In my formative years as a lover of all things metal, Slayer literally were life-changing. It was 20 years ago that an older kid in high school gave me a cassette of "Reign in Blood" - I was 14, and the perfect age for it. I was already up on Sabbath and Maiden, but those 10 songs (repeated on both sides of the tape)…

Phil Collins wrote a song about Eric's dead son ("Since I Lost You", off Genesis's album We Can't Dance) that is way more anguished and emotional than the song Eric came up with.

"LIVE FREE OR DON'T"

Here comes the argument

Well, this is kind of a proggy thread, so this can go here: the final Marillion album to feature Fish on lead vocals, "Clutching at Straws" from 1987, is a great farewell to his time with the band, and that band's entire era. Of course they've carried on for another 26 years since then and made some great music with…

Now am I being obtuse?

I enjoy hearing Mike Patton doing the screams and howls of the infected, though.

"DIE, YOU CHALK-FACED GOONS!"

You evil… metal.. DORRRRRRRRRRK!

Really liked him in 30 Days Of Night. "Welcome to Barrow… top of the world!"

Any list of "born to kill" movies should have Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia. Warren Oates loses his lover, gets buried alive, and is reborn as a killing machine. He shoots someone, then shoots their corpse two more times: "Why? Because it feels so GOD-DAMNED GOOD."

I'm Australian and all this applies here too. It's only because of the AV Club that I know who he is at all.

Glen Hansard does a great cover of it.. http://www.youtube.com/watc…

I always called it "This World is Big", after the opening line… to my knowledge, it's also the only R.E.M. song to feature Peter Buck on drums.

The birthplace of Strother Martin!

Yeah, I don't see how Lynch could've persuaded Pryor (or any actor) to do anything they didn't want to do. And he's not onscreen for very long anyway. If memory serves, all Pryor's screen time is shared with Jack Nance - it ended up being the last movie role for both men..

Haha, I never knew the backstory behind that. "Good god, Steve!"

The watch-beep near the start of the Flaming Lips' "What Is The Light?" was unintentionally recorded, I read somewhere..

I prefer his version of "Common People" to Pulp's.

Skiba me timbers!