No, that's fine. If you called him English, you'd have offended him most grievously.

I guess I was hoping for an instrumental theme a la OHMSS, but what the hell… Also, how long until the MRA assholes start yelling and screaming about a gay guy singing a Bond theme?

Richard Chu? Toby Chung? Fucking Charlie Chan.

Yes, but in their defense, they did finally put Rush on the cover this year.

That is truly the worst idea anybody has ever had. If an updated Breakfast Club is necessary (and it isn't), the only sensible thing to do is go the Wet Hot American Summer route and simply use the original five at their current ages, and set it a week after the original, and act natural about it.

And that in turn reminds me of something Roger Ebert (RIP) said in his review of 'Heat': "At this point in their careers, if Pacino and De Niro go out to study a cop or a robber, it's likely their subject will have modeled himself on their performances in old movies."

Return of the King, Hurt Locker, Braveheart, Platoon…

Sorry bub, taking a shotgun approach here…

I am super-excited to see all of these, but there's a terrible part of me that secretly hopes that they all bomb, ushering in a new era of smaller, more personal moviemaking.

Realize of course, that of the 9 movies that Nolan has directed, 3 of them were Batman movies (thus not 'original') and one (Insomnia) was a remake. I'm not bashing Nolan (Interstellar was the first of his movies that I didn't like), but I think he'd agree that going back to the well isn't inherently an awful thing…

It doesn't count (it's not 'insanely complicated'), but The Replacements' anti-video for 'Bastards of Young' ought to get grandfathered in as arguably the first single-shot video ever (anyone know if there were any before this one?).

Ahhh, you beat me to Mr Krinkle. I still can't believe they pulled that off, especially on the kind of budget they probably had.

I think they buried the lede here. The world must know that there's a forthcoming book called 'Trigger Mortis', and neither the author nor his agent nor anyone at the publisher had a problem with that title.

I agree, I for one would be willing to say 'six-stringed instrument tuned mainly in fourths' instead of 'guitar' from now on if it meant taking that sentence out of existence forever.

One of the many things that made the Police great is that Andy and Stewart had the power (most of the time) to shut Sting down when he came in with a song or set of lyrics that weren't to their liking.

Thank you for putting the idea of Traind as the world's worst supergroup in my head. Anyone up for Kickstarting this? Sadly, you'd probably make a fortune.

When U2 was recording 'Bullet the Blue Sky,' Bono told the Edge to 'put El Salvador through an amplifier.' This douchebag in Train is an amateur.

Stan Lynch was the Heartbreakers' original drummer, and he left acrimoniously in 1994 ('Into the Great Wide Open' was the last album he played on). Steve Ferrone replaced him starting with 'Wildflowers' and has been there ever since. Ferrone is a rock-solid drummer and all-around Good Guy, and Petty & Co have put…

They were called Fiction Plane, and aside from Sting's son being the bass player, I don't really remember anything about them.

^^^This. My own depressing theory is that today's music is generally lame because the people making it don't care, and they don't care because the kids who listen to it don't care. From my perspective, music can't have much value when there's instant (and mostly free) access to the entire history of recorded sound.