Visions kind of fell through the cracks for a lot of people, even me. It's a great album but the prog community latched onto Aquarius and The Mountain more. The title track of Visions is amazing.

I call this the Paul McCartney syndrome myself. Every album he made from 1980 on was dubbed a return to form by critics.

I love watching "true" metalheads get all worked up over Babymetal. They're a Japanese gimmick band and it actually shocks me that it took this long for someone over there to pair idol singers and metal up. For that market, it's a brilliant notion, but people seem to think it's an insult to some notion of metal truth.…

The Mountain was a bit of a grower for me, not helped by how at the time I frequented a progressive metal forum that massively overhyped Haken (they were being dubbed the best progressive metal band ever after one album), but when it clicked it was brilliant. Definitely checking this one out.

Well it was dictated to HAL by "Bowman" to be sent by the Discovery as long as it could send, so…

I remember a long time ago someone had racked up like $47,000 on a single puzzle with a board that looked like this:

Okay someone fund the one about Herbie Hancock and the alien only he can see now.

In 1987, the Cold War was less "it's about over" and more "things are changing, let's see what happens next." Mostly because of Gorbachev, who American history has done a massive disservice to by putting as utterly subordinate to Reagan, as if the ending of the Cold War was solely accomplished by him. When he started…

My dad sang that jingle at my mom once leering suggestively.

For a very long time, I got buffalo wings from a local wing place that were given the cheerful flavor level of "suicide." I've eaten wings that were so hot they made you sign a waiver before you ate them. My best friend worked as a cook at Red Lobster and he got in a competition with a Mexican guy over who could make…

I was actually waiting for the inevitable "adjusted for inflation" line in this article myself.

When you make a gimmick poster drop his gimmick for a moment, you're doing something wrong.

Every reasonably smarky crowd is trying to be the batshit insane crowd the night after Wrestlemania in 2014, especially since WWE started saying last year "It's the night after Wrestlemania! Who knows what this crowd will do!" The crowd trying to put themselves over annoyed me when I watched the indies and it annoys…

Until this article I'd entirely forgotten "Time The Avenger" until I listened to it on Youtube and remembered it as "the Pretenders song where you could hear the DJ make it fade out 40 seconds early as he told you what song it was." Don't think I ever heard the full five minutes on the radio back then.

Yeah, 140-150 minutes seems to be the new length for tentpole blockbusters, so picking on a movie for that seems silly these days.

I summed this movie up to my girlfriend, who passed on going, by saying it was better than the reviews, but that was a low bar to clear.

So you're proposing a Terry Gilliam made Discworld movie in around 1984-85 then?

So many greatest hits albums…

Probably wouldn't have been AS big as Foreigner or Boston. Foreigner's first two albums sold 11 million between them and Boston's debut has sold 17 million. Kiss in comparison was a fad in 1976 and 1977. Hell of their run from Alive to Love Gun, their total sales by RIAA certifications are 4.5 million.

I kind of silently weep when I see a band trumpeting their first week sales of 21,000 that gets them into the Billboard top 20. By modern standards 500K sales per album is monstrous.