Give this woman a copy of Faith No More's "Angel Dust" and call it a day.

I love Anna M

good choice - 1st issue isn't difficult enough, flowers of romance isn't enjoyable enough.

I think the gag is over, Stranger folks. Maybe give her Suicidal Tendencies first album then retire this idea.

@4 screw that. we should be able to nominate the next nhoe. how can we do that?

Good idea, @5. Let the readers pick one for her.

No offense, but part of the charm of this column is Grant's excellent choices in LPs for Anna to review. It shows an awesome editor-reviewer synergy or whatever the grinders call it. The energy of these reviews is why I buy old copies of CREEM etc. to read reviews the months certain albums were released -- not everyone was on the bandwagon with some things, and people were still trying to figure out what to do with what later became perennially influential, for better or worse.

Punk didn't last a year, it was stillborn. There's no punk.

I nominate Mr. Bungle's eponymous album for next "Never Heard of 'Em."

I love this column. I think it would be great if Grant would choose a few and let us vote on occasion. I think Grant does just fine with his picks it would just be cool if it were more interactive.

I can imagine a world where Anna Minard got to explain other things in life the way she describes music.

Example: a lawn mower
AM's possible thoughts: "There's a lot of screeching and some whirling, but the ones you can ride on are like an amusement park for your front yard."

The interesting thing about PiL of course is that it came after the Sex Pistols.

So...how do you make music, or rock, after you've destroyed it? (How do you keep a millenarian after the judgement hour passes and nothing happens.)

So, PiL is a kind of back pedalling by the boys, as England pulls out the safety pins and turns into Boy George and Soft Cell.

Hey all, I'm totally into this voting thing on occasion. Good call, and keep an eye out for it in the next few weeks.

NOP, you're probably right: It's actually great to have a column with content that readers want desperately to interact with, as it sparks so many different opinions among us (I go from thinking Anna's incredibly astute on some things to feeling like she's stabbing me in the heart on others -- Beefheart, sigh). I just wanted to pitch in my two shekels above that her editor has done an awesome job of pairing her with specific albums I really did want to hear her reactions to. It doesn't seem random, and it shows Grant's own keen sense of taste in the zeitgeist. But I'll throw in for more audience participation, that certainly would be fun too.

You know I thought there was some hope with the last recommendation of Love, but fucking PiL? Joy Division did it better. Unknown Pleasures should be on the list, especially paired with Second Edition, so you can overall appreciate what was going on in that genre between 1978-1981.

@14: unknown pleasures isn't "difficult listening". everyone likes unknown pleasures. not everyone likes 2nd edition.

@15 I didn't think the point of this column was "difficult listening".

For this column, we force her to listen to random records by artists considered to be important by music nerds.

That's why I was so happy they gave her the Love album! It gets repetitive when they keep giving her punk/noise/avant-garde.