I'm a big Heavy fan, but I didn't read that as a dig on them, just a statement that a lot of their songs work well in commercials. You can say the same thing about The Who and CCR.

Yes! A Letterman encore; they played 'What Makes a Good Man' first, and Dave asked them to play 'How You Like Me Now?' on the spot. I'm not sure if this happened more than a handful of times during Letterman's entire run.

There was a terrific Literal Video for Separate Ways, but it's not currently up on YouTube. Most likely the band had nothing to do with its removal, but if you hate Journey, it's just more fuel for the fire.

Finally, a Hatesong I can get with! Our long national nightmare is over.

Besides, what did they think they were getting when they signed Limbaugh anyway? It reminds me of the 'Duck Dynasty' nonsense, when A&E had to pretend to be shocked (shocked!) that their white-trash redneck star would say white-trash redneck things in interviews.

Yes, good old Andrzej Bartkowiak directed this, and he followed it up with Exit Wounds and Cradle 2 The Grave, and both followed the 'martial arts + hip hop' template established here, and both were somehow even worse than this one.

Agreed, but what's the deal with country singers? Kris Kristofferson, Dwight Yoakam, Willie Nelson, and Dolly Parton seemed to have a much easier time of it.

Unfortunately, this article misses what made Romeo Must Die particularly crappy: its epic misuse of Jet Li's talents. I can sort of understand the reliance on CGI and goofy bullet-time camerawork when your star can't really do the moves, but to hire a martial arts legend and do all that stuff anyway made no sense,…

I guess I'm a purist, because even the presence of those bonus tracks (even if, as on the Bowie Rykodisc releases, some of them are great) irritates me; if the original album was sequenced a certain way, any semblance of balance gets thrown out when the 'last' track isn't really the last track anymore. I always felt…

Holy shit. I've never heard of Soldiers Of Jah Army or heard a note of their music, but now that I've seen pictures, I want to punch them all in the face.

I posted this somewhere above, but half of the songs on All That You Can't Leave Behind are amazing. Unfortunately, the other half are terrible.

I'm just slightly more generous with U2 in claiming that All That You Can't Leave Behind would have been one hell of an EP with the lesser (ok, terrible) songs removed. In A Little While, New York, Walk On and Elevation are some of the best songs they ever made.

…which is yet another thing we can all thank the mighty Stephen Tobolowsky for, since David Byrne wrote that song about him and his supposed psychic abilities while they were filming True Stories.

You're missing a line in the middle; she's "not my lover, she's just a girl who says that I am the one, but the kid is not my son." The 'but' signifies his denial of HER claim of his paternity, not a negation of something he himself said.

I draw a hard line between early Michael Jackson (the Jackson 5 through Thriller), which is uniformly wonderful, and the overproduced, self-adoring crap he put out after he became the King of Pop or whatever.

Per John Cage, 'Sri Ramakrishna was once asked, "Why, if God is good, is there evil in the world?" He said, "In order to thicken the plot."'

The list of major projects that Cronenberg has turned down is fairly amazing: off the top of my head, there's Return of the Jedi, Top Gun, Witness, RoboCop… nothing new here, only now it's TV.

For some reason, I imagine Leno just nodding along as the NBC execs told him about the move to 10PM and giving the Tonight Show to Conan. And then doing the same thing again later when they proposed to fire Conan and give the show back to Jay, never thinking for a moment that anybody would mind about any of it.

Mostly I remember that it gave me motion sickness.

This is a disturbing inverse of the anti-Craig people who called Casino Royale the worst Bond movie ever, months before it was released, and then also declared firmly that Bond #22 & #23 would be even worse whenever they got made.