Full-Album Gigs
Wired’s Scott Thill posted on Monday about the full-album concerts he’d like to see were mortality and inter-band hatred not a problem. His list is as follows:
Top Five Full-Album Wish List That Will Never Come True
* The Beatles, The White Album
* Jimi Hendrix, Electric Ladyland
* Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin
* Charles Mingus, Mingus Ah Um
* The Doors, The Doors
Top Five Full-Album Wish List That Could Come True (Given Enough Cash and Hype)
* Pixies, Surfer Rosa
* My Bloody Valentine, Loveless
* Tom Waits, Rain Dogs
* De La Soul, De La Soul is Dead
* Three Mile Pilot, Chief Assassin to the Sinister
I’ve attended a number of the Don’t Look Back series events in the past and pretty solidly enjoyed them all. Sonic Youth doing Daydream Nation was a highlight but Sebadoh’s Bubble & Scrape was pretty spectacular. I’m not going to criticise either list because, barring Three Mile Pilot on the reason of ignorance to their music, I would likely consider purchasing tickets for all of the above. Most fervently, I’d push my grandmother into a moderately deep but soft-bottomed well to see Tom Waits do Rain Dogs.
So here’s an alternative list of five I would love to have seen happen but won’t, eight that totally could with some charm and finesse on the part of promoters, and five uber-speculative hopes that could, maybe, one-in-a-million odds, happen. Note: All are deliberatly not overlapping with the above as otherwise Waits, Pixies and MBV would be here.
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Barstool Links
The AV Club has a wealth of goodness today. First an interview with David Schwimmer, Noel Murray reaches D in his record collection reliving and examines his taste for southern rock and gives its opinion on the Britney-fied How I Met Your Mother.
Sasha Frere-Jones had an odd experience watching Aretha Franklin.
The Return of Jezebel James will not be returning.
PopCandy links to the YouTube page of E&L favourite Milo Ventimiglia.
The Guardian profiles The Black Keys.
The Beatles are suffering from the exposure on American Idol. In fact, everyone is.
PopMatters interviews The Decemberists frontman and erstwhile solo artist Colin Meloy.
It also digs the new Gnarls Barkley record.
The New York Times profiles Kimberley Pierce, the director of Stop-Loss.
Jezebel comments on the pretty despicable new game, Miss Bimbo.
Readers of Entertainment Weekly list the shows they lost too soon.
Tyra’s stalker is back on the streets.
Gossip Girl gay rumours!
Smashing Pumpkins are to sue Virgin… for ‘artist integrity’.
The Raconteurs new record is out now.
Liars are supporting Radiohead. Gonna be a darn good show.
No Link Advice
Trey Parker and Matt Stone talks to The AV Club.
Interview magazine has a tribute collection to Heath Ledger.
Why do white people like Stuff White People Like?
Ewwww… Screech is back…
Here’s the video for ‘Machine Gun’ by Portishead.
Pitchfork has details on the new Roots record.
A Beatles version of Guitar Hero… please. When is the Whitesnake one coming??
Zeppelin tour dates?
Simon Cowell isn’t quite so mean it seems…
Michael Cera is teaming with Edgar Wright for the Scott Pilgrim movie. Yippee!!!
Five years on in Iraq… The Huffington Post has some stats to ponder.
Cheney is warning against Iranian armament.
Hillary Clinton: Experienced? Hmm…
Sasha Frere-Jones is attempting to launch a new musical genre.
TV Squad interviews Lewis Black.
Leatherheads is having a hometown premiere.
Crazy Crazy Links
Should the Starr remark from Clinton aide Howard Wolfson cost him his job?
Robert Downey Jr is back in the controversy window after ‘blacking up’ for a new role.
I haven’t seen Celebrity Rehab yet but damn, it sounds awesome.
Best Week Ever has an interview with Juno’s Olivia Thirlby.
Christian Siriano, the winner of Project Runway, is interviewed on After Elton.
The Guardian profiles the superdelegates.
Dick Cavett recounts his friendship with William Buckley for the NY Times.
Italian women have been permitted to tell porkie pies.
The Beatles are getting onto iTunes.
Stephen Colbert says goodbye to Mike Huckabee.
More viral promotion for The Dark Knight, this time campaign posters for Harvey Dent.
Newsweek profiles genius author Richard Price.
Take the PopSugar UK quiz of the week. Go on… do it!
Alessandra Stanley profiles twelve funny women and Annie Liebovitz photographs them.
Keane and the Gross Problem of List-Making
The nature of lists is that they often reflect a mean opinion, an average settling of general consensus. It’s the very nature of democracy except with music albums lists, there is no-one specifically highlighted to vote for. Well, there is, but more of that later. Lists are popular with readers and fans for a number of reasons, and I am referring specifically to music lists here.
Electricity & Lust 
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