I liked the Martin Sheen/Charlie Sheen/Martin Sheen fake-out arrest question.

I didn't hear anyone complaining about a film celebrating the life of young Annakin Skywalker, and we all know what kind of adult he turned out to be.

OK
That's my favorite Newswire Headline ever.

Revisionist nonsense. Punk was a reaction against rock and roll having been co-opted by millionaires on stage wearing headphones and fiddling with knobs and switches. While the classic rock fans were being spoon fed some dipshit's opus about being rich and alienated by tiny dots at Nassau Coliseum, we were dancing…

@Lux
Some Sabbath morning when I'm straight
I'm going to schlep down to your gate
And maybe tell you about Zelda
And how she gave me tchotchkes
And how she made me kugel
Some Sabbath morning when I'm straight

@man-in-the-moon-man:

Wasn't this an iCarly Episode?
Where Carly won't give the reviewer kid a kiss and he says she'll rue the day she trifled with him?

Well, I'm no paleontologist, but I don't think raptors and T-Rexes are the same thing. As far as I'm concerned raptors can have whatever kinds of faces they want and it won't make a bit of difference to the T-Rexes, Cee-Lo, Mark Bolan or anyone else.

King Louie
In addition to playing the hippest monkey ever, Prima wrote "Sing, Sing, Sing."

We don't handle no tricky business in here …

Speaking of being surrounded by loud angry anti-war songs …
I always got a kick out of "Lover's Prayer"

Metamatic was a great record, my friends and I would always play "Underpass" and yell "Underpants!" at the top of our lungs during the chorus. In the Garden was good too, except that so many New Romantic bands copied the look but not the quality.

I don't think the basic songs were messed with. "Comfortably Numb" is sung with a different cadence that sounds different than what someone might expect, but it's clearly the same melody and chords. The rest mostly sound like country arrangements.

Marmelade, I like marmelade.

Easy Star All Star's DSOTM was stellar. Also at the pinnacle of Pink Floyd covers is Luther Wright and the Wrong's country version of The Wall. They make the Wall sound like it was originally written as country music in the same way that Easy Star All Stars make DSOTM sound like it was originally written as reggae.

It ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it. Sure there are lousy songs about guys who can't go on unless the cute girl goes out with them. There are great songs about the same topic. There are even great performances of lousy songs on the same subject - see, e.g., everything Elvis Presley recorded between…

I hit 50 last year and for a while in my early 40's I had fallen into the rut that's being described. Before it changed strategies, emusic got me back into music in a big way. those 90 downloads per month that you had to use or lose were pure gold. I found Lifter Puller and then the Hold Steady, and then DBT's, and…

The first episode of Bakersfied PD had Giancarlo Esposito pulling into town with the local classical music station on. After a second you realized they was playing an orchestral version of "Achy Breaky Heart. Great show and the absence of a laugh track made it that much more deadpan.

Yeah, I recently bought the "Live at the 40 Watt" DVD from 2004 which is mostly the Dirty South album and was stunned all over again by how one band could have 3 songwriters of such high quality. Shonna Tucker is a great bass player and a decent singer, but she doesn't fill the gap left by Isbell's departure.

Dress Blues
Any album with "Dress Blues" on it couldn't reasonably be described as "sorely lacking" "good, evocative songwriting" even if the balance of the tracks were Hannah Montana covers.