I'm all in favor of a Wyld Stallionz-style metaltopia centered around, let's just say, Ratt.

Say what you will about Madonna's song choice, vocal ability, relevance, or whatever, but nothing takes the bad tribute cake better than when the Pixies performed THEIR OWN FUCKING SONG at the David Bowie Tribute Concert earlier this year. Sure, Bowie liked the Pixies, and sure, he recorded a cover of 'Cactus' but…

For my money the Gaga/Bowie tribute still stands out as being worse, "quality" of performance aside. Madonna's tribute was at least actually about Prince and not about hawking some new visual technology-partnership.

I don't think they were best buds, but they co-wrote a song for Madonna's 'Like a Prayer' album that he sang on, and he played guitar on the title song. I don't know enough about their interpersonal dealings after that to really say anything with authority. At the very least she seems to have a lot of respect for him.

Well, yeah, granted, she probably would have done better with something that wasn't sung by Sinéad O'Connor in her prime. But getting up there and singing 'Controversy' wouldn't have had any emotional weight behind it. Really, these tributes are pretty dicey propositions in general. There's always a bunch of factions…

The Billboard Awards are a joke, but I thought the Prince tribute was well-handled, considering. I know there's a lot of grumbling about Madonna being the one to do the tribute, but come on, she's one of the last living people who was Prince's peer, they worked together, and they didn't seem to actively hate each…

I mean, it still has its charms, naked Ewan amongst them. But whereas it's a rush the first time you see it, subsequent viewings tend to reveal the various demerits. Chiefly that Jonathan Rhys-Myers isn't, you know, great.

The film's not really a "dud" but the soundtrack to Velvet Goldmine was pretty damn instrumental in exposing me to Roxy Music, Brian Eno's early, vocal albums, and that one amazing Steve Harley song. The movie itself kind of falls apart for me nowadays.

i don't need him to clarify; i'm just glad i wasn't imagining things. who else? xiu xiu, patrick wolf, owen pallett…

I love that Pump Up the Volume ends on such an odd note. Sure, Happy Harry has brought down the school's administration and started a smallish revolution of pirate radio, but he probably went to jail.

I'll see your pissing next to Steve Buscemi and raise you a falling flat on my face in front of Robert Downey Jr.

Totally superficial question, but is this guy, how to put this, non-straight? Some of his earlier stuff certainly gives off that impression, and I've seen his name bandied about on some queer music boards, but there's been nary a whisper about it since CSH has become A Thing. Now, before people get huffy, I'm not…

Just like last year, Ru really tips her hand when she has the top 3 do their custom lip syncs. Bob got the "best" song, had the most to do, and did the most with it. Kim got this season's version of Pearl's "Sleepwalker," which is to say, they gave her a really boring song and basically nothing to do. And Naomi was…

So really what you're saying is… James Cameron, James Horner, and Celine Dion ganged up and murdered Elliott Smith. I support this hypothesis.

The ending just made me uncomfortable. They were aiming for heartwarming, but I had a hard time believing that everybody watching Tina "ride Jericho" would have such a positive, totally not-creeped out, reaction. Plus this felt like a real regression for Tina, who's been coming off a lot more connected to reality…

It could have been much shorter. Yanagihara clearly has less interest in Malcolm and JB; she basically abandons their stories halfway through in favor of focusing in on Jude and Willem. And the endless repetition of Jude cutting himself, going to the doctor, lying to people, over and over again, it just got numbing.…

Ugh, The Master. I was so angry when I walked out of that thing.

Whereas I like Radiohead a lot, and listen to them far more than The Beatles. I guess it's easier for me tune out obnoxious Radiohead fans because I experienced their music firsthand and didn't have to be instructed by the older generation as to why they're supposedly so amazing,

I don't know, I've read a lot of dissenting opinion about it. Personally, I liked it, even though it rewards your patience with endless misery.

The Beatles get most of the credit for bringing psychedelia to the masses because they were super adorable heartthrobs who never seemed remotely threatening. Nobody in The Beatles would ever be accused of violating a carpet-wrapped Marianne Faithfull with a candy bar.