I refuse to call them a OHW (they had songs that charted and even reached #1 on the rock charts, just not the Hot 100), but Blind Melon were an excellent rock band of their era taken from us too soon.

Devo I feel like fall under the Grateful Dead Rule: some bands have a long and noteworthy career that surpasses their chart successes.

The internet killed the local scenes. There’s still hotbeds of certain styles but a lot of them are holdovers. Jam bands are still big throughout upstate NY, for example.

Context of the times. It came out when openly admitting to being a creep and a weirdo and being sad and outcasted in a rock song was still uncommon. This wasn’t very many years after the peak of hair metal where the most popular rock was about getting blowjobs and being a badass cool guy who parties all the time. Nowadays the biggest pop singer in the world can make her lead single off a new album about being a sad outcast and no one thinks twice but in the early 90s, it was revelatory.

That said, Radiohead made far more interesting music later on, and became a beloved and well respected band, so it boosted “Creep”’s profile.

I also notice a lot of Boomers seem to think that their music was the mainstream back in the day when it wasn’t necessarily. The week of Woodstock the #1 song in the country was “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies.

Up until about 2006-2007, probably. After that the “poptimism” movement got bigger and you saw more openness towards the mainstream from alt folks until the lines were blurred. Nowadays I don’t even know what distinguishes one from the other anymore.

Revelry

Molly’s Chambers

Holy Roller Novocaine

Cold Desert

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Camaro

Knocked Up

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I lived in Orlando for 8 years and I gotta be honest, the thought of going out in the woods never crossed my mind. Kudos to you for being willing, I’d be scared shitless.

Damn. I’ve been to the Cliffs of Moher, which are about 702 feet above sea level at their tallest, and those looked massive. And these are 3000 feet above sea level.

Mike Watt’s 90’s solo stuff is so so so slept on. Contemplating the Engine Room is one of the best concept albums that no one ever talks about.

I love this book, I relate very strongly to a lot of it. But, Augusten Burroughs has written multiple memoirs, including a few that are short story collections. He’s gotta be making some of it up. How much of Running with Scissors is made up as opposed to what isn’t is hard to say. Some of the real life Finches and Burroughs’ family have denied it, there were lawsuits, etc. But of course, they would, as it makes all of them look bad to varying degrees. I figure, whether every word if it is documented fact or some of it is artistic license, the emotions and the writing of it rings true.

He was actually kind of a throwback to the Bogart, Ralph Meeker type 50’s leading man, where he’s kind of a working class mug. But that was perfect for John McClane.

I could see a sequel where Django rounds up a team of renegade ex-slaves and goes on missions to free slaves from their plantations. As much as I’m sure he desires a quiet life in the north with his wife, Django’s major skill seems to be shooting, killing, and general badassery.

Nonexistent. I hate quantifying for the most part. Everything I like exists in a cloud of opinions and shifting moods.

I’m not an avid audiobook fan but I’ve liked Campbell Scott in them. He’s done a lot of them and he’s generally good at threading that needle where, it’s always him doing his own voice, but his inflections change depending on the character. In The Shining he didn’t outright try to sound like Danny but he sounded like how an adult would do an impression of a kid.

I can always tell when a tour booker doesn’t know geography when the Buffalo/Rochester/Syracuse/Albany/etc dates are nowhere near the Toronto/Ottawa/Montreal dates.

This is now my favorite description of Trout Mask Replica.

I think he had a social disorder of some type. Hints of antisocial tendencies at least. I wonder if he had abuse or neglect in his past; it could have influenced his quickness to anger and confrontation. It’s been ages since I read the book but the scene in the film adaptation where the psychiatrists are discussing whether he truly belongs there or not seemed to indicate this was the paradox of his character.

I know I’m being small-minded when I say it but any time I hear someone criticize The Catcher in the Rye I assume they only read books with wizards in them.