The 'revelation' of Ned's age in 'Viva Ned Flanders' is one of my least-favourite things in the entire run of The Simpsons (well, what I've seen of it). It's just such a stupid plot point in an otherwise reasonable episode. Why couldn't they just make him realise his life was boring & predictable without making such a…

I just finished rewatching season four, and had forgotten before that episode came up that Ron is his brother. Seriously, whoever: perfect casting. Just brilliant.

All Lorelai's references to Rory being at the age she was when she got pregnant really serve to remind her (& us) that Lorelai is getting older. You can be the charming young single mum who's best friends with her daughter for a while, but by the time your kid is in college that relationship will obviously have to…

I love the Rune stuff. Yes, he's over-the-top and it's a little hard to believe a nice guy like Jackson wouldn't know better, but he's just so much fun.

I think they realised there was no way to show someone absolutely that boring - and remember we saw plenty of boring dates over the seven seasons - so decided it was best to leave it to our imaginations. Wasn't what the episode was really about anyway.

Yeah, the Pop remixes were pretty variable. I've done a similar thing, though I haven't put much effort into ordering them, just lumping them by single. There's another project for me!

I know. I'm just engaging in positive thinking. There WILL be a Zooropa reissue. And a Rattle & Hum one. And a Pop one.

Maybe the deluxe Zooropa - if we get one - will include Bono's original version of Can't Help Falling in Love? It's weird that the remixes are easier to get than the original… That said, the 'Triple Peaks Mix' is just perfect anyway. I've had it since 1993, and I have trouble remembering sometimes that it's not…

Yep, there's a fair bit in At the End of the World about BP Fallon, including:
that their relationship with him soured (drugs does ring a bell too)
Larry always hated him
he wrote his book basically as a way to make some cash after getting booted from the tour.

Absolutely. One of my favourite music books. Some great stories - and I liked that he dug in and showed us all the band, not just Bono with a little of The Edge. Some very thoughtful (& then ahead-of-its-time) stuff on the future of the music industry, too.

Ha! ATYCLB is my go-to example of a frontloaded album where the second half is just filler. Everything after Wild Honey, whose charmingly casual nature I actually really like, is completely forgettable.

Little-mentioned fact: their videos & remixes from the Zooropa period were their best. Better even than for Achtung (although not by much).

Huh, I would never have thought of that. Moving The Wanderer up, especially. I'd been thinking putting it at track 6, having the second half of the album like:
6. Hold Me…
7. Some Days…
8. Daddy's Gonna Pay…
9. First Time
10. Dirty Day
11. The Wanderer

Agree in a way, but it's hard to see where it would've fit on the album. It just doesn't sound like anything else there.

Unless my parents have engaged in some out-of-character cleaning, my copy sits alongside my expensively acquired second-hand copy of 'The Unforgettable Fire Video Collection' in a wardrobe in their house.

I agree in a way - Pop is one of my favourite albums ever. But Zooropa is forgotten in a way Pop isn't. Most times, when The Story Of U2 is told, people jump from Achtung/Zoo TV straight to the 'disaster' of Pop. Even the band included Zooropa in the Achtung deluxe reissue, like just another disc of bsides etc.

I remember a bit of fuss being made at the time about how Numb was the 'first-ever' video-only single. I bought the video single, which had the video clip, a remix clip and Love Is Blindness.

U2's most under-rated album, and one of the most under-rated of all time, I'd argue. It gets lost in the shuffle between Achtung & Pop, and its relative lack of radio-friendly singles make it an unlikely album for new fans to stumble onto.

The Pink Floyd thing I (halfway) expected to see on this list was the Psalm 23 rewrite bit under the instrumental passage in 'Sheep'. I'd read the lyrics to the song & listened it a few times before I even heard it. Whispered through a vocoder or something.

It's funny (so to speak) that Dorothy Parker's reputation now is 'lady who said funny things while drunk'. Which was true, of course, but also: 'writer who was very talented but absolutely, often brutally, harsh and quite often both depressed and depressing'.