What is Robson's hand doing so far down his trousers?

Wow. Just… astonishing. I think this, more than anything else, has convinced me that the internet has changed the world I grew up in forever. The people have the power and they have chosen to use that power to make a terrible song from nineteen years ago number one, because that would be amusing.

John89- for more entertaining everybody-plotting-against-everybody-else melodrama, I think you have to go with Rome. The best parts of GoT feel similar to that show, but rarely seem to match it- I think because the focus is just too broad to get invested in any of the characters.

Good point, although I don't think there's an actual precise end-point yet because the book series hasn't been finished. I haven't read it, but it's quite possible that the books themselves contain Lost-style wheel-spinning. From that perspective I think Babylon 5 is much more groundbreaking, because as far as I know…

I suppose thinking about it the fact that the books already exist mean that it's not as open-ended as a soap opera and is actually heading in a definite plot direction. But then, I don't know how closely the books follow an original masterplan.

Ha, good point. Chinese TV is also full of historical/fantasy kung-fu soap operas, and has been for quite some time.

Does it feature DRAMATIC RECONSTRUCTION of Jarvis Cocker meeting a girl from Greece with a thirst for knowledge?

Well that's hardly something to feud about. Pulp probably won those groupies fair and square by being better and sexier than Blur.

…huh. His brother stole his hair at some later point and never gave it back.

I dunno, their last album closed with Separator, which to my ears is the happiest Radiohead song since that one. And I wasn't inclined to listen to the lyrics of that one carefully, so it's always possible they were being ironic.

It's weird how Blur seem to speed up their songs live. Tender goes much better for me at the album pace.

You come at the King of Pop, you better not miss.

Jesus. Somebody needs to hop on the googlemachine, stat.

HOLY SHIT, INTERNET, I THOUGHT WE WERE PAST AUTO-PLAYING AUDIO ADS.

He looks geeky but surprisingly charismatic. Unlike Johnny Greenwood, who just looks geeky.

I really wanted to believe that was true, but Google denied me.

Montypark- excellent specialising, thanks.

Generic American accents sound glamorous, because, after all, they're what people in the movies speak.

Mint.

Girard- I noticed this happening further up the comments, with Don Staples remembering the Crunchy Nut scene as 'pretty expensive as I recall…' when it was actually 'rather expensive as I recall…'