I thought Ex Machina's ending was pretty great as a commentary on how neat endings are always a con.

"His main point is that the lyrics are weak on about half the songs, due to picking on weak targets"

That was a terrible review. If a band is doing basically what they were doing on their last album, and you liked it then but you're bored with it now, then say that - don't invent a bunch of differences between the albums that only you can hear and pretend that's the reason why you don't like the new one.

The Spike Jonze bashing made me hate this movie even more. Yeah, I get that he was a shit husband, but at least he never expected me to sit through a movie this crappy, so I had a lot more sympathy for the Jonze stand-in character than the talentless hack he was married to.

Yep. All I got out of that movie is that Sofia Coppola is a boring person who likes Japan, Bill Murray, and indie music. It's not a film, it's a fucking Pinterest page.

Pitchfork reported this as 'Holograms of ODB and Eazy-E, Earl Sweatshirt, Tyler the Creator, Danny Brown, Black Hippy, Wu-Tang Clan, Rakim, Bone Thugs to Play Rock the Bells', which makes it sound like the promoters went "Fuck it, we don't care who's dead or alive, we're just booking holograms this year".

Harry Connick Jr. sure did cop a lot of flack from the judges for telling the contestants that they should learn the actual melodies of the songs, and then actually sing the actual melodies instead of blasting out hundreds of random notes and making a beloved classic song sound like complete horseshit.

It's maybe best if you watch them chronologically - Series 1 & 2, the specials, In The Loop, series 3 & 4

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"For its first nine songs, The Yellow Album bears only a slight
resemblance to the television masterpiece that spawned it. The names,
voices, and dynamic are all the same, but the soul is gone, along with
the wit, irreverence, and everything else that makes The Simpsons great."

"Connection" sounds like a normal mid-90's rock song, with a Wire riff in it. "Three Girl Rhumba" sounds like a Wire song. Wire song wins, "Connection" can fuck off.

I'd rank them something like:

That Pitchfork review also calls 'Boss Of Me' (which could easily have been mid-album filler on Reality) one of the album's best moments, which is weird and wrong, and suggests Ryan Dombal is actually a bit shit at listening to music.

Sounds like the rest of them have a pretty good idea of how to write a Stooges song, but Iggy still hasn't remembered how to write Stooges lyrics. There should be, like, ten words in the whole song. And only two of them should rhyme.

Yeah, but if your team went from being the greatest in history to bafflingly, embarrassingly terrible in the course of two years, wouldn't you at least want to know the manager's name (and, err, the word 'manager') so you could bitch about him on the internet?

@avclub-0d4efaa2c9d1041eb9b8b5319eec8531:disqus  I think we can all agree that everyone should approach their jobs with at least the same level of interest and research as it takes to be able to name a few people who worked on a TV show.

Yeah! The show went to shit on Mike Scully's watch, and it's fluctuated between terrible and unwatchable ever since.

Fucking hell, he's pulled it off! It's not quite up there with the classics, but unlike every other record that's been tagged his 'best since Scary Monsters' it's actually properly great, and great in the way that his other great records were great. There's a special transcendent Bowieness that hasn't been there in…

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