Are they one of those obscure bands RT like championing, or some new bubblegum pop up-and-comers?

Both, actually. He didn't realize they were going to, like, have their song used in an iPod commercial and shit.

Is that who was singing Love Hurts in that over-extended karaoke scene? A little too meta for my tastes.

Get used to it. Rob plans on more cameos like that. The singer isn't identified as a band member, they don't sing one of their own songs, and then one of their songs is used in the episode. I hope it's underplayed even more the next time, though.

Plus, Big Dick's walk-and-shred was AWESOME.

It did give the impression that the company had weekly shredding drills.

Is that who was singing Love Hurts in that over-extended karaoke scene? A little too meta for my tastes.

I was wondering about that scene. It made no sense to me in the context of the show.

Can Cassidy go all Goth and tragic now that he has reason to handstapleforehead? Goth Beaver would rock.

I vote yes. The 09ers could use some goth.

I knew in the karoake scene that I was supposed to know who that was, and I knew just as surely the hivemind would provide. I like the Dandy Warhols a lot - The OC's use of "We Used to be Friends" is one of my favorite moments from the show evah, may it rest in peace - but the cameo was a bit awkward.

When the nurse looked at Logan and said, "Oh, I'm sorry, did that sting?" I actually yelled "Woobie!" at the screen, to the great amusement of Calli and amyth. I think Logan may be My First Woobie.

ION, Hi Ellen! and I really need to finish packing, since I'm leaving for the airport in 1.5 hrs.

The OC's use of "We Used to be Friends" is one of my favorite moments from the show evah, may it rest in peace - but the cameo was a bit awkward.

I am not a big Dandy Warhols fan - but I agree with all of these words a lot.

I don't think Alicia has a dark past in that she is an an actual bad guy - I'm predicting the "had to leave everything to run from something/someone scary to save Wallace" scenario.

Elsewhere people have said that there are going to be MORE karaoke scenes like this one.

yeah. RT said that in an interview with marsinvestigations.net.

I got way too much of the Dandy Warhols in DiG!, but I liked the use of Spoon's "I Turn My Camera On" while Veronica was following Cordelia.

In other news: Hi, Ellen! I'm the artist formerly known as Hayden.

yeah. RT said that in an interview with marsinvestigations.net.

From here:

spacecitymarc: You said they're playing the homecoming dance. Are there any plans to do something like Buffy did or The O.C. does, with bringing bands in constantly?

Rob: Yeah, we do have a plan. And it's a strange plan, and we've shot our first one and it worked so beautifully that we hope we're gonna do it all year. The plan is to do it all year. You know how Veronica sang karaoke last year? Well, she's now working at that coffee shop as the season begins, and what we're going to have are karaoke nights every few episodes. Like, in episode 3, you're gonna see Courtney Taylor-Taylor. The lead singer of the Dandy Warhols comes on and sings karaoke, "Love Hurts" by Nazareth. And it's amazing. It's so cool. And we don't say, "It's Courtney Taylor-Taylor of the Dandy Warhols," we just say, "Hey, Courtney, come up, it's your turn to sing karaoke." And so we're gonna do that all year. Britt Daniels of Spoon has already volunteered to come and do it. So we're going to do these karaoke things where we won't identify them as the famous person they are. If you happen to know what the lead singer of Dandy Warhols looks like, then you'll get it. Otherwise, I'm sure it'll be something that'll be up on all the boards later. But they're not going to sing their own hit songs. They're gonna do karaoke, so it'll be some rock standard that they're doing. And then, sort of in conjunction with that, Courtney Taylor-Taylor does the karaoke sing where he sings "Love Hurts," and then later in the episode we gave great play to "Smoke It," which is the new single off their new record. So everybody is happy that way.

I really like the idea, but the execution could be a bit better, so far. I hope it's less conspicuous next time.

just saw. that was fun . so many things flying in from so many directions. wheeeee. I even forgot about the odd karaoke scene. I don't have anyreal insight... but the logan/duncan scene clearly put VM on the outside of thier relationship. It was Nice. In the future , who will be loyal to whom