Listened to that embedded track again, just for the heck of it, and still get nothing out of it. As I've said before, I credit the fellow for doing what he wants to do, but this doesn't even sound interesting to me, and I'm pretty well-versed with all the stuff he's copping from here. I expect it to be near the top of…

His phone ads are genuinely amusing.
Not many can say that.

I think the thing with me/Stipe is that, aside from a few notable and beloved exceptions, I've never really cared about lyrics in the slightest. Many of my favorite singers I like because of the way their voices sound, not necessarily what they are saying; a memorable tune, to me, is the combination of how the song…

Partridge put out a "corrected" mix of 'Skylarking' a year or so ago, which I picked up, which has the original running order—at least I think so, 'Dear God' is still tacked on near the end, but it doesn't interrupt the flow of it (and includes 'Mermaid Smiled'). If so inclined, it looks like you can get the CD for…

I've always put it forward that the more Stipe took himself seriously, the worse the band got.
The early records have more of a muffled charm to them, although I got in to them with the brighter sounding 'Life's' and 'Document' (which, with the louder riffs, made a metal kid like myself more likely to pay attention).…

I'll always have a lot of love for "Dead Letter Office", it's not essential, true, but it was one of the first REM albums I ever bought (I was discarding my metal past and getting into more contemporary, 'college rock' sounding stuff of the time, which was '86 or so), along with Document, I guess, and it was always a…

Their early sound is pretty basic, classicist 60s rock n roll, very tuneful all the way through. They are one of the 80s era bands that was lucky not to have production style/sound datestamped by the era, and, to me, anyway, still sound as good now as they did at the time ( with the note that I am really only talking…

Need some eviscerating in there, too.
Slayer boings.

Lemonade is such a great drink. It's hard to find good lemonade, but when you do, you don't soon forget it.
Beyoncé seems nice, too. I don't want her to feel neglected here.

Now I want a raspberry sherbet.
Again…nothing.
I do have this bottle of lukewarm tap water. It's water flavored, though.
Goddam the disappointments never end 'round these parts.

I'm kind of indifferent to all of this, but did want to point out that I'm now really craving a glass of raspberry lemonade.
I don't have any, though.
That's it, really.

Nah, I wouldn't call Dolphy free jazz; he fits more into the hard bop style, I think. 'Out to Lunch' is his best album under his name, and probably, along with Roland Kirk, the only jazz flute I can handle.
I definitely respect free playing, in particular the names you listed (nice to see a mention of Shepp; his is a…

I never got the appeal, myself, and I was 18 when it was released, so should have been in my wheelhouse. It wasn't; partly, as you say, because he's really a smug prick. I'd also long grown weary of Hughes movies by then.

Maybe hold out for Rita Rudner?

Don't even get me started on the haircuts. Appalling example for the children.

Now we don't even get the soundtracks to ease the pain.

Sound advice.

You'll have to wear a leather jacket and take up smoking, brother Ghost. I hope you are ready for the sort of investment.

It does, I watched the DVD a few years back and still got laughs out of it, but I remember watching it when it was on the teevee originally, and my brother and I laughed a lot at the first couple of episodes, but as it went on, despite the absurdity, it started to get kind of predictable. Which that sort of thing…

Would it have been so hard to include some Kingston Trio? Maybe get rid of the title track? It doesn't even make grammatical sense!