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The location used for the Sarah Palmer scene was Burbank's Handy Market, my wife recognized it immediately.

I kinda loved watching the word spread about this on social media. Of course, that was their plan. And of course we knew that. And of course, we didn't care.

FWIW, the woman who played the reporter in the second ep was Susan Coyne, who co-created and co-starred in SLINGS AND ARROWS, the show that MOZART IN THE JUNGLE reminds me the most of. So definitely a shout-out to one of their influences.

You too, Pete! I'm still in touch with several people from that group, and in fact watched the 'mats show in St. Paul with some of them.

Yes. That was me! Or is me!

I've been a big Replacements fan for a very very very long time — one of the highlights of my life was interviewing Paul for my college radio station in 1985, and another was flying to Minneapolis-St.Paul in 2014 to see them play — and there hasn't been a moment in all of that time when I didn't want more people to

Good night, John Boy!

Back in the mid-1980s, we used to go to the import section of Tower Records to look for English imports that we'd only read about to buy and play on our college radio station.

Oh. Bollocks. There were loads of great songs on Pleased to Meet Me: "Valentine," "Skyway," "Never Mind," "I.O.U," "The Ledge" and "I Don't Know" plus the two you mentioned.

Yeah. Whenever I listen to a lot of R.E.M., they're my favorite 80s band, but whenever I listen to a lot of Replacements they're my favorite 80s band.

This is a good list, though I'd also add "AAA" from MONO

Not exactly my list — I'd replace "Favorite Thing" "Darlin One" "Kids Don't Follow" & "20th Century Boy" with "Hayday," "Nobody," "Wake Up" and "Androgynous," — but seriously, folks, the vast majority of these songs are among the greatest rock 'n' roll music anybody's ever recorded.

This is such bullshit. I'm 52, and thanks to the internet, I listen to more new music than I did when I was 22.

Or maybe they don't break up after All Shook Down comes out as a solo Paul joint, and they do one last album with "World Class Fad," & "Knocking on Mine" and "Friday Night Is Killing Me" and "Popular Creeps" and "Rocking Here Tonight"

This is all I know: I saw The Replacements five times in the 1980s & early 90s, and they were great every time. With Bob. With Slim. With Steve Foley on drums in 1991.

Separation Sunday is a very key album for me: I wasn't sure I could love a band as much as I loved bands like The Replacements or R.E.M. (back when the 80s was almost killing me — and my girlfriend Holly — on practically a daily basis) and then that record came along and I fell in love all over again. Of course that

Those first two Furs LPs are eternal, with Talk Talk Talk easily being one of my Top Ten 1980s albums.

"I got a aura . . . I got a aura!!!"

"Criminal Profiler with an emphasis on acts of historical presentation" is also a hell of a Twitter bio.

Most of Keith Richards' Talk is Cheap is exactly what Keef obsessives wanted in 1988: riff-based rock songs, but it opens with a slice of Al Green-inspired soul called "Big Enough," which was enough to pretty much throw everybody for a loop.