Well, yeah, obviously, not liking Courtney Love naturally makes me a misogynist, since she's such a great exemplar of what women should aspire to be.

Yeah, actually, that's a good point, since Michael Stipe is actually Frances Bean's godfather. Hadn't thought about that.

@idiotking I should also mention that I don't think anyone actually believes that Love *killed* him, just that there was conspiracy and that she had a vested interest in him dying before he could divorce her. But no one thinks she pulled the trigger or anything.

The fact that he couldn't have lifted the shotgun is relevant, but what's way more fishy is all the rumblings from their lawyers about how he was about to file for divorce, which meant of course that Courtney stood to benefit from him dying while they were still married.

I know it's totally projecting, but I love the idea of a Corgan-Cobain rivalry. I picture the scoreboard showing "Living past 27: Advantage: Corgan," followed by "Legendary rock martyr status/continued critical respect: Advantage: Cobain," at which point Corgan clasps his fist and stage whispers "Cobain!"

Yeah, I mean, this is a great column and obviously Cobain's death (suicide?) was the defining music/zeitgeist moment of the year, but it's impossible to talk about 1994 without addressing the Green Day/Offspring axis. Other than Cobain and the "Sabotage" video, those two bands are probably what I remember most about…

I'll never forget where I was, because I was taking a dump. I was watching MTV with my sister after school one day, it came to a commercial break and I got up to go to the bathroom. A couple minutes later, she bangs on the door and goes "You know Kurt Cobain from Nirvana? He committed suicide." At first I didn't…

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when so many of the greatest gags in Naked Gun movies are sight gags. For instance, my all time favorite, which is the guy throwing the pillow at Drebin, which proceeds to suffocate him as well.

2005-2007 Showz
I love how finding out a show is coming to TV Club Classic is kind of like finding out a movie is coming to Criterion.

Yeah, I actually find that most record store clerks I deal with are schlubby, guys in their 40s. The age of record stores commanding enough influence to constantly employ douchey hipsters and cute indie girls is pretty much over.

Beatles, then Smiths. Then everybody else.

Years from now, Kanye will refer to this as the worst moment of his presidency.

"…a man ready to put on a cleaner, more adult-looking white undershirt."
"…a man ready to put on a cleaner, more adult-looking white undershirt."

While were on the subject of hip-hop, how about just the concept of Golden Age-style sampling in general? I mean, I know people still use samples, but I'm talking like sampling on the order of Paul's Boutique or 3 Feet High and Rising, which became cost-prohibitive shortly thereafter. I would've liked to see where…

See, I'm not just talking in terms of material, because obviously there has been tons of posthumous material, much of which has been in the form of "duets" and shit like that, but I'm talking specifically in terms of hearing the kind of perspective they'd bring to their material as 38-year-olds. I mean, I guess it…

Pete Ham is a good choice, as well as someone who barely anyone is going to say. But I definitely would've been happy to hear more of his stuff. Shit, I don't even care if it was with Badfinger. I can only imagine what a fully-produced solo album from that guy would've been like, because any way you slice it the guy…

No one yet has said Biggie and/or 2pac?
You do realize those guys were 24 and 25 when they died, right? I mean, I know hip-hop artists don't always age well but those two were undisputed greatests of all time, I would have to think they'd weather middle age a little better than most.

Great Clash cover = Richard Cheese's cover of "Rock the Casbah." It's meant as a joke, but it actually turns out to be a really great cover, one that I think I kind of like more than the original.

I mean, I don't know about other people, but I'm 25 and growing up I was aware of a movie called The Goonies but I never knew of it having some huge cult following. Nobody talked about it and waxed nostalgic about it like they do now. That seems to have started on a culture-wide scale about 5 or 6 years ago, around…

Think about it: they're both things from the 80s that EVERYONE of a certain generation have become re-obsessed with in the last few years, and yet all of K-Fip's criticisms of The Goonies can apply to that song as well.