I was never a big Alice In Chains fan. But I agree with Unplugged. I agree with the article that Unplugged is so good, you wish it was called something other than MTV Unplugged in New York.

Also, in 1990, I believe my favorite song was Candyman - Knockin' the Boots.

When Faster Pussycat's "House of Pain" entered into the top 10 on Dial MTV I KNEW it'd be #1 in a matter of days.

Derris - 1

Spanish class - 0

I'm in on the Dirt opinion, but substitute Badmotorfinger for those others to stand alongside. To me, Nirvana Unplugged was overplayed before it was even released good.

In Utero is the only album of this "genre" that I have listened to in the pst 5 years.

I ocassionally break out Jar of Flies, but otherwise Nirvana is about the only survivor from this sort of thing.

I'd go with Dirt, No Code and Superunknown.

I've listened to Siamese Dream and Badmotorfinger this morning and listened to Ten over the weekend.

We might have to branch this off into its own thread.

Nathan Rabin made it down to Nashville.


Also going on in Nashville on 4/16 for Record Store Day...

Jerry Lee Lewis playing the 250 cap Third Man Records stage for Record Store Day. It will be recorded live to Third Man's signature 2" analog tape and produced by Jack White III.

Tickets go on sale in less than 30 minutes

Trying to find the ticket link now. Worth the drive if I can snag a couple.

Link up, but web site seems immobile.

Fuck...not a lucky winner here.

looks like it already sold-out

http://store.thirdmanrecords.com/ticket ... 62011.aspx

I put 2 tickets in my cart as soon as I could see the link and it let me get all the way through 3 confirmation screens until I went to hit the pay now button and then they dropped out. You know there were a ton of people starting at computer screens for those.

Nashville Scene review of The Killer at Third Man Records with backing band Steve Cropper, Kenny Lovelace, Jack Lawrence and Jim Keltner. Edward James Olmos was also in attendance. They moved it outdoors and sold an additional 300 tix, but alas I didn't know about that until today (a week late)

Jesus. That is fucking awesome.

I found the writer's use of the simile of breaking up with a girlfriend to be discordant, since I thought N. Rabin was the ONION's resident gay Jew. (Full disclosure: until I saw a picture of the man in, I don't know, 2006, I thought he was a black Jew, white Jewish father, black mother, like Lenny Kravitz. Being RAYCESS, I presumed the hip-hop devotee on the critical staff of the AV Club would be African-American. But, then, the name 'Rabin'; Jewy. Had to figure how that would work.)

Also: I am sure he started writing for the AV Club before '98. Maybe '96?

Last: he has been on my read, but pay no mind, list since his review of Wu-Tang's Iron Flag, during which he lamented the mistaken critical reception to the previous LP, The W, without noting HE WAS ONE OF THE VERY CRITICS WHO PANNED THE W.

& the caboose: when he was at Madison Area Tech, was he using the Mendota Mental Health Facility as a de facto dorm? I thought N. Rabin was about forty-five or fifty, having spent about a quarter or a third of his life in psychiatric care. Isn't that what one of his books is about?

& before I forget: the 'manic pixy dreamgirl' construct is not a real criticism, just a bludgeon with which to inflict additional critical damage on performers the ONION av staff already loathes. So, they need to stop popping off about it as a thing, instead acknowledging it's an arts & entertainment IED.