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Bishonen Knife
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You had me at 'Relive Freaks and Geeks'.

'Atone' doesn't mean 'turn back time and change what you did'. It means 'Acknowledging your wrongs and doing the very best you can to make reparations.' It's not perfect, but it's light years ahead of Cosby's 'she totally wanted to take those drugs and let me screw her while she was passed out' bullshit denials.

The fact alone that the vault mentality dates back to the pre-home video period where they would milk a bit more out of their older properties every 5-10 years via a cinematic re-release was an indication that it wasn't long for this world.

And what does anyone have to say about Acorn TV egregiously yanking all four seasons of Jeeves and Wooster in about a weeks' time? Nothing. NOTHING.

Ah, but is snow glistening?

There's also the fact that he recognised that he'd been a misogynist asshole as a younger man and spent much of his later life attempting to atone for it.

Also, they have their longstanding 'Disney Vault' policy of creating a false scarcity of their films. I've been wondering for ages how they're planning to continue that into the streaming era.

Guess no one loves Raymond anymore.

I was hoping someone would bring that up. I remember being thrilled that someone gave me an extra copy of the CD as a gift, because you got a different set of cards each time.

One of their best singles, for sure. I bet it won back a lot of people who heard Who You Are as the first single for No Code and thought "Eh, might give this one a miss."

Someone mentioned REM's New Adventures in Hi Fi further upthread, and it reminded me that there were a lot of albums like that in 1996-97. A lot of bands seemed to be reassessing themselves in the wake of becoming far bigger than they ever expected to be.

Neil Young is the king of falling-apart albums.

They're very similar albums in a lot of ways. Both were their respective bands' reactions to being huge in '92-'95 and then looking round and saying "Well, where do we go from here?"

I remember showing Dazed and Confused at a slumber party and hearing one of my friends mutter "That was the goddamn weirdest movie I ever saw …" as I was going to sleep.

Oceans reminds me so intensely of being a teenager that it makes me feel both sad and pleasantly nostalgic. Present Tense is probably as good a ballad as they ever did. I have a soft spot for Indifference, too.

Vitalogy and No Code are still the two Pearl Jam albums that get the most play in my collection. There's something interesting about records that document bands in turmoil. It's probably why I like Abbey Road the best of the Beatles albums, too.

Also: random use of a font that looks like marker scrawl.

I got Pipeline Transport too. I'm baffled. Big Pipeline has clearly hacked my account.

My list both is and isn't creepy.

I made the mistake of really getting in to the original show about a week before it was cancelled.