Just randomly choosing to reply here even though there are dozens of threads on this article and others I could choose to post this.  I never understand how the ending can be interpreted as heaven, when Hunter McCracken is there, which doesn't fit with any conception of heaven that I'm aware of (though I may well be…

In the twenty years between Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, he was always said to be writing a great deal and producing completed screenplays (not that they get used much in the movies he makes), but was just uncomfortable with the recognition he was getting in the wake of his Paramount holding contract and his…

Agreed.  I'm offended that they were given approximately equal standing with Steak 'n Shake.

Given his career, deeming something the worst sequence of it is not necessarily an insult when compared to film sequences generally.

My God, that scene is amazing.  When they don't crush their hands and Kit says he'll save the rock anyway as a souvenir, then tosses it and says maybe a lighter one, and then tosses the lighter one away almost immediately as well.

And then how Cato only declines because it's too little money and isn't a collie.

The whole album (State of the Heart) that song is on is great.  Another song from it that I always felt should have been huge is "That Shirt," one of my favorite wistful songs.  Also, random fun fact that I learned fairly recently:  she's a Brown alum.

"Flip" was an amazing finale.  I remember repeatedly re-watching the closing credits (and less often, the entire show) on my VCR after it originally aired, to listen to that amazing cover of "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" by Shawn Colvin, who was always a great friend of the show (both of them).  Besides being…

Yes, that was amazing.  Other excellent moments from "Correspondents' Lunch" were April and Andy reacting to the pot being thrown out, Chris's look up after Leslie includes him among the "ugly nerds," and the fact that the full text of the Sweetums Foundation sign said "[in smaller text] If You Can't Beat 'Em…

I'm really hoping that someday there will be a release of the five hour cut of The Thin Red Line.

My God, that's a great album.  I only happened to get into Game Theory because after Murmur and Reckoning, I bought any album that Mitch Easter produced.  There are an "excellent condition" CD and a VG+ LP available on eBay currently…

Excellent call on It Still Moves.  Wish I'd thought of that one myself.

God, that Peter Buck guitar riff is such a great start to an album.  And Let It Be has a great last two songs as well.

It seems kind of hard to make accusations of trying too hard when the list contains Andrew W.K., the Beatles, Weezer, Nirvana, and Springsteen.  And to the extent that some picks are less obvious, maybe I'm not being cynical enough (which would be unusual for me) but I lean far more to the "guide people to things they…

Yeah, I agree, the first two don't fare well in comparison to the rest of the album, which definitely doesn't fit with the spirit of the Q&A because they undersell, rather than set the tone for, the rest of the album..  However, The Woods gets credit for having one of the best four song mid-album runs ever from…

Yeah, you perfectly summed up how I feel about that album too.

Strictly speaking, the latest last two that kill are "Nothing Is" and "Wonder 2" on MBV.

I agree, especially since in addition to all the great albums whose first two songs are just indicative of the greatness throughout, there are tons of first albums with two killer front-loaded songs that end up being the only decent ones a band ever puts out in their career.

Me too!  I was already loving the song and a half I'd heard of the album, but the first time hearing the "it's a common fetish for a doting man to ballerina on the coffee table cock in hand" lyric for the first time was definitely one of those "Whoa!  Start the track over again (and again, and again)" moments of…

Murmur, R.E.M. - "Radio Free Europe"/"Pilgrimage"