90's alt-rock being played on a classic rock station is not unlike something else that's starting to happen: music of the 70's being played on an oldies station. Recently, the oldies station in my hometown started adding a lot of early to mid-70's easy listening to it's line-up of 50's and 60's pop hits. It was…

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Not to self-promote or anything, honestly…
…but this article begged for a longer response than a comment on a board, so I wrote a blog post about it:

I didn't say that the show was "realistic", only that it had some small semblance of realism that most shows that feature characters living in poverty lack. The Gallaghers may border on being caricatures, but they're certainly less cartoony than the characters on My Name is Earl or Trailer Park Boys.

I'm enjoying it so far…
I don't think that you're supposed to "feel" any one particular feeling towards the Gallaghers, and that's kind of the whole point. It's okay to find Frank morally disgusting AND funny and slightly lovable. In fact, in real life I've found that that's often the way it goes - that odd charming…

American Justice Reruns
Don't knock American Justice reruns - those really were the days. I seriously love that show, and A&E's insistence on running 10 hour (seriously) marathons of Criminal Minds repeats is getting in the way of them airing it almost ever anymore. And thanks to A&E's marketing ploy of selling the…

Art Brut
You left off "My Little Brother" by Art Brut, a kick-ass song about watching a younger sibling figure out and obsess about what's cool in their youth once you yourself have gotten past that point. An awesome track, I was surprised to see it left off the list.

"You've got a lot of fingers. How many of them do you use?"
"A problem solved is a problem… caused."

Saturday Night Live
SNL was always the one show that made me feel like a grown-up growing up.

Yeah, I never assumed they were supposed to be a spoof of Oasis. I always kind of thought they were making fun of Radiohead.

The Future of Fashion with Nostradamus
Wow… surprised to see the hate for that sketch! It's actually one of my favourite of the whole series, especially the documentary parody section. It's not even that I find it all that laugh-out-loud, punchline kind of funny, it just makes me really love Bob and David. They bring…

Canadian Music
Ugh… As a Canadian, I have to say it saddens me that the two songs you use as examples of the worst kind of shit on these albums are both Canadian artists. Nickelback and Celine Dion are about the only two things Canada's ever done to offend the rest of the world. If someday another country shocked the…

I had to turn it off and give it a few minutes before I could watch the ending of the episode in which they accidentally killed a woman's dog. It's embarrassing enough that they killed the dog, but the way that it just kept escalating was insane. The greatest cringe comedy isn't necessarily about embarrassing…

Agreed about Get Behind Me Satan. It seems undervalued even by Stripes fans and is actually my favourite album by them. However, my favourite deep Stripes cut would have to be I Wanna Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart from Elephant. I just love how gentlemanly and sentimental it is, which is so at odds with the…

I was always surprised that Turn Into didn't take off as a single more than it did. The video was fantastic, and it was a way catchier than Gold Lion. (Not that Gold Lion is not also a really great song).

Hey Bulldog is awesome. I was really surprised that it was included in the original playlist of Rock Band: Beatles. What an awesome song.

In the Garage is my favourite track off of the Blue Album.

How's It Gonna Be was a fairly decent hit for them though, wasn't it? I seem to remember it appearing on a couple of Now That's What I Call Music type compilations when I was younger.

Barenaked Ladies
It's nice to hear somebody else champion BNL and express disappointment that they are somewhat seen as a novelty band. I've loved them since I was 8 years old, and have seen them live twice, and I've always been super-impressed with their sense of humour, but also with their sense of the romantic and…

Am I the only one who didn't give a shit about Mr. T???
This trailer had me nearly peeing myself with excitement, and you know why? I never liked Mr. T. - Big A-Team fan, but I always loved Hannibal, Face and especially Murdock way more than B.A. And coming from that, this film looks awesome - the casting is great.…