This is the Jesse Pinkman thing too. BB is another show that had to reconsider things due to an unexpectedly forceful performance.

Is that right? I mean, he was fired so…

'He just wants to see other boys' linuses…'

Did he do thaaat?

Ymmv (obviously) but I felt like the second season was closer in quality to the first than the third. Don't get me wrong, it was much better than the highly uneven at best first season but the show 'popped' in the third season for yours truly.

'Get on with it, motherf—'

I love those redheads, man..

High Five (Rock the Catskills) is a harrowing look into the devastation wrought by the dissolution of a relationship indeed.

That is a great & legitimately underrated album (coming on the heels of Born in the USA it would be difficult to be anything but underrated). It's the Springsteen LP I seem to revisit/listen to the most these days (in my 30s fwiw).

Shut your dirty little mouth!

That isn't from a studio album. The best B-side of all time probably though.

Abandoned Love FTW

I've always liked it quite a bit (certainly a more substantial pillar of the album than Meet Me in the Morning - which I do quite like - imo but mileage varies, I'm sure).

Oof, that's actually the Israel song (& not exactly a particularly memorable track either imo).

Ignore him, Scarlet! The rest of us love that crazy fiddle.

The Plastic Ono Band?

This almost reads like one of those hilarious reposted Amazon customer review passages…

I recall one of the forgettable SNL weekend update hosts in Norm's wake - probably Jas Fallon or Colin Quinn - had a mildly amusing fictitious bit about teenage Jakob jamming in the garage that went something like:

It's not overrated. I can't imagine being even a little familiar with that album & having that reaction.

All fourteen songs are terrific, agreed. I think this is akin to that whole 'hating on Seinfeld after the fact' thing.