Yeah; if not for the shared chord progression and general song structure, I would consider this version of "Little Wing" a completely different song that just happens to share a title with Hendrix's, if that makes any sense.

Re: the "bluesy shuffle" arrangement- I'm sure it goes without saying (despite the fact that I will say it anyway) that this was Clapton's original arrangement. I believe Allman "created" the classic riff (which was lifted from an earlier blues tune). As a performance, returning it to the blues allowed Clapton to…

Interesting note of Mad Dogs and Englishmen- wasn't D+B the backing band on there?

Yeah, that record company pressure is the sort of thing that lead to tracks like "Bad Love", which just apes Layla's song structure, right down to the key change going from the refrain back into the verse. (Frankly, it's not a terrible song, but it lends credence to the idea that Clapton has spent every album…

I will go on record as the lone human being who actively listens (yes, present tense) to Van Halen III. It's a damn good album, and Cherone was a good vocalist. And, oh yeah— the band's last #1 was on Gary's watch.

That's what I'm hoping for out of all of this: Keaton, Clooney, Kilmer, Bale, and whoever pops up in the cape and cowl in Justice League all duking it out, only to find out that the ultimate evil that has pitted them all against each other is Adam West.

Seriously? I hated (still do) Cars, but those shorts pretty well forced me to liking the characters, and the sequel threatens to do something interesting with them ("interesting" as in "not a full-blown retread of a middling Michael J Fox movie").

I was about to start fapping, and then I realized that the Sarah Lane everyone's talking about isn't the one from TechTV. Can I see Natalie Portman's face on THAT Sarah Lane's body instead?

@e-dog: "Mickey's Christmas Carol" was a short. However, Mickey did appear (though only as a cameo) in "A Goofy Movie".

Not sure what everyone else saw, but when I first went there, the logo refused to load, only for it to appear when i reloaded the page. Fairly appropriate, I'd say.

I want his voice on my home answering machine.

True, the whole carrying the Statue of Liberty through the jungle was somehow even more on the nose than the phrase "on the nose" allows it to be, but seriously, that opening of walking into Whitehall seeing Uncle Sam singing "I Want You" and pushing the kids through the assembly line? Who didn't think, at least at…

I think the best name is completely escaping us- in fact, it didn't occur to me until I was further down the page here…

Goddamn if I don't love "Geek Chorus". And, as a fan of listening to This American Life and TWiT while I'm doing housework, I love the idea of just having all this shit in one large podcast, rather than a metric shitton of 5-minute 'casts.

No idea on the podcast overall, but for the love of God, can we call the Ask The AV Club segment "It was Bradbury, Dammit!"? (I've long suspected that, near the end of the feature's life, the fact that nearly every question could be answered with that response is why it ultimately died.)

I don't care how many bad songs the man has been responsible for, and I even pretend from time to time that 'Tarzan' simply doesn't exist, but the man gets a lifetime pass for being even just anywhere near "Lamb Lies Down On Broadway", as well as (yes, I'm looking at latter-day Genesis stuff, too), "We Can't Dance". …

I dunno about the extended episode, but I would willingly sit down for a "very special episode" of Minute to Win It wherein Guy admits that drinking games and bar bets just aren't as much fun when you're stone sober, and he never should have left the kitchen.

Kiss are definitely what I would typically refer to as a "Greatest Hits" band (as in "one of those bands that the Hits comps cover everything you'll ever want to hear by them), if half the good shit ever wound up anywhere near a Hits comp.

It's been a while since I've had access to JCTV (I seriously miss u-verse: it's the only place I've actually seen this channel being offered), but if I recall, Jay Bakker actually does have a reasonably-sized presence on the channel.

Of course it will— since the ever-dwindling number of immortals somehow continues to constantly increase.