A preponderance of Britney Spears (or any other artist) doesn't mean that CBS "likes" Britney or whoever - it means someone on the Marketing side came up with a "dynamic, cross-platform promotional opportunity to leverage CBS' reach to associate itself with a charismatic performer and benefit directly from a boost in…

Since we're talking all things 1996 here, I used one of my I'm-Going-To-Defraud-Columbia-House free CD's to get "Being There," since it only counted as one selection and my local retailers all seemed to charge a premium for it as a double-album.

This is the first thing that comes to mind any - and I DO mean ANY - time I hear or read something about kickboxing.

Mein…kimp?

Always nice when a fellow commenter's vocabulary can be embiggened.

Sean didn't say anything about Barenaked Ladies' "Born on a Pirate Ship" OR "Rock Spectacle," which both came out in 1996, so those guys are in the clear apparently.

And Len's "Steal My Sunshine" was alternative rock radio's death-rattle.

I saw them open for RHCP on the One Hot Minute tour and they were the best part of the night.

I still genuinely love "Horse," the hidden track at the end.

Clear Channel was worst, but other big station groups bought out stations of all genres.
Consolidation of ownership and the "efficiency" of corporate-level control over playlists absolutely killed Alternative as a genre. To Sean's point about semantics, you need little local or regional bands breaking out on one…

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 doesn't get enough blame for what it ended up doing to mass media in this country. I hope it gets some thoughtful review this week.

Do you live in Columbus?

"God Only Knows" from the opening credits of Big Love.

I nominate similar treatment for the Beautiful Girls soundtrack.

Or Brandon Bird!

Except aging stops as soon as it's taken out of a barrel. A 7-year old bottle of 10-year bourbon is still 10-year bourbon. So it's really more of the "I get older, they stay the same age" situation, right?

Particularly Asian audiences!

I like listening to Radiolab, but it always KILLS me to listen to the schmoes they get to read the audio credits at the end.

Which is funny, considering how racist Mitch is. Maybe he was just pissed that he didn't think it up first.

This song leaked out a few weeks ago and Portishead used their copyright, uh, rights to get it taken down from most above-board websites and said they had no plans to release it as a single. I guess they decided this was as good a reason as any to put it out on their own terms?