I've never heard this song and I'm sure as shit not going to click on that link, but having heard more than enough Our Lady Peace in the '90s/early '00s I'll take your word for it that it's fucking terrible.

The success of Smash still makes me happy because it unexpectedly made a shitload of money for the Didjits' Rick Sims, thanks to the cover of "Killboy Powerhead" (The story at the time was that Epitaph negotiated a generous royalties agreement with Sims, not expecting to move more than a few thousand units – when the…

I'm not exactly a survival expert, but isn't that pretty realistic? I mean, it's not like they're dropping him off in the middle of a strawberry patch where he can just shovel in fresh fruit to his heart's content – it's usually an incredibly inhospitable location with limited resources.

Dude, we can fucking swear like a bunch of shitty fucking motherfuckers here. No need to censor yourself.

You can't win with this column. You pick a song everybody hates and you're shooting fish in a barrel, you pick a somewhat beloved song and everybody gets all up in arms because you dared to hate a classic.

I haven't heard the song in years so I'm not sure if there's even a
piano or keyboard in it, but I took that to mean the piano or keyboard
bit starts up…. ?

I think there are two ways these interviews can be successful – when someone like Steve Albini actually talks about the nuts and bolts of a song and has sound, insightful reasons for hating it or when someone like Dean Ween gets off enough funny zingers about the song/artist that I don't care that nothing productive…

Agreed. I like the rest of the band well enough (and a few of their songs are so kick-ass that I'll tolerate him) but I can't stand Cornell's voice. He can let out a pretty impressive shriek, but to me there's no range or colour to it – it's all just one monotonous sustained shriek.

Arrgggh… that video. I'm sure it was well-intentioned, but there's just something unseemly about using missing kids to sell your rock song that has nothing to do with "runaways" but has the word "Runaway" in the title.

I spent a lot of my teenage years in my room reading a book while  listening to Bad Religion or whatever with the TV tuned to MuchMusic with the sound turned off until a good video came on. And that explains why I had a crush on Lisa Loeb and knew every little over-emoting gesture she made in that video and feel like…

Yeah, the interviewer piling on with the interviewee seems to happen in every one of these articles and it bothers me every time

A) Every decade was a bad decade for mainstream music..

Dear Glover, I can't take the pain no more

I used to always get a real sense of pride when the "Funded by Canadian Tax Dollars" logo would appear at the end of an episode of Kevin Spencer.

I like that "geese were a constant threat" but this anecdote is all about a goose minding his own business and getting killed by a golf ball.

You're clearly playing the wrong games then, young man. Have you tried Yars Revenge yet? I guarantee you'll be desensitized by the end of the day.

Heh. "A fuckin atodaso" is another one I use all the time.

By most accounts Cobain was a pretty funny dude (although up until his suicide I always took a lot of the tortured angst as being delivered with a wink, so what do I know).

Fargo Rcok City is great – I picked it up on a whim, having no idea who Klosterman  was and read it straight through in a couple of days (something very rare for me, as I don't usually read for more than 20 minutes or so at a time) then immediately read it again, frequently laughing out loud both times.

Thanks, I was going to point that out.
Hard as it may be to believe, the theatrical release of Trailer Park Boys: The Movie was a pretty big deal in Canada. At the time, the boys were the closest thing we had to A-List celebrities.