"3eanuts" is imitating the earlier site "Garfield Minus Garfield."

Another depressing takeoff.

I always loved the different snow men calvin would make.. the all time best is 3 of then standing around a car looking shocked and one one the ground in peices in front of the car. Just all sorts of awesome

I always find it peculiar when people bemoan the state of music today because their framework is almost inevitably the music that is popular/known. If you look beyond the mainstream, there's a lot of amazing stuff being made.

Biff--got three suggestions you want to share, of the kind we'd tend to overlook?

I always loved the different snow men calvin would make..

It's a sorrid story

Biff--got three suggestions you want to share, of the kind we'd tend to overlook?

I will but my tastes lean more towards the metal end of the spectrum so they sort of have a limited audience. I've been listening to a lot of Agalloch lately (doom/black metal), and the track Falling Snow is particularly apt given the current state of affairs in the Northeast. (Warning - death vocals which are a turnoff for most people.) I always recommend Porcupine Tree (prog rock/prog metal) because they're my favorite band and they have a very diverse catalog. The song Where We Would Be is an excellent pop song which could appeal to anyone. My favorite release from last year was Devin Townsend's Epicloud, which was pop metal (if that's even a thing). My recommended song from that CD is Save Our Now.

Thanks. Metals not really my metier, but I'll take a listen.

To get back to the original story, this follow-up article seems to indicate MLB found Schilling's testimony was NOT credible.

Growing up a classic rock fan, it seems like 1971 was the anno mirabilis when a lot of great artists (or even not-so-great artists) put out great material -- Janis Joplin's Pearl, Yes' The Yes Album and Fragile, Jethro Tull's Aqualung, Leonard Cohen's Songs of Love and Hate, the Stones' Sticky Fingers, the Doors' L.A. Woman, Paul McCartney's Ram, Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, Rod Stewart's Every Picture Tells a Story, Joni Mitchell's Blue, Black Sabbath's Master of Reality, the Allman Brothers' At Fillmore East, Funkadelic's Maggot Brain, the Who's Who's Next, John Lennon's Imagine, T. Rex's Electric Warrior, Led Zeppelin IV, Sly and the Family Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On, the Kinks' Muswell Hillbillies, David Bowie's Hunky Dory... But, it's all totally subjective of course, and it seems pretty silly to argue that one period of time is objectively better than another.

I will say that, without radio, MTV, or even "albums" to give some sort of centralization and guideposts to the process, finding music now feels like more of an obscure pursuit. Of course, it's basically impossible for the music most easily accessible to you to exactly correlate with the music you'd enjoy the most, so it's always been necessary to do outside research. But it seems like more, now.

I think the '80s were the greatest era for 12-tone music.

Of course, it's basically impossible for the music most easily accessible to you to exactly correlate with the music you'd enjoy the most, so it's always been necessary to do outside research. But it seems like more, now.

On the other hand, it's certainly a lot easier to do outside research these days.

I think the '80s were the greatest era for 12-tone music.

It was certainly the best era for Tommy Tutone music.

Got a ton of music at college and basically let my collection stagnate since then. But between friends recommendations, "related artists", MOG/Pandora suggestions and my local college radio station, I've found a ton of new stuff in the last year (Woods, Castanets, Wooden Shjips + Moon Duo, Napolean IIIrd, DIIV, Rocket Juice, Health, James Yorkston, The Vessels, Tame Impala, Flying Lotus, Matt Baldwin, Follakzoid....). That list runs from folk to something-resembling-shoegaze to reggae to indie to post-rock to beats to pop to weird ass crap I can't even categorize; I gotta imagine that whatever your musical taste, there's some interesting stuff out there right now and, with the music streaming services and AllMusic and such, you can actually find it and hear it. It is a glorious time for music fans.