STATION BREAK WITH PAUL FARHI: TV SITCOMS, BEATLES RE-RELEASES, MORE
Today: Is a TV sitcom about to have a comeback? Don't gamble upon it, even nonetheless a networks have scheduled 8 brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new half-hour comedies for a tumble season. Whatever happened to this great American art form? Plus: The extraordinary Beatles re-release appurtenance strikes again. And again..
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Paul Farhi: Greetings, all, as great as step inside for a post-Labor-Day, official-start-of-Fall-no-matter-what-the-calendar-says chat. So, it says in all a newspapers which incident comedies have been about to have a quip for a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new TV season. Really? Not observant it. Yes, ABC is introducing 4 brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new half-hour sitcoms in a all-new Wednesday lineup, nonetheless outward of which Hail Mary, a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new comedies have been radically kinda sparse. we equate a sum of 8 brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new sitcoms in in between a 5 English-language TV networks (okay, 8 1/4 if we equate "Glee," which isn't wholly brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new as great as isn't wholly a comedy). And worse: There have been no sitcoms, brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new or returning, upon any of a networks upon dual nights of a week (Tuesdays as great as Saturdays) And customarily a singular network during a time is programming sitcoms upon 4 of a 5 alternative nights. Plus, a CW network doesn't do any comedies. So, not customarily a comeback.
Since "Seinfeld's" passing (or competence be "Everybody Loves Raymond's"), there's been many yadda yadda about a "death of a sitcom." we don't buy which possibly (any "death of.." direction story, by a way, is customarily farfetched as great as expected baked up by a repository editor in New York). The form hasn't unequivocally died. It's customarily kind of…in a funk. The categorical reason isn't a audience; people still identical to to demeanour during TV as great as laugh. The categorical reason, identical to all upon TV, is money. Sitcoms have been costly to make, as great as destroy during typically supernatural rates. Not great in today's penny-pinching network world. What's more, a economics during a during a behind of of sitcoms have changed, um, dramatically. Sitcoms used to have boatloads of income if they lasted prolonged sufficient to be sole in to syndication, clarification repeats upon delegate stations. But dual things have happened there: First, fewer as great as fewer sitcoms have stayed upon a air prolonged sufficient to strech a sorcery 100-episode spin for syndication in brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new years. Second, a delegate stations can buy cheaper, strange programs (dating shows, decider shows, Dr. Phil shows, whatever shows) to block in to their schedules. And third, with being shows a forefather form upon network TV, not as many sitcoms have been being put in to prolongation in a primary place, which runs a cycle down further. Isn't a TV ecosystem fun?
Even so, be doubtful of a sitcom-is-dead mantra. Yes, a many renouned sitcom right away upon TV is a blandly forgettable (or forgettably bland) "Two as great as a Half Men." But there have been multiform alternative splendid spots: "The Simpsons," of march (and there contingency continually be "The Simpsons"). And "South Park." For my income (as Larry King would say) a dual many appropriate sitcoms aren't upon foster TV. They're upon HBO–"Curb Your Enthusiasm" as great as "Entourage," which is carrying a ideally excellent deteriorate (its sixth). And I'm not a vital air blower of "Family Guy," or "Big Bang Theory" or "30 Roc" or "The Office" nonetheless we know we people have been out there.
Would adore to get your meditative upon this, as great as your sitcom faves thereafter as great as now, as great as a reason they're your faves. As always, hijinks will ensue.
On an a single some-more note: More Beatles re-releases? we suspicion we competence have seen a finish with a recover of a interestingly re-mixed "Love" manuscript a integrate of years ago, as great as of a unequivocally excellent flick, "Across a Universe." But no. All during once we've got Beatles remasters ("Now, with some-more sub-woofer!") as great as a recover of a Beatles chronicle of "Rock Band" (and we know that's gonna be a lot of fun). Plus, there have been clever vibes around which a Beatles catalogue will in a destiny spin accessible upon iTunes (why has it taken so long?). Will this never end? Should it?
Okay, let's go to a phones…
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Washington, D.C.: There is something about a Beatles which transcends time. They blended so many forms in their music: jazz, classical, rock, folk, pop, eastern as great as even gospel.
I've been in to Scriabin [mysticism] lately: as great as upon a integrate of of a Beatles songs, we can attend to elements of Scriabin.
Brilliant over words. we demeanour brazen to a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new releases.
Paul Farhi: Scriabin? Was he a Fifth Beatle? Sorry, am not wakeful of this, nor his/her/its change upon a Beatles. But who knows? Maybe an manuscript of Scriabin-inspired Beatles tunes is kicking around in a vaults…
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Fairfax, Va.: What's happened to 105.9? It went from being soothing 60s oldies to difficult 80s oldies.
Paul Farhi: Yes, as great as a small difficult '70s as great as '90s oldies, too. You like? we kind of like, nonetheless I'm arrange during a comparison operation of a aim assembly (let a jot down uncover we didn't contend "geezer") for a format, we guess.
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Washington, D.C.: The Tony Kornheiser Show, from 10 a.m. to noon; wouldn't it have been great if a uncover due rather closer to 10 a.m. than 10:06, as great as changed in to commercials earlier?
I'm gentle with a uncover being a same as prior to solely I'm sleepy of Marc Sterne as Nigel. Though, we admit, we identical to a Nigel purpose improved than when Sterne did his own air wave uncover (Baseball Roundup) as great as used a change ego (or competence be it was his genuine ego), Sterno. we customarily goal which a uncover doesn't lapse to being a shill for American Idol.
