Pump Up the Volume is a good one to mention. First place I ever heard Leonard Cohen.

I don't know if it's changed much, but when I was a kid the oldies stations played early Beatles hits and the Classic Rock stations played absolutely no Beatles whatsoever. That meant it was pretty hard to find a station that would play, say, Strawberry Fields Forever or I Am The Walrus. No wonder I had to learn…

I'd watch this but Reality Bites.

I think it just recontextualized those songs to make them more easily digestible by the kids of that time. I know a lot of people who really loved it.

I think you may be right on it being pulled. I remember seeing print ads and stuff, but didn't find out until the Internet came along that film was ever actually released.

Yeah. That movie about the Rockafire Explosion made me feel guilty for having nostalgic memories of the Rockafire Explosion.

Not so fast, Jimmy Buffett.

Oh it'll be super nostalgic when Demi Lovato sings a synthy version of that Alan Jackson song about 9/11. Oh, how the tears of nostalgia will flow.

Cues John Cage joke. Drops needle.

That's a good one. But Airbag is better. So is Paranoid Android.

Eh, different times. Very few movies were allowed to be as precious as The Princess Bride in those days.

Yeah, didn't Stephen King say she never met an adverb she didn't like?

Depends on which 15 year old you asked.

Even as a kid I wondered why the message was, "Change yourself into something he's attracted to."

Yeah, I hear you on Kid A, homey. Used to pull it out every 6 months hoping I'd figure out what the fuss was about. Never did.

Well, speaking as a left-of-center progressive, this was the dumbest thing I've read in awhile.

My favorite post of the week. And it was so simply put, too.

Yeah, I think you've identified Christgau's major weakness - he gets it wrong a lot, probably because he writes such short, glib reviews. And, I'll just say, I often feel like he sees his role primarily as tastemaker: He's trying to set attitudes about music his readers haven't heard yet. (Hell, he gets called the…

Yeah, but Indie music has always had a mythological element. Freaking Murmur was heavily mythologized. Complaining about that in 2016 just means, on some level, you never learned the rules to the game.

Also, since when does a band - even a reunited band - have to have some complex moral excuse for actually touring. If the guys want to tour and people want to see them, what's the question?