He's also most parents' idea of Bruce Springsteen, if they can't handle Bruce Springsteen. I've often said, Bruce is The Boss, Mellencamp is the Shift Leader.

I mentioned this below, but I still enjoy some RHCP, including parts of "By The Way," and I've never liked Train and Nickelback. Or Dave Matthews, or Phish, or Creed. Or Lenny Kravitz.

I love that. It's like saying, "We can go anywhere! We could go to Disneyland, or even Gameworks!"

Whatever that sound they used for their take on "Rockin In The Free World" is god-damn perfect.

I'd be a little ticked if it does. There's a lot of Mellencamp I'm not cool with, but the bridge of "Jack And Diane" is awesome, fist-pumping, crank-the-radio-and-sing-at-the-top-of-your-lungs if there ever was one.

Fair enough.

I don't think. I know.

Having kids = total loss of all indie cred. Duh.

Hey. "Dream On" is still awesome.

Do we really need to? Honestly. There's a lot of music and film and stuff I hate in this world, but what good does it do to constantly point it out? Other than satisfying the smug little gremlin that lives in my brain (which doesn't really accomplish anything), I don't really want to see a site full of HateSongs.

I totally agree about the interviewer's perspective. In a lot of cases, it's an even more toxic opinion than the hater - sometimes, the hater has a fairly reasoned opinion, saying stuff like it's not their cup of tea but they shouldn't totally hate, while the interviewer just sticks to the hard line of "this is…

Three? I count two. . . the chorus, and the verse - which is the exact same fucking riff as the chorus, just with less instruments and some poorly-executed wah.

I still think "Californication" and "Blood Sugar Sex Majik" are okay. I really enjoyed "By The Way" when it came out. . . but then "Stadium Arcadium" came out and it was so, so terrible, it caused me to reflexively listen to their earlier stuff and see all the problems - a singer who can't sing, lyrics that sound…

I want more scenes with Crazy Eyes and her parents. That was amazing.

What's Sarah Chalke up to these days?

Which probably wouldn't have helped them in fighting the War On Terra.

That's almost exactly what I posted a ways down on this board. I think they knew something was going to happen, wanted to use that to their advantage, but were totally blindsided by the scope of the attack. Anything I've heard/read from the truth movement that sounds remotely credible has pointed me in that direction.

I'll openly admit to at least considering the "Bush administration weren't behind 9/11, but knew something might happen and allowed it to happen" argument. But I don't for a second believe the administration themselves were behind the attacks.

And Lord, are they terrible. The nadir was the one where he's speaking from behind a political podium the whole time, and he brings up a joke someone else sent to him - "Pelosi Galore." Not only is that not funny, he didn't even take credit for it, he stated some random fan told him that joke, and he acted like it was…

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