Paul Farhi: we enjoyed conference Mr. Tony again. It's unequivocally kind of a reversion show, isn't it? Local, amusing, with a "cast" of characters/sidekicks, articulate about what's stream (and not customarily yammering about politics). Radio doesn't do which much, any more, does it?
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Sitcoms have been costly to make, as great as destroy during typically supernatural rates.: But they terminate many of them prior to they're even given a chance. we can't mount that.
Paul Farhi: we checked this a integrate of years ago, as great as it still competence be true: Not unequivocally transparent which a gait of cancellations has increasing in a final decade or so. In fact, a investment in sitcoms as great as dramas which a networks have is a great reason NOT to terminate them as great quickly.
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Scriabin-ville: A late Russian exemplary composer, engaging harmonies as great as spookiness.
Paul Farhi: Thank you. This competence insist "I Am a Walrus."
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Alexandria, Va.: If a Weather Channel can cut an album, can a Station Break be distant behind?
The Weather Channel/Smooth Jazz (Amazon)
I'm meditative electric sadness featuring Farhi upon harmonica.
Paul Farhi: Only if which Scriabin male does a strain writing!
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Re: The Beatles: Paul, I've attempted to envision a subsequent step in a Beatles' efforts to repackage their material. we did flattering great in presaging a remastering of "Let It Be" (I know we weren't there when we likely this, customarily certitude me). At a small indicate in a nearby future, we design them to accumulate a live manuscript somehow. we have a "Live during a Hollywood Bowl" LP from decades ago as great as keep watchful for them to remaster which in a small approach so a Wall of Sound of screaming girls is cut during a behind of sufficient to attend to a small music. Feel giveaway to give me full credit if this happens in a subsequent 5 years.
Paul Farhi: Remastering, ehh. I'm not sufficient of an audiophile, or a collector, to wish to buy them all. we consternation if there's a small brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new element floating around low in a stacks of polish (as there was, as great as competence be still is, with Tupac). I'd compensate to attend to things a Beatles suspicion twice about releasing during a behind of in a day. You know even their defective element will be higher to roughly anything else around.
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DWTS fan: How prolonged do we consider Tom "The Hammer" DeLay will final upon this fall's Dancing With The Stars? we envision he'll be a primary off, arrange of identical to Tucker Carlson a integrate of years back.
Paul Farhi: we agree, nonetheless it won't be given a male can't dance (well, he competence be equates to to dance, we don't know possibly way). It's given he is (or was) a politician. People in all don't identical to politicians solely for a ones they voted for. And frequency any a singular voted for Tom DeLay when he was regulating for office. One week as great as out.
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Alexandria, Va.: In a book "A Devil to Play," it mentions which Paul longed for a small French horns for Sgt. Pepper, nonetheless he had no strain written, so a horn players finished it up upon a spot. The players were bummed which for a biggest gig of their lives they got no manuscript credit. Of course, if had got a credit, someone would have to compensate them royalties, as great as a Beatles were notoriously stingy.
Paul Farhi: we consternation about a correctness of all a billions of Beatles stories which have been in circulation. There was, as great as continues to be, an complete sub-industry of Beatles books. Not certain we reason all a stories.
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Southern Maryland: (Can we call we "the alternative Sir Paul" for a purposes of this chat?)
It sounds identical to a singular has to squeeze dual box sets in sequence to get a many historically scold Beatles experience. we would cite a mix-n-match set where any manuscript comes in a format of a strange release. Which was a primary Beatles manuscript to be creatively expelled in stereo? From a looks of a sets, it would crop up to be a White Album.
Paul Farhi: Historically correct? Well, it's ALL historically correct, isn't it? As my venerable co-worker Peter Kaufman forked out currently in a Style section, those albums were expelled in monoaural for a reason. They sounded a certain approach upon your crummy jot down player, as great as upon your crummy transistor air wave given they were engineered to receptive to advice which way. Stereo comes along as great as a receptive to advice was re-mastered. BOTH ways crop up "correct" to me.
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You know even their defective element will be higher to roughly anything else around. : we don't agree. Part of what creates great artists great is a capability to revise their own work as great as keep during a behind of which which is not great. If they didn't recover it, there was substantially a reason. Not which it wouldn't be engaging or beguiling to attend to it, we customarily don't equate upon it being which amazing.
Paul Farhi: Well, yes, it could be disappointing, compared to their many appropriate stuff. But a) it has great chronological stress (as in, a Beatles combined this!), as great as b) it will still be very, unequivocally great because, well, it's a Beatles. Put it this way: If we detected a "lost" Mozart concerto, we can gamble it would be intensely damn good, even if not his "best."
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washingtonpost.com: To Channel a Fab Four, Listen in Mono (Post, Sept. 8)
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From a Land of Training Boredom…: Absolutely cannot wait for to stone out to a Beatles upon Rock Band. However, I'm wondering when a strong Zep will ever get a Rock Band/Guitar Hero release? Since a due reunion discuss has been flatlined, I'm wondering if I'll ever get to knowledge them in unison (since I'm twenty-six as great as distant as great immature to have seen them in their prime). Yes, I've seen The Song Remains a Same nonetheless we consider a Rock Band/Guitar Hero will go flattering distant in giving me a knowledge I've longed for out on.
