As one of the token staunch Doors defenders in these parts- and there aren't many of us- I really think there are plenty of really good Doors songs, and a decent number of great Doors songs.  "Love me Two Times" is a fantastic track (http://www.youtube.com/watc….  It's bluesy, rocking, and catchy as hell with a great,…

You've basically covered all the main points.

I think I've only heard Possum Kingdom and that song they had on The Crow 2: City of Angels soundtrack, which was also pretty solid, if memory serves.  Although that song was pretty much blown away by the PJ Harvey track it had, and Hole's cover of Gold Dust Woman, which against all odds is phenomenal. There also a…

It is, which is a little strange to me.  Not because Toxic isn't a good song- it definitely is- but because I've always thought that "I'm a Slave 4 U" song absolutely blew it away.  I'm not a Britney Spears fan, but oh MAN is that a good song.

Yeah, I see your point with Pink Floyd.  I guess the difference for me is that Pink Floyd was obviously a band that was going after something we're supposed to read as meaningful, so by necessity that's going to come off to as being pretty calculated, which is fine since it's in the interest of making good art.  But…

A friend of mine would regularly put that song as he approached the drunkest part of the evening.  Considering he had the hippest tastes of anyone I knew, I asked him about it once and he told me simply that "that's what people want to listen to when they're crunk."  He was right, dammit.

If there's a point that a Blacked Eyed Peas song must be considered as something other than Black Eyed Peas song, this is probably it.

I'm sincerely embarrassed by how long I've liked "What U Waiting For" by Gwen Stefani.  I'm not immune to fun pop songs as they come out, but generally I forget about them after a short while.  Meanwhile, that fucking Gwen Stefani song has been with me for five fucking years.  I don't even know what to do.

It's totally weird to think of just how old that song is now.  I know hip hop in general and Kanye in particular moved mostly away from doing those R&B samples that I fell in love with on Through the Wire (and Homecoming, especially), but I still think of that song as being current for some reason.

Eh, why not.

Kanye seems like kind of a stretch to me.  He has an objectively bad personality, but I watched his set at Coachella last year, and his encore was literally an hour of him playing memorable song after memorable song after memorable song.  I still think of Kanye as a newcomer sometimes, but it's pretty astounding just…

Champagne Supernova was basically my favorite song when I was in 3rd grade.  I was baffled as to why Wonderwall got all the attention.

Oh god, that was a low point in music.  I was in high school when that came out, and it was like impossible to get into a car with a girl wearing Vans and not expect to hear that asshole screeching his nonsense out at least once on somebody's iPod shuffle.  I'd cope by steering them in the direction of Modest Mouse as…

The funny thing about Amber for me was that I liked that song an awful lot, but couldn't admit to myself that I actually liked a 311 song that came out after the 90s.  It just sort of festered in me for a while until I broke down and admitted to myself that I thought it was good- and then instantly, I became bored…

Yeah, I used to be with it.  But then they changed what "it" was!  And now what I'm with isn't "it!"  And what's "it" seems weird and scary to me!  And it'll happen to you, too!

Incubus had a handful of songs I actually liked decently well, but I never had an ounce of interest in buying any of their albums.  I think I had a Spider-sense for terrible filler tracks.

I actually find Katy Perry pretty easy to listen to- or I used to anyway- but then I stumbled upon this on day: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

This always seems like a weak rationale for criticizing a band.  No one's ever been in control of their legacy, beyond their ability to tarnish it by releasing regrettable album after regrettable album (Stevie Wonder, for example).  All an artist is in control of is their own creative output, and that seems to me to…

Yeah, it's an especially odd choice considering how it barely stacks up next to their rock solid singles, like Corduroy, Not for You, Jeremy, or Go, for instance.  I agree with the assessment that Pearl Jam attempts greatness but rarely achieves it.  But sometimes they do, and that's maybe the point of listening to…

There's big teeth up there, but don't be scared, who needs a bank account when you were in A Star is Born?