FIRE EVERYTHING!

It's like alcohol, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems.

Simple Minds' The American in Dortmund 1984:
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

It was Debra (and her sister) for me. And for The Flight of The Conchords' whole career.

Nothing can top the original clip for France Gall and Gainsbourg's Les sucettes:
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

@Zebedee, InActionMan. Good points. On first watch I just couldn't compute the opulence, and thought that ultra-richiness would partially undermine Ray's objection to going, i.e., Shosh knows then that this is not quite an ordinary college party (more like seeing how the upper east side live, but, ha ha, champagne and…

And what kind of college party was that? (Sometimes this show makes no sense….)

*solitary*, poor, nasty, brutish, and short…. they always forget the 'solitary'.

"I'm a soul boy - I'm a dole boy -
Take pleasure in leisure, I believe in joy!"
Wham!'s first single, the excellent Wham Rap! (Enjoy what you do?):
http://youtu.be/BsyHQgiem8c
Any excuse for exclamation abuse!
And the 12" version:
http://youtu.be/JX_zmcVE0Wc

Krull!

The Mad Magazine Parody of the show's opening had a nurse in the operating room leeringly counter the ('Faster than he was before') V.O. with 'Faster isn't always better'. I only *vaguely* understood what that was about at the time….

Kraftwerk
Abba

The profile of Andrea True Connection's More More More (the source of Len's key hook sample) rose considerably through the '00s, in part because of the exposure Len brought to it. This has in turn led people to rightly see Len's track as redundant (the 6m 15s mix of More More More is fabulous and Andrea True's story…

Climbing the mountains of conflict since 1985….

Bags High Hopes.

Polanski's Bitter Moon is no day at the beach I can assure you.

Yes it is. But when it came time to do end of '00s decade lists, both Van Lear Rose and Rabbit Fur Coat which had been widely hailed and loved at mid-decade, were almost completely forgotten. Neither made the AVclub's top 50 for example. Weird.

In case you haven't heard it (I only came across it a few months ago), the sublime b-side to The Downtown Lights single:
http://youtu.be/cORMA0EVlko

You're welcome. Most people have never heard of The Blue Nile, and a large number of those would dig them (esp. the first album) if they did check them out! In fact, now I think about it, the AVClub should probably do something on them at some point (checking now, so far TBN only rates a glancing mention in the…

Sorry it's taken me a while to reply…. but, yes, Liz Imbrie (Ruth Hussey, Celeste Holm in the '50s remake) is an even more pronounced version of the phenomenon.