Paul Farhi: True confession: In college, a crony upon a propagandize journal snagged intensely hard-to-get examination tickets to a L.A. uncover of a Zep discuss (I dont consider about a name o' a tour, nonetheless this would be a late 1970s). She invited me. we was severely excited, as we (like any child who breathed a air in a 1970s) desired Zep. Long story short: I've never been so wearied during a stone concert. Long, involved, stoner-ish solos by any of a rope members filled a evening. we scarcely walked out nonetheless a lady we was with was pushing as great as she HAD to stay.
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Takoma Park, Md.: My bargain is which a Beatles albums up by "Yellow Submarine" were creatively expelled in mono as great as stereo, nonetheless which mono was creatively some-more critical given that's what many people paid for as great as played.
Paul Farhi: we consider that's we estimate right. we don't know when all became stereo, nonetheless mono was aristocrat for decades. And as we said, it to illustrate has chronological significance to attend to a strain in a form it was engineered for.
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Central as great as Mountain Time: This has bugged me for years. Since all jot down is digital as great as heavenly body provided, given is there any actuality for TV shows being foster an hour progressing in a Central as great as Mountain time zones? Jay Leno, for example, "at 10, 9 Central" goes during a behind of to a time in a 1950s when write lines as great as hack demonstrate riders delivered programming. We live in a destiny now! There is no reason which a same uncover is not seen during a same time time in New York, Chicago, Denver as great as L.A.
Paul Farhi: Fair question, we think. I've continually suspicion which a Mountain/Central thing additionally had something to do with early-rising farmers who didn't wish to stay up late a night prior to (quaint nonetheless substantially untrue). Now it's customarily tradition, we guess. Incidentally, any time I've been in those time zones, it's continually been kind of tidy to watch "late night" shows during progressing hours. It leaves a lot of time for a rest of a night. Ditto examination live sports upon a West Coast–the 1 pm diversion comes upon during 10 am; improved yet, a 4:15 pm diversion is upon a courteous hour (1:15 pm PST).
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Houston, Tex.: Re: Zeppelin — sounds identical to a same discuss we saw during a Capital Centre — we had customarily a same knowledge — unequivocally integrate of people which we talked to enjoyed a uncover — a singular of a many appropriate kept secrets in stone — after their primary initial or second tours, Zeppelin was hideous in unison — "The Song Remains a Same" customarily reinforces that.
Paul Farhi: Ah, thanks, Houston. we suspicion we was droll for feeling a approach we did during a behind of then.
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Harrisburg, Pa.: Hey P-Far- partial of a bombard diversion during a during a behind of of sitcoms (and dramas, to an extent) is which it unequivocally is identical to "The Producers" in genuine life: it's some-more judicious for networks to cut deals with prolongation companies for pilots which possibly never see a light of day, or have been canceled after a integrate of eps, than to go upon to try to rise a show. It's left in to aged story tomes by now, nonetheless "Seinfeld" didn't set a universe upon glow — ratings were gloomy (granted, it was radically a summer-replacement uncover which was picked up for a fall), as great as it took a lot of time as great as calm from Ebersole, et al, to get a uncover where it is (was?). The many brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new e.g. of this was when a Office debuted with a singular run in Spring '05 — a numbers helped pull it to a Fall pickup — as great as which is even rarer currently than in a late '80s.
With networks perplexing to contest with online (and customarily free) content, there customarily isn't a honcho calm for a uncover to grow. I'm not a large air blower of his shows, nonetheless we give Chuck Lorre a ton of credit for progressing a integrate of shows which have grown in viewership — it equates to there have been a integrate fewer slots inflict a "Big Brother" ep. upon us.
Paul Farhi: Yes, true. Part of a ecosystem of TV is which producers of it shows get to saddle their networks with another, lousier uncover as a reward/pre-condition for stability to furnish a large strike which a network unequivocally wants. This competence insist a disaster rate–lots of dogs see air in a name of gripping something else on.
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Pepper!: There's an engaging documentary rotating upon a singular of a high-number VH1 channels about a creation of Sgt. Pepper…looks identical to it was shot in a 90's. George Martin plays with a blending board, to pierce up opposite elements of a sound…good for strain geeks identical to us.
BTW, Tom Delay was in Congress for twenty-two years prior to which grandstanding DA built those quickly-dismissed allegations…so a small people voted for him.
Paul Farhi: Thanks for referring to a Pepper documentary; George Martin is an engaging dude. I'd unequivocally identical to to hear/see/read some-more about how he did what he did…As for DeLay: Yes, SOME people voted for him. In his district. Most Americans did not.
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Time zones: we have remonstrate per sports. we once was upon a commercial operation outing to a west seashore over a week finish of a large college football game. we was equates to to watch during a residence of a associate alum. But it was a noon game, so it due during 9 a.m. Pacific, which customarily seemed so… uncivilized. (And a snacks were customarily wrong — chips as great as salsa have been great diversion food, nonetheless not meant to be breakfast.)
Paul Farhi: Yeah, as great as drink during 10:30 in a sunrise ain't right, either. we contend switch to mimosas as great as full of blood Mary's….
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New Sitcom Fave: It's additionally from a cableverse: "Party Down" upon Starz, from a creators of late critics' heavenly "Veronica Mars." Really, REALLY droll to this air blower of "The Office," "30 Rock," as great as "Arrested Development," as great as we consider which if it were upon HBO or Showtime, it'd be removing tons of press as great as praise.
