It was a he ("old man") that shushed me, and I didn't realize I had said it out loud until it was too late ("blurted out"); the gentleman had every right to be offended or annoyed, but it's not like I did it deliberately or yelled it through the theatre.

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I try to be respectful of other patrons when going to the theatre, but in that particular case there was no holding back; for months after that it was a running gag whenever one of us saw a plastic bag or some other piece of trash blowing in the wind.

When Ricky says "I want to show you something beautiful" to Jane and then it cuts to them watching the video of the plastic bag, my friends and I actually laughed out loud in the theatre.

A very good article overall, but "emerging acts such as The Orb, Orbital, and Underworld (who all released their first albums within a year or two of the release of the first AI record)"? Clearly someone has never heard this "funky electropop" gem: https://youtu.be/9EVlGrWw4rU

Thank you for your lengthy comment; since you took the time to write it, I took the time to read it.

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True, but I believe the Eagles have the greatest selling "rock" album of all time…and I hate the fucking Eagles. But even though they're quite possibly one of most contrived bands of the late 20th century (next to maybe Kiss), at least they didn't start an aggressive campaign to be called the "Kings of that Laurel…

I never heard that particular anecdote, but ironically the amount of time and money spent promoting Jackson as the "King of Pop", the whole ill-advised HIStory promotional campaign and the relative disaster that was Invincible (with thousands of unsold copies being returned to Sony in the months following the album…

Whether one is a fan of his music or not, it cannot be denied that Jackson was a talented singer and songwriter. However, the assertion that Jackson is the "King of Pop" was largely an invention of Jackson and his PR team, and this has gone unchallenged for so long (especially in the years following his death) that it…

Speaking of fucked up and desperate…

Yes, I still remember when his friend Elizabeth Taylor said that at the Soul Train awards in 1989 (and thinking even as a ten-year-old it was more than a tad hyperbolic, but I digress). However, Jackson actually came up with the idea of "King of Pop" being his official title soon after that and demanded to be called…

Not to mention his insistence on being described as the "King of Pop" starting a few years before that. And those giant statues probably didn't help either.

"What's a Nubian?" Bitch, you almost made me laugh.

I work hard and I love my kids, so why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to hell?

Wrong version:

Personally I prefer One Hot Minute to the bland MOR crap they've put out since then. If they'd trimmed that album down to a listenable 40 minutes or so I think it would have been better received at the time and be more fondly remembered today, or at the very least received a critical reappraisal by now.

For lack of any other aughties band beginning with the letter "Z"?

Been listening to that album for close to twenty years now and it still floors me to this day. It's one of those albums that I can't put on in the background while I'm doing something else - I have to stop and listen and do nothing else.

After reading last week's Permanent Record article, I wasted no time downloading Live at the Old Quarter by Townes Van Zandt and was not disappointed. I was familiar with "Pancho and Lefty" and the studio versions of some of his other songs, but the unadorned performances on this album take the songs to a whole other…