Wanna go to the Gap?

I watched Curb all the way through once and enjoyed it, but I never really feel the urge to go back. Seinfeld is endlessly rewatchable, even when you know every joke in advance.

Maybe Jerry is a high school gymnastics coach whose son isn't really into gymnastics.

Hardcore Dr Who fans say Nicolas Briggs is their Doctor.

You see, I really hated that. Worst part of the episodes, by far. The idea that The Doctor was running away from the Family because he wanted to spare them his horrible wrath was… well, this is a bit left field, but it reminds me a bit of Granny Weatherwax.

I don't think you can absolve RTD of the whole beefing up of The Doctor to be an unstoppable force of nature.

That's a glass half full attitude. It's possible Nightmare in Silver twice as long would have been twice as silly, or at least twice as much silly to sit through.

I think we were all just poised for something far, far more stupid re: resolution of the Clara mystery.

Trying to cast the Brits as liberators of African people might be a bit bloody jarring even for Dr Who.

He was the last Home Secretary to order the army to be used against strikers, I know that much.

Now that would make for an interesting episode.

That little speech about how great England is is the lowpoint of the episode.

All true, but much as I love Pete, personal confession is not his most effective creative milieu.

I would totally call Jeff Lynne that

Are you trying to say nobody's rocking a Roger Daltry joke account? That ain't right

Everyone's a great singer if you like their voice, by definition.

Yeah their lead singer is probably gay hurr durr

Mark Prindle correctly pointed out that "Kicking against the Pricks" was Cave's transformative moment as a songwriter, when he started writing stuff that was just plain soulful and emotive without any real menace or weirdness. I presume he always had this side to him - he's always cited Leonard Cohen as a massive…

I think that's mostly true for the whole of Let Love In - strong writing, serviceable-to-meh instrumentation. Which is odd because the band arguably had its strongest roster at the time. A lot of people consider it their best album, though.

You see, I feel exactly the opposite. The Bad Seeds are almost always good and sometimes great, but the Birthday Party are basically in a class of their own as a band. I'm not sure it's a matter of Nick's writing getting worse, but I would say even the peak of Nick's work with the Seeds doesn't achieve the same…