I disliked the heavy handed political angle that Hyams shoved into the movie - it wasn't there in the book and it seemed pretty dickish to get on a political soapbox when given the opportunity to do the sequel to one of the more revered movies of all time.

Temple of Doom and Gremlins, if you want a couple more for your list. And maybe the Twilight Zone movie. (Maybe because I don't remember for sure if it was 84 and maybe because I don't know if anyone would want to remember it.)

In fairness to the doofus, it was pretty common knowledge at the time that Spock was being killed off, in large part because Nimoy was ambivalent about continuing in the role and had in fact been planning on quitting. It was a much bigger surprise to moviegoers in '82 to discover that Kirk had a kid - it was still a…

That was a pretty weird about-face. "I'm going to spend this entire article convincing you of the greatness of this album, then at the end I'm going to toss in an 'eh, it's really not all that great' caveat." What the hell?

I went to grade school decades ago with a pair of identical twin brothers. For some reason a couple of years back, I started wondering what ever happened to them, so I looked them up online.

I would have a much higher tolerance for Haim if people would be honest when talking about them and say "They sound like an updated version of early-90s top 40 like Donna Lewis and Rosette." However, that stuff is still considered deeply uncool, so the comparison of choice for Haim seems to always be Fleetwood Mac, a…

Eh, the compiler is a lightweight. 800 songs, in chronological order? Bah! A trained ape could do that!!! I scoff at this!

Really? I'm not saying you're wrong, just that I've never run across a college station on AM. I live in the Midwest, and all college/community radio stations are on FM in these parts, and have been since the 70s at least. They were all congregated between 87.7 and 91.9 on FM, with a rare outlier somewhere else on the…

Well, I guess now the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame might consider admitting Yes, seeing as how a key member has died.

But…but…if all Jeph Loeb creations are terrible, that means that Blaquesmith is terrible! No, that cannot stand. If there was anything that Cable was crying out for, it was a previously unmentioned buddy character to make his backstory even more convoluted. And Blaquesmith filled that niche wonderfully, what with all…

It never really occurred to me until now, I guess because I'd never seen the video before, but I wonder if this song was intended as some sort of response to "Girls On Film"? Same subject matter but with a more jaundiced point of view on the topic and a video that brings the nekkidness.

I picked up the EP back in 1982 at a now long-gone Peaches store. I knew nothing at all about Godwin or Metro, but the cover lured in my 19-year-old self with its canny presentation of tits possessing Ultravox-style faux-Teutonic cool. "Images of Heaven" delivered on that promise with panache, but the other three…

EW gave Guided By Voices' Vampire on Titus an A+ rating before I'd seen a single mention of them in any music magazine. Of course, that was 22 years ago, but I still give them props for that.

Nah, but "Sex Dwarf" by Soft Cell gets me a bit randy.

I recall in grade school when my class had the "time to tell the little creeps that sex is a thing" session, one of my classmates asked where Siamese twins came from. That derailed the entire discussion onto the topic of carnival freaks in general. I have to think that had some bearing on the sad course of my adult…

I was at a friend's house one spring night in 1995 and for some reason she ceded control of the tv to me, and I landed on the debut episode of NewsRadio. I watched it and just sat there thinking "holy shit." I hadn't seen a first episode of a sitcom that had seemed so fully formed or pushed all of my comedy buttons…

The first half of the 90s were kind of an interesting time in that there could actually be a celebrity political magazine like George, and the McLaughlin Group was a huge hit, James Carville and Mary Matelin became big stars, etc. People were much more interested in hearing politics discussed. (By "people," I may only…

I was wondering if the writer didn't know that or just didn't think it was relevant.

I remember seeing Sweet perform this on FX's old morning talk show from back when the channel first launched and rented that snazzy NYC apartment and did live programming from it all day long. Tom Bergeron and some cute girl who was always dressed appealingly cleavage-y hosted the show, along with a weird hand puppet…

I was never much of a Britpop fan. I liked most of the band's well enough, but for the most part was pissed that it seemed to have killed off the far more interesting (to me, anyhow) shoegazing scene. Then Lush, Ride and other shoegazers went full-on Britpop themselves, adding insult to injury.