Hats of to you, Red. That's hardcore. I "beat" Contra with 30 lives AND a continue.

Battletoads was impossible! Contra (without the 30 lives cheat) was also insanely challenging.

Right on, Footplate. Although to be fair there is also "A mole digging in a hole."

Adding insult to injury they got sued for that!

Me como tu amor y cago el infierno.
Those are some shitty lyrics.

Negativland interview The Edge
Negativland "ambush" The Edge in the interview. The Edge is surprisingly cool about the whole thing.

Phil Collins sticks out in this list. Interesting.

Wikipedia.

2000: The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic
2001: Bjork - Vespertine
2002: Spoon - Kill The Moonlight
2003: The White Stripes - Elephant
2004: Arcade Fire - Funeral
2005: Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
2006: The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
2007: Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
2008: The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (for now)

1990: Soda Stereo - Cancion Animal
1991: U2 - Achtung Baby
1992: R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
1993: Metallica - Live Shit Binge and Purge
1994: Cafe Tacuba - Re
1995: Bjork - Post
1996: Nirvana - From The Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
1997: Radiohead - OK Computer
1998: Spoon - A Series of Sneaks
1999: The Magnetic Fields -…

30 years (Part 1)
1978: Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
1979: The Police - Regatta de Blanc
1980: XTC - Black Sea
1981: Kraftwerk - Computer World
1982: Prince - 1999
1983: R.E.M. - Murmur
1984: Prince - Purple Rain
1985: Soda Stereo - Nada Personal
1986: Soda Stereo - Signos
1987: U2 - The Joshua Tree
1988: R.E.M. - Green
198…

Last time I checked, no. But one of Celine Dion's first breaks was performing the winning song during Eurovision 1988. The song was Switzerland's entry.

Eurovision ain't all bad
It gave us ABBA.

Sexpelled
There's a parody of this already.

Dammit!

Sorry! Sir Clarke!

My God, it's full of stars!
Goodbye, Mr. Clarke.

"And I just looked through the thread above me, and aside from Soda's admittedly misplaced defensiveness, "

I think you're right, Andy. I should have read that sentence more carefully. Although the italicized "and" between free love and lower taxes threw me off.

"I suspect the hypocrisy is more along the lines of people who want to be adults thinking about consequences only when it suits them."