Tom Breihan

It's a Razor Ramon shirt. I respect this enormously.

To hear him tell it, nobody had. He didn't remember saying what he'd said at first, and he seemed incredulous that it would really bother anyone. As for killing the interview, I mean, I don't know. We talked about it internally a lot. But I'm a straight white guy who grew up with every advantage, and I don't think it's up to me to police the way people talk if they didn't come up the same way I did. It's tough, though. The whole thing was bad.

I know what you're getting at. I asked him about that, he didn't have any good answers, and I felt like I'd ambushed him. That's the real reason we aren't running the interview. That's also the whole situation that bummed me out.

It's realer and brattier and more plausible. And it's what really happened.

Go on and like it if you want. The idea of people getting worked up over a critic's opinion continues to be the weirdest thing.

Listen to "Nobody Knows What's Going On In My Mind But Me" and then listen to "He's So Fine" again. "He's So Fine" is good, but songs like this can get so much better.

I say this with all the feeling I can muster: Eat a fart.

I don't know what that is either. I'm not such a deep f/t head that I get in the comments.

It's Dark And Hell Is Hot is a vastly more important album than When I Was Born For The 7th Time. I liked the Cornershop album a lot. I'm just saying.

a graph of my opinion of him right now, this second, would be all over the place.

all i'm saying is: it is definitely friday afternoon.

Nah, it's bad on its own merits.

lol i used to be an overnight campus security guard, and i definitely had people walking into my dorm entrance hall while multiple different "biggie having sex" skits were on. never even got a warning.

YouTube comments on these old songs are *always* amazing, even when the songs are terrible.

You ever worked at a coffeeshop? You are constantly busy, and you don't have time to lovingly curate the in-house playlist.

look at this fuckin guy.

Tom Ewing, whose Popular column directly inspired this column, wrote a beautiful piece about "Telstar": http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2004/11/the-tornados-telstar/

Because that's how the single was credited. It's not gonna say "Random Studio Musicians" when it gets to Milli Vanilli either.

There are kung-fu movie tropes, and then there are asian stereotypes. If you can't see the difference between those 2 videos, I can't help you.

There were too many potential Bonus Beats for this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rxCv5glcIs