For instance, I hated "She Don't Use Jelly" (from 1993's Transmissions From The Satellite Heart) when it came out because the song was an asshole lightning rod at campus bars. However, The Soft Bulletin aspired to higher things in 1999 – and achieved them. I borrowed the CD from my boss and listened to it at the office, but never got my own copy. Still, I couldn't shake some of the songs out of my head. A year later, I saw some concert footage on HBO that looked extremely inventive and theatrical, but the program kept cutting away to different bands rotisserie-style, so it was hard to get a true read on them. This spring, I heard a couple of standout tracks from this year's Yoshmi Battles The Pink Robots on the Big Beat in advance of its release and bought it the day it came out. mkooi.com All content copyright 2004 Send questions and comments to mike@mkooi.com Revised - 12/13/04