"Box Elder"- Pavement

"B.O.B."- Outkast

"The Way We Get By"- Spoon

My dad's biting social commentary after picking up my cassette copy of "Cure for Pain" and inspecting the cover: "Morphine?! Why don't they just call themselves Death Juice?"

Well, this is certain to go its entire run without incident.

It's a Shame About Ray—the entire album!—is a fantastic piece of 90's pop that has aged really well. 12 songs under 30 minutes. That's how you do it.

The production is so, so good. Coincidentally, I listened to this album for the first time in years just last week. I was on a work trip in S. America, and somehow it was the perfect soundtrack to that experience.

Absolutely. My dad had exactly two records that I remember when I was growing up: The Gambler Soundtrack, and a Geezinslaw Brothers album.
Thank God my mom loved Motown, Elvis, The Beatles, and Surf Rock.

As someone who loves Led Zeppelin, I don't hesitate in saying that "Raising Sand" features some of Plant's best recorded vocals, period. And it's precisely because he's not trying to be the Golden God of yore. He's found a new palette of emotions in his voice to work with, and I can't say that I blame him for choosing…

No, you're right. I meant more of as an extension of their musical personas than a legit foray into acting.

Or Anthony Kiedis getting his foot blown apart in "Point Break"!
Dude's face is priceless in that scene.

The Beatles could've added more feces throwing to their act, for sure.

Totally. I guess the distinction I didn't make clear is the difference between a musician who is acting vs. a musician/musicians "doing their thing" on screen. (Like Elvis, the Spice Girls, The Ramones in "Rock N' Roll High School," etc."

No, you're right. He was great in all of those, and "Love Me Tender," to. Just the odds of an entire group capturing the magic seems so unlikely to me.

Not to say they were master thespians by any means, but has another band's talents and charms translated so seamlessly into acting?

Any chance of TV Club coverage of "Comedians…"?

Will Smith's "Just the Two of Us." (Not in content, but in execution.)
Straight up child abuse.

There is no shame in your game. And Hoffs isn't wholly unaware of her charms:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…

In conclusion:
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"Besides the obvious, why do you hate 'American Idiot'?" Ah, yes—another nuanced edition of "Hatesong."