Giuseppe Zangara

David Bowie's Hunky Dory In spite of having this for years, in spite of always liking it, it wasn't until this past week that I've been completely and totally floored by it. Save for one forgettable but not bad, really, song, this album is absolutely pitch perfect. What took me so long?

I grew to like Yoshimi less and less over time, but I never had a boner for it; I might've been more forgiving early on because I had such high hopes post-The Soft Bulletin. And they had yet to release all those mediocre EPs and become cartoon characters. I don't doubt some of my YBTPR-distaste is retroactive, but I still don't care for it outside of a few songs. It simply took time for me to recognize it as the beginning of where I no longer cared for the band like I once did. They still have a lot of good stuff, though.

Inappropriate use of "emo," narrow-minded view of hip hop and I recall you used to ride Common's jock, big time.

Funeral isn't worth it. As for Loveless, I like it, but I doubt the day will come that I'll love it. I still think Ride's Nowhere nailed it better (not that I think it's great, either); My Bloody Valentine may've carried the genre to its logical extreme, but Nowhere has better songs. Loveless' "Only Shallow," "When You Sleep" and "Soon" are as good as advertised, at least.

The thing is, though, I don't personally bring him up in conversations, and the only time he is really mentioned these days is in reference to some comment he's made about the Pit on this board. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nothing here negates the accusation at hand.

My top three for this year: 1. Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers 2. David Pajo- Pajo 3. Low- The Great Destroyer I've heard a bunch of other stuff from this year, but I can't be bothered listing them at the moment. And speaking of Low, I watched their video for the song "Monkey." It was alright, but that UFO at the end was a little wtf.

Kweli had his album with Hi-Tek, too, which I still put on occasionally. But yeah, the whole modern day Native Tongues movement fell off pretty quickly.

I attended a taping of GUTS when I was in middle school. During a break in taping, Moira Quirk could be seen listening a walkman and shaking her ass. My 13-year-old heart skipped a beat.

Over Low, huh? Not bad. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Let's not kid ourselves. Even if you like the second half of Low—and I do!—it sounds dated today. I think Low gets props over Hunky Dory because the former sounds nothing like anything Bowie did previously, and very little like anyone else had done, too. Does that necessarily make it better? No. Almost everything Bowie did in the 70s, post-HD, took its cues from that album. And though a lot of it was good-to-wonderful, none of it came quite as close to perfection as Hunky Dory. As for the question of what would round up my top ten, I don't know. The seven I listed were albums that I am confident will forever remain favorites of mine for years to come. Were I to pick another three albums, they'd very likely change within a month.

The ignore feature needs to be improved, not removed. I still call for an automated pm, alerting the user that someone has placed them on ignore.

I've been about 190 for a couple of years. A good deal of it is muscle, but I could probably stand to drink less beer.

In other news, I now have seven albums that shall forever remain in my all-time top ten list. Here, in no preferential order, they are: 1. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs 2. Outkast - Aquemini 3. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico 4. The Wedding Present - Seamonsters 5. David Bowie - Hunky Dory 6. XTC - English Settlement 7. Wire - Pink Flag I feel good about these albums.

I'm at my mother's house, doing laundry. She keeps asking why I won't take off my sunglasses. Why won't she shut the fuck up. Also, what's with all these threads on the first page. Since when did people post here?

0% I'm not surprised. Or maybe I am.

I was going to suggest an improved search function, but I see this thread is not really about how to make this board a better place!

The Rolling Stones - Some Girls

Rap's too easy, but I suppose unavoidable.

Banders was a brilliant creation; Jason was dross.

Man, I really don't like I Am a Bird Now. My choice for second best album is David Pajo's Pajo, but I tend to love anything he does without question.

Quit doing it two months ago. Thanks for asking, though!

How are things.

Refused - New Noise The Band - The Weight

"Under My Thumb" isn't as misogynist as some people make it out to be, really. The same album in which it appears has "Stupid Girl," after all.

Please feel free to offer your own suggestions. Depending when I am next on the internet, I will offer a description of this album, at least how it affects me. So good.

I'm at my mother's house right now. I can't have her know of my wrestling affiliations.