Jon Stewart: why I quit The Daily Show →

Interesting article from the Guardian, but my favorite part was his response on if he would ever watch Fox News again after leaving the show:

“Umm… All right, let’s say that it’s a nuclear winter, and I have been wandering, and there appears to be a flickering light through what appears to be a radioactive cloud and I think that light might be a food source that could help my family. I might glance at it for a moment until I realise, that’s Fox News, and then I shut it off. That’s the circumstance.”
— Jon Stewart to Hadley Freeman, The Guardian

Grant Lee Buffalo | Fuzzy (1993) = music 20 years too early

They received critical acclaim and lead singer Grant Lee Phillips was Rolling Stone Magazine's Male Vocalist of the Year, but they never enjoyed much commercial success. That's too bad. They are really good and I can't help but wonder what would've happened if their debut was 20 years later. Male voiced, country tinged music is in.

I highly recommend this album.

Dexys Midnight Runners | Searching for the Young Soul Rebels (1980)

If one of their albums appears in the top 1001 list, surely they are under appreciated and should not have been just a One-Hit-Wonder...

No.

They got all the attention they deserved. The lead crying, whiny vocal is so annoying that it was really tough to make it through this thing. It's melodrama, not music.

So let's just remember Dexys for "Come on Eileen" as one of the best, sing-at-the-top-of-your-lungs party and dance songs.

Listen to this crap album. 

Khaled | Kenza (1999)

Khaled apparently brought the Algerian desert blues music called Raï  to the international stage. Sounds intriguing? Much of it is. Musical styles are borrowed from all over the world and blended with Raï. I expected this album to be tough to get through on my 1001 Album mission but even if I can't understand a word he's singing, the guy is good.