM
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I actually once had a weeks-long argument with some friends that "1979" was, if not a SY rip-off, at least strongly influenced. Not sure why, in retrospect. I mean, I still sort of see it, but nearly as strongly as I did back then, anyway.
+1 | 7/20/12 5:08 PM
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Picked up Dirty through the Nirvana connection, too. I was almost the same age as the author when it came out. I remember seeing the video for "100%", and being floored by this noise squall at the beginning. I slowly worked my way backwards. My first exposure to "Teenage Riot" was through Eddie Vedder's radio thing that he did. I still have a huge soft spot for this album. "Wish Fulfillment" is just incredible.
+1 | 7/20/12 5:06 PM
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True story: a Teddy Ruxpin doll destroyed my cassette copy of Appetite. My brother and I both thought it would be funny to see Teddy belting out GNR. And it was. Until the tape mangled.
+5 | 7/19/12 3:22 PM
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And, wow, that's the first time I've thought of the name "Joan Osborne" in at least 10 years. Probably longer.
0 | 7/17/12 5:59 PM
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I was unaware that was such a thing (national chain record stores) that still existed.
0 | 7/17/12 5:47 PM
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This list does not have enough 311 on it.
+6 | 7/17/12 5:43 PM
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Losing 40% of your band generally isn't good for your future. Ah well, we'll always have the self-titled and "Emily Jean Stock".
+3 | 7/6/12 1:50 PM
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No "Tremor Christ", no "greatest Pearl Jam" setlist, sorry. Too much meh mellow stuff.
+6 | 7/6/12 1:47 PM
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While I'm proud personally that my entire collection, save for one or two songs, has been legally collected, I understand music "sharers"/"pirates" point. Trying to decide whether or not to plunk down that ten (or seven, or five) bucks on an album that you've heard only a track or two from is a difficult decision. There's plenty of music out there that I'd add to my collection if it was "free", but I don't think it's the right thing to do. I read the diatribe, and he's got some interesting points, but I thought it was a bit creepy to insinuate that those who don't pay for music were somehow responsible for those suicides.
+2 | 6/19/12 3:54 PM
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Cautiously optimistic for this. I do think Prophet is my favorite (or second favorite) album so far this year, though.
0 | 6/14/12 1:50 PM
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The House That Heaven Built or mayhaps even The Nights of Wine and Roses, which seems more partyish to me.
+2 | 6/14/12 1:46 PM
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I believe Annie Clark mentioned it in an interview around the time Strange Mercy came out. Not that it would be a full length or anything like that, though. John Congleton, too. Awesome.
+1 | 6/14/12 1:42 PM
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Wait, since when is that unacceptable behavior?
-1 | 6/1/12 6:17 PM
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You have to go look at the whole thing if only to see the ridiculous picture of Kirk Hammett. It's at the bottom of the list. Enjoy.
+5 | 6/1/12 6:08 PM
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The Shins record was meh. At best.
+4 | 5/23/12 5:21 PM
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Second the Ramona Falls and White Rabbits. The new Tu Fawning record is probably my favorite thus far this year, with Ramona Falls, Cloud Nothings, and Disappears close behind.
0 | 5/23/12 2:28 PM
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My initial reaction: whoa. I stand by that. Let's see if that holds up.
+3 | 5/22/12 12:06 PM
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I would play the hell out of that.
+5 | 5/21/12 6:16 PM
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All that money and he still can't buy a decent pair of sunglasses...
+10 | 5/18/12 12:26 PM
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Thom Yorke's conversion to a philosophy professor at a small liberal arts school: 98% complete.
+2 | 4/20/12 5:09 PM
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Man, he seemed totally ageless.
+3 | 4/18/12 4:37 PM
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That hat is awesome.
0 | 4/17/12 4:38 PM
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It would be hard to come up with a more stereotypical Corgan song title than "My Love Is Winter".
+2 | 3/27/12 5:53 PM
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Oh, hey those look cool. Let me get a pair...$595? Yeah, no. I'll pass.
+3 | 2/24/12 2:56 PM
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I was into Pantera for a while, and I still respect the hell out of this record. I don't have as much of an ear for metal as I did as a teenager.
+2 | 2/24/12 2:55 PM
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Much like your handle, the existence of such a thing exists only in fables.
+1 | 2/13/12 12:26 PM
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Dude, let's combine these two articles, and have Ben Folds Five record with Steve Albini. I am a genius.
+1 | 1/27/12 2:20 PM
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Man, that is the most generic "old rocker dudes" album cover ever.
+5 | 1/25/12 2:29 PM
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"They Might Be Giants" is awesome because it wasn't on TMBG's self titled album.
+1 | 1/19/12 1:41 PM
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Damnit, I was going to make a joke about March the Eleventh, but it's a damned leap year this year, so that's a Sunday. Leap year, you have crossed me for the last time! It's war!
+2 | 1/13/12 1:38 PM
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Eventually, I'll get bored with posting these fake Radiohead demos. Wait until you see the ukulele-laden one I got cooked up for next week.
+2 | 1/9/12 11:48 AM
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Eventually, at some point in the future, this joke will get old. But for now, we enjoy the laughs.
+1 | 1/9/12 11:45 AM
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Man, where can I get sweet, sweet sunglasses like that?
0 | 1/6/12 12:45 PM
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Is LDR less or more fictional than Harry Potter?
+1 | 12/20/11 12:06 PM
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No.
+6 | 12/20/11 11:58 AM
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