Interesting to remember a time when dancing wasn't all about butts (to paraphrase Kimmy Schmidt)

I still remember how, when the trailer for this started airing on Tv, myself and every other member of my family separately approached the rest of us saying "Oh my god, have you seen this!!"
And then it totally lived up to the hype.

I always thought it was more obviously inspired by French sci-fi comics and Heavy Metal magazine.

I can imagine Apple Music demanding micro transactions to hear special exclusive Adele bonus tracks.

I get that attitude from this article, but I've seen it in articles about the discontinuation of the iPod et al.

This is easily the film me and my friends quoted the most in high school.
Every time in keyboarding class (yes, I'm old too) that our computers malfunctioned we'd tell the teacher "We've lost the bleeps, we've lost sweep, and we've lost the creeps!"

MAY THE SCHWARTZ BE WITH YOUUUU-OOOO-OHHHHHH-AAAAA-WHATAWORLDWHATAWORLD….

I don't think the Alien spoof is just 'thrown in there' because they had John Hurt. It's a clear homage to the old Warner Brothers cartoon classic One Froggy Evening. I'm 99% sure that they came up with that idea first, and then hired John Hurt to make it extra funny.

Is it just me, or is their something strange and goulish about the way people are dancing on the grave of mp3 players? It's like, "Haha! Fuck you, dedicated music device! I'd much rather prefer not to own music and instead to stream it through a faceless interface the same way I get weather updates, on the same device…

Rattle And Hum gets too much flak.
In my ideal world, they would have ditched the live tracks, moved 'Heartland' to open side two of The Joshua Tree, and swapped in 'Hallelujah, Here She Comes', 'Silver And Gold' and 'A Room At The Heartbreak Hotel' to make Rattle And Hum a perfect Americana/Heartland rock album.

The Rattle And Hum movie was my first exposure to U2, and it turned me into a fan (at the high of their Pop era). Now that I've absorbed their entire discography, I can see why the film and the album may have rubbed critics the wrong way, but the actual music in the film is amazing. That speech still sends shivers…

I really really enjoyed this. Dragotta's art is more cartoony the it usually is, but it fits the tone perfectly. The artist line-up for this book is insane.
Landis has my trust for now. Chronicle was one of the best low-key sci-fi movies of the last few years, and I'm one of the few people who saw AND enjoyed American…

I think that's right. I get the impression that most antipathy towards 'hatesongs' comes from workplaces where the boss keeps the radio locked on Top 40 or Modern Rock or whatever.
Weirdly, I have a nostalgic affection for a lot of the songs on the "Now That's What I Call Hits '98" or whatever, that I was stuck with in…

I love this song unequivocally, no matter how many times I hear it.
But even if it was musically crap, I'd still love it for the line "If you're bored then you're boring". That was true of whiny Gen-Xers (like myself) in the 90s, and it's even more true nowadays.

That's true, but people treat it as a zero-sum game, like once you learn about the cool underground sound you have to reject the mainstream thing. You see it all the time in interviews with musicians: "Oh, once I discovered Krautrock I couldn't listen to Pink Floyd anymore." "I used to be into Thin Lizzy but then…

I don't get why anybody still complains about the radio. I mean, It'd be great if it was better, but there are mp3s and streaming and all sorts of options.

Scrolled down to 'S' for 'Scrooge McDuck' and was disappointed.

The title track of The Soft Parade is possibly my favourite Doors track. Or at least my favourite one I discovered after looking past the hits collections. I don't know why it isn't more highly regarded.

Great to see this article. The Doors were a great band of incredibly skilled performers with a unique sound for the time and many amazing deep cuts.

What, Australian people?