Neither did I until a few years ago; I came across a boring non-violent version of Tom & Jerry when I was looking for the real thing on YouTube. Just a happy accident I ended up watching the "classic" version as a kid.

We got our first VCR when I was six, and I remember being very excited about this for two reasons: we could set the timer to tape Masters Of The Universe (in all its crappy Filmation glory) while I was at school, and we could finally rent videos of The Three Stooges and Laurel & Hardy, which I only got to see when we…

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Yeah, now that I think about it the versions that I remember watching and that my kids watch and enjoy today are the shorts that were originally shown in theatres, not the non-violent-low-budget-made-for-TV versions that came later. Still not always top notch animation, but at least they're entertaining.

The 80's were a pretty shitty decade for kids' TV too, especially cartoons. I watched unquestioningly as a kid, but practically every cartoon was made solely to sell toys and other merchandise and usually had some sort of moral of the week tacked onto the end or awkwardly inserted into the story line. The only…

I was in the "Revolver is better than Pepper" camp at one point too, and I probably still listen to the former more often than the latter. But it's pretty hard to deny the impact that Pepper had on popular music, with the drastic shift in artists viewing the album as an artistic statement rather than just a collection…

Honestly, I was thirteen when Nevermind came out and wouldn't hesitate to say it changed my life. I still love Nirvana but I played those albums to death back in the day, so the only Nirvana I still have on the computer at the moment is In Utero and the first side of Incesticide, plus an assortment of demos and…

Let It Be is my favorite, followed by Hootenanny. I think Tim and Pleased To Meet Me have some of Westerberg's best songs, but the dated production touches (the gated reverb on the drums on the latter in particular) bother me just enough to rate them slightly lower.

Any number of people have been able to successfully record bands on shoestring budgets (Steve Albini instantly comes to mind) because they knew what the fuck they were doing.

But In Utero is better than both of them.

Yes! The opening one-two-three punch of "New Day Rising"/"Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill"/"Standing In The Rain" alone makes The Living End well worth seeking out. Much as I love New Day Rising, every single song from that album sounds so much better on this one - "New Day Rising", "Celebrated Summer" and "Books About…

Good choice. Beatles For Sale is a bit heavy on the covers, but the originals on that album are so good and clearly show the changes the band were to take musically and lyrically with Help! and Rubber Soul the following year.

Great article. It's understandable that it tends to be overshadowed given that Double Nickels is such an incredible album, but What Makes A Man Start Fires? really is a minor masterpiece in its own right.

And I've mentioned this here before, but I've been waiting over half my life now for so many of the classic SST albums to get the deluxe remaster and reissue treatment, or even just a proper reissue. Thing is though, remastering may not even be possible as a lot of those albums were recorded so poorly in the first…

They started out as a quartet. This is the line-up they had for their first two albums, including the song selected for Undercover:

And a happy cancvr aids to you, sir or Madam!

That is the first show I thought of when I saw this article.

I can't believe I forgot Blood Simple - that one's easily in the top five for me. And No Country is great, too. I've honestly never seen a Coen Bros film that I dislike; even in lesser acclaimed films such as Burn After Reading and even The Ladykillers I have still found plenty to enjoy.

I just saw Llewyn Davis a few weeks ago and would rate it as one of the Coens' best - I'm a huge fan of their films, and my personal favorites are probably Raising Arizona, Fargo and The Big Lebowski. It is very well constructed, to the point that even somewhat predictable things like the cat getting out and then the…

Hell yeah. Circa: Now is my favorite, but Scream, Dracula, Scream was the first RFTC album I ever bought and probably a close second. The State Of Art Is On Fire and Hot Charity are both damn near perfect, and RFTC was way underrated at the time by both fans and critics alike. Love me some RFTC.