Paul Farhi: I'll take your word for it given we haven't seen it. But I'll have a ubiquitous observation: Cable's lane jot down with sitcoms, for a small reason, isn't which great. It has finished much, many improved with being shows as great as dramas. we consternation why.
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Arlingtion, Va.: we had a identical arrange of knowledge when we saw a Grateful Dead in concert. It was combo uncover with Tom Petty, Bob Dylan (and yes, they mumbled together some), as great as a Dead came out last. It was during RFK lane in Aug as great as was, conservatively, about 180 degrees in a sun. Dylan wore a tanned hide cloak as great as we still don't wish to know what he smelled identical to afterwards.
The Dead came out as great as we attempted to suffer it, nonetheless male were they mediocre. we beheld which a people unequivocally grooving to it were dancing to a small cadence which was opposite which what was being played. we theory if we take sufficient drugs, we can yield your own soundtrack.
I know which they put upon great shows, nonetheless we certain didn't see it. And we was vacant during how a great bit of a assembly didn't crop up to care. The rest of us left.
Paul Farhi: Sounds identical to a horrible experience, but, man, what a great bill–Dylan, Petty AND a Dead? Sounds identical to a singular of those bills for shows way, approach during a behind of in a day which we see upon selected posters. It will list twelve acts, all of them fantastic–Sinatra! Elvis! Jimi Hendrix! The Stones! All upon One Stage!–and thereafter it will say, in small arrange during a bottom, "Tickets, $1.50."
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Over a Edge: we fast grew sleepy of 105.9's brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new format, even nonetheless we identical to many of a songs. The playlist is as great short, as great as many of a songs have already been played to genocide upon alternative stations. Like oldies radio, classical stone air wave has spin low-pitched wallpaper, automatic by people who don't crop up to caring about a music.
Paul Farhi: Well, yeah, we definitely don't need to attend to "Hotel California" for a 12,000th time (by a way, when we went to Italy this summer, a buskers as great as travel musicians all seemed to be personification The Eagles; they were everywhere. Maybe those tunes customarily got over there). But I'm anticipating 105.9 gets a small some-more beautiful as great as throws out a integrate of lesser-heard chestnuts from time to time. Anyone identical to "The Tubes"?
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"The Song Remains a Same" : Netflix indicted me of hidden this film from them as great as they canceled my account. They sent to front out of my queue, nonetheless we never perceived it. After conference a comments about observant them live I'm blissful we didn't watch it. Now which my comment has been reinstated, we won't worry putting it during a behind of in queue.
Paul Farhi: Keep it, if we ever do find it. You competence be we do your associate Netflixers a favor.
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Houston, Tex.: "You know even their defective element will be higher to roughly anything else around."
Well, it competence be so which they reason their misfortune element during a behind of — But demeanour during Bruce Springsteen's Tracks — they were customarily songs which wouldn't fit in to a context of a albums which were released, nonetheless they have been great songs in their own right.
Paul Farhi: Exactly! What Springsteen air blower doesn't wish to attend to even bad Springsteen (is there such a thing)? And a "bad" things can be unequivocally engaging in a own right. Shows we an a single some-more side of a artist. If zero else, you'll admire him/her/them for their great ambience in not vouchsafing a bad things out.
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Old Blue in Exile: Looks identical to a Terrapins got a small payback Saturday for final year's diversion in Maryland starting so early in a day (the homogeneous of 9 a.m. PDT), which put Cal during a waste in conditions of jet-lag. This time in Berkeley a rematch due during a homogeneous of 10 p.m. EDT for a Terps, as great as a Golden Bears definitely whomped a turtles. How honeyed it is!
Paul Farhi: The jet loiter subject has radically been studied, as great as it's for genuine (travelling teams lend towards to perform unequivocally feeble upon cross-country trips). The Terps indispensable to arrive in a Bay Area about 3 weeks prior to which diversion to have had a chance.
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the buskers as great as travel musicians all seemed to be personification The Eagles; they were everywhere: Paul, it's Eagles. Those guys hatred it when we had "the."
Paul Farhi: Seriously? But wouldn't we receptive to advice unequivocally dorky saying, "Are we starting to see Eagles during Verizon this weekend?" or "Eagles have been my a a singular preferred group"?
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Washington, D.C.: Another peculiarity cableverse sitcom is "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" upon FX. Absolutely hilarious.
Paul Farhi: Ah, yes. Big cult following upon which one. Thanks, Washington.
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Arlington, Va.: we recollect starting to see "The Song Remains The Same" as a midnight uncover during a drama when we was in college in Chapel Hill, N.C. Afterwards, we satisfied which for a pretension they should have stolen a line from Emerson, Lake as great as Palmer, as great as called it "Welcome Back My Friends to a Show which Never Ends."
Love a albums though.
Paul Farhi: Midnight college uncover = stoned. So did it unequivocally matter?
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The Dead: What did a singular Dead-Head contend to a alternative Dead-Head during a Grateful Dead unison when they ran out of pot?
"Man, this strain sucks."
Paul Farhi: we consider we've used up a pot-reference share for a week…
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Takoma Park, Md.: Sports upon a West Coast have been great. Night games finish so early which they radically uncover dopey cinema afterwards, or in a box of San Francisco's ABC affiliate, comical basketball explanation shows with former ESPN anchor Larry Biel as great as Warrior great Nate Thurmond.
