I was guilty of being presumptive.  40% of such attempts are outright disgraces to the band's legacy, and 58% are well-meaning bores where the band seems to go through the motions.  I heard a small chunk of their previous album and it just didn't strike me one way or another, so I assumed it was category B and…

I had to stare, mouth agape, at that bit too.  Nearly the whole sequence was put online and it SUCKS.  Awful effects work, no aesthetics to speak of, bad editing, and laughably bad physics (and not in a cool comic book-y way that makes sense because it's Superman doing super-shit, or whatever; no, this is a couple…

It's cold, you mothergrabber, like the still, pale corpse you are about to become.

I just procured:

Metal thread.

Came for the Goodfellas, left satisfied.  Between the amazing meatballs and that guy slicing garlic with a razor… god, I want some Italian food.

You both suck.

@avclub-666b9ed0739d8d309d3a72e199026072:disqus  What I'm not totally sure about is that this song is an instance of that, hence my objection.  I think you're reading a whole lot into a pretty vague, single line.

@avclub-666b9ed0739d8d309d3a72e199026072:disqus  Well, it does seem to save you the trouble of having to analyze this song or lyric in particular.  It strikes me as being along the same lines as "rape jokes are never funny."  Many rape jokes are offensive and not funny; some are extremely funny, and play very cleverly…

People are praising that Jay-Z album?  I've seen no response to it yet other than indifference or outright disdain.

Oh yeah, it is "beans at."  For some reason my wife and I misremembered it as "potatoes" and I started calling her Weirdy Potatoes, and ever since then I can't keep straight which one they actually said on the show.

That's because you're still trying to listen to indie rock.  It's OVER, son.

She's from the planet Ridiculon, where all the aliens are fucking ridiculously beautiful.

Not in and of itself, no.

They know it's their favorite word ever, though!

Weirdy… potatoes, weirdy… potatoes, weirdy… potatoes.

I agree.   Nice to hear that someone else cares more about sonics and musical elements than lyrical content.

Yuuuuup.  "Stand" has the most annoying, shitty melody.  That chorus is like a drill going through my ear and into my brain.

I agree.  I feel like the people who really dislike the song are very lyric-focused.  I barely pay attention to lyrics of songs at all and on a musical level, it's quite enjoyable - far less annoying than revered REM "classics" like "Stand," or "Everybody Hurts" for that matter.

Grammatical errors in popular songs really bug me, too.  It has caused me no end of anguish that "Head Like a Hole" includes this line: