Goodnight Davvvvvis!

I'll play around with the layout another day. Or maybe later tonight if I get really bored.

Venezuela

Because granting sweeping authoritarian powers to populist leaders has a good historical track record.

But is it better than Gimme Shelter?

The Best Stones Film You've Never Seen

I read that most it was staged anyway.

No such thing as negative publicity?

Suspicious devices part of marketing plan
Promotion of 'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' cartoon closes Boston bridges

Lou Reed Outdoes Himself

Trancendental meditation music or Metal Machine Music vol.2? You be the judge.

An Additional 10 Favorite Albums*

*Excluding any artists already represented on the first list

Definitely Maybe (Oasis)
The Doors (The Doors)
Figure 8 (Elliott Smith)
For Your Pleasure (Roxy Music)
London Calling (The Clash)
McCartney (Paul McCartney)
Modern Life Is Rubbish (Blur)
Music From Big Pink (The Band)
Rain Dogs (Tom Waits)
The Velvet Underground and Nico (The Velvet Underground)

In Praise of Yoggoth's Favorite Albums List

I really like this list. It captures Yoggoth's musical taste with economy, and yet it suggests a larger, grander aesthetic at work. It's much more of a "rock critic's" list than mine; it's more eclectic and idiosyncratic, and it spans a lot more years. If I were trying to hire a rock critic, I'd look at Yoggoth's list and say "Yeah, you're hired," and I'd look at my list and say, "Gimme a break kid, go DJ at a classic rock station and call me when you discover punk." But I thought it would be dishonest and unproductive of me to alter my "real" favorite albums list to make it more edgy and varied; those really are, deep down, my ten favorite albums. Nevertheless, my list does seem to make my musical taste look narrower than it actually is. I guess I have a very specific idea of what an "all-time great" album is, and if stuck on that proverbial desert island...I'd probably smash those albums to pieces and wonder why the fuck I couldn't have been provided with anything useful.

But seriously, I'd say at least five of the albums on Yoggoth's list would make my own top 50, and only a couple of them are albums I don't really like, but even those that I don't like I respect. Well done, Yoggoth, well done.

Yoggoth's 10 Favorite Albums

The Velvet Underground & Nico (The Velvet Underground)
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (Pavement)
Exile on Mainstreet (Rolling Stones)
London Calling (The Clash)
Vs. (Mission of Burma)
Here Come the Warm Jets (Brian Eno)
Double Nickels on the Dime (The Minutemen)
Highway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)
'77 (The Talking Heads)
Loveless (My Bloody Valentine) Rain Dogs (Tom Waits)

Okay, I couldn't resist.

Edit: Fixed the Pavement album and put Rain Dogs up there. It was late.

Goodnight Dixxxxxon!

I'm hungry and only have 25 cents in my pocket. Time to call it a night.

Little Earl's 10 Favorite Albums

Abbey Road (The Beatles)
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John)
Innervisions (Stevie Wonder)
Led Zeppelin II (Led Zeppelin)
Let It Bleed (Rolling Stones)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (The Beatles)
Tommy (The Who)
The Wall (Pink Floyd)
The White Album (The Beatles)
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)