Bullshit Tracklisting For 4-Disc Nevermind Boxed-Set Revealed / Stereogum Praises God-Awful Weezer Covers

Lots of big news lately... Not all of it is good. Here, we have two frustrating stories, both pulled from Stereogum...

First, they've revealed the Nevermind boxed-set's tracklisting... Let's take a look, shall we...

Disc One: Nevermind minus "Endless Nameless" and the "B-sides" included out of order at the very end. By the way, "Endless Nameless" was a b-side on the "Come As You Are" single, and its exclusion is fucking absurd.

Disc Two: Tracks 1-8, "The Smart Studio Sessions." Okay, fine.. at least once of these "sessions" can be allowed... Three of the eight songs are not redundant with anything that's appeared so far. However, this is immediately followed by tracks 9-16, "The Boombox Rehearsals," aka 8 awful quality demos of Nevermind tracks which NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR EVER. This is followed by the BBC versions of "Drain You" and "Something In The Way." Fine.

Disc Three: The Devonshire Mixes. The entire Nevermind album AGAIN mixed differently!? FUCK YOU COURTNEY.

Disc Four: A live concert from 1991. LAME. Live At Reading just came out not even 12 months ago. Completely unnecessary. Complete waste of money. Complete waste of an enormous opportunity to present fans with something other than the usual "acoustic bedroom demo" bullshit. Enough already.

So once again, we come to a point when we need to consider the "Make Your Own Nirvana Boxed Set" option, which will probably end up happening sometime soon... Heck, we might even post it right here.

Meanwhile, Stereogum also posted Weezer's 30 Best Cover Songs, and it didn't include "Velouria" at #1, so right there you know these dudes have no idea what they're talking about... Instead it placed at #9, while the extreme vomit pile "Un-Break My Heart" surpassed it at #3.

P.S. None of the six Nirvana covers from Weezer's "Goat Punishment" set made the cut, which was one of the best shows Weezer ever played. Adding fuel to the fire, the writer states: I also included only one song from the band’s poorly bootlegged Nirvana covers set as Goat Punishment many years ago. Well that's all fine and good except "Sliver" was not played at that show. This handy little internet secret called "Google" brought up the setlist in approximately 0.17 seconds: Swap Meet, Aneurysm, Breed, Floyd the Barber, Blew and Dive. Google is your friend. Use it. Embrace it.

"120 Minutes" also returning

We are pumped and DVR's are set for late-Saturday night at 1AM... If we happen to be at the bar, we'll try and get the TV's set to MTV2.

Although this was announced weeks ago, it took until today for Pitchfork to post a story, which adds some informative insight...

Zach Braff is listed as one of the interview guests... Pretty sad.

Also, the episode will "debut the uncensored version of Pearl Jam's classic video 'Jeremy'," according to MTV Hive. This is bullshit because this was shown on MTV2 several times circa-2002 when Andrew WK hosted the "top 20 uncensored videos" special.. Uncensored "Jeremy" came in at like #5.

South Park is not ending / Beavis update

Unemployment is amazing. Recommended to anyone.

Somehow, this turned into a semi-big news story - South Park Renewed for Two More Seasons Through 2013 - probably because everyone thought it was ending. The world is remaining hopeful that Trey and Matt can pick up some momentum in the joke-writing department, as there were only 2 or 3 good episodes among the last 7. The more recent versions of the standard (and beloved) "Randy goes crazy," "Cartman plans to take over the world" or "Butters is naive" episodes may be losing some steam... The last season suggests they've pushed those ideas to their limit, proven with characters uttering "shit" and "fuck" more often than ever. The super-depressing and amazing mid-series-finale from last May seemed to suggest they'll be moving in some different directions... Maybe this will be a good thing...

Also we won't be embedding a video of the Mike Judge interview from Comic-Con, but here's the link: http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/676714/mike-judge-talks-beavis-and-butt-head-return.jhtml

His justification for B&B's expanding beyond watching videos is pretty solid... They were watching MTV in the 90's, and now they're still watching MTV. Plus, Judge is a huge Jersey Shore fan, which suggests they'll be watching it in more than 1 episode. Music videos will be shown as well, but we're concerned that it will consist of only multi-million sellers like Lady Gaga and Bieber, whereas 90's B&B provided commentary on the million-sellers of the day (TLC/Coolio/Green Day/etc) alongside Flaming Lips, Ween and Dead Milkmen, exposing those bands to kids and helping them sell records in the process... Perhaps those days are over. There's 14 years worth of un-commented music videos which could have provided some outstanding joke opportunities, and it might have been great to see them rocking out to something like No Age or Tyler The Creator... (No Age could use the promotion.)

More Judge interview: http://collider.com/mike-judge-interview-beavis-and-butthead/104226/

The Twin Peaks / Seinfeld Connection

This link isn't really all that interesting.. I just liked that it's something discussed on the blog for rifftrax: http://blog.rifftrax.com/2008/04/01/the-twin-peaksseinfeld-connection/


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