Possibly "This mess we're in" by PJ Harvey and Thom Yorke is another example of the female empowerment zeitgeist noted at the start of the column.

From the next 50
Fifteen feet of pure white snow - Nick Cave and teh Bad Seeds
Pattern Against User / Invalid litter dept. - At the drive in
One more time - Daft Punk
Hotel Yorba - White Stripes
Left 2 3 4 - Rammstein
Outta my head - Spiderbait
Roll on - Living End
It began in Afrika - Chemical Brothers
We come 1 - Faithless
I…

The view from JJJ
Triple J's hottest 100 no 9 (covering 2001) shows quite a good year, including some highlights in addition to "outside the NOW bubble". I've brought the disk today so I have the whole 100. Highlights:
Amazing - Alex Lloyd
Monsters - Something for Kate
Where's your head at - Basement Jaxx
Island in the…

Tim Burton
Sometimes I wonder if he ever did anything good (aha! Beetlejuice was good), and yet still am vaguely excited by new films.

Has nobody seen Pocahontas II?

In Australia from at least 1972 it was shown daily on the public broadcaster, ABC - if there were no new episodes, they would just show the entire thing again, in order, from Troughton through Pertwee to Baker and beyond.

Biggest philosophical issue with Trek metaphysics: double standards in dealing with artificial intelligence.

I'm also looking forward to these reviews. Like others on the list I was an adult when they started showing them (although came to Start Trek TOS via the movies and repeats AFTER seeing TSG - less repeats in Australia).

@Elitist Trash -
if you're looking at Machinegun Fellatio, they were much more of a Scissor Sisters - esque burlesque cabaret sort of affair.

Disk 2 -

JJJ Hottest 100 v 8 from the same period
My Happiness - Powderfinger
Sunset (Bird of Prey) - Fatboy Slim
Beautiful Day - U2
Bohemian like you - Dandy Warhols
Dirty jeans - Magic Dirt
Freestyler - Boomfunk MCs
Teenage dirtbag - Wheatus
Damage - You Am I
Pictures in the mirror - The Living End
Teenager of the year - Lo-tel
I love…

I know! I know!

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure dome decree

Iron Sunrise is damn good. The central conceit of those 2 books - the Eschaton and its motivation - is very cool, and that's the cause of the space Nazis.

Momus - Murderers, the hope of women

There are some really good tracks on both of "G Sides" and "D Sides" - at least "Left hand Suzuki method" and all of the various "HongKongaton"s, respectively.

I do really like it. The Australian iTunes store produced it on Friday morning - the multimedia booklet for the deluxe version is about 850Mb of videos and animatics and stuff, and is frankly amazing.

isn't that a Yo La Tengo album?

Disc 2: