I've always been much more fond of the early years myself, as most of you that know my taste in music would no doubt guess. I have all those IRS albums on vinyl and almost nothing after that. Strangely, I was never really as big a fan as that might imply, but I'd just about take any pre-Green album over anything that came after. What made this really clear to me recently is listening a lot to the 16-song best of the IRS years CD that I picked up from the library last week (and yes, I did copy it, but don't tell). This is an Aussie import and is kind of like an expanded edition of Eponymous (which always seemed kind of a rip if you ask me, although I never bought it). Anyway, it's a very strong collection and, needless to say, a much better deal than Eponymous, although I'd surely change it a little bit if I was making my own collection. But it sure has a high jangle factor so it's kind of hard to fault.

So what's your favorite period, or favorite album? I guess my favorite album would be Reckoning. Yeah, that's the one. She's got pretty persuasion....God damn, pure confusion....and all those Byrdsian guitars, that's what I like best. And what was on the Mr. MidFi collection?