There is something I read, and possibly impossible to reference, that talked about how Richard Patrick approached Trent Reznor about becoming an equal writing partner in Nine Inch Nails and Reznor kind of laughing him off.

The problem with musical purity tests is that most people look at a band with a guitars and assume they've made as many lyric and production related decisions as a pop singer does. Don't even get me started on the idea of rock fans being into some kind of 'art music.'

Yah, this one was pretty bad for never getting out of the shallow end of a generic pile of verbiage.

I think overall this episode is extremely hard on religion and people of faith in general. The people of faith are generally shown as exploited, opportunistic, and violent. If they went to war with Shelbyville it would have encapsulated the average anti-religion rant delivered by teenaged atheists.

I don't see how anyone can conclude that the religion vs. science thing comes off as even-handed. The religious crowd is exploited by homer, persecutes Lisa, demolishes the town, and then happily forgets everything to shop at Pottery Barn

Around that time someone who was honestly worried asked me why I was so sure the world wouldn't end. My response was; "the world's been coming to an end an awful lot lately."

Wow, an unsurprising anecdote about Axl Rose from over 20 years ago.

I'd say it does hold up, and it does make me nostalgic for a particular time in my life. I don't believe it was ever my favourite movie, but I can't help but make that monster voice whenever I say "rocky road"

I'd say Stand My Me was a completely different entity than the pre-teen-boy centric films of the mid 80s. Stand By Me sits better with teen delinquent movies like That was Then This is Now, The Wanderers, and The Lost Boys. That pre-teen boy focused genre seemed to split into adding more monsters (The monster Squad,…

Overkill, Bomber, Ace Of Spades, and No Sleep Till Hammersmith are all classics, following that is a fairly consistent recording career, and always an incredible band to see live.

Maybe you just don't understand the idea of Motorhead's music.

I put him in a category with strong personalities like John Lydon that get a bad rap because they're honest about what they think instead of coddling people sociable niceties and playing along with acting 'punk'

I think it's always a worthwhile exorcise to analyze why people hate things, and I also think it's informative that most people hate things because for circumstantial reasons, instead of well thought out critical reasons.

But, just about everybody looks down there nose at bands that don't meet their standards of musical purity. They take exception with Albini because his choice of good music conflicts with theirs.

Well, "films noirs" would maintain the french.

The song itself along with the marketing and the media reaction made it feel like you were being pressured to like it. Even the general attitude here on AV Club is that you have to have super good reasons for disliking this song.

Happy is extra offensive because the entire song feels like an outro where you're at the point where the lead vocalist is beginning to ad-lib in the background while the background singers go full tilt on refrain.

I find Mp3's encoded around 128K fairly easy to spot. But, normally I have to know the song I'm listening to pretty well to spot it. You can hear where specific sounds don't roll off or fade out as much as they do when you listen to the CD version on the same equipment. Usually it doesn't matter because you're…

This is simply not true. For the most part scenes are still localized simply because human beings are still localized. In fact, thanks to cheaper recording technology we're seeing more variety and more collaboration between wider varieties of artists. If you look at the music scene in Canada there's always people…

No, it doesn't make it bad, it just makes it the kind of metal album that has no appeal for me, and many other metal fans.