"Trouble" is an OK pick from Elvis's TV special, I guess — it is a helluva show starter — but I'd defer to the "in the round" stuff. The "One Night" especially is transcendently great.

Any song from his Monterey set rips the studio versions. And that's saying A LOT. Ditto a lot of his performances from the Live in Europe set.

Any live version of any song from Born In The USA has just gotta be better. Those are good songs, drenched in terrible, terrible '80s production. I can barely listen to that record but the versions of its songs on the Live box are pretty great.

I just got done saying upthread how awful I think Queen are live. I knew I'd be in the minority. They are the very definition of a studio band to me.

Queen, hands down.
I LOVE Queen. Love love love love love Queen.
But they were a total studio band. They simply can't do most of what made their recordings so great live. I think Live Killers is almost completely worthless, but every song on it is gold in the studio versions.

Pretty much the only thing live on Kiss Alive is the drums. Everything else was scrapped and rerecorded if that Larry Harris book about Casablanca Records is to be believed.

That's the studio version!

Apart from that being a ridiculous comparison, you obviously missed the word "immediately" in my post. I'm not deaf, just slow.

Truth be told, if I turn on the radio and "Because The Night" is playing, I can't immediately tell if it's Patti or Natalie, as Natalie copied it so faithfully.

Has anyone ever made a supercut of all the supercuts the AVClub links to? Because that would totally fill some space.

I actually wish I didn't know who they parodying, as not only is mocking people who fell out of the cultural consciousness two decades ago just kinda pointless, their clownish antics aren't based on anything real, so they're cheap, stupid shots anyway. Oh, and the wig was ridiculous. If they wanted dopey lawyers, why…

Besides, in this case, it's so obviously self-aware — the very idea is a joke, intended to be ridiculous on its face. I don't think it's a particularly funny joke, I'll admit, but I'm pretty sure I understand the writers' intentions. It's just another convention they're poking fun of.

Or the blob.

What on Earth does "progressive" have to do with anything? We're talking about crowd pleasing, not breaking new narrative ground. You can't make a huge budgeted blockbuster with an ending few will pay to see. That's just basic economics.

This argument would be more compelling if the MCU movies weren't stacked with familiar faces and well-known stars.

Without doing any research whatsoever, I'd bet the ratio is about the same as it's always been (even back in the day when Hollywood cranked out a lot more pictures than they do these days.) People have this weird notion that remakes, reboots, sequels, and endless adapations of the same source material are something…

I agree that Winter Soldier probably has the best script of all the MCU movies (and I've enjoyed them all to some degree or another.) But I'd also argue that it has the best action sequences (while agreeing that the Helicarrier ending was not very well thought-out.) I mean, Cap running along the ship during the…

"Compare the third acts of every Marvel film, and you’ll find more than a few similarities."

I'll say to you what I said to someone else above: unless Arquette has been earning as much (or more) than her male costars all along, there is nothing hypocritical in pointing out that women and men are not paid the same amount for doing the same work.

So your argument is that when a moral and decent idea comes from the mouth of a rich person, it's somehow less moral or decent? Or just that we shouldn't listen? Either way, I don't think "hypocritical" is the word you mean to use, since that would imply that Arquette has been making as much (or more) money as her…