6. In deep space, everyone agrees about which way is up.

I agree. I hope RJ is able to maintain a lengthy career. My son is 11 and also has mild CP. He wasn't old enough (yet) to watch BB, but he has walked in a few times when RJ was in a scene, and immediately asked about whether or not the actor had CP in real life. My son has been involved in plays, so being able to show…

I'm a little surprised that the article doesn't mention anything about Bravo morphing into a network that seemed to be tailoring its programming for gay men. Not that there's anything wrong with that - it seemed to be a smart strategy that was working.

Perhaps they are hoping one of these for the small investment - big payoff of something like Duck Dynasty. I find that when I do get sucked into watching a reality show, my interest drops pretty quickly.

It's real. http://youtu.be/yTwpBLzxe4U

Yes as a teen it seemed to me a major injustice had been done choosing "Whodunnit" for the album while leaving off the gems that were release on the 4th side of the US version of Three Sides Live such as "You Might Recall" - but at some point it did occur to me that this was their way of giving a nod to post-punk.

Indeed, Split Enz are also a favorite of mine, and the early stuff has a lot in common with Foxtrot era Genesis. As with Genesis, I was exposed to the more pop oriented songs first like "I Got You" or "Six Months in a Leaky Boat" and then curiosity led me to discover their earlier, more intentionally bizarre…

Okay, while we're in confession: I liked the Tarzan soundtrack. I thought it was catchy and worked well with the film.

That's interesting about how the 90125 era Yes started out as a non-Yes project - did not know that, but it makes a lot of sense in retrospect. I do remember that ultra-tight snare drum sound. As a drummer myself I'm always more tuned in to the drums.
Yes sure had some crazy complicated lineup changes over the years.…

Seems interesting that even Banks is dismissive of the album since he got the lion's share of the songwriting, and the overall sound is very reminiscent of his first solo effort from around this time - A Curious Feeling.

I'll throw in a thumbs up for "Undertow" as well. The album also suffered from just a lousy overall sound and mix, which I think in part triggered stripping things down for Duke and Abacab.

Agreed - the songs gain a needed bite live, and it's always been hard for me to believe that "You Might Recall" did not make the cut for Abacab, as that is by far my favorite Genesis song of this era.

Like many of the Genesis songs of this era, I prefer the live versions from "Three Sides Live" - but it did seem pretty incredible that Genesis was playing a reggae beat.

I'm not sure how well Genesis escaped the critical label of prog rock dinosaurs, but their ability to increase commercial appeal in the 80's after the loss of Gabriel and Hackett was impressive and surprising to many. I would argue that this was in part due to the fact that the group originally began (pre-Collins) in…

I think maybe the golden age of the AV Club Dawes meme is over.

Fair enough. As I remember, the narrative that the show was pushing was that this was a popular early 80's band that had broken up and not played together for ages at the time of the show (2000ish) - which was not really the whole truth. From what I remember the band took breaks and reformed several times throughout…

Remember that VH1 show 'Bands Reunited'? They tried to get Squeeze to do a reunion, but Tilbrook was not really up for it, and Jools Holland was kind of a dick about it, like now that he had his own TV Show the idea seemed beneath him.

I can remember hearing Paul Carrack sing on a Roger Waters solo record… let's see…  Radio K.A.O.S. and the song was "The Powers That Be". Seemed an odd pairing, but then again Toni Tennille sang backup vocals on The Wall so…

Thanks for pointing out that the folk song in the desert was by The Limeliters. As soon as I heard that tremolo tenor voice, I immediately thought of the songs from the Rankin Bass animated production of The Hobbit, which were sung by Glenn Yarbrough from that group - and parodied by South Park in "The Death Camp of…

I thought he just said "fudge."