Every time I listen to this, I think of Dana Carvey singing "Chopping Broccoli."

"Vega-Tables" is a silly song for sure, but on the way out, I overheard some teenagers talking about how SMiLE suddenly clicked for them on that song. It was flat-out inspirational live.

Also, the audience was very mixed between the hipsters (from both the 30ish and late teens varieties), cosmic cowboys, and Republican golf-shirt guys with plastic wives.

I saw that Asslee Simpson screw-up, too. And I hate her a ton for blaming the band right before the end credits.

I downloaded it. The screw-up sucked, but she could have handled it so much better --storming off and blaming the band was the most classless option available.

Kind of wonderning who the audience for this is. Wouldn't fans of that era already have that stuff?

I'm (or, well, people like me) probably the target market, Hec -- too young to buy the stuff when it first came out, interested in it as influential, but not quite willing to spend bazillions of dollars tracking down each CD included.

I haven't looked at the box set's track listing, but it sounds like something i would want.

Featuring one of those not-quite-a-theramin things from the original recording (what are they called, Jon?) custom-made by an Austin luthier/electronic instrument dabbler.

A Tannerin

I haven't looked at the box set's track listing, but it sounds like something i would want.

Oh yeah - almost everything on the box is essential listening. Great great stuff. I'm just a little over familiar with it. AMG summed up my feelings pretty well:

If you did listen to this sort of music devotedly back in the '80s, in fact, much of this will be like revisiting familiar hits and standards, even if few of them actually made the charts as actual hits (and then usually in the U.K.): R.E.M.'s "Radio Free Europe," the Dead Kennedys' "Holiday in Cambodia," the Jesus and Mary Chain's "Just Like Honey," Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart," the Violent Femmes' "Blister in the Sun," XTC's "Senses Working Overtime," the Sugarcubes' "Birthday," Faith No More's "We Care a Lot," the Church's "Under the Milky Way," Siouxsie & the Banshees' "Christine," Gun Club's "Sex Beat," and Suicidal Tendencies' "Institutionalized," for instance, all fall into that category. And if you didn't experience the music directly during the era, this box set still gives you a pretty good idea of what was going on, and what paths to travel down for further investigation.

Some of the segues were odd - I can't quite imagine why they had Lone Justice sandwiched between Ministry and Killing Joke.

Hayden, what a show!

It just clicked to me know why Brian said he could tour with the Wondermints playing Pet Sounds. It wasn't just that they were good, but that they were so versatile.

Thanks, Jon! Yeah, Polk is apparently an Austinite.

And heck yeah, David! Those Wondermints can do anything. I missed the Pet Sounds tour, but they played "God Only Knows" last night, which made me ache for more Pet Sounds.

Now playing: "Joan Crawford" by Blue Öyster Cult.

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Kind of a Halloween party, I take it. I should add that song to my Halloween mix: "Joan Crawford has / risen from the grave!" Truly a scary thought.

Now I want to see a zombie party of old rotting Hollywood stars, each acting diva-pissed when their noses falls off into their dry martinis.

I should add that song to my Halloween mix: "Joan Crawford has / risen from the grave!"

Diana Scarwid, who played Christina Crawford in Mommie Dearest, was Karen Tyler on Wonderfalls. She's aging right nicely.

Hi, everyone. Long time no talk. Work's been crazy. Happy belated engagement wishes to Rio & Bob.

Oh yeah - almost everything on the box is essential listening. Great great stuff. I'm just a little over familiar with it.

I might be too, actually. I looked at the tracklist, and I already have about a quarter of the songs, and know a good chunk of the rest. I love "Just Like Honey," but I think I have the song on three CDs now. Ditto "Radio Free Europe."

I'll probably put it on my Xmas list anyhow.