Surely it's particularly ironic to write a song called 'Ironic' which only contains examples of things which are not ironic.
Whether she intended it or not, it's a good joke and the public are the butt of it.
Anyway, I'm off to write a song called 'Jazz' - it will be all about the fact that jazz was invented in 1998…

Ok, Enkidum, let's just post a list of the best-selling albums of the year then. You see where I'm going with this?
A much better system would be for the reviewers to assign grades to the albums they've actually heard, then get the best averages.

Trouble with the AV Club system is…
Famous records = likely exposure rate = more people likely to vote for them
= natural bias toward more well-known artists = boring, conservative list full of overexposed indie rock

And Gil Scot-Heron, even better than those two.

Ok, so I've listened to a good 50% of these albums and they're all nowhere near as as good as the Caribou and Charlotte Gainsbourg records. Don't want to agrue about it, personal viewpoint and all that shit, but there we are.

Hilarious
"Never Mind The Bullocks" - Is this the Hayseed Dixie Sex Pistols covers album?

Two for you
Mogwai - Good on record, astonishing live
Gallon Drunk - Nothing special on record, possibly the best live act I've ever seen.

God I love this film.
Not in a camp way, not in an ironic way, not in a postmodern way. Just in an utter joy way. I can only think of two or three other films I could say this about.

CancerAIDS should do the trick.

Apparently it's called "Something Good", not "An Ordinary Couple". Anyway, it's crap. Apologies to fact fans.

I was stuck in a hostel in Salzburg for a night one time and had no choice but to watch the whole film, twice.
One song (which a little research indicates is probably called "An Ordinary Couple") in particular is absolutely the most cloying thing ever recorded by anyone.
It's a D, at best. I'd give it a B if the Nazis…

Screw you, Intro RULES!

Tigermilk is much better than IYFS. In fact, IYFS might be their worst album, it never stops living up to the fey, winsome idea that people have about them. The EPs they released the year after were possibly the best thing they've ever done.

Amerie
No mention for what must be easily the best track on here "1 Thing"? Love, love, love that song.

Also, re "Not a good linguist, maybe, but who'd wanna be one of them?"

Yup
really genuinely sad.

Yes, he usually makes out that he's debunking conventional wisdom, pointing out the foibles of academics, etc., but it's all just part of his style and doesn't reflect any amount of knowledge or research.
Just to give a few examples of the kind of factual mistakes he makes, he says that every word in Mandarin ends in…

The trouble with Bill Bryson
The man never does enough research. He just seems to pick up a few books on whatever topic he's covering and regurgitates half-remembered facts.
You can really spot this when he's covering an area you know something about. I'm a linguist and his book on the English language "Mother Tongue"…

I know a guy who thinks TLB is one of the best albums of the last 10 years and Speakerboxxx is one of the worst. He's an asshole. These two things may be linked in some way.

Ditto Dubnobasswithmyheadman and A Hundred Days Off.
They are an important band who've made some great music, and though this album isn't great, this paltry, ill-informed review is a bit of a disservice to them. The Simple Minds reference is just ridiculous, for example.