The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

[Joe Mac]

Who the fuck is Neal Hannon? Is he in Matchbox 20?

The fella that pretty much is the Divine Comedy that made that album you hate. He also did the theme tune to my all time favourite tv show…

I was never a huge fan of theirs to be fair, they represent a sort of twee indie, like Belle & Sebastian, that has always repelled me.

 

[Nee Lewman]

The fella that pretty much is the Divine Comedy that made that album you hate. He also did the theme tune to my all time favourite tv show…

I was never a huge fan of theirs to be fair, they represent a sort of twee indie, like Belle & Sebastian, that has always repelled me.

I don’t know enough about that dude or that band to dislike the band. All I know is that album was repugnant.

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

I don’t know, I think monoculture if there ever truly was one is more a MTV generation thing. 90s and early 00s top forty radio was an interesting melting pot. I think once you get to the early eighties things get heavily siloed again.

Pre-MTV you still had FM radio DJs playing Pink Floyd and Zeppelin. Though I do agree that things were a bit more siloed regionally. A song or album might hit in Chicago but be an afterthought in Miami for example.

 

[dbarila]

Who the fuck is Neal Hannon? Is he in Matchbox 20?

I think he's in Goo Goo Dolls.

 

[Joe Mac]

I think he's in Goo Goo Dolls.

Now I’m telling you we’d never have a conversation about a British band quite that poor on these pages!

 

[TenderLovingKiller®]

I think he's in Goo Goo Dolls.

I work with a guy named Johnny Reznik. He is probably the Goo Goo Dolls jokes I come with almost any time we interact (which isn’t too frequently).

 

[LiamGallaghersBucketHat]

Are you guys arguing about music?

 

[Nee Lewman]

Pre-MTV you still had FM radio DJs playing Pink Floyd and Zeppelin. Though I do agree that things were a bit more siloed regionally. A song or album might hit in Chicago but be an afterthought in Miami for example.

I more meant that in that day and age there were stations that would play TLC, Nirvana, Guns N Roses and the Beastie Boys…

 

[Nee Lewman]

Are you guys arguing about music?

We were debating the existential meaning of Horses in Barbie.

 

[LiamGallaghersBucketHat]

We were debating the existential meaning of Horses in Barbie.

There's no debate needed.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

I was just thinking, I wish the Canucks would share the stuff we don’t know.

Screw you, we are keeping the good stuff to ourselves!!

 

[Nee Lewman]

Screw you, we are keeping the good stuff to ourselves!!

Fuck you and Justin Bieber and Celine Dion and the horse @I’m Just Ken rode in on.

 

[jamieanderson1968]

Fuck you and Justin Bieber and Celine Dion and the horse @I’m Just Ken rode in on.

We are still laughing at you chumps for taking Justin off our hands.

 

[avecigrec]

I was just thinking, I wish the Canucks would share the stuff we don’t know.

I've been thinking about putting something together, but like many little pet projects in my ADHD brain, it has stalled out...

 

[jamieanderson1968]

I've been thinking about putting something together, but like many little pet projects in my ADHD brain, it has stalled out...

Trainboy doesn't deserve it.

 

[Nee Lewman]

The Qobuz review:

 

[Nee Lewman]

Lester Bangs might have been insane:

Kick Out The Jams

Check out our album review of Artist's Kick Out The Jams on Rolling Stone.com.

www.rollingstone.com

 

[Nee Lewman]

Kick Out the Jams - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Of course it was Lester’s first review.

Also, what the fuck is a Hudson’s Department store?

 

[Nee Lewman]

I understand this album’s importance but it’s a wreck of a show. Even the band admitted it. Guttural rock that I think people thought was meant to be that sloppy but it wasn’t. It doesn’t live up to the hype. This is what the Doors would sound like if they didn’t care about how they sounded.

 

[Nee Lewman]

Starship is pretty awesome though.