Special dispensation for Dead songs
For a lot of Grateful Dead songs, the "definitive" recorded version is not the studio version, it's one of the live recordings. Some of their songs were never even recorded in the studio. So the "no live version" criterion is unfair to Dead songs. And even if you eliminate the many…

Yeah, but In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida's drum solo is the most retarded drum solo ever. I mean, technical expertise is certainly not necessary for most pop songs, but the drum solo in that song sounds like my 12-year-old nephew practicing his marching band rudiments for half an hour. Tee-dee-uss!

Well, I'm never going to feel guilty for NOT liking Frasier. That show always irritated me and I've NEVER found it funny. Ever since Cheers, Frasier the character, to me, has been one of those haughty elite guys that only exists on sitcoms — an update of the Tony Randall character (and probably some archetype…

Singer-songwriter wears his/her embarassingly infantile emotions on their his/her sleeve!
And the nonetheless catchy, compelling songs that come out of it!

OMG! Hey, @Flavawheel! Wasn't that "Tippy Turtle"? (It sure was, I just googled it!) Thay provided me literally minutes of hilarity back in college! Oh, yes, I remember! (not even gonna google it this time, this is just from memory!)

didn't even finish the article, and I had to check if anyone caught that yet. Yep. 1st thread.

We're having chicken tonight. Strangest damn things. They're man-made. Little damn things. About as big as your fist. But they're new!

The ambiguity - yes! The ambiguity and the lack of direct physical connection increase the dramatic tension in the song - you get that Lefty did something horrible that probably led to Pancho's death, but you don't know what it is. Which makes the line even more powerful: "say a few [prayers] for Lefty too" — don't…

"Evangeline": Absolutely! That was the first song I ever heard where I really got what an angelic, world-redeeming voice Emmylou has. Back when I was wearing out the grooves of my Last Waltz LP. Which was years before I found out about the debauched coke-fest that was going on just backstage (but Emmylou never…

I'd have to agree with Jaipun re Forrest Gump. When I first saw ads for it I had a bad feeling about it: it was marketed as a Classic American Film, as if that were a genre rather than a designation a movie achieves over time. When I finally saw it, it confirmed my worst fears. If it were merely a dumb movie with…

I thought all you Canuckistanis bought everything you need at Canadian Tire.

firsties!
grotto sex?

Is Norm MacDonald still billed as a comedian, or is he officially a full-time asshole now?

Warren: I haven't seen Reservoir Dogs, but I assume the remake of "Hooked on a Feeling" you're talking about is the HOOGA-SHAHKA HOOGA HOOGA version (AKA OOBA-CHUCKA OOBA OOBA, or… what the hell are they… never mind), which was recorded by a band called Blue Swede (I bought the 45 back in the day). The rules for this…

Okay, I have to speak up re C-Am-F-G… it's NOT a doo-wop progression! Because it's not really 1-6-4-5 (C-Am-F-G, relative to C tonic) progression! Because it resolves back to the 1. It's a C-Am-F-G-C progression. Unlike the innumerable 1-6-4-5 doo-wop songs ("Blue Moon", "Little Darling", "Devil Or Angel", etc.),…

People's ignorance of pop culture, old or new, doesn't bother me in the least. This is POP CULTURE ignorance, it's not the inability of x percentage of Americans to find France on a map or recall who won the Civil War. The thing that does irk me is people that who knowledge of music — or, specifically, who cop an…