"Driveshaft? More like SUCKshaft!"

@Great Unwashed, here's the thing. Nu-metal fans weren't predisposed to listening to Lilith Fair-esque music, true. But as online music was still limited, you had two options - FM radio and MTV. The very same "rock alternative" station that was playing Sarah McLachlan and Meredith Brooks in 1997 was playing Limp…

I doubt it. He was lambasting Moby at the time. If his semi-autobiographical "8 Mile" is accurate, I don't think Eminem was very aware of Detroit's musical scene outside of his own, let alone that "techno" is a very defined term (as well as a loose one) that's specific to what originated in Detroit.

You heard Eminem - "Nobody listens to techno." He's from Detroit, too.

"Volcano Girls" still rocks.

Be Here Now
It was a bloated album, and I think Hell might have "All Around the World" being played in an endless loop.

That's cuz Posh was the hottest.

What this "techno" that's being bandied about? In 97, it was supposed to crush America like a tsunami. Even Madonna and U2 were appropriating their music for their new albums.

My own theory is that it was Gen Y overthrowing Gen X.

Unforunately, I had to wait until 1998 before I got my license, and my (parents') car had no CD player. So the songs that Hyden forewarned in his 1998 preview (Eve 6, Marcy Playground, plus a lot of that Barenaked Ladies song) are the songs I remember. The Fastball song probably made for the best driving.

I thought she actually got hotter as the show progressed. I think it's because she straightened her hair, and she stopped wearing that overcoat.

A vote for okay? I liked him a lot when I was watching him as a child, but rewatching these episodes, I found the awkwardness, while endearing in its own way, almost too awkward. Geordi-level awkwardness seemed more appropriate for the type of person who could make it in Starfleet, but still have trouble in social…

Ditto, there was something about that amorphous, dark, humanoid shape suddenly appearing, plus the understanding that it had been spying the entire time, that creeped me out.

I think in that episode Cliff is having a nightmare after eating too late in the evening; his children coolly reject his presence or don't know who he is, and he starts seeing Muppets. Cliff's neighbor, Wallace Shawn (Vizzini from The Princess Bride) narrates it. I quite liked that episode when I was a kid.

Frat rap
For lack of a better term, that's what I think when I hear Asher Roth and similar-sounding shit on the radio. Maybe he didn't take off, but recently there was an obnxious trend of smart-ass, white-boy rap, usually blended with synthpop and rock (Gym Class Heroes, 3Oh!3 ("Do the Helen Keller")). Is this…

Jesus Christ, are we the same persons, I loved both when I was a teenager.

I think that was "Aquiel," the episode in which the dog turns into the blob. If I recall, I think Geordi and his crush did actually hit it off pretty well, although there was some awkwardness when she found out he had reviewed her personal records.

Well, I don't think the filmmaker makes any bones about being impartial. If I'm just evaluating its merits as a doc, I would prefer a more restrained hand, but, yeah, considering the circumstances, it'd be pretty damn hard not to lampoon the characters directly, indirectly responsible for your friend and his kid's…

That reminds me of Stankonia. Stankonia gets a lot of praise, but I thought that album was bloated with filler, what with the skits and throwaway tracks like We Luv Deez Hoez.

"Rats" seems pretty useless on "Vs." Heyfoxey, I suppose like Revolution 9, is one of those tracks that I don't necessarily enjoy but can't help but listen to for the sake of filtering through the weirdness.