Giuseppe Zangara

I'd love to get an English bulldog, but they're really, really expensive. The breeders around here charge about twice as much for puppies than the breeders for almost any other breed.

Chris Cornell's living off those fat royalty checks for doing the James Bond theme. He ain't sweating it.

Zach de la Rocha admits defeat.

The new LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver, is really good. It's better than the debut, as James Murphy seems less concerned with imitating his influences and synthesizing them into something of his own. I like, I like.

Matt Young of the Curry

Oh Matt Young, no hard feelings, honey.

Fair enough, but I can dig and do enjoy a lot of sad bastard music. This one is, as you said, a chore.

To each his own. I just think the strings and the huge, open sounding production don't disguise what's, for me, a pencil-thin song. Still, in spite of its length, I almost always listen to the whole thing, so yeah.

"Kashmir" is far from bad, but it's just that riff and nothing else.

TWANG TWANG Stone Roses and Oasis aren't even that much alike. Bobby Peru makes no sense.

Wrong thread, bro. So, Cure fans, what about Seventeen Seconds? Such a mechanical, lugubrious affair. And deceiving! It's only 35 minutes, but it felt at least twice that.

The bumping of this thread inspired me to do some updates, but I gave up. A ridiculous amount of pornbots on myspace now.

I prefer III to the first two, but I don't think it's that great. Bonus points for it being the album where Plant learns to sing.

So Seventeen Seconds is the most boring album ever. "A Forest," aside.

Okay.

Was I just burned up there? Curry, if you're going to remain dick-hurt over a couple of comments made ages ago—that I barely remember making!—maybe you should join your friend Rudo and do whatever it is he does to occupy his TSM-free internet time.

I don't even like Oasis and those posts were awful.

A quick bit of research shows Superjerk is right, only if all the Beatles died in 1974. That said, he's wrong. Also, someone put the boot to RayCo. And Superjerk, too. Why not.

Curry is a bitter, bitter man.

If you cut off all exposure to "Stairway to Heaven" for a few years, coming back to it allows you to realize IV really is the best Zep.

Love's Forever Changes rarely leaves my car's deck during the summer months. I listen to Big Star a lot in the winter, mainly for the winter season being the first time I heard/fell in love with them rather than any associations the tone of the music itself makes.

I picked up Cloud Nine on cassette, back in the heyday of "Got My Mind Set on You." Brainwashed came out when I first joined college radio, so I heard that one a fair number of times.

I wasn't aware there was the perception that Paul was the jerk in the Beatles split—Yoko being more famously credited, however erroneously, for breaking up the Beatles, which, in turn, would make John seem more of a bad guy—but I'll wager you're more in tune with Beatles-related minutia than I.

I keep wanting to click on the book titles in vivalaultra's posts.

Some good moments here, but Banders had better threads.