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This has some real vitality to it.
+5 | 3/4/13 4:29 PM
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Hm, I dunno. I think services like Spotify are stabilizing the way that people at least consume music. I'm not sure the user end is about to be disrupted.
+3 | 3/1/13 11:34 AM
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Higgs Boson Blues is pretty badass, yes.
0 | 2/22/13 9:33 AM
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I actually don't see how this is like 1901 or Lisztomania. It has keyboards? It's way louder and (intentional, I'd say) messier than those two tracks, and the melody/"China Girl" keys are pretty different too.
0 | 2/19/13 12:15 PM
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"This may be strawmanning, but their popularity seems to bespeak a deeply problematic white-people longing for a Depression-era simplicity that probably never existed." I like this essay, and I've got mixed feelings about the band, but I absolutely hate this painting of folk as some white-man nostalgia thing. I don't enjoy folk because I want to go back before civil rights. Is it wrong to enjoy certain sounds and instruments, or to appreciate nods to history and our culture? I saw this comment back when Jack White's "Blunderbuss" came out, and I still hate it.
+13 | 2/8/13 1:10 PM
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Well, My Bloody Valentine also happens to create very immediate sounds, I find. I quickly feel emotion while listening to them. It's not like I've got to parse through the lyrics to get what they're after.
+7 | 2/5/13 2:16 PM
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I dunno, I think this mix is all about the speakers. Crank that baby up.
+1 | 2/4/13 10:42 AM
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I doubt anyone was able to download it.
+1 | 2/2/13 8:08 PM
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Jens Lekman did it. I don't think he got much criticism for it.
+6 | 1/23/13 2:45 PM
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I'm mostly offended by petting dogs while eating chicken wings. Dogs are nice, but don't contaminate my wings, damn it.
+1 | 1/23/13 2:43 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEne4AoX_RU
+1 | 1/23/13 11:23 AM
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I actually really liked the previous song "Rock And Roll Affair." Don't know about this..
+1 | 1/23/13 10:39 AM
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Waits and Richards also worked together on Rain Dogs, by the by
+1 | 1/8/13 10:37 AM
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I appreciate that Jack White isn't for everyone, but I'll never fathom why.
+4 | 1/7/13 12:10 PM
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Straight out of the list-trolling playbook, although it's still a pretty good list.
0 | 10/25/12 11:42 AM
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I think this list is unfair to The King Of Limbs and In Rainbows. The perceived drawbacks seem to be drawn from what a "Radiohead"album is expected to sound like. It's also hard to judge them because of their sense of newness. OK Computer, Kid A, and The Bends are absolute classics. It's near impossible to argue otherwise. It's similar with Hail To The Thief. Had this list came out 5+ years ago, I doubt anyone would be rating it higher than The Bends.
+7 | 10/25/12 11:38 AM
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Music as a way of paying the bills. It's really easy to be indignant about these select comments if you don't at all try and empathize with them. The "my life is harder" stuff ignores the point. It doesn't justify that many artists aren't given their fair share.
+13 | 10/1/12 11:18 AM
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Spare me entitled comments from people with no skin in the game.
+4 | 10/1/12 10:46 AM
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Maybe I'm a wuss, but I'm a big fan of Jar of Flies too. I honestly think Dirt is too intense for me these days.
+5 | 9/27/12 1:16 PM
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Metals is really underrated. It certainly stands up to those other records, although Sound Kapital is probably my favorite of them.
+3 | 9/25/12 10:02 AM
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Also since when is The Black Keys a "hipster" band? These guys are about as commercial as they come now (which isn't a bad thing).
+14 | 8/24/12 9:51 AM
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Pomplamoose? L.A. Weekly has crossed the line.
+4 | 8/24/12 9:50 AM
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If Wide Eyed is one of the worst song you've ever heard, you're doing pretty good.
+20 | 8/22/12 3:41 PM
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Just because Hate It Here isn't melodramatic doesn't mean it isn't incredible.
0 | 8/16/12 11:00 AM
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Ballsy list guys (if a list can even be that), I approve.
+1 | 8/16/12 10:56 AM
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Polica are pretty fucking great. Agreed.
+1 | 8/1/12 4:16 PM
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So old people are going out in force and buying old albums? It's possible I guess.
0 | 7/20/12 10:22 AM
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Polica has been totally slept on. Great record.
+1 | 5/28/12 10:36 PM
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Whaddup Moonface & Jack White mentions All though not buzzy-y, I love the Father John Misty
+18 | 5/23/12 1:23 PM
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Raindogs, all I'm saying.
+3 | 4/18/12 1:12 PM
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Is this tongue in cheek? LCD Soundsystem already had 45:33 for Nike. You've got to be kidding.
+30 | 2/22/12 4:15 PM
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This incarnation of Bon Iver can be fantastic live, but I think sometimes all of the moving parts can make some songs messy. I thought Beth/Rest was like that.. Loved them when they were touring the Blood Bank EP, they were tight as hell.
+1 | 2/5/12 2:26 PM
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The comments about different textures and experiments makes me hope this will be some type of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot rendition of Bruce.
0 | 1/20/12 10:11 AM
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No Kaputt??
0 | 12/19/11 7:14 PM
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I'd flip Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver, but yeah
+5 | 11/29/11 12:19 PM
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Josh Homme, the guitar machine. I think some people get wrapped up in technical guitar playing, but he lays out some great riffs. Heavy or melodic, you can't really go wrong with Josh.
0 | 11/27/11 7:50 PM
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Marnie, pretty danged good. I haven't loved her albums, but she was captivating live. It helps that she's easy on the eyes too..but it's hard not to walk away thinking "whoa"
0 | 11/27/11 7:46 PM
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Neil is a guitar monster. Cortez and Hey Hey, My My are in their too.
0 | 11/27/11 7:43 PM
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I'd call it my favorite video, yeah.
+1 | 11/22/11 9:21 PM
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I'm a red head, that's too kind of a comparison.
+1 | 11/6/11 9:56 AM
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