And a Buddhist. Good for him.

Whatever happened to that kid?

"During the band’s last two major tours (Elevation and 360°), the only song from Pop played in its entirety was “Discothèque”—a whopping two times."

If the "Cena Sucks" crowd were as smart as you I'd probably get behind the cause.

The very best thing that happened out of that was being turned on to Mazzy Star. One of the bands' challenges was to sing a country song and they chose "Fade Into You", which I'd never heard before.

So bad she left men entirely.

I suppose it depends on how big the risk is, really. They weren't going into uncharted territory mixing rock with dance music. The Stones did that two decades earlier, and had a huge hit with "Miss You". People have taken a critical view of Peter Gabriel's use of "world" music, but it helped launch his career in a way…

My brother (who was 11 at the time) won tickets to Monday Night Raw by doing a Jack Nicholson Joker impersonation.

Indeed. Edge knows how to make those 12-strings ring.

"Discotheque" was the subject of a Hatesong article a few months back.

They also did "Gone" on the Elevation tour, it's on the Boston DVD which is how I first heard that song.

Either Waterworld or the Martin Lawrence stand-up movie Runteldat.

IMDB is good for this sort of thing as there are 4 movies/shows they are probably linked to most towards the top of the profile. His has Silence of the Lambs, and Training Day sandwiched between the two Jason Bourne movies he was in.

It came to mind, but no not that. I think MTV had a competing-bands show that was way more like a standard game show, than a reality show.

Stuff like this makes me feel all the more high and mighty for getting rid of cable TV.

Didn't MTV do a "battle of the bands" type show before?

Bless that judge for making sure this whole thing was released to the public.

Does that make Michael Bolton 50 or 100 times more bland then?

Early Rod Stewart, and on some of his 80's songs too.

I don't think I've heard anymore than a few seconds of the song honestly, but what I find funny is that he's basically the serious version of The Lonely Island.