What was your favorite Lady Gaga stunt? YouTube links are considered appropriate answers.
- Lady Gaga reveals herself to be Peter “Petros” Shields in unconvincing disguise.
- The one where she jumps off a fucking building and dies.
- When she sat down to the piano on SNL wearing a rotating glass ball, preventing her from playing.
What was your favorite pandemic of 2009? This includes both newcomers like H1N1 and old standbys like obesity.
- BIEBER FEVER.
- Pandemic of Peruvian flute bands.
- Mono. I got it and it rocked my world.
In a short essay, please explain why “Kid A” is either superior or inferior to “In Rainbows.”
- I think this question is a prime example of why everyone on The Crimson hates Arts.
- I don’t really understand. I think these are albums by Radiohead, but I can’t be sure at this point. I like the song “High and Dry” a lot and also the one from Romeo and Juliet.
- Honestly, “In Rainbows” is better. “Kid A” was out there—oh, look, weird music can get popular. But who the fuck cares if it’s popular or not when assessing an album? People do the shit they were doing on that album better. I mean, I love some of those songs, and I like the whole philosophy behind the album—it’s very Cagean and shit. And that’s cool. But I rarely listen to Cage’s compositions. I read his books and talk his talk when I’m drunk at parties, and then I go home, and I listen to Weezer. In that sense, I think “In Rainbows” is just better music...Radiohead is a band, and popular music is popular music. Anyone trying to conflate it to more than that in order to sustain some wet dream is fooling himself.
- In Rainbows was free to download, right? My boss at Borders Bookstore tells us that we’re not supposed to get people to sign up for the Borders Rewards program by telling them that it’s a free card because when we tell people something is free, “[we’re] essentially telling them that it’s worthless.” I guess he would say Kid A is superior. I’m pretty sure we don’t have that in stock at Borders though.
- Kid A is the best album of all time, full stop. I’m not feeling nearly eloquent enough to explain the reasons why, so just go listen to “Idioteque” instead.
- “Kid A” was made first and old things are better than new things.
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