This is the darkest timeline.

This is the darkest timeline.

And featuring Robin Williams as Mork.

Perhaps John Slattery could show up as Vice Dean Dennis Martino.

Loved, LOVED their first album, but their second one has left me really cold - I don't think the attempt to incorporate auto-tune and production values more reminiscent of Drake or The Weeknd than Jellyfish was particularly successful. Think of it as going straight from A Night at the Opera to Hot Space. A massive…

Coming soon: A full-fledged Replacements reunion featuring Tommy Stinson & friends (W. Axl Rose, Dizzy Reed, Bumblefoot, etc.).

Oh, and everyone should really own at least that compilation, because it's fantastic.

I still remember buying that excellent compilation - Galore - and getting laughed out of the store by the clerks because the cover art suggested I was buying a cd by some cheesy lounge act. Those guys were jerks, but there really was some truth to the issues that labels had marketing her music. Here's the Galore cover…

This episode definitely felt like the first one from the second order - lots of minor (and major - no hat!) adjustments and lot more chemistry between all the members of the squad.

I won't lie - I squeaked a little when I saw Grandma Saracen at the bar. And I worried about how she was going to get home with her dementia.

Tricky
Claire, you do realize that "Tricky" isn't the 1990s Bristol trip-hopper, but Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, The-Dream's production & writing collaborator, right? It made plenty of sense that he was there for Naima, since he wrote and produced "Umbrella" in the first place.

That's only half the song - it's missing the saxophone solo and more of the lyrics…

Some of that folky singer/songwriter's lyrics…
"Medicine Hat…Oh, Medicine Hat…Oh, Medicine Hat…"
"I live in Saskatchewan…I gave a baby up for adoption…"

That song while Matt & Julie kiss….
…would be "Remorse Code" by the brilliant Richard Hawley. And you're right, it was an especially great episode musicwise - for a show that's always been great in that area.

"Then today must be December 8." That line really choked me up.

@JSerious According to the latest US Treasury figures available (which go back to August 2010) the US debt held by China is $868.4 billion.

Too bad it isn't NBC picking this up…
…because it could definitely constitute the core, with Outsourced, of an offensive, racist/xenophobic primetime bloc…

No mention of the Replacements yet?
A lot of classic Mats songs have some evocative/mumbled lyrics: "Bastards of Young" (no one can agree on what Paul's actually singing in the "you go no war/word to name us") and "Alex Chilton" ("cerebral rape and pillage"? "a flop pop video on"?) to name but two. With Paul…

June 17, 1994…
It was also the day of my prom. Which means that as the DJ was playing music in the hotel ballroom that had been rented for the occasion, many of us (and some of the waiters) repeatedly made trips to the lobby to watch the chase unfold on TV. What a strange, strange night…

"Goodbyem KIller" - the song
No mention of the title track? It's the best Faces song that Ronnie Lane never wrote - and while there is absolutely nothing wrong with the original, I think Paul Westerberg could record a pretty superb cover.