READ PART 1 OF THIS ARTICLE: Oasis Retrospective 1991-1995 During 1996, Oasis continued to blow up, selling out a quarter million-attendance concert and climbing the charts with each single. But the band was on the verge of combustion: Liam routinely skipped concerts for the hell of it, leaving Noel with vocal duties. Noel (not for the first…
Here’s a fun game: Name the greatest one-year “peak powers” for any band or artist — considering quantity of production, quality of production, and overall transcendence. At the top of the list is probably whichever mid-‘60s Beatle year you prefer (1965, thanks – or 1966 if I can take the singles recorded in ’65 but…
This is an entry in the Pokemon Movies Retrospective Movie #11: Giratina and the Sky Warrior “I got left behind again…” – Takeshi (Japanese dub) The next stop on our journey through the Diamond and Pearl subseries of films brings us to Giratina and the Sky Warrior, known in Japan as「ギラティナと氷空の花束 シェイミ」(lit. “Giratina and the Sky’s Bouquet: Shaymin”).…
Shortly after we got married, Katy and I were reading a whole lot and started a “book blog” called Readers by Night. It’s been inactive for about a year now, but we’ll bring it back some day. Promise. Anyways, one of my dreams has always been to own and read all of the Newbery Winners,…
One of the immutable axioms of music: every song sounds great mashed up with the Space Jam song. I don’t know what it is about the song and its ridiculous beat and rapping by the Quad City DJ’s, most famous otherwise for the song “C’mon and Ride It.” But it’s like lead to an alchemist:…
When I put together my very first draft of the ranking of the Top 100, I had the book Spectacular Now just a few slots out of the ranking. The movie had just come out, but I figured it wouldn’t really change my opinion of The Spectacular Now as a whole. Then I finally got…
If you just watched the opening half hour of My Cousin Vinny, I’d definitely excuse you for thinking that it’s a merely average comedy. The set-up of the film is nothing special: A series of misunderstanding and farcical twists of fate leave two New Yorkers on trial for a murder they didn’t commit in Alabama.…
I’ve never seen a show quite like Enlightened. It defies simple description. Probably the most succinct description would be “dramedy about a woman’s struggle to find meaning in life while working at a soul-sucking corporation.” Sounds fun, right? In its two seasons — just eighteen half hour episodes — Enlightened tracks Amy Jellicoe (a bewilderingly…
We are now two thirds through Dan’s Top 100 Everything, which means that it’s time for the second round of Honorable Mentions! I described the first round of Honorable Mentions as “things that didn’t make the list because they placed just outside the top 100.” You may think that’s the very definition of an “honorable…
Here at Earn This, we are big fans of “countdown lists” — rankings of the best/worst of anything. “Rank This” is a recurring series where we rank and countdown our favorites and least favorites of specific items of specific categories. Rank This Articles: The Top 10 Most Iconic Pop Songs of 2010-14 (Dan) Ranking the…