Didn't I just see somewhere that Garfunkel & Oates Season 1 begins streaming on Netflix later this month? Seems like a weird move to cancel the show prior to that, as streaming might increase its visibility.

The opening track on their first album was good. I guess that's why they repeated it 10 more times.

No mention of Spike's poetry reading? That was such a great scene, that at the end all he ever wanted to be was a poet, and he was finally appreciated.

That's such a heartbreaking scene, not that Lindsay dies but that Lorne was the one Angel made do it. The most kind hearted member of the group is the one who has to straight up murder a guy who at that moment trusts him and is happy to be on the same side.

I'll go to bat for Junk Culture, too. It was disconcerting when OMD discovered girls and fucking and forgot all about micro-nations and Morse code, but Junk Culture is still a fairly weird album.

Agreed on OMD as the best of the lot. Their first four albums are excellently weird mixes of pop hooks and science nerd experimentation and esoteric lyrical concerns, and even when they took a turn for the more commercial and discovered sex on Junk Culture, they still put out a damned quirky album. After that, they…

Phenomenally great bands, but not really synth-pop. Aztec Camera did eventually start leaning synth-poppy on the Love album, but otherwise, those bands used the occasional synth as texture but were predominantly traditional guitar band line-ups.

He and OMD both suffered in the US due to the fact that their big hits here were far from their most intelligent work. So they kind of got written off as dumb MTV schlock bands for 30 years, but have finally begun to be re-assessed and appreciated here in the last half-decade or so.

A quick shout-out to the great New Musik, who were perhaps the first people to figure out that the combination of synths and acoustic guitars made for a sound that has an intrinsic tug on the heartstrings. Frontman Tony Mansfield went on to be a moderately successful producer in the 80s, most notably for Naked Eyes.

Depeche Commode, if I remember correctly.

A nitpick - Ultravox actually transitioned from a punk/glam hybrid into a sleek electronic band with "Hiroshima, Mon Amour," the closing track of their second album Ha! Ha! Ha!, They then recruited Kraftwerk's producer Conny Plank for their third album, Systems of Romance, which laid out the template the band further…

Yeah, I've just never cared for it much. Just a matter of taste, I guess.

"Bullet the Blue Sky" was more than enough vandalism for the Joshua Tree, if you ask me. I always hated that song.

Friday Night Lights was truthful in all the ways that mattered and ridiculously unrealistic in the ways that didn't.

I thought that the buried lede was that the original line-up of REM reunited to sign it, breaking their vow that they'd never reunite.

Or write it into law that they have to fund the next 75 years of employee pensions up front, thus crippling their ability to stay solvent. Then float the cover story that the sudden deficit in the USPS budget as being due to people paying all their bills online now, as well as being able to additionally pin some of…

I went through Gas City as part of the Statues of Garfield tour for whatever county it's in. I liked it.

This is valuable information. Why have I not been informed of this before?

We call Carl's Jr. Hardees here in the Midwest. They tried to change the name back in the 90s when Carl's first bought Hardees, but it didn't take and they changed back.

And here I am, planning to watch this show for the first time ever because that Hardee's bikini girl will be on it. I'm a pig.