There's actually a whole book about the song "Hallelujah," and yes, I've read it. . . anyway, from what I recall, Wainwright was never all that enthusiastic about the song. He learned it quickly, copied the Cale version, recorded it, and was done. And then it got huge.

That pretty much started after September 11. VH1 wanted a song to play underneath footage of Ground Zero, and one of the staffers was a huge Jeff Buckley fan, so they started running a video set to his cover of "Hallelujah." I don't know how tasteful it was even then, but it had certainly lost all meaning by the time…

Haven't seen this movie in several years, so I don't know if I'd still like it as much as I did when it came out, but I loved it way back when. It's not brilliant, but it's charming, and for the most part it feels realistic. Especially the whole way the band rehearses and records, it's only a few steps away from how…

Yeah, especially since he drowned. "Ha ha, that's what you get, Jeff Buckley" is pretty fucking cold in that light.

He just never had the time to develop. When he made "Grace," he'd largely been performing solo at coffee shops. "Grace" was a full band record, so he suddenly had a lot of tools to work with, but it has the feeling of "hey wow look at me!" and "I have a full band now, let's see what we can do," where I have no doubt…

It's definitely an acquired taste, but I enjoy it from time to time. I just appreciate the artistry of it, fucked-up as it is.

It's on "I'm Your Fan: The Songs Of Leonard Cohen." Which is a pretty great album all around.

I agree. . . more or less. And anyone who fawns over Grace really should listen to some Tim Buckley. Like, "Happy Sad" or "Starsailor." Now there's self-indulgence done right.

I'd argue Yorke comes off mighty pretentious, but sincerely pretentious. There's conviction in the way he sings, whereas with the dude from Muse or Buckley, I feel more like they're trying to look like the coolest sensitive dude on the planet, which comes off disingenuous.

It was officially released, on a Cohen tribute album in the mid-90's. I don't know much about this album, other than it was basically a major label response to "I'm Your Fan," and by all accounts, is nowhere near as good.

1. Odelay
2. Sea Change
3. Midnite Vultures
4. Mutations
5. Guero
6. The Information
7. Mellow Gold
8. One Foot In The Grave
9. Modern Guilt

Pretty much anything from 1996 to 2002 qualifies as my favorite Beck.

Mutations is great. Up until 2002, it seemed like Beck was moving along two separate career tracks at the same time - you had the more commercial, humorous, upbeat stuff (Mellow Gold to Odelay to Midnite Vultures), and you had the somber troubadour stuff (One Foot In The Grave to Mutations to Sea Change). Both paths…

Dammit! I forgot he made the Ice Harvest! Now I'm even more depressed.

Okay, so was he on the morbid list of people whose passing would greatly affect the AV Club a couple weeks back?

And John Candy. We can't forget John Candy.

"Are you drunk?"

FLIP-FLOP! FLIP-FLOP!

For the record, Roseanne's not producing. Johnny Galecki, of Roseanne, is producing.

One word: Lorne. There's no way Jimmy Fallon alone would bring the show back to NYC.