Would anything have been really lost had Ozzy gotten beaten to death by redneck Texan sheriffs after whipping it out and pissing on the Alamo? No. He wouldn't have subjected us to his awful children or his terrible, terrible fucking solo career.

Oh god, my tract!

I'm a very recent signup for the evil social networking empire. Mostly for me, it was a cynical attempt to manipulate opinion of myself among my co-workers. Without going too in-depth, my co-workers are skewing younger and younger, and I felt the need to distance myself from the ones who are getting older and older…

I think I own 5-6 Smiths albums and I don't even really like them.

Allegedly not a month after that DUI, she made a personal appearance at some awful downtown date-rape bar in my fair city. It's a good life, being a washed-up child star.

I'm willing to suspend my disbelief enough to recognize that House probably does spend a lot of time with cases that last him, maybe, a day and the cases the show covers are the exceptional ones. (Yes, I realize they've said that's not the case before. This show isn't very strong on canon, though.) But, it's still TV,…

William Kennedy is Albany. And that's still more than Rochester's ever contributed to the world.

Plug her into Google image search. Somewhere on the third page there's a picture of her in Daisy Dukes and various other white trash clothing. She's very good-looking.

"Hardcore Jollies"? Really? I'd pick any of the Funkadelic Westbound LP's over that. Or, "One Nation Under a Groove". "Jollies" has plenty of great moments but feels, like a lot of P-Funk product, like a slapped-together collection of disparate outtakes. Not as bad as "Tales of Kidd Funkadelic", but still…

It's good but considering so many people told me in advance it was bound to be life-altering, it couldn't help but be a letdown, at least a little bit. Still, an 8/10 is hardly anything to sneeze at…and I can sort of understand the worship for it. It's damn fine.

"Music for 18 Musicians"

Whoever mentioned Mott's "Brain Capers" up above - you're right. Although I normally only find myself listening to the first side, it's still wholly awesome. I like the post-Bowie Mott too, but they were fucking dangerous on that album.

I feel like the only person who can't stand Pink Floyd. I'd take a single with "See Emily Play" on one side, and "Arnold Layne" on the other, and that'd be all the Floyd I'd ever need. So I admit when I saw "The Wall" on this list, all I could think was "you couldn't pay me to listen to that oppressively whiny,…

I'd like to think every workplace is as petty as mine. I have to deal with a 60-year-old - seriously - throwing hissy fits, throwing product around, disobeying orders, and generally screeching like a hyena if you dare to question her. And the job consists of putting fucking books on shelves, no less.

LBJ was probably a more complicated guy then even Nixon. Nixon was basically a rabid badger, a mean, crazy fuck with mommy issues and a raging booze habit. LBJ's arguably more fascinating because the guy didn't seem to particularly believe in anything except being "Master of the Senate" through literally stepping on…

Stone is as awesome as Dogfish Head. Probably more. Their Ruination IPA and Arrogant Bastard Ale, along with the sadly departed (I think) Vertical Epic were some colossal beers. I don't believe I forgot them.

Dogfish Head, motherfuckers. How do you talk about great American breweries that are completely demolishing the myths about American beer without mentioning them? Their 60- to 120-Minute IPA's provoke near-ZMF levels of exuberance. Or should, if you're not a little girl.

It's the second best Elvis Costello album. And when you consider he's got about 400 albums out, that's no tiny feat.

"Sky Blue Sky" is the next CD in the ever-increasing pile of stuff to be played soon. It better cripple me emotionally, from all the praise it's getting here.

A couple favorites that I didn't see mentioned
The first and most obvious choice is Paul Collins (of the Nerves) band The Beat's first, self-titled album. The best definition of power-pop I'd say.