Hear, hear. Have these people never heard of tripods?

I considered nominating that pair, but find it difficult to justify calling it two songs (despite being credited as such) because one follows directly from the other without pause, in the same key and because the intro of "Summer's Cauldron" is taken up again at the very end of "Grass" (electronic cricket chirping…

Hearts and Bones itself would qualify:
"Allergies"
"Hearts and Bones"

With Aja you do need a side 2. Try to imagine "I Got the News" as one of the first three tracks; I can't.

Should have thought of that myself. The highlight of the album, especially "Love Lies Bleeding."

Naw, not if you're talking about a sequence of two tracks. "She's the One" is a disappointment because of the almost entirely unvarying harmony. In concert a few years later (1977) the song was much improved by introducing a flat-VII (instead of yet another I chord) at the end of every other measure in the…

I know I've already posted, but thought of another:
Squeeze, Argybargy (1980)
"Pulling Mussels from the Shell"
"Another Nail in My Heart"
Actually the whole album is great; when I first heard it, I thought it was a best-of compilation!

Laura Nyro, Eli and the Thirteenth Confession (1968):
"Luckie"
"Lu"
What a great pair of opening tracks, still sounding fresh today.

I think the stupid sitcom she left Crossing Jordan for was called Committed - I remember the ads for it, which repelled me from ever seeing the show.

I know this is impertinent, but when Lalo Schifrin's M:I theme is discussed, please don't neglect to mention parenthetically that Schifrin also gave us the equally great but totally different jazz-waltz Mannix theme, 1 year later. (Mannix opening credits can be found on YouTube; the early-season arrangements are the…

Both the color Diana Rigg episodes and The Prisoner were shot entirely (or almost entirely) during 1967. Those series, Sergeant Pepper's, Carnaby Street fashion, the Hollies' "Carrie-Anne," etc., were all part of one single British creative impulse in some sense. (And no, I don't think this just because the Prisoner…

Get Macnee and Rigg, older and slower, and it MIGHT have worked.

Last time I was in England (in 1986, sadly), I got to see Irons in The Winter's Tale at Stratford. Damn good.

Or go back to '73 and check out the Polydor LP Buckingham Nicks, if you can find it.

I was a reader of the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory since age 8 when it came out (with the delightful Joseph Schindelman pencil illustrations) and have always had a marked distaste for the 1971 movie. I was delighted when I first heard about a remake that would revert to the book's title, and for the most…

Likewise its cousin Knots Landing - one of the later arrangements of the theme was really nice, quite different from (and slower than) the prosaic original arrangement.

Lost in Space had a very different credit sequence, with completely new up-tempo theme, for its third and final season. Both themes were by "Johnny" Williams. A few years ago I heard a really quite successful marching-band arrangement of the second theme.

You're missing out. Cranston on Malcolm is right up there with Dick van Dyke in the realm of physical, cartoon-like comedy. Seriously. Check this out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYt…

It's the very last scene of the series. The janitor job is at Harvard, isn't it? Malcolm is a student with an on-campus job, nothing unusual.

I'm pretty sure Erik Per Sullivan is in college - I remember a radio interview with Cranston a few years ago during which his contact with Malcolm cast members came up, and he specifically said they'd recently been in touch during Sullivan's college application process.