Skrillex/Clams Casino

Robert Christgau you sir out out of touch. This ISNT your brand of geritol or polident denture cream. Just because you dont get what Skrillex has done, Doesent mean that he didnt deserve what he got. Music transcends through time.. your just missing the WHOLE FRIGGN BOAT.. a MINUS? He doesent deserve it. You can sit there in your paid position and throw out the neanderthal droll, but MOST of the CURRENT listeners know WTF I am talking about. You are from the old antique, I fart Dust, and if you didnt strum a guitar you didnt make it. BULL S**T! The guy uses music as an instrument.. "POP TRICKS" I dissagree. You can be from Clives camp all you want. you Still OUT OF TOUCH!  You hated on KID ROCK too.. and I had NO PROBLEM nominating him for best produced album for "Cowboy" Here is my Credit card number.. #$ 45677308997363523834​ go buy youself some common sense and pull that dusty farting head of your out of your ****.

Potentially Controversial 1969 Statement: I don't like Dusty in Memphis nearly as much as I like Brand New Me.

Abbey Road used to be my favorite Beatles outing. It's very simple, for me. I tend to be of the opinion that Abbey Road is remarkable because it contains music whose quality is almost beyond conceiving, and therefore almost beyond appreciating, and that's an almost I'm thankful for. When you get to the core of what is happening on much of that album, you're listening to a watermark that hits a high only a few other forces in that century met or surpassed.

Don't be dissin' LMFOA.  I saw them open for the Black Eyed Peas in 2010 and wasn't too impressed.  But they were wickedly stoopid fun as the opening act for Ke$ha (I have a ten year old daughter) in 2011, so fun that when they came to Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina for Halloween I dragged as many of my middle-aged lawyer friends as I could to their (again wickedly stoopid) show.  After Girl Talk, they were the best live act I caught last year.

Glad to know the Dean loves Hippie Boy as I do too. Wish that 1988 best of included it. Why on earth did they cut it and My Uncle went there was room to include it?

TPM over to yer right reports that Dave Mustaine has endorsed Santorum.

Macy Gray!

I always felt that "Maxwell" and "Octopus" dragged Abbey Road down too.  Kinda like the way "Sex Machine" drags down Stand!   A potential A+ record with one or two duds on it....still a high Aminus (but not a full A) in my book.

 

Neil Young's Everybody Knows this is Nowhere is different.  3 monster cuts (Down by River, Cowgirl, Cinnamon Girl), two OK (title track, Losing End) and two unlistenable (to me) dirges.  I have this one as B+ and listen to those monster cuts on Decade, or Greatest Hits.

Ballot almost done. The top 5 were no brainers along with 3 others soon to follow. In the end, rather than being forced to choose, I went with both CCR's. That leaves 2 remaining spots. Do I go with the Canadians, my favorite jazz album of the DECADE, or one of the two great Dead records released that year. then again how can an album that contains my favorite versions of "Dear Landlord" and "Bird on a Wire" not to mention the clincher, the amazing "Darling Be Home Soon" not make it. I may have one of the only ballots that is both Beatle-less and Who-less.

rstay, I'm LOLing. Now, SHHHH! the young lady is blogging.