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Is there a way to tell Pitchfork they suck santorum through a straw? Because I really want to. And not just via 'contact us'. No Legendary Roots Crew albums on that list is a goddamned travesty of the highest order.

I'd just like to note that around the time Daft Punk's Discovery was released, I was really into it, and declared to anyone who'd listen that it would go down as the album of the decade. I mean, so what. But still. Pretty cool to see it that high. EDIT: And not cool at all to see not one Roots album there. WTFF.

Hmm - so if I wanted to broaden my Cohen collection beyond the Best Of, this would be the first place to go?

Is this in response to my mentioning Krakow? If so, your diatribe is not only wildly assumptive but woefully misguided. For the record.

That's a great story.

BeatleJuice is the go-to Beatles cover band around these parts. I got to see them when Brad Delp was in the band. I'd like to see the someday.

1991 was a good year! Also had: Achtung Baby (U2), Sebadoh III, Soul Cages (Sting), De La Soul Is Dead, Innuendo (Queen), Whatever's Cool With Me (Dinosaur Jr), Leisure (Blur)...

At about 2:14 of Mother Nature's Son, Paul chuckles before he starts humming the outro. I checked, and it's also audible on the original CD release, but I didn't notice it before.

Has anyone in this family ever even seen a chicken?

Spin magazine did a 'best bands ever' list back in '02, and their blurb on The Beatles at #1 was pretty good: "Imagine if, over the course of about five years, N Sync (circa "Bye Bye Bye") evolved into Radiohead (circa The Bends), into the Chemical Brothers (circa Exit Planet Dust), and into Nirvana (circa In Utero). That was the Beatles from, say, 1964 to 1969." Of course the examples they use are arguable, but I thought it was a pretty cool way to express just what The Beatles managed to accomplish.

Not directly, no. But the original post mentions Polanski's father dying in a Nazi camp and Polanski escaping Krakow as a kid.

When I was 14, they were one of the first bands to show me that music could be weird and creepy, yet still groove and rock hard. I don't enjoy (and in some cases I'm completely unfamiliar with) their output post-PIOUGHD ('90). But they have a great run within their discography: Psychic Powerless...Another Man's Sac/Rembrandt Pussyhorse/Locust Abortion Technician/Hairway To Steven. Great, original freaky-deaky music from Austin that stands the test of time. I have them on the mind because I saw them last night in Boston. Wasn't planning to go - got the tix last second, for free. All-original li

And The Dark Knight.

That reminds me of then-current day Paul playing that opening to Strawberry Fields on the mellotron in the Anthology. Chills.

That is a terrible fuckin' list. Not a judgment on the music for the most part. I'm just saying that lists have become an essential (if ridiculous, but fun) component of popular culture, and the creation of lists has been elevated to a certain specialty, a craft even. Pitchfork's songs of the '00s is a great example of a list done right. And this is one shitty fuckin' list. It's got no flow. Lazy bastards.

Following that logic, if Bennett joining the group changed the dynamic so that Stirratt didn't offer more tunes, wouldn't we have seen more Bennett-penned tunes on those three Wilco albums? I think Tweedy had enough tunes of his own that a Tupelo-esque tradeoff on albums was never a thought. But then again, it is sort of interesting to think about - perhaps in some alternate reality there's no Autumn Defense, and YHF is a double album.

Is This It #5? Fuck yeah, fuck it.

I haven't really noticed a difference in Revolution #9. Then again, I've been known to listen to it twice in a row before, so maybe I'm not looking all that hard.

They tried their damnedest this past week to avoid it, but the Red Sox have stumbled into the postseason. And Dice-K is their ace going in. Bizarro.

Jar City - sort of like an episode of Law & Order: Iceland, with a murder case leading cops around a small town outside of Reykjavik, dredging up and connecting the links of a seedy, decades-long tragedy. Creepy, particularly the goat's head fast food entree.

Is that ction's real name? If so, yes.

I saw a TV ad for this. It looks so incredible.

Sean Hannity's head makes me feel like throwing up. Keith Olbermann's head makes me feel like throwing up. Checkmate.

Mere days after Susan Atkins' death.

I'm guessing the band has realized that no one really wants to hear that 'Crazy Tonight' song or any other middling fare. Because last on SNL they kicked ass with two top-notch tracks.