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Let's say you continually find yourself attracted to women who say things like "Engagement rings are a one-way symbol of male ownership, and given its outward-facing visibility to the community, even worse than asking a father's 'permission' to marry. If you ever bought me one, I'd go throw it...

That certainly sounds plausible, and for the record, I was talking more about the music press and grunge fanboys than people who actually know her. I don't think Dave Grohl, Trent Reznor, Kathleen Hanna, etc are all making stuff up. I would love to be at a dinner party with Courtney but would...

Maybe it's just the constant barrage of anti-patriarchy lessons I got from many of my love interests in the early/mid 90s, but Courtney got demonized for behavior that was either celebrated, romanticized, or ignored when perpetrated by her male counterparts. She was an easy target because she...

Apparently no one reads my posts either. :wink:

Been slowly working my way through Courtney Love's new six-part podcast on BBC radio. I say slowly because, even for an on-the-record Courtneyphile like myself, it can be a lot. Each episode is basically a mini-bio of various periods of her life, interspersed with 10 songs she picks that were...

Late to the party as usual. Thanks @krista4 for all you put into this and @Hawks64 for the spotify-ing. Even when I wasn't posting, I was still avidly listening and looking forward to the next batch of tunes.

In the 80s, Mick Jagger was just an old preening pile-of-bones who wore terrible clothes and danced like a cornball. Or at least that's what MTV taught me.

Growing up in my podunk down, we had a country station, a Top 40 station, an R&B/Soul/Funk station, and an oldies station. By the time I got to HS in 1987, we finally got one that played classic rock, but even that was really the same 5-7 songs by the same 25-30 bands. MTV - especially 120...

I somehow have two Inspiral Carpets CD-singles - This Is How It Feels and Commercial Rain. The former was a bigger hit but the latter is straight fire. Carter USM's cover was surprisingly good. I spent a couple regrettable years sporting that Carter/PWEI grebo look. Were you a fellow...

Then Rock was too!!!! Honestly, in my experience, the Stones were kind-of irrelevant for children of the '80s (at the time). Lots of my friends listened to LZ, Pink Floyd, and the Dead. No one listened to Mick and Keef.

Confession time again: I didn't know this was a cover until maybe 6 months after I first heard it. I was a huge Jane's evangelist soon after the release of Nothing's Shocking, but aside from my best friend, none of the jocks, hippies, or theater kids at my high school were buying in. My...

Man, that Warren Z cover of Steve Winwood is just so ####ing good. I've listened to it 5 or 6 times today. And Streets of Baltimore was in constant rotation already. Long before I learned about Gram Parsons, I had already spent a lifetime with Charley Pride's version. I've experienced a...

For me, 1991 is the best album-release year of my music buying life - despite it being remembered for grunge, I'll take Achtung Baby, Girlfriend, and The Low End Theory as my top 3. Actually have a 1992 countdown in the can but been waiting for both the right time and burst of inspiration.

That last Orioles-Brewers series of the '82 season will forever be etched in my memory: 40 years ago, the 1982 Orioles magic comeback came up short. I loved Earl Weaver so much. His book Weaver on Strategy was formative for my young mind and I spent a bunch of summers playing Earl Weaver...

Love this. Jeff will definitely get a kick out of the milkshake story at lunch tomorrow. I turned 6 during the '79 ALCS and my uncle and cousins took me to Game 1. Despite my tender age, I was the kind of huge fan that memorized the back of baseball cards and won my relatives money when they...