Sure.  No love lost for Havens.  That's probably from the Harry Chapin Congressional Medal concert, which has a lot of great/ interesting performances… Havens adds a ton to that tune.  The rhythm he put in any cover adds a layer that hadn't been there before.

Aaannnnnnnddddd here comes the Armageddon 3-D rerelease.

And Harry Chapin, but for today, yep, Havens.

Is it Heartbeeps?

Glad to hear Robert Smith is still alive.  Cause it seemed to go around my school every other week that he had killed himself, or suffered some awful fate.  

Bah.  Gonna have to go with respectful disagreement.  Essentially, you're stating that you can't understand music outside of it's time because you don't understand it's context amongst other bands.  Getting a copy of Standing on a Beach in 1986 changed everything for me, musically and socially, so I get how…

I was 14 when this album came out on election day 1988, and bugged the absolute living shit out of my parents to take me to Everybody's Records in Cincinnati to buy this the day it came out.   Except they were adamant about wanting to watch election returns.  Finally, at about 8:50 p.m., my dad gives in and drives me…

World Leader Pretend pretty much puts that argument to bed for me.

This reminds me of Meeting People Is Easy- hey, let's make a documentary while we're breaking big and tell people it's kind of like a documentary, but it's not really a documentary, you know?

Amen.  The end of that song is one of my favorite moments in their canon.   He talks about it extensively in the above referenced "How Music Works", which I'd recommend to any Talking Heads fan. 

Disagree that True Stories was "a warped love letter to America that wasn’t actually that warped at all."  I always thought the whole point of True Stories was to illuminate how warped all the normalcy really was.

Yes, guy-who-turned-the-name-of-a-beloved-Russian-author-of-some-of-humanity's-greatest-written-words-into-a-douche-joke, things used to be classy around here. 

Five foot one and conqueror of Italy, not bad, huh?

Except, strangely enough, for the song 'Meat is Murder.'

Is 'comedian with bluegrass band' now an annual thing?

Is that here already?  I swear that sneaks up on me every year.

Thinking the subtle route might work best:  'I'd like to welcome our democratic guests- the guy who helped put a rover on Mars,' various civil rights heroes, guests from Newtown' and our Republican guests… um… Ted Nugent, I guess.'

"Begin the Begin"/ "These Days" on R.E.M.'s Life's Rich Pageant.

I can't remember if it was in the AVClub review or not, but a review of that movie talked about it as the first movie in a while where the humor didn't come from an underlying cynicism.  That struck really struck a chord with me.  Also, my two kids, like, really, really like that movie, which makes me like it all the…

Are we gonna use the Han Solo pointing at me picture every time?  I keep thinking he's mad at me.  It's weird.