I kind of liked him in Moscow on the Hudson.

Just like pictures of Walter Brennan naked and shiny green suits.  Can't recall who the actor was but the character was great.

Nice song, Spin's right about there being more than just a bit of Tom Waits in there.  I guess that's because they were both born with the gift of a golden voice.  It's interesting, given the Cohen/Dylan discussion on the other thread, to listen to both "The Darkness" and "Not Dark Yet."  They share some strikingly…

Whenever I hear the beginning of Nick Cave's "Brompton Oratory," which features a cheesy drum machine and synthesizer prominently in the mix at the intro, I always wonder if he's making fun of Cohen.

You have to really like turtle meat for the song to resonate with you.

I had the same reaction when I found out what the lyric was.  I don't think they even acknowledge that verse as part of the song anymore.   

"the worst snuff porn website on the net" sort of begs the question, doesn't it?

Good thing it wasn't a Serch engine, or there might have been issues.

Tie me wiredoo down, sport.

In the U.K. everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads.

Oasis … blah blah … Noel … blah blah blah … Hey look, Ryan Adams!

I haven't heard this record either, but this review strikes me as another in a series of overly broad pieces that Mr. Hyden will later explain was intended to stir up discussion.

The first couple of UB40 albums were good.  It wasn't until Labour of Love that they went sideways. 

Where they goin' with those UB40s in their hands?  

Which, if we do the math, makes 70's punks Indie great-grandfathers.

Backbeat was not only a good musical biopic, it's a good Beatles biopick.  And it has a killer soundtrack.

I'm with you.  Anytime I read about someone molesting little children (MJ, not Woody) or having a dispute about a writer's credit, I get sick to my stomach.  It's why I don't watch Roman Polanski movies or listen to Led Zeppelin's version of "When the Levee Breaks." 

Or, from Al Bundy, "Why buy milk, when you have a cow at home?"

No, but now I'm having a good time deciding what Paul Simon song works best for the scene where Chief Broom smothers McMurphy at the end of "Cuckoo's Nest."  I started with "Still Crazy" but rejected that as too obvious.  Maybe the salsa break from "Late in the Evening."

Simon did a cover of "Biko" recently that's worth checking out.