I’ve been spending a bit of time recently listening to a pretty good podcast called “The Canon”.

The premise is very simple: each week movie critics Devin Faraci and Amy Nicholson pick a film and debate (often hotly) whether it merits entry into “The Canon”. Occasionally, they’ll do a head to head (e.g. Rocky vs First Blood) with only one movie being granted entry.

The hosts have pretty good chemistry, they clearly love/hate the movies they’re discussing and they also get some decent guests to help them out: Henry Rollins on Apocalypse Now being a recent highlight.

I’d recommend giving it a listen if you’re a movie fan Details below.

http://thecanon.wolfpop.com/audio/playlists/3968

Anyway, the thought this lead me to was that this concept would probably make for a pretty decent thread or two on here. So, I propose we start with music: which albums do you feel are worthy/unworthy of gaining entry to the Afterword Canon? Feel free to debate with all the snark and vim evident on the podcast itself.

A couple of quick ground rules:

* We’re looking for consensus choices. I think Revolver is a load of old cobblers, but it’s clearly going to » Continue Reading.