First time:
The Free Design - Kites Are Fun: Might get cavities listening to the entire album from start to finish too often, but most of these tracks would sound great popping up on shuffle play. Nice one, Mr. Hughes. Highlight: "Umbrellas"

The A.V. Club has articles now?

Seems like an Original Recipe for disaster.

Tomorrow's Newswire: "Estate of Obscure Early 19th Century Playwright Sues Motown Records for Plagiarism"

The term was in use at least as early as 1968, as the Diana Ross & the Supremes' single "Love Child" was released that year.

It's almost like he didn't have a grandmother who bought the tabloids every week or something.

As chief executive of American Media, Inc., he owns a fleet of tabloids and gossip magazines, including the National Enquirer, which is perhaps most famous for bringing Bat Boy into the world.

Not exactly. An "album" is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium - the term originally referred to a collection of short pieces of music prior to the existence of recording technology, and was later used to refer to a book-like "album" of 78 rpm records…

I was a university student when the Harry Potter books were first released, so basically I was aware they existed but that's about it. After I moved to Japan several years later, my girlfriend (who later became my wife) was into them so I bought her the first movie on VHS; later we saw Chamber of Secrets in the…

OK, I'm not defending it as great or even good, but the snark describing The DaVinci Code as a "tortured slog" seems a bit misguided. Sure it's full of historical inaccuracies and clumsy prose, but it's a purely plot driven novel with short chapters that deliberately end at points of rising action. It's crap, but it's…

*clicks on linked NYT article, computer freezes trying to open it presumably due to the massive number of lies catalogued*

I literally fell out of my chair laughing the first time I watched that scene.

The term "record" is most commonly used to refer to the gramophone (or phonograph) records themselves, and has been for quite some time. A work or collection of works released by an artist is an "album", though the term "record" is often used colloquially to refer to the same thing. Calling a vinyl record a "vinyl" in…

OK, I'm watching the video now, and assuming we're talking about the bin on the right that the bald guy with the beard is digging through, the packaging is rectangular and CDs are visible in the bottom half of the packages at several points.

Haven't even watched the video yet, but as soon as I read that I knew it had to be wrong. No superstore, department store - or hell, even most music stores - carried records in 1992.

His version of "Play That Funky Music" peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. Typically, he failed to credit original songwriter Robert Parissi, who was later awarded $500,000 in a copyright infringement lawsuit.

Good choices, though "Kisses on the Wind" (one of Neneh Cherry's follow-up singles to "Buffalo Stance") peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.

"With a Girl Like You" (UK #1, US #29)
"Love Is All Around" (UK #5, US #7)

But he'll never give up being an asshole.

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