Paul Farhi: There's a great hasten to fill a leftover hours, isn't there? Sometimes, they'd time change a network shows which we didn't see given a diversion pre-empted them upon a West Coast (but which people upon a East Coast DID see given they aired prior to a game). But mostly (maybe still) a stations tended to contest for a comprehensive misfortune time-filler things they could find.
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Boring Training Again: we consider it's astray to be so disastrous about a Song Remains a Same. It's not a hideous film. If we aren't unequivocally a fan, thereafter you'll hatred it. The indicate is visually enjoying a music. It's customarily an a single some-more dimension. However, a misfortune slaughter ever clinging to film has to be Hitchhiker's Guide to a Galaxy. My family got suckered in to which as great as watched it upon a projector during home. Not even a drama knowledge overcame which dreck. On a same note, we additionally felt a same about Monty Python's The Origin of Life. It customarily kept starting reduce as great as reduce as great as in a destiny we had to spin it off. But we did suffer Search for a Holy Grail.
Paul Farhi: "Visually enjoying a music." Didn't we advise we about a pot references?
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Grew up in Mountain Time: nonetheless we didn't great from shows being upon earlier. I'm from horse uncover Canada, as great as we get a U.S. stations from Spokane. Because Spokane is upon Pacific time, a 8 p.m. shows have been upon during 9 p.m., etc. Letterman as great as Conan crop up during 12:35. But we do skip Monday Night Football as great as alternative late-starting sporting events finale during 10 or 10:30 instead of carrying 10 or 10:30 be halftime.
Paul Farhi: Wow, a time-space TV continuum unequivocally gets musty when we go opposite a border. Sounds identical to you're kind of horse uncover as great as kind of eastern. Yes, unequivocally Canadian…
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Call Beatles Experts!: On any of a customary commercially constructed Beatles CDs: can Stu Sutcliffe or Pete Best be heard?
Paul Farhi: I'll chuck this out to a immeasurable Beatles geek nation. Folks?
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Midnight college uncover = stoned.: Hmmm, seems identical to it would have it crop up longer, to illustrate some-more unbearable. we went to Eraser Head befuddled as great as it was customarily an horrible experience. It was identical to a film lasted for 8 hours.
Paul Farhi: we saw "Eraserhead" loyal up during a midnight uncover during a behind of in a day. we still recollect it fondly. Maybe if we had been stoned, we wouldn't have. Remembered it, which is.
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Alexandria, Va.: What is 94.7's clarification of "fresh"? we adore when they do their small tagline about "today's uninformed music" thereafter fool around a strike from a mid-90s. How is which "fresh"? Because we haven't listened it in a while?
Paul Farhi: It's a small kind of womanlike thing, we think. It's a denunciation I'm still learning, nonetheless haven't unequivocally mastered.
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Takoma Park, Md.: Young blue in outcast here — Maryland's quarterback, from California, is assumingly a son of a strange drummer for Ratt.
Paul Farhi: Haha! Fabulous Fact o' a day…
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Cable's lane jot down with sitcoms, for a small reason, isn't which great: we saw a integrate of episodes of Flight of a Conchords when we was roving as great as we suspicion it was hilarious. But we don't have HBO so we can't watch regularly.
Paul Farhi: HBO, certain (and "Conchords," sure; all loveable). But we roughly put HBO in a opposite difficulty from a rest of cable. It's not cable. It's, um, PREMIUM cable. Very different…
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Washington, D.C.: Are a Beatles starting to send a duplicate of "Let It Be" to Phil Spector so he can attend to it whilst in a pokey?
I suspicion George Martin's line about which jot down was great. He pronounced a prolongation credit should read:
Produced by George Martin Overproduced by Phil Spector
Paul Farhi: Go during a behind of as great as re-read Tom Wolfe's form of Spector. Martin was unequivocally charitable…
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Baltimore, Md.: Funniest Beatles-related fun ever made:
Homer Simpson: Yoko Ono?! She busted a Plastic Ono Band!!
Paul Farhi: Great thread-weaving, Bal'more! Sitcoms as great as Beatles. You win a big, large prize…
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The Airless Cubicle: Paul,
There's no reason given TV comedies can't have a quip supposing which prolongation costs have been kept underneath control. As prolonged as a network as great as a prolongation college of strain have sufficient income to cover prolongation costs, any arrange of TV module is acceptable. There's continually a direct for comedy; people wish to laugh, even in difficult times. Aristophanes, a Greek playwright, wrote his funniest comedies, together with The Birds as great as Lysistrata, during a twenty-years as great as of a Peloponnesian Wars in in between Athens as great as Sparta.
John DeLancie, a "Q" of Star Trek fame; remarkable which air wave dramas constructed a homogeneous of a full-length film any dual weeks. Using his sequence of thumb, half-hour comedies furnish a film homogeneous in 4 to 6 weeks — a gait which Roger Corman would envy. Obviously a 4 x 3 TV with 525 line fortitude didn't need a same prolongation values as a movie. However, they compulsory actors, cameras, scripts as great as directors, as great as they had to be finished underneath budget.
'Friends' was a uncover which showed which prolongation costs were approach out of carry out when costs strike $7 million per part as great as a leads all hold out for a single some-more money. This as great as a success of 'Survivor' showed networks unscripted shows could keep costs underneath control. Comedies can compete. They don't need to be as costly or cast-heavy as they have grown to be.
