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It's time for Oscar trivia! Join us for fun times and showings of what a monstrous human being Harvey Weinstein really is.

I read that song as about a bunch of people at a funeral trying really hard not to succumb to grief ("put it in the ground", "there's no time to cry", etc.) until they arrive at a complete mockery of "happiness".

Aw man, I think "Lemon" has a lot of substance, with how it ties Bono's grief about his mother to the invention of moving pictures and all that to man's general nature. The fact that it sounds like something at a German disco is just windowdressing.

I am a noted "Shiny Happy People" defender, but yeah, "Radio Song" is really no good. The worst part is that it has a lovely opening that it spends most of the rest of the song completely squandering.

I've been listening to Up a lot recently, and goddamnit if that isn't an amazing album.

Someone in this week's AVQ&A called Automatic for the People "sickly, sappy", and "schlocky". Yes, adjectives that definitely come to mind when I think of "Monty Got a Raw Deal".

Songs of Innocence felt like a step in the right direction of making straight-up good music rather than Great U2 Music, at least.

"schlocky" is even more out-of-left-field as a description of that album. The only song on that album that could even be slightly described as that is about a homeless person trying desperately to be contacted about a comatose loved one, and even then it's mostly stuff like "Sweetness Follows".

Or goddamn "Monty Got a Raw Deal".

I think more than hating Automatic, what really gets me is hating "Nightswimming", maybe my favorite R.E.M. song.

I finished it today, and all of it is terrific, but Jesus Christ, episode 4 is in particular an absolute masterpiece. The way it builds to the final combination of dabbing, Blair Witch, and There Will Be Blood just slayed me.

Okay, Oscar trivia! It will be held tomorrow (barring any prominent no-shows, speak up if you'd be one of them), tentatively at 8 PM EST. Be there, or face the awardstime wrath of Harvey Weinstein.

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Jesus Christ, the end of episode 4. There's no way Blair Witch is as good as that (although I wouldn't put it past Wingard/Barrett to insert dabbing and There Will Be Blood references into that).

"Did you kill a man to sell his Steely Dan records for eight fucking dollars?"