I'm really digging it too.

For me, "classic Sloan" ends after Between the Bridges, which I think is an extremely solid record. It's a chore to listen to Pretty Together from start to finish ("Pick it Up and Dial It" is still the worst thing they've ever recorded). Never Hear the End of It drones on forever with fragments and barely-there…

Without a doubt. I kind of have a hard time making it through the rest of the album since I just want to play Jay's songs again.

Hey, I take issue with that!

It's in the vinyl reissue they just put out too. (Along with a whole album's worth of outtakes/demos!)

Holiday 2013 to Holiday 2017 = four years, not three

I'm in the same boat (well, Internet connection aside, I guess). I fired up the demo, heard people talking, and just immediately "nope!"-ed out of there. I don't know why, but the idea of speaking to random people online holds absolutely zero appeal to me. (Since I'm writing this comment and all, obviously typing…

For what it's worth, I really dug this song and will probably wind up buying the album as a result. It worked!

…and my personal favorite, that dog.

Yeah, I kept meaning to tune into season six, but there wasn't an app on a modern gaming console, and the idea of watching a show on my iPad or PC holds no real appeal to me…especially since I heard nothing but awful things about Yahoo Screen anyway.

My father really wanted a Laserdisc player when I was really young, so he bought 'Strong Kids, Safe Kids' to try to justify it as "oh, it'll be good for Adam and Nicky". Made for a heckuva double feature with the other disc he bought, 'MetalStorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn'.

Anyone remember Fox's other "Second Chance" back in 1987? The one with the dead guy who goes back in time to be his younger self's guardian angel? Anyone? No?

I like the remote quite a bit, but it’s a little annoying that button presses don’t just register the way they do with the PS3 remote. I can’t simply press Play as I could before; I have to hold down the PS gem to sign in first. The remote also goes to sleep after a little while (ignoring the timeout settings used for…

He wrote the song based on Internet leaks and caught a charity screening juuuust before the final mix to button up any necessary details. The song was recorded before that charity screening. Here's the whole thing in Al's own words:

I'm working from long, distant memories here, but I think they said when interviewed on 120 Minutes that they recorded (or at least demoed?) a bunch of '80s tunes. A million years ago, Jeff Lin replied to a post of mine on alt.music.devo about it and said (I think?) that they covered "Beautiful World".

The first CD that was ever *mine* (rather than appropriated from my parents) was the UHF soundtrack. In the next week or so, I'll have had that album for twenty years.

I agree, although for my money, the obscene overuse of "Rise of…" is even worse. Pretty much nothing with "Rise of" in its title winds up being worthwhile, so at least it serves well as a warning.

Yeah, the AV Club had me at "overcaffeinated Velocity Girl" too.

I've had a tougher time discovering new music post-college. Part of it's because the music communities I was a part of — online and with my circle of actually-in-front-of-me friends — have largely faded away. (I mean, I still have quite a few friends who are obsessed with music, but their tastes and mine don't…

I dunno, as much as I love I've Got a Match, "funny" isn't the first word that comes to mind, and I don't think "I want you to die" comes through in that song so much as intense dislike / antagonism.