I feel like they're the biggest cult band because they've had so much success with a cult audience.  Apart from that handful of singles which get played on rock radio, and all the references to them in various pieces of pop culture over the past few years, they're still not a trendy band to like, they still get…

Permanent Waves!  Totally the best place to start with Rush, with its mixture of two legitimate hit songs and some of their most accessible prog (Heller didn't mention "Jacob's Ladder", which is also an amazing song).

I was kind of reminded of the incompetent small-time Quebecois terrorist cell from Infinite Jest that sells Pemulis the super-hallucinogenic drugs.

Does saying that a crime show does something better than The Following necessarily count as avoiding bullshit, though?  That's kind like praising a drama for doing something better than The Room, there's still plenty of room for inane dialogue, random scenes and lines that don't connect to the plot, and individual…

Linder has been pretty awesome.  It felt pretty obvious that Linder's Swedish counterpart on the original was going to be a red herring from the very start, whereas here I think they cast a little more ambiguity on his intentions.

I've seen the original, but there isn't an exact analog for Gedman's character in the original, so I think I can speculate here without spoiling anything.  I would assume that the killer expected the feds to take over on this case, knew who Gedman was, expected Gedman in particular to get assigned to the case,…

I thought this episode was pretty good, definitely a solid step-up from last week's.  I liked the introduction of the cartel guys and the federal agents (who weren't really a big deal until this episode, even if they showed up last week), thought it was pretty good world building.  Marco was pretty awesome in this…

@avclub-ff3315df974a82424353d399b7a68c07:disqus I feel like on the whole, NC would probably rank from average to pretty horrible as far as overall quality of public education.  There are some awesome magnet schools.  The middle and high schools that I went to were GT/magnet, and they were both pretty awesome (when I…

Awesome!  Third is one of my favorite albums of the past five years.

I'd put The White Album, Revolver, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ahead of Abbey Road, personally.

I have the re-release.  I've honestly never heard the original mix, but the new mix is fine.  And there's an awesome short concert's worth of bonus material that sounds really good.

Wait, why didn't they throw "My Sharona" and "My Best Friend's Girl" onto that massive boxed set, and maybe one of the lesser "Rape Me"s if they felt it would have been too long otherwise?

Nobody's mentioned "Clean Up Before She Comes" or "Do Re Mi" yet, so I'll throw that in.  They released a boxed set called "With the Lights" out that has a ton of unreleased songs (b-sides and demos among them) that vary in quality, but quite a few of the songs getting mentioned here are on there.  "Sliver:  The Best…

Also why I personally think Nevermind, being by far the most polished Nirvana album is nowhere near on par with In Utero or that sort-of-acoustic live MTV album.

Jake either picks his nose or points at himself when Bubblegum refers to the characters she's gathered around her as the Candy Kingdom's elite, and Finn punches a fist into his other hand at some point.  But no, they never actually said anything.

Yeah, as much as I can totally respect karp's comments, and think he has some good points, I'd have to say I agree with you.

@avclub-487cf32249fbaaa5a79258e26d54fe19:disqus Oh, yeah, I mean, I think that the Lich has had a much greater effect on Ooo than Maja has.  But as far as villains go, the Lich is pretty much a one-note character of pure evil.  I don't dislike the Lich as a villain, but I think that he could have been a much more…

@avclub-66360d35bab7ad3823b9018686d195f6:disqus Fuck, really?  When did this even happen?  I'd completely missed it.  McCrory is the worst.  I mean, I know Amendment One and those tea partiers trying to essentially resegregate the Wake County Public School System were before his time as governor, but his…

PB's rat is named Science?  That's awesome.

Wait, is NC proposing some new horribly conservative legislation, or am I just losing track of a violation of women's rights among all the racism, attempted voter suppression, and ignorance of the concept of separation of church and state that's been going on in the Tar Heel state since McCrory's election?