Oh, I missed that one. One for the download list! And for those who want to see something even more retarded about superheroes, there's always No Heroics (shut up, it's good).

Dammit Wolfman, I was going to say that. Jason, I presume that was intentional, in which case, well played.

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The Parole Officer is probably responsible for Coogan's stillborn film career; I think that like PH up there, a lot of people figured that he wasn't cut out for film and just moved on (sorry guys, but that movie was a clunker).

"The same white people that find the twins offensive are the white people that lock their car doors when a black guy looks by"… just what exactly are you basing that on, Doc? Because given that I see no evidence for that in the thread, it looks awfully like a cheap racial stereotype to me.

Fake Plastic Trees has crap lyrics?

Fuck a tentacled duck, TFAD actually sounded like he might have gone over my head just there, rather than dribbling froth all over the page as usual.

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@slcgrad: what part of BwBW do you mean? Those lyrics aren't the greates, but they aren't making my bottom 50!

Yeah, while I can't say I think the lyrics are *good*, I think in terms of phraseology it's like "hitting that". You'd never describe a girl as "that" in any other context, but it's just the parlance of our times.

I read an article (it was in Loaded or something like that) back in the day, where Noel explained where he got some of his ideas. Apparently he'd pretty much finished the lyrics for Champagne Supernova - he'd got "caught beneath the landslide" and knew the next line would have to end "in the sky," because he'd already…

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I don't think it's the grammar Josh was complaining about; I think it's more that it seems to have been a case of rhyme over reason. It doesn't illustrate much about our hero's state of mind that he aspires to waking up as a way to start his day (what other way is there?) - Sumner just wanted something to rhyme with…

In America, you say "lee-zure", and in Britain we say "lie-zuray".

Well, I think after we stopped blaming coke we blamed El Nino for a bit. Then after a brief honeymoon experiment of blaming the millennium bug, we decided to blame it on 9/11. Now that we're well practised in relating our woes to obviously unrelated tragedies, everything apparently happens because of "the current…

@T-bone: you're going to be mad as hell when Saw VII comes out…

OK, I don't get the "streets behind" joke. Can anyone fill me in?

@MBI: and that is why Single Ladies is a better song. It's one of the first pop songs I've heard in ages that actually has some edge.

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