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Maybe it's my lifelong inability to get the fuss about Sonic Youth, but I actually prefer the Pearl Jam one of the two Cypress Hill tracks. For anyone who remotely gives a shit, here's how I'd rank 'em:

Oh, I will indeed. I certainly return to Skelethon for 'Leisureforce', 'Cycles to Gehenna', 'Zero Dark Thirty', and the aforementioned 'Gopher Guts'. (Oh, and 'Dokken Rules', although I believe that it's a bonus track.) Sadly, on none of the however-many occasions that I've listened from beginning to end has anything

Well, I'm now very jealous that you have Aes's back catalogue to work through now that Impossible Kid has won you over :) imho, he peaked with None Shall Pass – there's not a bad track on it. Skelethon starts well and ends with possibly his best track ('Gopher Guts'), but the middle of the album is a no mans land for

'definitely their best work since In Rainbows' means only that it isn't King of Limbs, right? ;) tbh, while I'd self-describe as a big Radiohead fan, I don't think that anything that they've done has been as good as OK Computer. I get the feeling that people who prefer Kid A to OK Computer tend to get more out of

*lies prone*

I feel like I'm going to get jumped for this, but… this album has underwhelmed me, at least on first listen. And, contrary to the 'what a year' comments below, I feel that 2016 has been a succession of underwhelming releases from artists that I can usually rely on to put out great stuff (Aesop Rock, Future of the

"Publically". Meaning: 'in a publical manner'.

Yeah, it's a hopelessly obscure track so it's not like Earth took on 'Machine Gun' or 'Purple Haze' and won.

Earth's 'Peace in Mississippi' is glorious

yeah, I think that it represents PTA's skewed take on a rom-com, but that doesn't qualify it for a list that supposedly excludes anything that is a complicated genre hybrid. ('We can't include Cabin in the Woods because it's a horror comedy, but we're including Shaun of the Dead because we just love those jokes

Okay, last whine and I'm leaving this article alone:

Some constructive feedback:

I'd have placed Tropic Thunder low on the list, for sure, but think that it probably deserves to be there if only for the fake trailer for the film starring Robert Downey Jr. and Tobey Maguire

Zoolander might have the edge purely because of Bowie. But then, in the inspired cameo stakes, I think that Dodgeball's surprise deployment of Chuck Norris is probably funnier.

No love for Dodgeball? Certainly funnier than Anchorman and probably better even than Zoolander, imho

See also: Oompa.

On the scale of capitalist evil from “Enron” to “farmer’s market vegan cupcake stand”, which one's supposed to be the evil one? Because if the latter's supposed to be the benchmark for "good", I want out of this moral compass.

Exactly, exactly. But how exactly does one distinguish from a crescendo which knows everything and a crescendo which is ignorant of some things? I don't think that I can trust another crescendo until this is resolved…

Whaaa? That's the best track on the album!

How can a crescendo be 'omniscient'? What the fuck is that supposed to mean?