On the same topic, I'll pimp Joan Jett's Fetish:

By 1999, riot grrrl pioneer Joan Jett was all but reduced to being a nostalgia act. The unfortunate thing was, she still had plenty of good songs left in her, even if her days of hitting the charts were long gone. In fact, she had more aggressiveness in her than ever, as Fetish proves. Placed on the compilation album of the same name, "Fetish" features Jett screaming lyrics that — for the first time in her recorded career — truly touch on the obscene. "You look good in latex, get it off, we're having rough sex," Jett rasps, increasingly bordering on dominatrix imagery with such come-ons as "relax while I pound your ass" and "restrain while I f*ck your head."

Mmmm, my randomized iTunes glam playlist has hit a nice streak:

Teenage Rampage - Sweet
Babylon - NY Dolls
Gimme Danger - Iggy
Soul Love - Bowie

is the Interpol CD good?

It actually doesn't do much for me. I put it on and it's fine, but individual songs from it have never jumped up and said LOVEMELOVEMELOVEME to me. YInterpolLoveMV.

"You look good in latex, get it off, we're having rough sex," Jett rasps, increasingly bordering on dominatrix imagery with such come-ons as "relax while I pound your ass" and "restrain while I f*ck your head."

See, to me that just sounds sad. Like she knows no one buys her CDs anymore except a few Kathleen Hanna fans, so she's trying to turn into Peaches. It makes me feel sorry for her.

(And I am definitely turning into my mother.)

Hey Angus! I actually just saw that album on some best-of list within the past week, but I'm waaaay too lazy to see if it was on Pitchfork's.

Oops...I just checked the Pitchfork list and it is indeed there! Only no 88, but still, I stand corrected. In fact, the whole sequence 86-90 is pretty good company to be in: Joni Mitchell, Roxy, Giorgio, Devo and Fela Kuti!

Misha, the cover is indeed an absolute classic.

My point is that they have A LOT of time to fill and so they play loose with the definition of "cheese".

That became apparent a bit after I posted. Definitely fun stuff, but it eventually got wearying.

See, to me that just sounds sad. Like she knows no one buys her CDs anymore except a few Kathleen Hanna fans, so she's trying to turn into Peaches. It makes me feel sorry for her.

I don't know - I don't think it was an attention grabbing bid. I think Joan had been active in the B&D scene for a while, it became a big part of her sexuality and it was more of a coming out. Fetish wasn't released with a big promotional push, and it was more than five years ago.

Love my Interpol CD that I cannot find. And Plei will agree, they are great in performance, which would make seeing Curiosa even more worthwhile.

Fetish wasn't released with a big promotional push, and it was more than five years ago.

I didn't know this was something from several years back. It still stinks of marketing ploy to me, though. (I know my reaction is supposed to be, "How great that she can be honest about that in her music!," but really? I don't want to know that much about anybody's sex life unless I'm sleeping with them.)

I think the same about Ms.-Jackson-If-You're-Nasty, BTW.

The JJ thing makes me sad, too. Even if privately she was into B&D? To put it on her album just screams NOTICE ME, I'M SHOCKING in a sad kinda pathetic way.

So how do you classify Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side"?