Around the time this song was popular, I was just such a dickbag. I was in college and was an elitist punk rock snob who refused to listen to major label music (unless I was borrowing my parents’ ’87 Ford Taurus which only had AM/FM radio and therefore forced me to listen to the local alt rock station). Somewhere…

Oof. I tried to listen to that album a while ago and it has NOT aged well.
I remember seeing them live a bunch of times and it always being an awesome time so I'm gonna assume they were just a much better live band than whatever slick hardcore-lite ended up on CD

Heh. I just heard “Shout At The Devil” on my drive to work today and was thinking “Y’know, these guys were OK”. And then Vince Neil’s vocals kicked in.

Not only is Raffi not dead, he's more awesome than ever:
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We’re the E-E-E-Eeeewoks

Tim Hortons was bought by Burger King last year

It’s not even like doing “Red Red Wine” as a reggae song was a novel idea at that point – Tony Tribe had already covered it in the ‘60s:

"thrown up its hands"
I see what you did there, Ignatiy.

I was very upset when I learned A Streetcar Named Desire wasn't a musical.

Not even Therapy??

I have a simple mnemonic device to tell them apart: The one by the Cult isn't a wretched piece of shit.

Mannix?

I prefer the Easy Star All Stars recreation of that intro: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Also, Barkmarket’s 1993 album Gimmick has “Static” later reprised as “Radio Static” with the lyrics recited in a robotic monotone over tape effects and general noisiness making it sound like a radio station fading in and out.

Brian Jonestown Massacre's Take it From The Man features two versions of "Straight Up and Down" (now best known from the Boardwalk Empire opening credits). There's a concise 3 or 4-minute version, then the album ends with a 10+ minute version that devolves into a messy jam featuring "woo woos" lifted from "Sympathy…

I really love that song, but boy is it dated now. References to Claudia Schiffer and David Copperfield’s marriage? Eeesh.

Whipped Cream and Other Delights.
I think I even listened to it once or twice.

Which always reminds me of the real band, “John Cougar Concentration Camp”.

Yeah, that was always my interpretation of it too, especially since there's no mention of the roommate in the song itself

I used to work with a woman who couldn’t do anything without putting it on a list. I got a glimpse of her list once and the first item was “Update List”.