Yeah, I far prefer LE to UTP; in many ways I think she's never bested LE. I never did grow to like UTP. Pretty Good Year is great (but could have been on LE), God and Cornflake Girl are terrific, and The Wrong Band is her great one-per-album showtune. Beyond that I never really dug the rest; the melodies were bland to…

Cyndi.

She was ever hot?

Either the graduation party in Say Anything or whatever that was in Idle Hands where a teenage Jessica Alba spent half the movie in white lingerie and angel-wings.

"Yo…if you Can, I hope you can make it!"

I Wanna Sex You Up? "Sex Me" by R. Kelly?

It's slang for a nerd/dork/lame.

I had this odd thing happen in the early-to-mid 90s with a clutch of women artists I was into where I loved their first and third records but not their second (which in many cases was the one that "broke" them). This was so for Björk, Tori Amos, Juliana Hatfield and The Sundays.

That's a funny stand-in for "stand against the wall" that's seemingly just about fitting the meter…I've only heard it in from black artists. "Get Down On It" by Kool & the Gang is a notable older example.

Sex was absolutely used as a verb in urban slang/AAE going back at least as far as the late 80s when I was in school.

Your boy Sid Vicious
Goes with Aloysius
Married for a dowry of knishes

Also, he's hoping you *can* make there if you *can*? Under what circumstances can you not do something you can do?

She's probably having flashbacks to Marky Mark in "Fear."

I'm not sure why ATTW3 is looked at so poorly by so many diehards. I think it's pretty much terrific, particularly side one (minus Ballad of Big).

"Climbing Up the Walls", guy. Not "Crawling Up the Walls", which sounds like an unholy mashup between Radiohead and Linkin Park.

I frankly don't get why it's so poorly-regarded by so many fans, other than the "where is Steve Hackett" knee-jerk people. I think it's excellent, particularly everything on side 1 other than "Ballad of Big."

Even way before this current, really genuinely kind of sad Collins tour, he for years had brought the key down on a bunch of stuff and it just lost all power and urgency. There were these versions of "Against All Odds" that just sounded like this mannered, middling midtempo thing, when the original is such a…

Green is my favorite record of theirs, though.

Genesis for me too, even though it wasn't the way I really wanted to see them.

Yep. Including the excellent Matt Walker, who I'm a little friendly with.