I didn't mind Roeper. Compared to this piss-poor re-boot, the guy looked like an expert.

Yeah, what's your problem with Robert Osborne? He knows all of that "useless trivia" because he actually hung out with/interviewed those people.

So octopus is a piano tuner?

While Kara might not make great reality show material, at least she's closer to being a real musician than Abdul. I also like looking at her.

Sorry, but Otis the Drunk from the Andy Griffith Show beats all of your drunks.

Hulk Hogan has made me laugh uncontrolably during this thread. Thank you sir!

TheBigO, are you the same "Big O" from talkbass.com?

And that little kid actually played drums while he sang…UNLIKE OTHERS!

I was working at a record store from '93-'95 and I remember out of nowhere, we got a bunch of "December '63" CD singles and cassette singles. We didn't sell very many though.

I didn't have older siblings to point out cool stuff to me so I was very much into my parents music (late 50s theough 60s) and worshipped Hendrix, Cream Led Zep (Although all that stuff would have been from 5-8 years before I was born).

@Dick Dastardly : Thank you!

Coltrane and Trent Reznor.
We had attended a friend's wedding years ago where the groom walked down the aisle to David Bowie's "The Wedding Song." We made a pact with each other to not use any traditional music at our wedding. In fact, my father-in-law said if we used Wagner's "Bridal March" (AKA "Here Comes The…

I loved it when Maltin was on MST3K and Tom Servo quotes the line from "La Dolce Vita" by asking him "What's your opinion on Italian neo-realism"?

JD Considine also had a good one for an album Yes put out in 1994(!) called "Talk"

Never read any of Rand's books (and after this thread, will probably keep my distance) but I do remember a quote from one of her essays on aestetics. She lamented the fact that popular music had "devolved to a point to where it depended on percussion instruments" (I couldn't find the exact quote. Some Google searching…

@Blurry Innervision: She, like our President, played basketball in high school.

What The Quirk said. Oh and "Who's Nailin' Palin?" might have something to do with it.

Let those with ears hear.

Thank you for posting this…
…I'll make sure to avoid it.

I'm glad somebody noticed it.