I usually defend the Eagles, but I think this article has it a little backwards: these songs are sort of ok/forgettable, but the hits are great.
I usually defend the Eagles, but I think this article has it a little backwards: these songs are sort of ok/forgettable, but the hits are great.
What a time to schedule a Street Beef.
"Hold the Line" is a comment on Jim and Maggie's relationship: Love isn't always on time. Like "You Were Always on my Mind" was underlying the subtle theme of MacKenzie's disturbing all-consuming obsession with Will.
A million times yes. This show makes me hate my own opinions.
I love the night life, I love to boogie…
I get that, they certainly put out work of very high quality in the nineties, it's just not my cup of tea, and Everybody Hurts exemplifies all the ways in which they lost their appeal for me.
No, you must be Don Francisco. It's the outlier among the early ones, but so, so funny.
So hilarious dithering around in the Christmas special.
REM from Chronic Town through Life's Rich Pageant is my favorite band…that mixture of prettiness and angularity and hazy mystery in that music is uniquely captivating, and when something like the chorus of Shaking Through explodes into gorgeousness, it's enormously moving and exciting even though I have literally no…
OK, Hope Sandoval might be an exception.
One of the great life lessons that comes with age (I'm 42): Nothing is worth enduring these kinds of crowds and lines. Nothing.
Another funny slam at Frost occurs in the credits to the Timmy Williams Show: There is a credit saying something like "Written by Timmy Williams," followed by "with additional material by" and a huge block of names that goes by too fast to be read.
Frost had a reputation as a credit hog, and apparently the Pythons…