Europe 72
Goodness gracious has no one mentioned the fantastically ugly artwork of EUROPE 72 by the GRATEFUL DEAD? http://www.coverbrowser.com…

What You Call Amateurish…
…I call endearingly ragged, but to each his own (though I concede GREETINGS is imperfect)

Your introduction to leading douchebag Stanford
I thought you were being really mean until I watched the first clip and was instantaneously on board with you

Bitch Hunter
I'm so glad that you're saying "fuck it" with the pictures and "relevant" links you attach to these updates.

Glaring, glaring omission
Son of Schmilsson, following the success of Nilsson Schmilsson, by Harry Nilsson

pre-mental-breakdown Brian Wilson
Would have loved to hear a fully-realized SMiLE, and Brian was surely creative enough to march the Beach Boys through the psychedelic late-sixties with more consistent results then what they came up with in actuality.

American Pie haters, are we?
You surly AV Club writers sure bring down the good times of this Don McLean fan

AD movie?
Is it entirely devilish of me that the first thing I did before reading this article was "search" for the words "Arrested Developement" in hopes of hearing good news about the movie?

The Beach Boys had such a rich catalog…
…peppered out with WTFs

I am so like Scott when it comes to discovering my favorites…
They always have to grow on me, because it often turns out there was some hard-to-swallow aspect that I grew to find endearing. By contrast, the entertainment I love immediately ends up feeling disposable in the long run.

I'd say it leans more toward tragic, as the protagonist foolishly chased his dreams and, as punishment, must live in them forever.

"Maul doesn't ever become a major enough character in the films to enjoy a backstory…
…but his origins are detailed in the novel Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter…"

At his best I could compare Tim Burton's ability to blur the line between heroes and villains to Gilliam's ability to blur the line between imagination and reality. BEETLEJUICE comes to mind when saying that.

What All Music lacks in reliable star ratings (which isn't bad, in all fairness)
…they more than make up for in words. All Music has excellently written reviews that nail the ins and outs of an album without getting overlong (almost always just a paragraph) or superficially opinionated. Just read their review of…