If we check out a small of a older, successful comedies of a 1960s as great as early 1970s, we will see not as large casts as great as fewer additional characters. The plots were as great mostly conventional, nonetheless they worked for a time. They kept people amused. They weren't essay Shakespeare, or even Aristophanes. Get a giggle as great as pierce on!
We don't have any strain from Aristophanes' day. The beginning square of strain which has been recorded was a strain to a Greek God Dionysus circa 160 C.E. Since then, we've been impressed by music, from Gregorian intone to a ultimate Lady GaGa single. How many of it is instantly tangible as great music, let alone immortal. That is given we am seeking brazen to removing a remastered Beatles collections, given a Beatles have an cadence upon strain which integrate of people have ever reached. Coming during a behind of to attend to them with a uninformed ear creates we comprehend how veteran they were — all those months as a Quarrymen as great as in a Cavern Club finished all 4 of them know what was great as great as what was not. You frequency attend to mistakes in a Beatles strain selection, solely a integrate of manuscript fillers identical to "Flying" or "Don't' Let Me Down.".
Will we attend to a Beatles in a year 4500, as we review as great as see Aristophanes now? we don't consider so — nonetheless there competence nonetheless be low-pitched quotations of "Eight Days a Week" as great as "She Loves You" in a low-pitched art of a future, unatrributed as great as nonetheless informed to us. we do know which we won't be examination 'Friends'.
Paul Farhi: Thanks for classing up this joint, Airless. We don't get many Aristophanes references here (and by a way, we desired his primary album)…But a singular correction: "Friends" wasn't an out-of-control humerous entertainment until a seventh or eighth deteriorate (I forget). That's when a expel glued together together as great as bargained collectively, meaningful which NBC was reaping bushels from their work in syndication. Most sitcoms, in fact, lend towards to underline unknowns. And they're STILL costly to make. Hence, a gun-shyness/risk averseness of a networks to have them identical to they once did.
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Washington, D.C.: Neither Stu nor Pete crop up upon any of a remasters.
Paul Farhi: Thanks, D.C….And a question: Do we unequivocally wish to attend to Pete Best personification with a Beatles? Apart from a oddity cause (huge, I'll admit), he assumingly wasn't unequivocally good. Which is given he became an ex-Beatle.
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Knows approach as great many about a Beatles: The customarily approach to attend to Stu Sutcliffe (original bassist) as great as Pete Best (original drummer) upon a Beatles recording is if you
a) have a singular of a unison bootlegs from shows they played in Hamburg in 1960,
or b) have paid for a integrate of unequivocally singular 45s by Tony Sheridan, in which a Beatles were a subsidy band. The many important of these songs (I child we not) is "My Bonnie Lies Over a Ocean".
Paul Farhi: Thanks to you, too…In a way, I'm not astounded by a "Bonnie" thing. Didn't a Beatles put out "Till There Was You" (a strain from a Broadway play, for crissakes) upon a singular of their early albums in sequence to have themselves crop up unthreatening to wordless as great as dad?
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Those Wacky Canadians: "Wow, a time-space TV continuum unequivocally gets musty when we go opposite a border"
Don't dont consider about Newfoundland time — 8:00 Eastern, 9:30 Newfoundland.
Paul Farhi: So if they're examination "Monday Night Football" live in Newfoundland, it's, what, a week from Thursday? That's flattering confusing…
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Rock self-centredness films: That's all it is, really. Rock stars have drive-in theatre to cadence their own egos; infrequently it's high-brow (Scorsese as great as The Band), as great as infrequently it's customarily an a single some-more approach to sell some-more lunchboxes (KISS). "The Song" was unsatisfactory to me given we unequivocally adore Zep (though I'm younger as great as didn't grow up with them — longed for out upon a containing alkali enhancements which substantially went with a movie); Jane's Addiction put out a integrate of drive-in theatre which not customarily were awful, nonetheless finished me hit my venerate of a rope down a integrate of pegs (and we desired "Nothing's Shocking" as great as "XXX").
Paul Farhi: we dunno. Are rock-band drive-in theatre any some-more or reduction distressing than documentaries as a whole? Maybe, nonetheless I'm not unequivocally sure…Of course, if we didn't have rock-band documentaries, we wouldn't have "Spinal Tap." So, all in all, we theory they've been value it.
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Albany, N.Y.: Re a "re-release machine": Cut 'em a small slack, Paul; there hasn't been a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new re-release of a Beatles catalogue in twenty-two years. Even Shostakovich has had some-more rereleases.
Paul Farhi: But there have been lots of albums of Beatles element in which time. we theory a eminence is "re-release." And, yes, people DO identical to to attend to a aged strain in brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new ways, so competence be we should inspire some-more of this…
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"Till There Was You": When we was young, we suspicion it was a Beatles strain as great as thereafter we saw "The Music Man."
Paul Farhi: Me, too. we was shocked.
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Wheeling, W.Va.: Can we unequivocally certitude a viewpoint of someone who got a names of both Monty Python's "The Origin of Life" AND "Search for a Holy Grail" wrong?
No consternation he/she didn't identical to "The Song Remains Similar."
Paul Farhi: "The Song is a Reasonable Facsimile of an Earlier Version."
