Let's Get Inappropriate

There are other things in A-D's life besides fetishizing Spacehog albums and mocking Tool fans.

Top 100: Omissions and Rebuttals (Part Deux)

The complaints about the July issue continue to fly in fast and furious, and I'm here to deflect, reflect, and eject the big names that were missed and the ones that should've never been brought up in the first place. On with the show.

Top 100: Omissions and Rebuttals

So as you know by now, the current issue of Spin details the 100 greatest albums of the past twenty years, from the mag's birth in 1985 to now (click here to read).

The Great Pumpkin Returns

(If anyone is wondering, TheFutureEmbrace is not terrible but also not all that memorable -- and certainly has almost nothing to do with anything Smashing Pumpkins ever did, save for Adore, which sounded like a Depeche Mode tribute band, and that's bad news.)

R.I.P. Karl Mueller

One of the first albums A-D ever bought was Soul Asylum's Grave Dancer's Union, because everybody loved "Runaway Train." The best album in their catalog by far was 1995's Let Your Dim Light Shine, which was largely considered to be a disappointment but gave us at least two great singles in "Misery" and "Just Like Anyone" (which had that great video where Claire Danes plays a girl with wings, and for some reason everyone hates her).

Does Jesus Go To 11?

Since then, they've put out a handful of woefully underrated albums (most notably 2000's In the Valley of Dying Stars -- download "The Warmth of a Tomb" if you don't believe me) and toured a whole bunch with a ton of different bands.

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