The Beatles, CCR, and Simon & Garfunkel were my father's holy trinity, and mine, until I inevitably puberted and grunged in the early 90s. I flipped through the pages of the Seattle Scene, etc., embraced it totally, but fell in a deep love with Pearl Jam once I downloaded a live cover of "Throw Your Arms Around Me"…

Hum is great. Champ-Bana's very own little indie-fuzz rockers.

CHOCOLATE THUNDER!

They squeak! Cheese sticks are silenced curds. Ya know who else silenced the Curds? Sadam!

Gommorah

Das Cajun Kick-ass ist gut.

Add in The Grapes of Wrath and you've got one hell of a triple feature.

IT WAS A BABY CHICKEN

She has charisma to spare. I wasn't tuned in at first but her presence
captured me. She nailed the pedestrian jokes because she understood the
material and used the timing to her advantage. She's quite charming.

Metta World Peace, just for the irony.

Weird. We had the same record displayed on the back of our toilet. Great conversation piece at parties.

George Clinton.

He's doing much better this year!

Dennis Franz & Milcho Manchevski on the graduated side; Jenny McCarthy and John Belushi on the dropout side.

Oh, you pronounce the 'i'. Makes much more sense now.

Oh, you're cookin', Frankie!

Autre Ne Veut's "Ego Free Sex Free" is track of the year and from that, the album of the year is more than obvious.

He's the SNL of musicians.

See also Godsmack. "Keep Away", "Stay Away", "Go Away", etc. For a while I wondered if they would continue the trend of nu-metal bands covering 70s/80s radio hits with a version of "Sail Away."

"Hairy Cruise" - Boring, Shitty, Puerile, Embarrassing