I guess you're right, Warren. It's just slightly weird to hear people talk about them as a "new band," when I've been hearing about them for like six years. It's the same thing with the Black Keys. Supposedly, they "broke through" this year, even though I thought they "broke through" like five years ago.

I think the nomination process is from October to October. That's how "Fuck You" got on, but not the album Lady Killer, or how the single for "Power" got on, but not the album.

They were Slayer compared to Mumford and Sons.

I still like Lady Gaga, because it's refreshing to see a pop star be willfully insane on such a massive scale. Lady Antebellum, on the other hand, is the safest choice of blandness.

Hey, don't throw your trash down here!

As much as he'd hate the comparison, I'd connect Beck's rambling to the Da Vinci Code. There are a lot of rambling monologues, trivia disguised as facts, and an evil all-powerful cabal trying to stop him. Of course, the Da Vinci Code is fiction.

Britta
On Gillian Jacobs's physical comedy, this is the *second* time she's had to awkwardly kiss someone in public this season (although her kiss with Jeff was much more horrifying). The backwards grinding on her 'date' and then trying to maintain it was certainly streets ahead.

I'm surprised anyone even still cares about that one-note novelty band from the mid-90s. Next, you'll say there's a groundswell of support for Our Lady Peace.

He has perfect spider-pitch.

The Toad predicts that the SportsDome will continue to be very good.

Also, there's a hoodie.

I'm fairly certain Fieldy (the bassist) had left the band/was fired by then. Instead, they had a bunch of people playing musical saws.

I think it's incredibly interesting
how fast nu-metal died out. Korn and Limp Bizkit really only had the spotlight for a few years before becoming dinosaurs. The genre's hardly mentioned 12 years later. There are no nu-metal revival bands, no one claiming influence, nothing. It's like an entire generation purposefully…

I was listening to five of those bands. Limp Bizkit, Korn, the Bosstones, Reel Big Fish and the Offspring. As I've said before: it was a terrible time for a teenager just getting into music.

Dude, I was one of five people who saw Skunk Anasie open for Rammstein in '99, I think. It was them, Soulfly and Mushroomhead on a quadruple bill.

The Deftones came across at exactly the right time and the wrong time. The nu-metal trend raised their boat, but also tied them to a critically-hated genre. Same thing with System of a Down. They'll be forever linked with a crap genre.

Pantera was also always grouchy because he slept out on the street most nights.

Even now, that Korn song posted above sounds "different." On samey-sounding modern rock radio, I can see the appeal.

You're right, laterite. The whole "rock revival" thing of the early '00s came along at exactly the right time for me. Within a year, my Korn, Limp Bizkit and Rammstein CDs were traded in for the Strokes, the White Stripes and the Hives. And since then, there's been almost no mention at all of nu-metal.

To be fair, the grunge movement had pretty much died a horrible death by 1998. Candlebox and Third Eye Blind weren't exactly Nirvana and Pearl Jam, ya know? It's no surprise confused kids turned to Korn.