Steely Dan “Everyone’s Gone to the Movies (demo)” (mp3)
from Citizen Steely Dan (1993) (buy)
Pulp “I Spy” (mp3)
from Different Class (1995) (buy)
Destroy All Monsters “Mack the Knife” (mp3)
from 1974-1976 Gospel Crusade
The Fall “C.R.E.E.P.” (mp3)
from The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall (1984) (buy)
The Smiths “Vicar in a Tutu” (mp3)
from The Queen is Dead (1986) (buy)
Roxy [...]

I expect two page, single-spaced response papers on each of these in the box by my office door by 9am tomorrow.
SFJ on YYYs (New Yorker)
Christgau on Eminem (The Believer)
Wolk on The Fall (an oldie from The Believer)
“From Blogs to Riches” (New York Magazine)
Owen (from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone) guest-blog (Said the Gramophone)
Julian Cope on [...]

For podcast #3, I’ve decided on a little gimmickry. This one is entirely comprised of cover versions. I went out of my way to make sure they’re not totally obscure (like a high school band playing “Just What I Needed”), but I think it could be fun to offer a prize for the first person [...]

The release of the sprawling, succinct, well-selected and perfectly titled career retrospective 50,000 Fall Fans Can’t Be Wrong has given me cause to take a step back and look at the long, prolific career of Mark E. Smith’s band. For rabid fans, a “best of” is bound to exclude 20 or 30 essential tracks, destined [...]