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@pitchfork @kieranpressreyn Geese are great- you guys are critics, do your positive reviews not mean anything? Odd post

Is Geese an industry plant, four talented private school kids, or just a good band? @kieranpressreyn wades into the debate that has the internet honking

@MrBeast you should just give it to whoever needs it least

If this tweet has exactly 1 like in 24 hours I’ll give that person $1,000,000

@Dontigga Miles Davis was musically beyond them all, but also they’re each in their own categories of genius and excellence. Nothing to gain by this attempt other than being wrong.

Prince vs Miles Davis: Davis is methodologically more innovative but he does one thing Prince vs Stevie: Prince's vocal range is higher, his guitar skills and stevie cant so he cant dance Prince vs Jimi: Hendrix has two great projects he didnt have enough time

@stuzi_pants Better Call Saul > Breaking Bad

Started The Wire from scratch again last night. Managed three episodes in one sitting I still say that pound for pound it’s the greatest drama series of all time, just edging out Breaking Bad and The Sopranos Any other suggestions for one of the top spots?

@stuzi_pants Leftovers, Mad Men, Deadwood, Twin Peaks

@_motherslug one of my all time favs, easy

Sopranos this, Mad Men that. But fucking Deadwood, man. Fucking DEADWOOD!

@tnyfrontrow Incredible album

Once more, on Duke Ellington's birthday: composer, bandleader, communicator, painter in sound, he was also one of the greatest of pianists, and Money Jungle gets my vote for best jazz album ever—the one most like a Beethoven late quartet, of inexhaustible depth and mystery.

@Eric_Alterman Lucinda is too talented of a writer to be this low

2) 15 Stephen Stills 16 Don Henley 17) Lucinda Williams 18) Bob Seger 19) David Bromberg 20) Dave Alvin 21) Smokey Robinson

new improved far better than the Times list: 1) Bob Dylan 2) Bruce Springsteen 3) Paul Simon 4) Randy Newman 5) Stevie Wonder 6) John Fogerty 7 Willie Nelson 8) Jackson Browne 9) Tom Waits 10) David Byrne 11) Patti Smith 12) Carole King 13) James Taylor 14) Billy Joel

@forcefieldpr Randy Newman is glaring

30 they missed, off the dome

@ThaaatColin Chicago gonna rock all those parts bra

Bullish on this part of America

@careless193403 lemme guess dinner, Chilis?!oMG!!!!! babe you’re too much, I already came twice.

@MitchTherieau @elmer212240 Ohhh yes, I agree, his guitar work is perfection on all those. I didn’t know his name, I thought you meant the producer. Yes he’s incredible. And those albums are all important to me. Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone is amazing.

@BlindBoy2020 @elmer212240 Pettibone played with her from World Without Tears thru the early 2010s. I think he was the perfect foil for her songs, punctuating their koan like repetition with blasts of danger

Stephin Merritt is not one of the 30 greatest living songwriters. Sorry

@MitchTherieau @elmer212240 She’s a great interpreter, but her strength is as a writer, she’s top 5 living today imo

@MitchTherieau @elmer212240 when did they work together? Lucinda’s entire discography is incredible, her last album is the only one for me that misses.

@MitchTherieau @elmer212240 Ok? You literally say Lucinda. Maybe you just aren’t too familiar with her catalog. That’s ok too.

@BlindBoy2020 @elmer212240 If you read the next reply you’ll find I thought this was a reply to my other post about Westerberg. For sure Merritt does not rank with those other three even distantly

@MitchTherieau @elmer212240 More as a singer/interpreter?! What! Your lack of ball knowledge is showing. That is a really bad opinion sir. Painfully bad.

@elmer212240 I’d say he clears the first two (I love Lucinda but more as a singer/interpreter than a songwriter) but hard to compare their work. All 4 of them have produced some serious cringe over the years too, and I think that’s beautiful

@Linconnudu94050 @MitchTherieau It’s not

@MitchTherieau agree with you often but this is a terrible take

@MitchTherieau Agreed. He’s not even the best S.M.

@dlondonwortel @CWBChicago tbf why wouldn’t check prior to booking the place tho?

@CWBChicago Jesus Christ

Got a room in Pilsen for an upcoming conference in Chicago, figuring it would be a straight shot to the downtown convention center. Serves my dumb ass right.