Just wanted to thank Mad Men for thinking of the Zombies' masterpiece album to end this wonderful episode … As an "Odessey & Oracle" freak, I was very pleased!

It's been fascinating reading these comments and re-visiting this seminal episode with only a month to go (today I believe?) until the new episodes …

Just thought of a legit omission here I think —

And "Eli's Coming" by Laura Nyro being another such — their video for that with the bell bottoms & everything is really a trip though …

Nirvana famously covered a group of relatively recent Meat Puppets songs, but admittedly an exception which proves your rule, I suppose …

I remember walking out of that one thinking "Wow that amazing Thora Birch is going to be a huge star!" … just as several years earlier I'd walked out of "Heavenly Creatures" (still Jackson's best work by far, b-t-w!) thinking "Wow, that incredible Melanie Lynskey is really going places!" … (Guess it just goes to…

Just read through these & didn't find what struck me most about this episode, though perhaps its too obvious to remark upon …

All through childhood I was obsessed with the Wombles album — derived from the UK TV show which I've still never managed to see much of … But the record has its own cult following apparently … Very well-crafted, catchy songs which I've heard described as Beatles-esque or Abba-esque which might be closer to the truth…

Surprised to see no mention above or below of the whole major, memorable motif in Jackie Brown of Grier turning Forster on to the Delfonics — & everything it symbolizes in the progression of the film's themes etc. …

More to the point (even), they like music with lyrics about love — rather than about dystopian paranoia & (dubious) philosophical speculations …

Apt, as our whole discussion today is apparently sponsored by some strange Octopuss-y-ish kind of rum …

That could be somebody's platform though, one would think … Ooooh, of course, Natalie Merchant!! … her veep? dunno, Jakob Dylan??
(ok block this whole line of thought …)

Oh & what about eurythmics "Sex Crime (1984)" — based on that very premise so that would make the list right … i.e. that as in the novel they get busted  in the bookshop that they thought had no telescreen (but the crusty proprietor was of course actually a party informant & all that)

I guess the lazy automatic answer would be the Alan Parsons Project hit — only to discover moments later that somebody else has actually paid attention to they lyrics & it's not about that at all … (Don't tell me, let me guess, it's probably more akin to the Police every breath you take i'm stalking you kind of thing,…

& what about Natalie Wood in WEST SIDE STORY ?

I think if anyone really killed Saul, he would suddenly morph into Ghostbusters-style icky slime

It was a bit of a problem I'd say … If they're really keeping the whole agency in the dark ,then that makes Gomez complicit as well … And it's increasingly clear how Hank's one-track lust for blood/ revenge/ closure etc. is too wild & uncontrolled & therefore poses very serious risks which might spill over to Gomie as…

Carmela is constantly racked with guilt but too deeply conflicted and invested to forcefully back out of the marriage completely … Not that anyone would have ever exactly made it easy for her to truly exit the whole scene of course

I've never used or known anyone who's used a password option for their voicemails

I enjoyed gazing for many a long moment at the Girl w/ the Pearl Earring at the deYoung earlier in the year …