THESIS OF THE WEEK: The quality of any band is proportional to the amount of effort they expend getting their intros and outtros to sound right (and not just the composed parts, but the quiet, in the background bits, too*).
*Off the top of my head, the whispered 'fuck' at the beginning of Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain," any side-ending R.E.M. song ever, the collected works of Badly Drawn Boy, and the first Oasis album (especially "Cigarettes and Alcohol," which begins with the sound of an amp turned on LOUD, but not making any noise, and ends with about half a minute of goofing off). Wilco's "Dreamer in My Dreams." I'll think of more good examples later.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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