Likewise your guess that I am "weird about sex" has nothing to do with my criticism of the art itself. It's a non-sequitur, and I addressed it as such. But it's an especially ironic non-sequitur because the song itself is actually pretty weird about sex, and the artist was extremely weird about sex. It is possible…

Nice though, "Oh you don't like hearing an abusive old man seduce a teenage girl to then turn her into his captive pet while you're buying groceries? You're ~weird about SEX~!" http://nypost.com/2015/05/0…

No it would be better if Gaye had rewritten it before recording it, like I correctly said the first time.

Ah ha, looks like 'The Old Blue Boy' isn't as honest as he claims to be. "All the news that's fit to poke" indeed.

I feel the same way about this song, but that classic rock song where the guy yells "I FEEL like makin' love, Feel like makin' love to you!" is ten times worse for the same reason. "Let's Get It On" could be perfected with just a more subtle rewrite of the chorus lyrics.

Cemetery Junction was a wonderful little period piece. An ode to his youth in depressed 70s England in which he had only a small acting role.

I've loved almost everything Gervais has done other than Invention of Lying, but this was garbage. Terrible writing, terrible acting.

The problem is the rare case of an indie band using an indie label as a stepping stone only to leave them in the dust when a major waves some cash at them. The success of a small band is partially due to a gamble the indie label took on them, often with a lot of under priced or free labor, and the indie ought to…

The guitar riff sample alone makes Loser better than Pepper.

Nice article. Great to see AV Club music coverage has been getting good again. Just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in.

I haven't seen Lemonade because I don't have a subscription to either service that has it, but I strongly felt this way about Formation. If Formation is political for having dancers in Sex Black Panther costumes then Hot Topic is political for selling Che Guevara t-shirts. Sure, the video had a lot of cool imagery,…

I agree with the substance of the article and it supports what I said, despite the fact that Media Matters is part of the liberal media bubble. The videos were edited, not doctored. CMP supplied the full unedited videos and transcripts. True, commentary on the video makes the contentious claim that PP sells fetal…

The tapes have been proven not to be doctored. They were openly edited, from like 40 hours of originals that were also made available at the time. Liberals are just as much stuck in an echo chamber of misinformation as conservatives.

Everyone needs to read this if they haven't. Leftist rails against the "conservatives are just dumb" trope. http://www.vox.com/2016/4/2…

That's how I felt all through my twenties and I finally just came to peace with life long celibacy. Then when I was 30 I met my wife, who happens to have a very high tolerance or immunity to my particular brand of bullshit and really likes the good things about me. It took me accepting that I am weird and difficult in…

What Is the What is a great book that doesn't sound like it was written by the same person who wrote HBWSG. To me it is the deepest exploration of the problem of evil since the book of Job. The narrator, who is a real person telling his real life story (with some literary licence) is the furthest thing a person could…

Some churches don't use the 70's stuff. When I lived in Philly I went to a Black Catholic parish that sang a lot of the Protestant songs. And if you go to a Traditional Latin Mass parish or any Eastern Catholic Church you'll get something different. Or a Mexican parish. I suppose a big part of the problem is just in…

Sounds like Rivers Cuomo.

You can thank the hymn publishing cartel for that. Of course the Catholic Church has a very rich catalog, but you can't sell a parish the same hymns every year so GIA and OCP use harsh copyright protection and contemporary hymnody to destroy the mass sell books forcing us to sing Broadway inspired Jesuit compositions.

I switched to Byzantine Catholic (basically orthodox traditions but in communion with Rome) 6 years ago and the music was a big draw. It's ancient and Slavic, so very little schmaltz, and instruments are forbidden and choirs rare so the congregation sort of has to sing.