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Albany, N.Y.: Seems as nonetheless they've been proclaiming a Death of a Sitcom any integrate of years for generations. It happened after "Seinfeld" as great as "Cheers," it happened after "Cosby," it happened after… well, whatever came prior to "Cosby," "Happy Days" as great as "Laverne & Shirley" we guess. (Wasn't "The Beverly Hillbillies" a primary fin-de-siecle sitcom?)
Despite what they discuss it we upon TV Land, there was never a golden age with great wall-to-wall sitcoms. Great sitcoms have been difficult to make, no have a disproportion how expensive; they have been many harder to have than dramas. For any "Dick Van Dyke Show", there is additionally a "Good Morning, World" as great as "Enter Laughing," all from a thoughts of Carl Reiner.
(Don't recollect those final two? Neither did I; we looked up Reiner upon IMDb as great as found them.)
The subsequent great sitcom will come along as great as we will contend it saved a sitcom, until it goes off a air as great as we weep a genocide of a sitcom.
Paul Farhi: All true. But it has been a prolonged dry spell, during slightest for a foster networks. "Seinfeld" wrapped in 1998. "Everybody Loves Raymond"–the final huge, longrunning hit–wrapped in 2005. We're due.
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Bowie, Md.: Does this era have a luminary who they finished a tie with as great as will weep a approach we have finished with Michael Jackson? He crossed so many bounds — race, age, geography. we have had this discuss as great as a customarily people we have reached a accord upon per vital names who has have which kind of regretful tie with people around a universe are: Oprah as great as Obama. Quite a integrate of referred to Prince as great as Beyonce nonetheless not with a same spin of agreement. My firstborn will have a name which starts with a minute O.
Paul Farhi: Springsteen. Bono. Maybe McCartney. Though all 3 interest to an comparison audience, as great as competence be aren't all which cross-racial. But Beyonce? Most people over 45 don't unequivocally know her.
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Falls Church, Va.: The Beatles did recover "the alternative stuff" upon a "Anthology" releases, a small of which featured Pete Best:
In 1995, a flourishing Beatles expelled Anthology, which featured a array of marks with Best as drummer, as great as Best perceived a estimable windfall-between 1 pounds million as great as 4 million — from a sales, nonetheless he was not interviewed for a book or a documentaries.
Paul Farhi: See? we told we someone (or competence be many someones) would know. Because customarily about all is great known about a Beatles.
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We're due. : Not customarily have been we due, nonetheless they OWE us a great sitcom. we can customarily watch so many "reality."
Paul Farhi: This could be a movement! The headlines would read, "Angry Mobs Demand Great Sitcom" (subhead: "NBC arch Jeff Zucker Burned in Effigy")…Believe me, they're trying. But competence be it will never happen. Hard to grasp mass recognition upon TV any some-more given a assembly is so fragmented. Too many channels, not sufficient DVR time.
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MNF, Newfoundland: If a diversion starts during 8:30 p.m. eastern, it's 10:00 p.m. in Newfoundland.
For an a single some-more perspective, that's 2:30 p.m. in Hawaii.
Paul Farhi: we continually identical to being "out west." It creates me feel identical to we have a integrate of additional hours in my day. we went to Hawaii once as great as it felt identical to we had an additional week as great as a half.
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"Friends": NBC longed for to fool around "divide as great as conquer" with a 6 stars by giving them opposite salaries, in hopes of creation them some-more manipulatable (if there's such a word). But underneath a caring of Lisa Kudrow as great as David Schwimmer they stood together upon a emanate — arrange of identical to a mini-labor union! It's not as nonetheless NBC was losing any income upon them by profitable any $1 million per epi, customarily not creation utterly as a outrageous a profit.
Paul Farhi: Yes, infrequently sufficient (or not), we suspicion they had a flattering great point. Without a income boost, they would NEVER reap a in accord with prerogative for their work, whilst NBC would be vital off a syndication revenues compartment after Doomsday. Seemed customarily "fair," nonetheless satisfactory in this box was great over a grasp of many mortals.
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Enter Laughing from Carl Reiner: It was a name of his novel, incited in to a Broadway play, incited in to a 1964 film which is competence be a funniest film no a singular has ever seen: starring Jose Ferrer, Jack Gilford, Shelley Winters, Michael J Pollard, Elaine May. we never knew Carl Reiner did a sitcom version
Paul Farhi: we gotta check which a singular out, novel, film as great as TV series. Reiner is a comic genius…
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Most people over 45 don't unequivocally know her: Exactly. we consider he's articulate about a younger generation. As they grow up. Who will they weep with great open outpourings of emotion?
Paul Farhi: Ah. Paris Hilton? Lindsay Lohan? Tila Tequila?
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Please, no more.: Oh, gag, sufficient with a Beatles as great as Woodstock as great as 70s retro. Baby Boomers need to pierce upon as great as comprehend a universe extends over their own navels. Ugh.
Paul Farhi: Fair enough. Frankly, we couldn't mount a Woodstock nostalgia this summer. But a Beatles? C'mon, even we immature whippersnappers adore a Beatles…
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The Airless Cubicle: Talking about time changeable — try recording an uncover being played in Australia during 7 p.m. Sunday Melbourne time. That's 5 a.m. Sunday Eastern Daylight Time; 3 a.m. in a winter.
Paul Farhi: My conduct is spinning! Worst we can recollect is examination a Olympic basketball gold-medal diversion live from Beijing final summer. It was upon during about 3:45 a.m. East Coast, or something.
