Hmmm…need to find parts for Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in this. Both are too young to be George Martin, and Brian Epstein was already dead (and Michael Sheen would be better at that, much to Coogan's chagrin). Who does that leave then? Magic Alex? Derek Taylor? Geoff Emerick?

That image is also the photograph used on the second Joy Division LP, Closer. Just sayin'. 

You don't know Dick
And why isn't Philip K.Dick's name being mentioned during any of this? Will any of his novels or short stories provide the inspiration? They could actually go back into the original book and pull out enough stuff for a prequel (like his marriage, Mercerism, his electric sheep, the animal repair…

favorite movie; got married there
This is my all-time favorite movie, and even though I live in NYC I was married at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, the museum with the painting of Carlotta where Novak sits for hours on end. Was a lot of fun to think that we were getting hitched (some pun intended) right where…

The Mao Tse Tung Hour
I'd vote to see real versions of the shows that Faye Dunaway's character produced in the movie "Network"; even a whole episode of the "Howard Beale Show" would be cool to see.

Where's The Who when you need them?
Hmmm…sort of sounds like how Townshend used to describe the failed "Lifehouse" project in the early seventies; that never got off the ground but, hey, they got "Who's Next" out of it, one of the greatest records ever. Makes me wonder what Pete and the boys would have come up with if…

what, no mention of Morrissey?
Hey, how do you do any sort of write up on New York Dolls 2.0 and not mention Morrissey? It was pretty much his invitation to the Meltdown festival that got the group back together again. No fair.

typical critic problem: thinking a definition is a judgment
Something I always hate with critics is when they define something and then think that that's a judgment. Like this guy says the record sounds like "an Ethernet cable making sweet love to a modem," and he means it in a bad way when, actually, to me that…

the ten minute version of "Autobahn"
Funnily enough, I've actually HAD this conversation with my wife. Ive instructed her, if I'm ever in a coma and they take me off life support (at which point I'll die), that I want her to put some good headphones on my head and play the 10 minute version of "Autobahn" by Kraftwerk…

a few of my favorites from '97
Curtains by Tindersticks
Thriller by Lambchop
Short Album About Love by The Divine Comedy

Tried to watch this last night; turned it off after fifteen minutes
I Netflixed this and tried to watch it just last night. Found it really boring; there's no structure at all, just a bunch of notable and somewhat notable people trying to talk about what music is. The film just sort of meanders along; there wasn't any…

Glad to see MC 900 Ft Jesus on this list; that first record is really good; it has a little bit of everything. I saw them at Helter Skelter in LA when it came out; DJ Zero (I think was his DJ) was really great, scratching using his tongue (to control the record) and also with a sneaker on his hand. I remember the bass…

just wanted to join the chorus…
…saying that this was really great interview; love love love this feature; keep up the good work.

Yup, you're totally right; Bridges didn't have anything to do with the science experiment that led to him getting zapped into the computer. In a scene early in the film, these scientists (one of them played by an old guy who got beat up in Midnight Cowboy because he didn't have money to pay the male prostitute)…

getting the band back together
This is great great great news; the Jonze/Kaufman movies were the best thing either of them have done (I was on board with Synecdoche until he turned into the maid the maid turned into him; at that point the rabbit hole turned into a black hole and everything get sucked out and down) and…

Yo La TENGO?! Screw that…G! B! V!
Yo La Tengo? Huh? I've seen them a couple of times, usually opening up for someone else, and they're really boring. Not awful, but just boring. They're not at all a band who I would think would be on a list like this (hell, their records are also mediocre). I totally think Fugazi's a…

I hear you; I've done this occasionally, although never for the amounts mentioned above. Like, when I would find promos in a used record store, of indie stuff that wouldn't come out for another month or so, I'd buy it for $7 and then put it on eBay (where it'd usually sell for double). I did that once for a DFA…

the music, yes; the lyrics, not so much
This guy is seriously talented for spotting things that go well together, and the juxtaposition is sometimes awe-inspiring. And yet, I can't help but think that by using mostly gangsta rap lyrics all he's doing is pointing out the banality of the lyrics and the inventiveness of…

same as Magnetic Fields
I always thought of this guy and a bit of a lesser Magnetic Fields, and in the same way that the later Magnetic Fields records (like, the last two) can't match the charm of his early ones that were essentially him in his apartment (Charm of the Highway Strip, Get Lost), this guy either needs to…

the '80s film I identify with the most
Am glad to see this feature. This is the ONLY film of the '80s that spoke to me. I was born and raised in Southern California, had a single mom, and we lived in a small condo in a town just like Daniel did in the film (yes, our idea of a good time was to go to Golf 'n' Stuff). I…