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He wasn't officially bohemian until he got stranded on that uncharted desert isle.

As for SNL in the future. Could SNL finally drop Weekend Update already? At least long enough to re-invent it?

Actually, I thought this episode was a bit of a dud. To be fair, compared to much of 2015-16, it was most consistent end-to-end — really no Awful sketches, but not a ton of high points.

Someone already might've asked this: I always thought M*A*S*H was the movie title and MASH was TV series, not the opposite as stated in this analysis.

This topic should be titled, "Bands that have become less and less relevant after plowing through frontmen." Fleetwood Mac doesn't fit well here — doesn't strike me as a single frontman/frontwoman group (at least post-Green, I suppose). Anthrax was off-the-map even before Belladonna was out.

Isn't the Linklater titled SubUrbia, with capital-U? That's how I remember the difference. (But I still connect them, mentally, regardless)

Haven't read all the comments — Has anyone mentioned this yet: Mick Jones (Foreigner) and Mick Jones (The Clash)?

When I was, like, 7 years old, I confused Joe McCarthey with Paul McCartney. I was immediately blacklisted by Beatles fans.

I think of Donald Regan being on Ronald Reagan's staff. Did anyone in the administration privately chuckle about that, at least initially?

You should've said, "I'm from Chevy Chase, and you're not."

I got the difference between Guess-Who and Non-guess-Who quite early, but it took me a while to distinguish The Faces and The Small Faces. Maybe I'm still uncertain.

For a couple of years, I had to clarify that when I said "Slacker" was among my favorite '90s movies, I wasn't talking about "Slackers."

We've been on the moon since the '50s.

Ooh, there was some dreck that year (like any other year, of course). "Singled Out" was the first noticeable sign that MTV was about to drop off a cliff and never return. I was intrigued by what I read about "Kids," then when I watched it, I endured about 10 minutes of it.

Find & Replace! Examples
E:
Replace: Eleanor Rigby
With: Eight Days a Week/Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey
F:
For No One
With: From Me to You
I:
(runner-up) I’m So Tired
With: I’m Only Sleeping/I Want To Hold Your Hand
M:
Replace: Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
With: Magical Mystery Tour
R:
Replace: Rocky

Oh, while I'm piling on — "The End" is fantastic. And this is a List of Skippable — you're telling me someone would listen to the entire Side 2 Suite, then skip over The End between "Carry That Weight" and (the delayed) "Her Majesty"?

For M, "Michelle" is a much better "skip" than "Mean Mr. Mustard." Even if you think MMM blows, it's a 50-second song. Michelle lasts for days.

I've gotten only to the first entry — All You Need is Love. Definitely a good candidate for the list. It was almost "dated" before it even existed, and the lyrics are John at his laziest. But it has one redeeming quality for Beatles-historians: The "She Loves You, yeah, yeah, yeah" during the coda makes you realize

Neither of the following is "ghastly," but it's best to skip the cover and just listen to them: "Tim," by The Replacements and "Under the Bushes Under the Stars," Guided By Voices. (I'm sure several other examples will come to me soon).

If it's any consolation, it was mostly nondescript while it was happening, as a non-kid. (Unless you could find some of the pop-cultural edges … that's another story).