The nineties were not a good time for Springsteen album covers (or many album covers really)

It's a bit all over the place (which is a result of being an outtakes album) but it has some really great tracks on it. I wouldn't say I like it more than Wrecking Ball, though, which may be my favourite post-reunion album.

Joad does feel more spare in a way though. It may be backed by a band, but the arrangements are really sparse and subtle. While Nebraska is just him alone (with a few overdubs) it does sound bigger in a number of places

Deer Tick do a pretty good cover of Nebraska that gives an idea of what a full band take would sound like: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

As excellent as it is, I feel like it's almost a cliché to praise Nebraska now. It's the go-to hip Bruce album to like.

I find the best tracks are the bonus tracks - The Wrestler and Night With the Jersey Devil.

I like 'Soul Driver' probably because the sound has gone all the way through 'dated' and back into sounding interesting.

Or an air hostess in the 60s

The big 'soul/not a soldier' section in 'All These Things I Have Done' doesn't come until late in the song and the song already had a big chorus. Correctly deployed this multi-chorus build up can be brilliant.

I'm not entirely sure what the reviewer was going for w/r/t this book, but "important white guy book" to me signifies something like Jonathan Franzen, or going further back, Updike and similar. Big realist books about straight white intellectual men having affairs. This sounds a bit too sci-fi to be part of that…

I'm pretty sure Dick was actually mentally ill as well (I don't mean that in a pejorative sense, of course) and some of his most resonant themes and best works appear to be a result of never knowing whether what you perceive as 'real' is actually there.

One of my favourites I've heard for Steve/Bucky is "Barnes & Noble"

That was basically her and Clara's relationship in the last episode.

Oboy, whatever you do just avoid the comments on the Leftovers reviews. They were horrible, just a complete cesspit.

Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus is pretty great too.

Every time Cage gives a genuinely great, critically acclaimed performance, he then goes and stars in half a dozen terrible B-movies which makes everyone forget about the good stuff.

Oh yes, considering they were never going to stop the show just because they had reached the arbitrary regeneration limit it made no sense to keep insisting that there was a limit.

There was some definite references to the first ever Dalek episode too with a companion hiding inside a Dalek

Since Smith's last episode I don't think we know how many regenerations are left - pragmatically speaking he has as many as the writers want now.

I'm okay with there not being a big bad set up from the start. It has brought diminishing returns over the last couple of series with the arcs getting more and more convoluted, so I'd be happier with a more subtle approach.