Are you fucking kidding me? This is crap.

Just wanted to make sure King of the World was here. Great list!

Band that makes albums of similar sounding songs releases new album of similar sounding songs.

Interesting points. My complaint is not that she didn't give a comprehensive/authentic view of DC, but what she did write seems shallow and misses the mark completely – especially on what *I* perceived as her goal given the album title and supporting material. Even when writing that little essay, I thought to myself…

I grew up outside of DC; I remember when stray bullets entered Senator offices; I played a gig in Anacostia park on a Sunday afternoon in 2004 and not one, but two police chases interrupted our show. "Don't go outside of NW" was the unspoken code for us Northern Virginia suburb brats. But we couldn't avoid the…

Yeah, I think that graf was way off the mark… She's no appropriating the culture, just commenting on it… The fact her commentary seems a bit thin is a whole other matter.

"Dennis Rodman’s Big Bang in Pyongyang"

I approve of this.

Nope. https://books.google.com/bo…

Um, from the first time I heard of MIA references were made about her father, and it seemed she was using her status as the daughter of a revolutionary to market herself…

Dammit, AV Club, stop enabling Rivers. He needs help, or at least to stop writing songs.

Not Cobbler 2: The Last Sole?

I'm waiting for the film version of all of these.

Robert Redford would pay a million dollars to trade places with Jason Segel.

Yes - you must do Magnified. Start with Frogs: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

This would have been considered derivative pap in the late 80s… So obviously BEST ROCK ALBUM OF 2016 OMG!

Nope… Straight Duran Duran Xerox. Lead singer even looks like Michael Hutchence. (There's a bit of "Sledgehammer" in there too…)

"Terrible rapping hurts what could have been a great album of white noise."

In that case, I've been creating a few phenomenons every night.

To show my age, I'm going to note that this leaves me with the same sick feeling I had when it was announced Metallica was headlining Lollapalooza in the 90s. "Really?"