And she's from Canada. The only good things that ever came from Canada are the Viletones, Teenage Head and Neil Young.

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One of my all-time favorite songs is "Farewell Transmission" by Songs: Ohia/Jason Molina. It's steeped in mystery, loneliness, and foreboding--like many of Molina's other songs.

I never would've thought anyone could make one of Molina's songs sound better than the original, but My Morning Jacket may have done just that. Their cover of "Farewell Transmission" is pretty amazing.

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Maybe I'm putting on my JORR hat a bit too snugly here, but the idea of a song saying that we're going to be safe and sound is just blecccchhh. That's not rock and roll! My generation is the Safety Generation. We just want to be safe and sound.

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Hey, Jens Lekman is terrific! Love that song. Night Falls Over Kortedala is one of my favorite albums of recent vintage. It's pretty cool how well he incorporates samples. I never would have guessed that "Maple Leaves" is built around a sample of "Walk Away Renee."

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It sounds like something that was intended as a commercial jingle, was rejected for that purpose, and eventually transmogrified into a pop song. There's something about its overproduced effervescence that renders it an advertisement for itself.

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Then it wound up being used in a bunch of commercials anyway, going through the looking glass on the whole indie-music-as-commercial-soundtrack trend.

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Yes and yes. For a while, I thought it was just a jingle for that Mazda commercial.

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your generation has nothing to do with rock and roll. it's either commercial pop or it's trying to out-obscure your barmates until someone admits they actually like clap your hands and say yeah.

And comedy

All those Arts & Crafts bands get federal grants to create Canadian music for the sake of creating Canadian music. Metric is like the quintessential band that just coasts on being Canadian without doing anything terribly memorable. Stars had one really good album (In Our Bedroom After The War), but the rest of their stuff is like that too.

Incidentally, Emily Haines is the daughter of Paul Haines, who made a really weird Third Stream jazz album called Escalator Over The Hill, a personal favorite of mine from the weird days when I thought anything that was really overblown and contrived was automatically good. Unlistenable now.

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What did you think of Godspeed's rejection of the Polaris Prize ceremony? I'm someone who has found most of their political statements overly melodramatic at best (and have hated pretty much all of the ASMZ stuff since their second album) but I appreciated their response in that instance.

I just checked this out and kind of have to disagree. It's probably because I'm a huge Molina fanboy and consider Farewell Transmission to be a perfect song, but this just seemed to lack the intensity and the build of the original.

wow. this just went up the list. probably the best song ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAX-agG_ESM

1. Trophy Scars - Crystallophobia
2. Vance Joy - Riptide
3. Straylight Run - Existentialism on Prom Night
4. fun. - Stitch Me Up
5. Ghost Beach - Miracle

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Holy crap this album is 20 years old now. Here's my cliched comment about how I still don't understand why "Stone in Focus" has never shown up on any of the reissues when it's probably the best.

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so underrated.

after listening to this album several times, you're nuts

if anything this is far more accessible than AC records, there is still a lot of hyper stuff and a million things going on, but i think the songs themselves are a lot more straightforward

i mean how could you not like Little Fang for instance ? its basically a straightforward pop song with a really catchy chorus, i don't know how you equate that to 'not enough drugs in the world ' , this isn't an EDM record

Every goof who is a certain age has a thing for that fat little Topanga. What's with you guys? A least in my time we had Marcia Brady.

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in a few of the later seasons where she started getting boobs, she was actually pretty hot

she probably got Gregs sloppy seconds after he did Florence Henderson

She's hot




I think her face is beautiful and then she got a nice rack and ass to go with her natual DSL's




Growing up "with" a chick like that makes it even more pronounced (i.e. Stand by Me conversation about Annete getting tits)


I dont see the issue.


She's hot and also Saved by the Bell was genius and much better than the Partridge family or whatever you were watching


We also had Kelly Kapowski

Aw, hellz no! Danny Bonaduce played a way better character than little pussies like Corey or Kevin Arnold.




I got no beef with her or Jessie or Lisa Turtle. All hot! But you guys don't drool on them nearly as much as you do on thunder thighs Topanga.

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That's fine but Bonaduce couldnt carry Zack's jock. Hell Eric, Jessie's brother from New York, was a better schemer than Danny




I got no beef with her or Jessie or Lisa Turtle. All hot! But you guys don't drool on them nearly as much as you do on thunder thighs Topanga.[/quote]
Personally, I am as big a Kellly fan as Topanga.

I think maybe the name is what does it. You always notice it. Check this out

Kelly is hot


Topanga is hot


See? Only one of those stands out

Yeah, Topanga sounds and looks like a stripper from Berwyn.

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The Danny/Reuben Kincaid scenes alone were enough to trump Saved By the Bell. I mean, the girls were hot and all, but come the fuck on. Such fond memories of Marcia Brady.

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

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