I'm going to assume you're a young'en, but back when this album came out it was shocking. DJs didn't know what to do with it, or even what to say about it. There was definitely risk involved in putting out a record like this at the time, which isn't a bad thing at all. Let's just be thankful it worked out well.

I have NEVER heard QOTSA compared to Soundgarden before
I'm not offended by it, as I like both bands, but I just don't hear it at all, especially on The Lost Art of Keeping A Secret, which is perhaps the most distinctive track on the album.

Truer words
"[A] lot like the kind of album Eminem's idol 2Pac made: messy, uneven, self-pitying, fatalistic, self-indulgent, and contradictory, but mesmerizing anyway."

Severely underated album
Not nearly as inventive as Evil Empire and not nearly as groundbreaking as their debut, The Battle is a strong record with a lot of great songs. I can understand burnout with Rage when it came out, but it's aged remarkably well, imo. I still get Ashes In The Fall stuck in head all the time…

First things first…
…how are The Prodigy dubious?

I first heard The Donnas on Rodney on the 'ROQ…
on late night Sundays on KROQ. Rodney Bingenheimer loved the band in an almost creepy way and played them all the time. They were great. Totally wasted their potential since then, unfortunately.

I take back every nice comment I've written for you, Rabin
Dick is a fun goddamn movie. It's barely satire so any criticism of its less-than-biting critiques is misplaced. It's just a big candy-coated goof-off of a movie and I love it. I henceforth demand a user's rating option to allow me to rate this film an A to …

Heh?
All I'm reading is crazy talk. A torrent of crazy talk. If I was of a fouler mouth I might call this review bullshit. But alas, I can only read crazy talk.

Important query
Any hardcore homophobic tunes on this disc? I love those.

YES!
This was, ahem, the first CD I ever bought (well, after a Will Smith album or two). I loved it, played it non-stop and I still think it's a fantastic mix. I've found myself falling in love with bands whose only work I know is their 30-second bit (like Hotbox, for example). Plus, I discovered The Muffs…

God…
I miss The Matrix, from back before it was the first part of an overstuffed, under-edited trilogy that lost all sense of subtext and got too entranced with overarching philosophical notions. It was a legitimately great movie. Now it's difficult to watch it without the taint of the other two movies spoiling the…

I'm gonna be honest, friends: I prefer posts in all caps to posts like this. Caps Lock is the lesser of the two evils.

Slow clap
"[T]he dramatic equivalent of a porno movie, with emotional orgasms spewing forth at a rapid clip."

12 years hasn't dulled my hatred for this movie
"Fact or fiction, it's still fun…"

Why aren't there any articles like this, nowadays?
Other then the massive internecine flame war that would erupt and overrun AV Club for months thereafter. Other than that.

Oooh,
the oldest Tasha Robinson article I've found. Fascinating. Get's called a silly person by Stan Lee. That's, um, something.

Submachine
Leave notes at select points along your journey. The submachine doesn't want us to communicate, so be discrete. Through random jumping I've found what I believe to be the oldest Dave Chappelle article of the submachine but I don't know how to get out. Good luck,

Jesus, 2000 was a great year for music!
Keith and Nathan's lists are still killer. All killer no filler. Kill or be killed. Killicide. And so on.

Plucked from obscurity to star in Almost Famous
Promptly returned to obscurity. Cool name, though.

Scott. Scott!
You forgot Lilo. I don't know if that name means anything yet [checks imdb, sees Lilo & Stitch was a 2002 film.] but she is totes legal now.