The Internet is also still slow, at least in the sense in its ability to offer high-quality, streaming video. Doesn't look like that's going to change any time soon.

Scary dead girls
I think I enjoyed this episode because the dead ghosts scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. There's just something unsettling about those ashen-white dead girls with slashed throats whispering phrases and appearing in mirror reflections.

Kanye West
He seems to be following an "every other album" pattern with me. I instantly liked The College Dropout, Graduation, and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Late Registration and 808 both initially left me a bit cold, but they grew on me after several listens.

Oops, I mean "saw," not "song" - I guess I just had a certain song in mind when I was writing that sentence.

That was the cue to throw the water bottle at the lead singer.

In my list of bands I wish would come out of retirement so I could see them live, Hum ranks pretty high.

I'm ashamed to admit that I never heard of Rapper's Delight until Def Squad's cover of the song was featured on the show.

12 Angry Viewers - I remember that show and being occasionally infuriated by the choices of "the jury" or whatever they were called. But they sometimes made good selections - I never heard of Lusk (who unfortunately did not make more albums) until I saw them select this video as their pick of the week.

97 nostalgia -Hype Williams videos
Bring back the shiny suit rappers.

Cornershop
Whatever happened to this band? I remember repeatedly playing When I Was Born for the 7th Time on my CD player in 1997, and this album received a lot of critical accolades (plus "Brimful of Asha" and its remix were pretty ubiquitous). Their wikipedia article indicates that they put out a few more albums,…

There would probably be less incentive to subscribe to HBO and its on-demand service in particular if you could just watch all the shows on Instant Queue. Plus the whole, "It's not TV, it's HBO," mentality.

It's about time I check out DS9, although after watching all of BSG this past month, I wonder how it holds up in comparison.

Like that movie from the 90s, "Go."

It's not theft or "stealing," it's copyright infringement.

Agree with the above. Hyden (correctly) focuses 1998 as a year that brought forth the rise of nu-metal. But the dominant form of rock music in that year was a lot pop-rock-alternative songs (more so than acts) that were played incessantly on the radio - Barenaked Ladies' "One Week," Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris,"…

Maybe a little of both. The kids who I remember were Korn fans were listening to Manson a year before. The Manson fans didn't really cross-over into Limp Bizkit territory, however.

Ska-punk, third wave ska, blew up and burned out fast. Although not ska acts, I theorized that Green Day and The Offspring's breakout success in 1994 opened the door for punk rock to find new audiences. Somehow that resulted in a brief explosion of ska bands in 1997 - to be clear, a lot of these bands dubbed "ska"…

@DeeDee, An attempt to defend Limp Bizkit? Let me try…

Kramer is a Bills fan. I approve.

Now this is an interesting topic as well, because I believe it happened in the 90s - the point when hip-hop replaced rock as the dominant mainstream pop music. If g-funk didn't do it, then it certainly happened by the time BIG died, the hit singles in 97 from Life After Death were omnipresent (Hypnotize, Mo Money Mo…