We can sit around on the internet all day talking about the awfulness of Rossdale's lyrics, but we can't forget to mention the all-encompassing awfulness of his music, which is equally terrible.

In going through a bunch of my old CDs this year I listened to the first PotUSA album again. The song "Stranger" is actually really, really great. "Body" is pretty decent too, but "Stranger" was like, almost revelatory, especially since I didn't even like it that much when I was a kid.

It's always struck me as kind of arbitrary that Bee Thousand is the one everyone cites as the best. Alien Lanes is WAY better IMHO and if I'm in the right mood I'd probably rank Propeller at least as good as, if not better than Bee Thousand.

It's worth pointing out in this case that while "Everyday I Write the Book" is great (albeit glossy), it comes from what is easily one of his worst albums, and that's due in no small part to Langer and Winstanley's production.

It's not like I think it's a bad thing or anything, it's just really weird and makes me feel really old. Picturing Lloyd Christmas as a grandfather is weird as shit.

There are few things in the world more fucked up
than knowing that Jim Carrey is a grandfather. I think that fact computes less than any other fact in all of human knowledge.

Unlike me, who got an awesome job after college and am totally not unemployed or anything
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This thread whets the appetite for an Osmosis Jones MYOF entry.

Yeah, seriously, I'm 25 and I don't know 90% of this stuff. Judging from these ballots and the comments, I seem to be the only person who absolutely loved the new Devo. I did like the new Big Boi and Cee-Lo Green albums but yeah, I don't know any of this Ke$ha shit.

I somehow managed to read this entire comment without noticing the name of the poster or the avatar, so this was doubly awesome for me: first, to initially think that an AV Club poster was seriously saying this, and then the reveal. Would that all punchlines could be deployed this way.

Yeah, seriously, you're wrong. They are NOT "less irritating than most of the garbage out there." They are literally the worst musical group in the history of sound expressed through time.

I demand Wark Mahlberg.

Presumably Moz now wonders if William ever craves to appear on the front of the Daily Mail dressed in his mother's bridal veil.

Interestingly, while Moz is the one known for the hardcore animal rights activism, Marr is the one who's actually vegan.

There is a difference between "bigotry" and "racism" but not in the "he's not in the KKK so he's not really racist" sense.

Saw James Brown 3 months before he died. Obviously he couldn't move quite like he used to, and he was pretty incoherent any time he tried to talk to the crowd between songs, but then the second the music started he was ON. In retrospect, it kinda gives me a sense of what the MJ "This Is It" shows would've been like.

This is easy
The B-52's, no doubt about it. I've rhapsodized about this before, but seriously, they fucking BROUGHT IT live. You expect most veteran touring acts like them to be tasteful and professional and mercenary, but oh my GOD they killed it. Most fun show I've EVER been to, easily. If you have in your mind that…

"Qatar Hero" = greatest unregistered name ever

Clearly Contrarian American has never seen the Ben Stiller Show. It is important to recognize the fact that Andy Dick once played a character named "Van Hammersly."

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