Danrimage, I wasn't offended by this record. It's too slight to be offensive. I was just really annoyed by its overwhelming smarminess. The "satire," if you want to call it that, was obvious and, worse, not all that funny. The word "cunt" doesn't offend me, though it also doesn't send me into automatic titters like,…

Pop country
Hey Noel, another great column. I've been on a pop country kick of sorts lately, which has grown out of listening to more older country music. I don't claim to be a country music expert quite yet, but it's interesting how much better contemporary country sounds to me after I've dug deeper into the history…

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What you're saying Keith is absolutely right. But I'm right, too: do you think "Brown Eyed Girl" is really experienced the way you describe by 97 percent of the people who love that song? Was it put in a feel-good Julia Roberts-tryin'-on-hats montage in "Sleeping With The Enemy" because it was illustrating some…

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Not really, Melissa, because I haven't read Maxim's review, either. I didn't even know Maxim did music reviews until the recent controversy.

Yeah, except he's way more eloquent than me!

Haneke fails because, as you say, he's trying to "punish" the audience, and I didn't feel punished nor do I ever feel like I should be punished. I love Haneke's filmmaking, but his puritanical ideas about screen violence, I believe, are best disregarded.

Megan
I forgot to mention this: Did anybody else love it when Megan busted out a Martin Scorsese reference? Is it possible she's not quite as dumb as she lets on?

I heart Naomi
Great actress, great taste in collaborators, smart, beautiful, one of my favorites.

I'm coming around on "Put It On My Tab"
You know guys, I've been saying "Put it on my tab" all day, and I've become convinced that a not-all-that funny joke from a not-all-that loved Steve Carell dramedy really can become the next Borat/Austin Powers style catchphrase. Will you join me in running this catchphrase into…

(Lowers fists)

Ricky Nelson
(Raises fists) You wouldn't by any chance be knocking Ricky Nelson, would you? Honestly, the man is awesome—his early stuff, his later stuff with The Stone Canyon Band, "Garden Party," all of it. Definitely one of my favorite early rockers—yes, the man rocked—for sure.

I love the first two Cracker albums. After that, they lose me, but KEROSENE HAT is an underrated little gem. "Take Me Down To The Infirmirary" is a GREAT song.

Man, I love how this post is bringing out all the passionately articulate Toby Keith backers out there. Liked your post down below, Nodepmick. I'm digging out WHITE TRASH WITH MONEY in your honor tonight.

Great post. Totally spot-on.

I think BTCD is best appreaciated as an album rather than a collection of songs. I'd compare it to something like EXILE ON MAIN ST., which certainly has tons of incredible songs but as an album adds up to more than the sum of its parts. It just has a really great, lived in quality to it, where even the filler songs…

Right on re: Drive-By Truckers. If anybody makes a record better than BRIGHTER THAN CREATION'S DARK this year, well, it will be a helluva year.

We went 42 comments in a rap-related post before somebody busted out the fake ebonics talk. I'm impressed.

We went 42 comments in rap-related before somebody busted out the fake ebonics talk. I'm impressed.