No Fault of Their Own

Poor Bloc Party.

I can't point to a single wrong thing about their music, but it just doesn't sound good any more. I cringe every time it comes up on the pod. And yet the songs are still creative, the performances are energetic, and the lyrics engaging.

Oh, and The White Stripes, too. I can't hit the skip button fast enough when this stuff comes up, even Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, which I never thought I'd give up, ever since my rousing rendition of it at a basement karaoke place for one of Joe's Farewell-I'm-Off-To-London parties...