The use of "Lust for Life" for that cruise line would ALWAYS be nuts, though, since the themes of that song are much more in line with "Trainspotting" than with fun family vacations.

Dark Passengerside Airbag — I think that Linda Holmes's point was not so much that he's annoying, but that we're supposed to consider him somehow changed and evolved into a perfect boyfriend by the end. It's a petty standard "I can change him" fantasy, but it's not simply that he's annoying.

Children of the 90s may recognize Kate Bush as channeled through Milla Jovovich on the surprisingly excellent "The Divine Comedy." "Gentlemen Who Fell" was a pretty big college radio hit back in the day, and the entire album is pretty much Kate Bush-lite.

I'm sorry, but this is the most apologist bullshit that I've ever read on this blog. Buju Banton didn't "reach out" to gay advocacy groups: he spoke to them because no theater in a major city would let him perform. He has continued to make homophobic statements, and there is absolutely no indication that his decision…

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"Chillout Tent"? "Drunk and Hot Girls"? Fucking "India Song"? You've hit all of my ultimate "why were they on the album" tracks? I've got love for "Darling Nikki" and "Rainy Day Women," so I can't give you 100%. Also, the correct Wilco selection (since we're not limiting ourselves to "derail the album"…

Joe Kickass: like the reviewer pointed out, the writers have, in a way,hamstrung themselves by relying on real history. It would be great to have the war between Nucky and Rothstein settled in a more dramatically satisfactory fashion, but that's not what happened.

@mackie junior

Yeah… he closed with some substantive support for the add-jobs bill. He's a satirist though: I'm not sure if he's more horrified by the ignorant masses, or the minority who actually use him as an authoritative source.

Maybe he . . .
Maybe he . . .
Maybe he, maybe he . . .
Maybe he . . . swam away

Two years later, but
Just watched this movie, and thought it was incredible. Did anyone else notice that in the scene where Emma Thompson tells Queen Latifah that she's found an ending, she's completely channeling Johnny Rotten? The head tilts, the mannerisms: the entire scene just blew my mine.

@HatchetJob: After Don tells Danny Midget that he could just use the idea without paying for it, the clincher of the scene is when Danny confesses that all he has is his connection to Roger and those ideas.

It's actually not even a fair use issue. When the publisher collected the songs, they paid a licensing right to the copyright holder. Sort of the same way your school chorus got those fancy songbooks — the performance license is built into the cost of purchase.

Used to… it's amazing how much goodwill Walter burned off in the course of 46 minutes this week. Now I NEED Walter, Jr. to find out, just because I hate injustice caused by dramatic irony.

@C'mon

@ Curt Curtsy

Sorry, but "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" is an INCREDIBLY sad song. The "wasting time" isn't hanging out . . . it's a guy who's left his home and is completely out of options. Not something that I would really associate with lazy summer days.

Year Zero is tiresome, but "Capital G" is tits.

And I stand corrected, even on that point: "The Day the World Went Away" was a Top 20 hit (#17), and "Hand That Feeds" cracked the Top 40 (#31).

Sweet Jesus, people. "Closer" reached #41 on the Billboard single chart. No other single ever obtained that level of success on the Billboard single chart (which is how "hit" is defined in "one-hit wonder").

Kinda funny that a one-hit wonder from 1997 is doing more innovative stuff with internet distribution models than the majority of current bands who start and end at myspace.