Say you're in the break room at your new job, and there's a kind of awkward silence because you don't know what to talk about. And then someone starts saying how they hate Bush, he's a liar, and he's "bad for the nation." Do you jump up and say, "What?! You evil nationalist! Noam Chomskey says ...

To mark this anniversary, I suggest we all try listening to "Pulling Teeth" with a straight face.

I have not posted on this forum for months. Today was the first day I've even read any of it since April or so, and this Pinwheel thread has pulled me out of seclusion!

I loved it. Plus and Minus, that snail trying to get to the annual snail convention...all 5 hours.

I don't remember a ...

Eksvplot wrote:crap. despite a couple good songs, i find this dude and his "i love jesus christ"/"know your enemy" shtick very, very irritating.

Does including those seven words in a couple of his songs really constitute shtick?

NOT CRAP in the slightest.

I can't get into this "best" thing...I don't see a difference between "best" and "who I like." Maybe that's my problem. Mariah Carey might have a thousand octave range but all that vibrato American Idol-approved singing sounds really bad to me. On the other hand, I love Dan Bejar. If he went to try ...

NOT CRAP, but:

-the album I See a Darkness is rather boring. I think it's reputation is mostly anchored by the amazing title track.

-I'm not a fan of the whole Harmony Korine/heroin-addict atmosphere.

-I definately second the distaste for his sexually explicit stuff. It's just ...

In fairness to Soundgarden, Chris Cornell is the strawman of this argument. Ben Shepherd's songs were really good! If you were to go through your Soundgarden catalogue and make a mix cd of all the songs written by Ben Shepherd, this would be a damn good album.

For me, SOUNDGARDEN wins on the ...

I had never heard her music until I saw her play some years ago.

She was wearing these irritating pants—high-waisted tree trunk pants that reminded me of Tara Subkoff, who I hate.

I don't know what the drummer's name was, but he was the worst. He reminded me of Patrick Roy, the French Canadian ...

Wall-to-wall melody and harmony.

Perhaps if people didn't have the failsafe that some consider insurance to be, some drivers would be more careful not to get into accidents. Not to say that they aren't careful now, but every factor is part of the formula.

I think we obviously have differing opinions on the matter, and while I ...