The original premise for this came up through him mentioning (or at least how I remember it) the classic Radiohead album, OK Computer. Some would argue that it isn’t the best Radiohead album, but few would argue that isn’t a classic. He’s never listened to it. That’s cool, I didn’t listen to it until well after it had been released. My only regret about it is that I didn’t discover it earlier. He doesn’t seem to think that it’s what everybody cracks it up to be.

The other side of it came last week, he asked me about an album called Destruction of Puppies or Appetite for Puppies or something like that, can’t remember exactly. Nonetheless, in all my 28 years of listening to almost all types of music, it had slipped through. He was noticeably shocked and disturbed by my lack of knowledge of said album.

Over beers we decided that we should duel over discuss these albums publicly on our blogs and continue the discussion to two other albums. We both agreed to give well thought out critiques that are fair to the music and not to look to score cheap hits. I’m not intent on changing his opinion, rather I’m intent seeing him acknowledge the choices I give him as important and/or interesting pieces of music. OK Computer is first. There will other choices afterwards and I’m totally undecided on what direction to take. Think I’ll just wait on it and see where to go.

His side of the discussion is here. Stay tuned, this will be fun.