I am Kurious (Clockwork) Oranj
I like the book but I think—as he did with 'The Shining'—Kubrick's adaptation is also a full revision. His sense of drama and the arc of a narrative (and when to end it) is much more developed than Burgess' who's real talent, of course, was in the linguistic invention of Nadsat. And I…

An interesting parallel—I can recall exactly one specific episode of 'Silver Spoons', the one where his father reveals he used to be in a Rock Band called The Paisley Conspiracy and until about a year ago I could recall exactly one specific Runaways song, which is, of course, 'Cherry Bomb'.

You want I should be full of someone else?

I know, right?—but I have to say I had a friend who had been saying for maybe ten years before that Gnarls Barkley song came out that somebody should sample 'Gone Daddy Done'. I don't know where he is now, but I'll bet he kicked himself over it and hard.

The Smiths are another band that never really had a hit in the US—there were singles, of course, which you knew about because there were oversized monochromatic posters for them (I had the one for 'Sheila Take a Bow' hanging over my bed for years because at the time my girlfriend's name was…well you get the idea) and…

Paul McCartney was never an honorary Black Man—If anything, he was absolutely the Whitest Beatle of the four (and according to Lenny Bruce he wasn't even an honorary Jew).

Now dammit, I may have to revise my 'I Believe' "uncontested favorite" claim—'Shaking Through' is definitely a contestant.

Tone on his own has quite a bit more flow than when he's doing Young MC, but he's still pretty lame. What he's got though is that gravelly voice and, on his debut at least, killer production. When the record came out I was among those that wrote him off for the singles, but a couple of years later I heard the record…

I know this is kind of a circular argument but anyone who calls 'The Great Curve' a weak point doesn't understand it. It (along with 'Listening Wind' and what I'd call a real weak point 'I Zimbra') is emblematic of Eno and Byrne's fixation on Africa—not the popular notions of Africa, but the reality of it socially,…

What? Nothing about 'Foxes'?
No questions about her career as a chainsaw sculptor?

"The Beatles invented hip-hop"

'I Believe' is definitely my uncontested favorite, but I could also mention 'Life and How to Live it' and 'Good Advices' from 'Fables of the Reconstruction'. It's funny how that album was my least favorite when I was a huge R.E.M. fan back in high school and now it's my favorite (although I could easily do without…

'Dangerous' is my favorite Depeche Mode song—and further proof that Dave Gahan could have been a combo crooner in another life. Back in school there was this guy named Andrew who mumbled a lot and the first time my friend Pam met him she thought he said his name was "Danger" so that's what she called him for like a…

For Costello, I'd say 'Indoor Fireworks'.

I love 'Box Set'—Maybe it's just me, but I always thought it was written about Bowie's 'Sound and Vision' box that Ryko released not long before that time. If you recall, Bowie's entire 70's back catalog had been out of print due to ongoing litigation for about six or seven years when Ryko finally got hold of the…

Enkidum—there is a word there, the indefinite article "a". But I'm pretty sure Jorge is right about the sense of it—There are a bunch of Lodi's and the speaker just happens to be stuck in one after another, but I'm also pretty sure Fogerty wrote it with Lodi, California in mind.

'Oh! You Pretty Things' may not have been an official single but it was included on 'Changes2' which, though no longer available, was supposed to be a voleme II of 'Changes1' and they both always felt like greatest hits comps to me. It was only released on CD for about 5 minutes, though, so if you're a collector and…

In the US all of Gang of Four's output may as well be deep cuts—except maybe 'I Love a Man in Uniform'.

Speaking of deep cuts and obligatory Hip House tracks (and wikipedia rightfully claims that if a Hip Hop album included a Hip House nod it was usually sequenced next to last—which would be where the DJ track used to go in the years before), I've got to mention De La Soul's 'Kicked Out the House' which is a hilarious…

Some Funk choices
'Luv and Haight' from Sly's 'There's Riot Goin' on'. It's the lift off that sends that record into space.