But the people in Blacksburg really only have one thing going on for them. Like, if they had a rodeo the same day, I doubt they'd be that worked up.

Ugh, I have to argue this twice?

But…that's what happened. In music history, that's when it happened and why it happened. No other reason. That's the end of the argument. That's factually the reason.

I hate repeating myself from upthread, but the line of demarcation is the Black Album. Before it, only the bad kids in school bought Metallica albums, wore their t-shirts…you know, the kids that smoked in middle school. Everyone else was afraid of Metallica.

Then we shall agree to disagree (I was not the down voter, btw).

It was this, and only this: before the black album, only the bad kids bought Metallica records. After the black album, teenage girls bought New Kids on the Block and Metallica records in the same purchase.

Not a Yankees fan, but this song belongs to Mariano Rivera. I was at a Yankees/Twins playoff game, and hearing 60,000 people sing along to this as Mo made his entrance was mesmerizing. I maintain, you haven't heard this song until you've been to Yankee Stdium.

All the Nashvillians just woke up.

In college we had a seminar with the heads of CMT, which was a sobering account of how the business works. The job isn't to market what is good, but what is going to sell. At one time, the guy from CMT said that their target demographic is a housewife in her trailer, and their job was to get that housewife to turn on…

As a Nashvillian as well, I don't watch the show, but I hope it's on for 20 years. They finished two major roadwork projects just before the premiere, and started another one just after the show started. And we're getting a new Sounds (minor league baseball) stadium. If they're going to improve the infrastructure in…

This gets 100k signatures, but Net Neutrality gets like 2k? We deserve to be spied on.

I would agree. Just the one line line in a certain situation really made me not like the song.

Not in Minnesota you don't! Mondale/Ferraro '84!

"However, this ignores the "Boo! Boo! Boo!"

I had grown tired of the "Sweet Home Alabama," but what actually turned me against it was I went to BB Kings Bar and Grill because the girl I was dating at the time had her birthday party there, and lead singer of the house band was a guy we went to college with. And in the words of George Carlin, "he happens to be…

No mention of the superior hip-hop variation, "The Devil Came up to Michigan?"

Banks have always been for-profit.

Which is fine if you like that sort of thing. That's one man's opinion.

It really depends on what you want out of a TV show.

Predicting the final score is useless without showing the point spreads. That's vital gambling information.