Earlier today General Slocum posed the following thoughts at the tail end of a recent Dugout Chatter:

OK…what’s up with Thurston Moore? I have always been just one arm’s length away from being anything more than luke warm about Sonic Youth. Some admittedly great songs still don’t make them a band I like. That’s odd, to me, and unusual in my experience. So I just took out of the library today that Trees Outside the Academy album. Some of it sounds good, some really interesting rhythm guitar in there. But the whole package is a tastefully elaborate, calculatedly self-deprecating, quasi-candid shrine to Mr. Moore himself, and his own obtuse hipness. Fans, hatas, thoughts?

I know the General and let me tell you, he’s no dimestore, artsy-fartsy-averse Townsperson. This isn’t the esteemed-yet-hippie-hating Hrrundivbakshi, our very own 2000 Man of the People, or even an open-minded, reasonable, tolerant sort like like myself raising these issues. Rather it’s among the most free-thinking and visionary regular voices in the Halls of Rock. Hell, this is a guy we might have pegged for a Sonic Youth fan! For this reason I’m bringing the General’s idle chatter to The Main Stage. I’m hopeful that his asking this question will give the necessary campaign against rock’s most ubiquitous rock-doc commentator the credibility it requires.

Rock Crime Spree!

If Mark Knopfler and the rest of Dire Straits had blown up in a nuclear rocket sled accident minutes before donning those terrycloth headbands and pastel sweatsuits and recording “Money for Nothing”, would their first few albums be more highly regarded among the highbrow rock fans who tend to populate these Halls of Rock?

NOT BigSteve

Geo mentioned the other day that he had more records by Sun Ra than any other artist. That got me thinking – who is the artist with the most pieces in your collection? At one time I might have guessed James Brown, or the combined works of all the P-Funk configurations. I just counted – 54 pieces (that’s counting each disc of a multi-disc set separately).

Who is the artist who takes up the biggest chunk of your record collection? Are you sure, or is that just a guess? And do you know how many items make up this chunk? Is this in fact your favorite artist, or does this artist just have a huge body of work?