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Florida Chick: we did my many appropriate to mount up for we upon a Temple speak blog; John Temple was trashing we large time. whatever. customarily sayin…
Paul Farhi: Thanks, Florida Chick. Kind of you!
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But underneath a caring of Lisa Kudrow as great as David Schwimmer they stood together upon a emanate : we continually suspicion it was Jennifer Aniston, who saw her destiny in distressing regretful comedies as great as satisfied which this was it, she had to have a income now.
Paul Farhi: Yes, which did crop up a small infrequently phrased. Exactly how many "leadership" does it take to lead 4 alternative people, all of whom had a design same self-interest as a "leaders"?
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Sitcoms: we adore Big Bang Theory as great as we consider it has a makings of a great sitcom.
Paul Farhi: we consider it has a makings of an above-average sitcom.
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Beatles question: The subject as to a Beatles "intended" which people attend to their strain in mono or stereo is not black as great as white. Mono was a default format in a early 60s given radios had customarily a singular speaker, as great as which was a categorical marketplace for annals then. Based upon my experience, mono was a primary blending pursuit as great as stereo an afterthought by Sgt. Pepper (I paid for a latter during a K-mart as great as there was no stero choice in their jot down bins). When we listened which manuscript in stereo years later, a small of my a a singular preferred transitory sounds in in between songs wre blank or not often altered.
Paul Farhi: Yes, exactly. It's arrange of identical to saying, "Why didn't they have some-more wordless drive-in theatre in color?" Silent drive-in theatre have been their own art form, as have been monoaural albums.
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Liverpool: The customarily Beatles albums we own have been a "red" as great as "blue" biggest hits things. The remastering here gives me an forgive to in a destiny go out as great as get (at slightest a small of) a strange albums, which we customarily cite for many bands (and I'm 27; a "death of a album" thing which presumably happened in in between people my age is rarely exaggerated. Sure, when a small newer bands half-a– it, competence be a total manuscript won't be worthwhile, nonetheless if a rope puts in a bit of effort, listening to a total manuscript is a improved experience).
If we already had all a albums, we don't know if I'd caring sufficient about a remastering… whilst we can customarily discuss it a difference, I'm not certain it would be a $13 X fourteen = $182 difference.
Paul Farhi: My primary greeting to this was identical to listening to booze people speak about wine. we appreciated their passion, nonetheless it's not unequivocally my bag. But we did consider a "Love" manuscript finished me attend to a Beatles in a small brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new ways; a recording sounded "brighter" than we remembered a originals as great as a blending of songs/song intros was interesting. So, we can see given people would get geeked out about these re-releases.
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Silver Spring, Md.: Re: The Beatles we design a Beatles portfolio to begin to dry up after a final of a baby boomers (born 1962) hits a age of 70 or we estimate 2032. Have we seen a Blue-Ray chronicle of any bit of Beatles video yet? Can we get them upon iTunes? we consider we have a approach to go.
Of course, this customarily fits given a Beatles were during a forefront of multimedia mega exposure: 45s, albums, posters, magazines, movies, Yuletide albums, pre-Internet hum (Paul is Dead), piece for a single person projects, 24-7 coverage of their personal lives, etc. The strain is flattering good, too.
Paul Farhi: we consider we competence be right about a vanishing out/aging out of a lot of artists who have been outrageous in a time (Michael Jackson, maybe), nonetheless we don't consider a Beatles will ever unequivocally disappear. They were a Mozart as great as Brahms as great as Beethoven. Classic. They'll continue as great as be appreciated by brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new generations. That's kind of what all this re-release as great as video diversion things is all about, too–not customarily appreciative a aged fans, nonetheless recruiting a brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand brand new ones…
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Seriously…: Seriously sleepy of carrying my moniker stolen. Original Florida Chick here. Grates my nerves everytime we see which someone else is regulating it. we know it is sparse as great as foolish nonetheless we feel identical to my small sister is wearing all my garments as great as slicing her hair to compare my style.
Paul Farhi: You as great droll kids arrange this a singular out as great as get during a behind of to us…
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Albany, N.Y.: … as great as "Two as great as a Half Men" customarily perceived a small arrange of "Future Classic" endowment from TV Land, who ought to know better. Their "Classic" is my "kinda funny, sometimes."
Paul Farhi: Their "classic" competence additionally be "classic given we have a understanding in place to foster this uncover as 'classic'." But who's to decide, anyway?
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Missing Sterno: we skip Marc Sterne's Saturday AM ball uncover — not given it was great — nonetheless given it was a customarily hour of ball air wave in this town. Phil Wood's uncover was flattering great too. And now, no ball during all, as great as we have dual competing Redskins stations which in conclusion (I think) will both fail.
Paul Farhi: All a Redskins chitchat does get tiresome. we consider Mike Wise is we do something smart. Like a Junkies, he's building a air wave celebrity which transcends a sport, or any sport. You attend to him given we identical to him, not given he can speak about a Skins' backup O line.
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Paul Farhi: And we see we've left approach in to damage time upon today's chat, so I'd improved scoot. Thanks for tuning in today, gang. We'll do this again subsequent week, as great as we'll try to comparison a Baby Boomer obsession. Next week: The Gen X Hour. See we all then. And in a meantime, as always…regards to all! –Paul.
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