A new list to rip to shreds: Maxim's 30 Worst Albums of all Time.

I'm guessing that's because, like Tom said above, this list is all about flattering the magazine's readership.....who invariably own albums by all the "artists" you just mentioned. It's meaningless.

im just wary of chuck's self-congratulatory let's-hyberbolically-enthuse-over-what-we-imagine-others-think-is-utterly-disposable shtick, is all. it's like he's adopted a certain rhetoric for the sake of argument (and i wouldn't argue its usefulness in a certain context) and after he's won the argument he just. won't. stop.

Same question for Metal Machine Music, The Flowers of Romance, ..

..and Jim Capaldi's "Daughter of the Night" , Elizabeth Barraclough's "Hi", Trickster's "Find the Lady", ..etc...

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I liked Monster. It is what it is. I traded an old roommated Siamese Dream for it and have never looked back since.

In what way does my writing NOT illustrate or investigate the greatness of the records I think are great? (Again, have you ever actually READ my two books? I can't think of very many books that contain MORE illustration and investigation in them; I mean, if anything, THAT's what might make them tedious. And I defy you to find a single review I've written that didn't talk in specifics about what makes music good or bad as well; if anything, THAT's my shtick.) And what about the zillions of times I've asserted greatness of records and artists where there IS a consensus? I mean, have you noticed how many positive mentions Dylan, say, gets in my second book?? More than anybody, if I remember right. Sounds like you're saying I should ONLY like artists where there's a consensus. Which would make me an idiot.

>> I can't think of very many books that contain MORE illustration and investigation in them;<<

I meant books about rock music here, by the way; not auto manuals or the Bill James Baseball Abstract or the Bible or whatever.

puckish, a.: Of the nature of or characteristic of Puck; impish, mischievous, capricious. Hence puckishly adv.; puckishness.

insouciance, n.: Carelessness, indifference, unconcern.

They are American Psycho ...

This is our literature. We seriously aren't aware of the fact that Leonard Nemoy released an album of hippie songs sung by an alien, and HE knew it was a joke too. We think foreign people totally suck and are gay, especially that European dance crap for pansies, Ace of Bass can totally suck it, give us some Kid Rock baby!

Now excuse us, we have to make room for our new poll, "What's Better, Chicks, Cars, or Brewski's?"

.....to you, maybe.

Fucking x-post w/ Jess. I shouldn't bother trying.