Giuseppe Zangara

I have little in the way of time or the inclination to do this, but thanks for keeping the dream alive.

So far, I've heard the following: Mogwai - Mr. Beast Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit Cat Power- The Greatest The Pink Mountaintops - Axis of Evol Lilys - Everything Wrong is Imaginary The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth Boris - Pink Band of Horses - Everything All the Time Loose Fur - Born Again in the U.S.A. Destroyer - Rubies The Ladies - They Mean Us Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops The Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics Pearls and Brass - The Indian Tower Prince - 3121 Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors Man Man - Six Demon Bag I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear is on Our Side Ghostface Killah - Fishscale Mono - You Are There Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood Built to Spill - You in Reverse Jesu - Silver Liars - Drum's Not Dead Mission of Burma - The Obliterati Guitar - Tokyo I'll be keeping this updated.

Oh hey, this Stones song that just came on shuffle, "2000 Man."

Love's Forever Changes is all-time top 20 material for me, sure. However, I never play it more than during the summer. Awesome soundtrack for driving around in that kind of weather.

Pick any three consecutive songs from any album that make for a great stretch of music. The Stooges - Fun House: Dirt, 1970, Fun House Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising: New Day Rising, Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill, I Apologize

"Silver," as a song, is mediocre, but I long ago accepted it as a welcome cooling down before the blast of rock that is "Gouge Away."

I'm having a problem with this thing here.

That's depressing.

And COOS, that's a weak argument. It can always be shitty. Are you going to tell me Are You Passionate? and Praire Wind are anything other than some old fart resting on his laurels?

Lately, I've only been posting while drunk. Like now, for instance. I'm pretty sure I wasn't drunk when I posted this—too early in the day, even by my standards!—so I've no excuse for the poor syntax. Sorry.

It's still $5.15 in SC? That's awful.

Either "Far Away Eyes" or "Going Home."

"European Oils" was the song I was thinking of w/r/t the fuzz guitar solo. My bad!

If you like the band, fine. Quit being a fucking pussy about it.

The fuzz guitar solo on "3000 Flowers" is second only to the entirety of "Your Blood" as my favorite moment on the album.

I'm listening to it right now, too. <3

"Your Blood," from Destroyer's Rubies, is my new favorite song of 2006. I'm interested in what Edwin will think of the album; liking the New Pornographers isn't required in order to like Destroyer. Dan Bejar's NP stuff, aside a song or two, is generally that band's weaker moments; he tends to play it straight when playing with those guys, which is a shame, because he's so much better acting like the art school fop in Destroyer.

I've been meaning to get into BtS, really, as they're mostly just one of those bands I hear and like but never really feel inspired enough to actively seek out when I'm at the record store. What should I pick up? In the following order: Perfect from Now On Keep It Like a Secret Ultimate Alternative Wavers There's Nothing Wrong With Love For what it's worth, a lot of BtS fans rank TNWWL near or at the top of BtS albums. I'm not one of them, but that doesn't mean I don't like it.

"Goin' Against Your Mind" is classic BtS; "Conventional Wisdom" is fine, but about three minutes too long. There's a couple of other decent songs, but that's it. It's not that the rest of the album is bad, it's just boring; Doug sleepwalked his way through most of this. And really, considering five years passed between this and the release of the underrated-but-still-nothing-spectacular Ancient Melodies of the Future, maybe Built to Spill should hang it up. In other news, that Destroyer album is really growing on me.

Yes, you should. Everyone should. It's less than 200 pages, so not so adventurous readers shouldn't be put off.

Speaking of that guy, I wish he'd do something good again. He's getting Elvis Costello Syndrome—too busy following his every whim with little-to-no quality control.

Who underrates Stephin Merritt?