i'm not sure why, but I never really got into these guys that much. since i've finished the book (about three weeks ago) i'm revisiting the discs that I did purchase. I, IV, and houses.

The best way to listen to LZ is whole album at a time.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

With you completely wdelaney and I'd like to add The Doors to that as well. Apart from "the soft parade", I have no use for the doors anymore.

.....Right after you've pressed the mute button.

we were standing in the pantry of his home in northwest Chicago (he was looking for his stocking cap), and he started talking about how his eight-year-old son was the drummer in a grade school rock band called the Blisters. The Blisters mostly cover Jet songs. Now, just about everybody I know thinks Jet is ridiculous; they've become the band hipsters are legally required to hate. So I made some joke (and I have no idea why) about how Jet was totally fucking terrible, and that it's somehow predictable that the only people who would want to cover Jet songs would be second-graders. Tweedy didn't understand why I would say something like this. He looked at me like I had just made fun of a quadriplegic, and he asked, "Well, don't you like rock music?" And then I felt stupid, because I realized that a) Jet plays rock music, and that b) I like rock music, and that c) I actually like Jet, both tangibly and intangibly. So that was the first thing I realized about Jeff Tweedy: Musically, he remembers what is obvious.

I agree with the mainstream stuff. But, I still appreciate the deeper cuts now and again. I prefer "Waiting for the Sun" but there's good stuff on all those albums apart from the popular stuff.

My choice was always whiskey but I often wondered how some of those albums would be appreciated under different types of mind-altering substances.

Maybe they should release a compilation of "The Best of the Doors That You Are Not Sick of"...

This reminds me of this Klosterman Tweedy exchange:

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

So disliking Led Zeppelin precludes liking anyone that plays rock? Disliking one band is equivalent to dismissing an entire genre? What if I like Led Zeppelin but dislike Quiet Riot? Doesn't that also mean I categorically dislike rock? Tweedy's point above is dumb, as is the response to it quoted above.

How can you like Led Zeppelin and not Quiet Riot?

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.