Albums for Eternity with Bottle, the Curmudgeon

Not gonna lie, there's a special place in the bowels of my heart for a self-title last album. Fair warning though, Megadeth ended with Hidden Treasures in my brain, so I haven't heard any album since then.  Lots of things to expect. Up until rather recently, Megadeth was Dave 1 and Dave 2; drummer and lead guitarist were up for grabs from the very beginning, so that doesn't matter, the issue is what are we actually snarling about? Longtime readers will know that I don't have to believe you, I only have to believe you believe yourself, which has never not been undifficult with Dave 1. What i can't fault him for, however, is that he has always said that Megadeth is the people playing Megadeth songs at that particular moment in time. Then again, 75% of this Megadeth is totally unknown to me, so all I really have to go on is the fact that I expect it will sound like Dave Mustaine wrote it. That's why Ride The Lightening is on it, Metallica is just a fork in the trun...

I've seen a lot of people say they don't "get" the new Modest Mouse album An Eraser and a Maze, so i spent way too much money just to say there's nothing to "get." Seriously, I don't get what they're all so crazy about. You tune in for Isaac Brock's impression of Bobcat Golthwait's Sylvester the Cat impression, and you stay for the absolute insanity that ensues. I suppose it helps to know you're listening to klangfarben style noise counterpoint; music by colors, everybody playing super-catchy melodies that somehow just work together. It also helps to know you're going to get 700 songs with 3 intermissions and no clue how we got from the start to the finish.  Modest Mouse, forgive me for being contrary, is a Folk band playing Indie Rock like they only have a vague understanding of either genre, and they don't write songs for people to like, they write songs for people to hear. If you absolutely have to compare them to another b...