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The product placements have been around forever. Even before the iPod came out and the company increased its cultural "coolness" rating, the Apple logo was ubiquitous in movies and TV shows. I remember commenting at the time that movies were like a window into a weird alternate reality where people actually used Macs.

Does it sound like the stream or have we all been listening to demos?

The things people will do for free coffee...

These guys are playing here next Wed. I'd never heard of them until a couple days ago I was scanning the listings of upcoming shows. Dr Dog sounded like blues cover band or something, so I didn't pay much attention. I take it they are pretty good, then?

The thought of that Dylan musical still makes me nauseous to think about. But this one has robots! SWEEET!!

Finally, a Broadway show I can drag my wife to instead of vice-versa! (I'm still bitter she wouldn't go see Evil Dead: The Musical with me) How can you possibly go wrong with this?

How can you overlook some of his later classics? Full disclosure: I remember watching this movie (very drunk) in college and thinking it was not bad. I can understand what you mean, though. I like Pacino much better in The Godfather movies than anything else I've seen him in.

Don't underestimate the intimidation factor of this. You ever been hit by a flying letter before? That thing could poke your eye out!

One of my favorites, but I'm not sure about the concept here. Care to enlighten me?

Not really earth-shattering to me, but unfortunate. I even thought Quality Control wasn't really as enjoyable as it seemed like it should have been, so I never bothered with the ones after that. One of those sum of the parts not adding up things for me, I guess. To carry the BEP comparison, I guess it was best to end it before they added their Fergie and totally went down the crapper.

I prefer the classic look Edit: This is the coolest thing ever

I used to love this album.

Already downloaded it yesterday! (want a copy?) Hey, nice to see this thread get some action. (thanks for taking pity on me) MyBoyBlue, I totally understand your "absolutely need to see them...and yet don't" comment. I felt the same way. Going into it, I really liked a lot of their stuff, but I started wavering at the last minute going "Gee, I dunno if I really feel like going after all." (which is what Peel is referring to, b/c she threatened to kick my ass if I didn't--or something) By the end of the night, I was like Belushi in the Blues Brothers when he sees the light. Not sayin

Casting a pretty broad net there, but by and large I agree with you. "Indie" can mean so many things anymore, and yet so much of it sounds pretty much the same to my ears. I guess I tend to gravitate to the bands more on the fringes. Meh, I liked it better when "indie" sounded like Pavement and Pavement sounded like everything. aging geezer rant>

Bummer, those two bands do somehow "fit" together and seem to enjoy touring together. I thought it was kinda cool that some of the Thermals came out and jammed with the HS during their closing song. Good times had by all.

I'll take that one step farther and suggest actually going outside and laying down in some lush grass with a big bottle of water.

My inner 14 year old offered me $5 if I'd put these up here:

Excellent concept about about....ummm....legalizing it. And while suggestions are surely made as to what "it" is, I like to think that the album can be made much deeper and profound by visualizing "it" as...umm...whatever it is you'd like to see legalized.

Bumping my own thread because it looked lonely with 0 replies. It was a good show. Really. When the guitarist climbed up on top of the speaker stacks for his solo on "Killer Parties" and the Thermals came out and jammed with them. Anybody? No? Okay.

This record has been on my "I need to get that someday" list since I was about 15.

I don't think I'm that bold. Some of the noisier passages don't seem particularly friendly to sensitive ears.

I'm still amazed every time I hear somebody talk about that record. I truly used to believe I was the only person in the world who owned that record. I haven't listened in years, but "Heart of Darkness" was always one of my favorite tunes. Such a bizarre album--sometimes pleasant, sometimes noisy, sometimes just strange...but almost always beautiful in a fragile and awkward kind of way.

AM has ganged up with Golden Smog and the ghost of Woody Guthrie and is waiting behind the dumpsters to rumble with the others after school.

Can't speak for the young people and how they connect with music, but to me downloading has become an outlet--a "radio", so to speak--a "try before you buy" option that wasn't available for "underground" music back in the days when I used to spend an amazing amount of dough buying records based on little more than a funny band name or cool art. As just about everybody here has said, a lot of what you end up with that way is pure shite. But it was fun. The truth is that as an adult I don't have the kind of disposable income I had as a kid (as paradoxical as that sounds). If I went out and

That's always been one of, if not my favorite REM album. (tho that might be because it came out at a time when I was just starting to become aware of bands "under the radar", and I remember feeling like I was in on a secret because I knew about this band before these songs started showing up on the radio) I can see how the long-timers might not have liked the shift in direction, but in retrospect, you're right that it was much closer to its predecessors than what was to come later.