Giuseppe Zangara

Neither were any good and did nothing to address the criticism presented.

Face the Truth has really grown on me, lately. I think it's best thing he's done since Wowee Zowee.

You lazy fuck. Go teach junior college at 35. Actually, the easiest class I ever took was Alternative Healing. My GPA needed a boost, so, talking to my advisor, she said "Well, I don't want to call any class an 'easy A,' but..."

Sociology was just memorizing a bunch of buzz words and then plugging them into the right places in your essays. For one class, I did a report on the differing types of alcohol available in the grocery stores of upper-to-middle-to-lower class neighborhoods. I came to the conclusion that poor people buy a lot of malt liquor. Got an A.

Minored in sociology. The easiest bunch of classes I ever took.

Ha, you just named two of the three songs on there I like.

Most of it comes off so phony and fake. Granted, Brian Wilson really was depressed/crazy, but, even knowing that, I've never been able to buy into the lyrical content of Pet Sounds; yes, w/r/t the sound of the album—in both its production and melodies—he knew his way around the studio and a thing or two about songcraft, but he's a very unconvincing actor. This is just a personal distaste; I don't blame anyone for loving the album and can at least see why lots of people do. Just not me.

Also, I know hating on this album is an uphill, largely futile affair, so I generally keep quiet about it whenever it comes up in conversation, other than to say "I don't like it" when asked.

The Hallmark sentimentality of the whole thing, I suppose. I never really cared for the album outside of a few songs, but recent, repeated exposure to it did nothing other than fray my nerves. And yes, I know the vocal harmonies employed on this album were fairly revolutionary at the time, but they do little to disguise what is little more than fluff.

I've recently come to hate Pet Sounds.

On the upside, it was still better than Joanna Newsom, which I paused in order to watch it.

No one's saying there's anything wrong with humor in music, but the "golly gosh isn't Weird Al the best and greatest?!?!?!"-type comments in this thread are ridiculous. And I just watched that video for "Don't Download This Song." The song is like something a particularly clever middle schooler would've come up with.

Edwin did a pretty thorough evisceration up there, so I've little to add other than reiterate that I cannot understand why anyone, post-puberty, still gets something out of him. And I loved Weird Al when I was a kid.

As much as I enjoy Stop Making Sense, the only real improvement over any of the material's studio counterparts is the use of live drums on "Girlfriend is Better." So much funkier than the bloodless Speaking in Tongues take.

What's it to you?

Oh, oops, that came out 9-14-2001. My bad.

The first is half is seriously hampered by those squiggly, cheesy synth lines all throught the songs; just because MES is fucking the girl playing them doesn't mean she should be in the band. So, I like when the synthesizer disappears for most of the second half. And "Blindness" and "I Can Hear the Grass Grow" are pretty great.

The Fall - Fall Heads Roll Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star Smog - Dongs of Sevotion

Did the board do a System Restore back to 2003?

LMDOB is everything that's great about TMR, in about half the time. It hasn't been in print on cd since the late 80s, for whatever reason. Finding it on vinyl (which is what I have) isn't hard if you know where to look.

Since I mentioned 1998 up there, I was inspired to try and think what I considered my all-time favorite album then, had I been asked. I likely would've said Clouds Taste Metallic—which was three years old at the time—however, it's nowhere near a threat to the number one spot now. Not that I think the album hasn't aged well—I still enjoy it—but I'd been exposed to far less music then than now. Youth and/or inexperience definitely plays a part.

So does Weezer! And really, how many songs out there are called "Crazy?" allmusic lists 994 occurences; a lot of those are repeats, sure, but we'll be generous and say six hundred of those are duplicates. That would still leave you with 394 different songs called "Crazy."

Sometimes that high synth on "Red" grates on my nerves, but the guitar tone there is just so rough and gorgeous that it doesn't matter.