I hate watching this film not because i think Tom’s a bad guy, or that the film itself is bad, but because it rings WAY too familiar. Just looking back at what are now minor relationships that seemed so world-destroying when they ended and how huge an impact they had despite lasting only a matter of weeks or months.…

Also a glaring problem with the post is that the guard just went back into the detention center. He wasn’t going home.

HELLOOOOOOO, SAILOR!

Seth Lugo only had a few minutes to warm up... but doesn’t that only excuse like, 2 or 3 runs? You’d probably be pretty warm by the time run #4 is crossing the plate...

He doesn’t know Shia Lebouf’s name but knows “exactly” what he looks like...

It went “wrong” when everyone else finally agreed that Apple did make the most functional (debatable) devices with the most beautiful form. The reason the phones look so bland now is because every phone maker copied the form factor of the iphone, and we’ve been just seeing minor tweaks to the same basic design for 10…

I can’t believe that she sings most of the vocals on this. That’s like having an entire meal of tartar sauce with a side of half a fish stick.

The NYT review was spot on, though. This album is just so so bad. Granted, I’ve only gotten through the first half because I can’t even bear to listen to anymore. It is crushingly disappointing. No Cities to Love was great and I’m glad we got another tour out of them, but if this album existing is the price for that…

I swear it didn’t say “field player” originally. I double-checked before commenting.

“The history of American players on huge clubs is short and littered with prospects who found or will probably soon find lower ceilings.”

I can only take Carrie’s voice in small doses. She sings like she’s uncomfortable with the sound of her own singing voice, so has to throw in all these voice modulations and affectations. At worse, she sounds like she’s trying to copy Corin’s ferocity, but it pales in comparison.

Hey, I liked that Liz Phair song that was in 13 Going on 30!

God that photo just makes him look like some low-rent actor hired to play the authoritarian figure in an Offspring video from 1997.

I thought about Mellon Collie, and while it’s a great album that takes a lot of chances and goes in so many interesting directions, there’s just no way I could put it over Siamese Dream. Mellon Collie is Billy Corgan’s ego run amok (granted to sometimes startling heights). Siamese Dream is Corgan’s madness channeled…

Judging by the albums/artists listed in these comments, so are the people here...

I thought the same thing at first, but while i ENJOY Paul’s Boutique more, on the whole I think Check Your Head is the better album. Which is a bit of a distinction without a difference. and like Captain Splendid said downthread, Check Your Head was the culmination of everything the’d done before and mastered it.

Off the top of my head:

Also, the amount of stalking that Emilio Estevez does would definitely get him arrested, or at least a restraining order. That does really not hold up in 2019.

Listening to this record, and reading your comment, I immediately thought of the scene in Avengers: Endgame where all the female heroes pose for their big splash-page moment. It was such a 2019 pop culture moment that was trying too hard, felt extremely awkward, and was so poorly executed it completely obscured the…

I never got into St. Vincent despite really really trying, until MASSEDUCTION. Liked it well enough. If you don’t like St. Vincent, this is not the album to listen to.