I turned 28 in 1997… I was a music obsessive… I thought it was a great year… I spent a ridiculous amount of time and coin at CD stores… I have my Top 25 from that year:
Portishead: S/T
Ben Fold Five: Whatever and Ever Amen
Stereolab: Dots and Loops
Ivy: Apartment Life
Depeche Mode: Ultra
Laika: Sounds of…

The day after the Halloween special aired, I remember all the kids in school were singing the Euchariah song… "Grinch is gonna getcha!"

Tom Waits' discography. It's like comfort food.

Devastating to read.

Yes, it borrows ideas and plot points from Guest's earlier mockumentaries. It's also well-acted, and it made me laugh. A lot.

A Mighty Wind is my least favorite as well… Also laughed out loud exactly once: at the solo album of Eugene Levy's character being titled 'A Cry For Help'

It was like he had memorized every schoolyard bully's taunt he had ever heard and strung 'em together! Over-the-top funny…

Tom Waits: "Kentucky Avenue" will either give me chills or bring me to tears by the end.

I haven't read through the whole 1,000 or so posts, but has no one else mentioned Cocteau Twins?

There are dozens of songs over the years that used to elicit chills, or tears, but have lost their power over time and repeated listens. "Under Pressure" is the exception.

I like it well enough… It's got quite a few good-to-great songs (Leaving New York, Make It All Okay, Electron Blue…), but it's too long and overproduced (a friend of a friend knows one of the "adjunct" bandmembers from that era; he supposedly said of the finished album, "Those songs did NOT sound like that in…

"Living Well" would have been my "Hear This" pick. Flat-out fantastic.

"On the Fly"… Nice enough song, but I figured they wanted to keep ballads to a minimum

…which can be said about most songs that feature Liz Fraser's vocals in any capacity.

'This Is Spinal Tap' is my favorite comedy of all effing time. Every other line in the movie is quotable; even the out-takes have laugh-out-loud moments (when they visit a zoo and St. Hubbins says the main staple in a bear's diet is… bread… though they haven't really developed baking skills, that's just amazing)

You can't print that. Where'd they print that?

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It seemed like if you took all of their songs from the era of the first 2 albums there were hardly any duds; it was a lightning-in-a-bottle period. 'Vitology' was about as "challenging" as most listeners were willing to accept. 'No Code' was just baffling.

I remember watching the first hour it aired… They played Fiona Apple's "Shadowboxer"… Tricky's "Poems" and A Tribe Called Quest's "I Left My Wallet In El Segundo"… It was like watching the videos to someone's iPod on shuffle, and I loved it.

'Lead Paint: Delicious but Deadly'