Bev is awful out of love, while Frankie is awful out of being fundamentally awful.

As someone who was a little kid in the 70s and in high school in the 80s, I have no issues with The Goldbergs' timeline.

Bless you, Adam Goldberg, for including "Heat of the Moment" in this episode. If I were a quibbler, I'd have said you should have cued up "The Last to Know" - I think it'd have matched the pathos of Erica/Geoff a bit better. But that's coming from a former teenager who spent hours scouring the shelves at Zia Records…

I agree, but the fact remains that they were basically looking to find a sound-alike - a glorified karaoke singer - rather than a true lead singer. Closest they came to having a true lead singer after Perry left was Jeff Scott Soto and he didn't last very long at all. Not that they're the only band to do that (witness…

Oh god. "Babe." The worst of the worst of the worst. Dennis DeYoung should have gotten shot for writing that.

The only drug I do is Heisenberg's blue.

Yeah, that's the only reason I can still listen to Boston at all - the amount of work Scholz put into making the albums is frankly staggering.

CBS Records, baby!

"I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" is literally the only Meat Loaf song I can listen to without wanting to projectile vomit.

I think the watershed for a lot of people was the "Behind the Music" that showed what pretentious fuckbags Dennis DeYoung and Tommy Shaw are.

I never got into Meat Loaf except for one song. But growing up I liked Styx, Boston, Billy Joel, and Journey. I'll admit it. Styx has aged HORRIBLY for me, though - I can barely stand to listen to their stuff anymore. Boston, too. Hell, most of the stuff from the 80s that I loved doesn't fare well with the passage of…

Ariel Pineda is more remarkable for his rags-to-rockstar story than his Steve Perry karaoke, which is passable. But Pineda's voice, while pretty fantastic in its own right, lacks the soul Perry brought to the proceedings.

I have eclectic musical tastes, so I have room in my appreciation catalog both for the arcane and for the simplistic. Journey was and is firmly in the latter category for me.

I did not know I wanted this until literally seven seconds ago, but now I want nothing more in the universe. DAMN YOU, FRUMIOUS CUMBERSNATCH!

Knowing the Miller brothers, it was less a gut punch than a right cross to the nutsack.

A 53-year-old should not eat red hot chili peppers. Bad for the digestion.

Glad to see AJ Michalka getting more face time in The Goldbergs. Next best thing to hearing her do more work as Stevonnie.

3-2-1 Contact and The Bloodhound Gang are etched permanently in my memory. When I'm stuck in the Old Folks' Home, I'll probably still be able to remember the plots of each BG mystery in the first few seasons - an assumption I confirmed to myself by watching one on YouTube recently.

RE: Brick and Cindy's storyline, I basically predicted the entire thing from start to finish… but somehow, Cindy removing her ear flaps and exposing her lobes to Brick made everything worth it.

Adam Goldberg, if you read this - thank you for the vanity card at the end honoring Ed Snider.