You people have obviously never heard of Christian Rock.

I'd also be willing to bet most black soul fans love the movie, Ackroyd & Belushi's performances included.  It's about as big hearted a love letter as has ever been put to film.

Perry Mason Theme off that album is pretty damn silly too.  But it's fun, and marks the pop inclusiveness of Ackroyd's vision, tossing a lounge music-fueled TV theme in the mix, as he would with country TV theme Rawhide in the movie.

The book you mention is called Sweet Soul Music.  The chapter on Solomon Burke alone is worth the cover price.

I remember it being lumped with Gilda Live under this same accusation.  Which is pretty nuts considering that, as much as I love(d) Gilda, her B'way concert & film clearly were just a series of SNL style sketches, whereas Blues Brothers not only fleshed out characters we had only seen perform music previously, but was…

Gene Siskel bucked the trend and listed it on his year's top ten.

WORST. ENDING. EVER.   And I'm not exaggerating, it blows every kind of chunk imaginable.

Remember how much sexual chemistry Cruise had with Thaddie Newton in MI 2?  If you are thinking "none at all," then yes, you do remember.  I'm predicting the same with Beyonce.  I don't know if it's racial or what, but that just sounds DOA.   Also, may I offer the highly original sentiment, fuck all these remakes.

I agree Eastwood has become way overrated.  But I liked Flags of our Fathers, and Million Dollar Baby & Mystic River, although not perfect, are undeniably good.

The most interesting thing about the bad 76 Streisand version is imagining if Col. Parker had let Elvis accept the supporting role.  Would have been better than Kristofferson.  Also better than Clambake.

He's not completely gay, just closet bi, aka "Hollywood Gay."

Maybe this is a Mad Men prequel, the store ends up in the hands of his hot Jewish grand daughter who gets the all-powerful Draper finger bang (and then some.)

I've consciously decided to give Zemeckis and Gale a pass on the racist accusation out of love for the original film, though BttF II almost made me reconsider.

I organize my iTunes library with the term Classic preceding genre for basically mid 60's (basically Beatles forward) through 80's.  50's through mid 60's I call Roots (as opposed to oldies,) Pre-Rock basically for 40's, and Archive for 20's thru 30's.   I consider Nirvana forward basically Contemporary.

Lucas was always a crap director regarding actors, didn't care enough about the human elements in SW to merely make Carrie Fisher either drop the lousy British accent or at least commit to it. Anything good was 100% brought by the actor, ( making Harrison Ford twice as awesome.). I always felt sorry for Loyd,…

Everyone involved with music in Nashville uses that term, every music book and publication too, not just those who live there. It's universal. If your point is that you don't like anyone in the Nashville music system, fine, otherwise your point makes no sense and you should cosider getting over yourself.

I guess you think anyone who says SoHo is a douche too. You're nuts.

So…you're a troll then? For your sake I hope so because no one should be this illogical on purpose.

Ridiculous. East Nashville is not just the part of town where the cooler musicians live who generally aren't courting the Nashvegas Music Row crap factory dollar, it's also an acknowledged geographical neighborhood listed on frigging maps for Christ's sake, not some hipster affectation.

You clearly know nothing about the guy's work or life, you just insist in shoving your grinding ax into a conversation where it doesn't belong. Maybe Snider will write a song about you called the Talking Out My Ass Chatboard Blues.