"The man sat like Buddha"
As a Buddhist, I am convinced that Clinton is a Bodhisatva. I'm not kidding—The way he articulates the theory of Funk as a universal nonduality (where everything is on the one), and each of us striving for our Funkentelechy? Free your mind and your ass will follow; the Kingdom of Heaven is…

I used to get Jeff Bridges confused with Ryan O'Neal when I was younger, until I started actually watching their work. I also only recently realized that Tom Skerrit and Tom Berenger were not the same person.

'Troublemakers' was exactly the one I was thinking of—and they were all double albums as well.

"blaxploitation movies are horrible"

It's possible that the "source limitations" are a result of the fact that a lot of 'Ran''s more picturesque exteriors were shot with multiple telephoto lenses that have a real flattening effect. It's still a gorgeous movie—one of the few DVD's I own actually, though not Blu-ray—but you can really see difference…

Louis Jordan's proto-rockabilly is called Boogie Woogie or Jump Blues, and it all "swings" from a rhythmic perspective (there is a technical definition). Really, almost all popular music before the advent of the Rock era had some swing to it (or else it didn't mean a thing)—it has to do with a certain syncopated…

The term "mosh" was in use in '87, even as a verb—it just meant something a little different—at least how I learned it in Pittsburgh and Boston—but I would bet that different scenes had variant usages. But I would also venture a guess that as punk bands slowed down and got more bass-heavy and sludgy in the grunge era,…

Pouty, pre-op Posh for me, thanks.

What about Klaus Fluoride?

Yeah, those were great, but those were just loss leaders for Warner's Sire label. If you REALLY want to get into it, Warner Brothers used to put out loss leaders in the early 70's that put Seals and Croft alongside the Residents and Frank Zappa. I have one from around 1980 that has the Police, Pearl Harbour and the…

Now THAT's what I call music—a lot of it anyway.

Of that lineup, I can only say I know for sure what Public Enemy and Massive Attack sound like. But hey—Public Enemy and Massive Attack!

I know this is not a serious debate, but I do really consider the early to mid 80's to be the last great era of Pop songwriting (as opposed to production). It was all done automatically after that, like painting by numbers.

Thanks to Otto for making the point I usually have to make. Add to it the yobbish crassness of a line like "Throw back a bottle of beer" and even a name like "Cherry Poppin' Daddies", and there is little at all to like there.

I remember thinking that the ideal Punk Rock band name in that era would've been the School Shooters.

"an informercial for Muzzy"—that's spendid.

Two things—
I dated a woman at the peak of the Spice Girls' popularity that looked enough like Posh Spice to be given a Posh doll by her coworker's for her birthday. Those were the days.

I think the Barenaked Ladies were just doing their version of the 'Paul's Boutique' era Beastie Boys on 'Two Weeks' and I find it really had to get worked up about them. They're basically a novelty act—the College Rock version of Weird Al. But I will say that they have been capable of some wicked satire, if the song…

You kids with your "moshing". I remember when it was "slamming" and the "mosh" part was just the bass-oriented bridge of a hardcore song where you actually slowed down and moved around in a kind of high stepping cosmic cakewalk before the rave-up kicked in again (a textbook example of this can be heard in the DK's…

Hey Ellsworth, I don't blame us X-ers for the fall of MTV—that was all Viacom's fault. They took a wonderful, eclectic and even subversive thing and turned it into Clear Channel the network. As early as 1986 They stopped sounding like they were speaking for youth culture, and started sounding like they were just…