MJ's Off The Wall:
Don't Stop Till You Get Enough followed by Rock With You
&
The Blue Nile's A Walk Across The Rooftops:
Title track followed by Tinseltown In The Rain

Yep, the 'off-dame' in '30s and '40s movies is often cute as hell : e.g., Cary Grant's fiancee Miss Swallow (played by Virginia Walker, who has Grace Kelly's voice) in Bringing Up Baby:
http://jrarcieri.files.word…

Wonder 2 feels to me like a contribution to the micro-tradition that starts with Station To Station and continues with things like Trans Europe Express and I Travel, albeit with lots of MBV special sauce. It's awesome. In Another Way's allegedly 'bag-pipe' guitar sound also sounds to me more like Empire and Dance…

She Found You, New You, Wonder 2 and Nothing Is are instant classics, and have the hooks that'll allow the rest to grow on people who aren't hard core MBV fans. 2 listens in, it's clear that m b v is a great record and a real grower (which is how Loveless felt to me whenever I first heard it).

Don't forget Sapphire and Steel from the '70s (Joanna Lumley was also Purdey in The New Avengers in 1976-1977 but S&S was where it was at).

No, a song like 'Tusk' would get through today in comparable circumstances, i.e., if it was put out by an act that had just sold 20 million albums (or whatever Rumours had racked up by 1979). Adele can release whatever she wants in 2013 and it'll be played until we like it.

One question the show keeps flirting with but not quite answering is just how stupid and lacking in taste/judgment Marnie is. This ep. pushed us to think that she really is easily persuaded that Booth is super-talented. Recall from season 1 that Hannah's old writing prof. says that Tally (Hannah's nemesis) is a…

Yeah yeah, but at least with Gondry the whimsy isn't center-framed and symmetrical. (That said, Gondry does have on the one hand Audrey Tatou and on the other hand Charlotte Le Bon.)

Ha, well this awesome trailer was my first exposure to the Lumineers track. (I'd never even heard of the Lumineers before, and I listen to a shitload of music including lots of pop, so I'm not quite sure how I missed it or them.) Those of us outside the Lumineers loop salute you Mr Gondry. Huzzah!

Great link; thanks for that. May is the coolest.

Yep, like the A Serious Man trailer, this trailer's better than most films. Since the Coens edit their own films (and also judging by the way the trailers actually feel), I assume that they do their own trailers. Can anyone confirm this?

There there; Holocene via Grace Kelly:
http://youtu.be/cvKCbWf3KYA
will make it better.

Dog Eat Dog is where it all came together:
http://www.youtube.com/watc…
It was good enough to influence things like Been Caught Stealing in the '90s, at least a little.

It's semi-famous for *almost* starring a young Harrison Ford (there are some test sequences shot with him that are around on-line) and for Demy *almost* getting Catherine Deneuve to continue her character from Young Girls of Rochefort (i.e., after taking up with the carnies she ends up in CA). Model Shop as shot is a…

Thanks for that book passage. Damn if it isn't spooking me out even now.

I agree. Fetishizing the Unknown Pleasures version is insane. Anyhow, Disorder, Shadowplay, and Wilderness are my fave UP tracks, but looking for 'hits' on JDs albums doesn't work. Their 'hits' - Transmission/Atmosphere/LWTUA - were all completely intentionally/perversely non-album singles (something New Order…

And Grace Kelly planting one on Stewart at the beginning of Rear Window: 'How's your leg?'

And Grace Kelly planting one on Stewart at the beginning of Rear Window: 'How's your leg?'

Officially it's 'raping the audience into independence'.

Officially it's 'raping the audience into independence'.