Not to pick nits but Snap! is not Hip Hop—it's Hip House (which I realize is absolutely picking nits to most people but as a fan of both I couldn't leave it alone).

'Don't Try This At Home' —I liked it a lot when it came out—I bought it at the same time I bought BAD II's 'The Globe' and played them both all the time when I was sophomore in college (Guess which one I still listen to regularly). It actually speaks more to me now as a divorced man approaching middle age.

'Gone Daddy Done' could have been a hit single.

It's not just awesome—it's Doubleplusgood.

'Combat Rock' is perfect. The only thing on it I'd ever skip is the overexposed 'Should I Stay or Should I go' but otherwise it's flawless. People who discount it are usually trying to shoehorn it into a Punk Rock slot, but it's really a Funk and Soul album.

"Take your big Black Cow and get outta here…"

Kyuss? Was that a band or a bounty hunter from 'The Empire Strikes Back'?

Apart from the ones from 'Night and Day', I don't really know which Joe Jackson tracks were hits or even released—but I do love the song 'Friday' from 'I'm the Man', a lot of 'Big World' but especially 'Home Town' which could be Smiths song if the lyrics weren't so damn sincere, and I think the entire 'Jumpin' Jive'…

His tom fills are capable of creating palpable suspense.

'Voices Inside My Head'—Great song and in the 702 song one of the best examples of how to use a looped sample as a foundation without just ripping it off:

There's little not to like from CCR until the Pendulum album. There are better parts and take it or leave it parts, but as a body of work it's remarkably consistent and real good listening.

I find it hard to name a Beatles "deep cut" because they were pretty much all ubiquitous as I was growing up. And that question of radio play is an important one—probably my favorire R.E.M. song is 'I Believe' from 'Life's Rich Pageant'. I know it wasn't released as a single, but I first heard it on the radio on the…

'Hand of Doom' and 'Electric Funeral' are two of the best arguments that Black Sabbath was really a Funk band. Play those, 'Sweet Leaf' and 'Behind the Wall of Sleep' next to early Funkadelic.

De La Soul's 'Say No Go'. And as I said elsewhere, everything from Tone Loc's debut album that WASN'T a single.

All the Steve Diggle contributions to Buzzcock's 'Different Kind of Tension', but especially 'Sittin' Round at Home':

Talking Heads is a good band for this topic because their album cuts were all pretty good. I consider 'Remain in Light' and 'Speaking in Tongues' to be perfect start to finish. Of the latter I would put 'Wild Gravity' or 'Making Flippy Floppy' on any mixtape I could.

Tone Loc—'Cuttin' Rhythms'
Even though I have a healthy respect for the integrity of individual songs I've never cared that much about singles or hits—and since I haven't listened to proper music radio since I was fifteen or so, I often don't even know which songs on the albums I've bought were released as singles.…

I would accept the "safety" argument as to why school systems choose 'Julius Caesar' over other plays, if the students hadn't already done 'Romeo and Juliet' the previous year. At any rate, the blandness of that safety is a sure turn off, because all you're left with is language that the students find impenetrable. …

I venerated Spin when it first came out—it was a glossy music magazine but it did not subscribe to the Rolling Stone version of the Rock History narrative. It wasn't Maximumrocknroll, but they did features on the Bad Brains and prominently covered Hip Hop when Rolling Stone didn't, and wasn't afraid to give Bob Dylan…

I don't get why people think Iago is unmotivated—apart from explicit professional jealousy of Cassio, and retribution for a percieved slight, the whole thing opens up wide if you consider that a marriage to Desdemona is taking his beloved Othello away from him—Iago that is. I don't think it's a stretch to read Iago's…