I still think that "Russian Roulette" is her best vocal pretty much for the reasons that Genevieve laid out; it's powerful but also restrained and knows the power of a slow burn vs dramatic shifts along the lines of Gaga.

"If I Had You"
I honestly thought this was a Good Charlotte song until reading this. Hell I don't think Lambert would have been one of my first five guesses as to who made it, but now it's so damn obvious…still a pretty good song at least.

"1 Thing" might just be the best song on any installment of this series. "Oh" is pretty sweet too…why are you ignoring the best shit each volume offers, Rabin? Why?

The biggest problem I have with Nevermind is that it sounds so…neutered. I'm not just talking in comparison to other Nirvana albums, but in comparison to most rock music it just sounds dead, limp, lifeless etc. I blame Butch Vig.

I think Romance starts off with one, but honestly the only scene I remember from that movie is the one towards the end where the women's top halves were in that sterile white room while their lower halves were being repeatedly fucked in a cave on the other side of a wall.

I'm still going for "Na Na Na etc." as the best on the list. It's brand of stupid brilliance is much more catchy than "Like a G6"'s.

I know you're trying to not go on too much about Busy Phillips here…
…but not calling out "I thought it was to represent Compton" in the quotes section should be a punishable offense.

Seriously though, that song is fucking terrible.

I'd humbly suggest you alter that to 'a dash of Owl City'. After all, Postal Service had a bearable song or two.

I still think it's a ways back of "Gunpowder and Lead" in the running for her best single but it's growing on me each time I hear it.

I much prefer a few of the other cuts from Lungs - "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)" should have gotten this kind of break last year - but there's a lot of good stuff in "Dog Days"…the harp-guitar base track stands out enough to make my ears perk up and the vocals are just enough Kate Bush without being too Kate Bush-y.

Bein' a juggalo is finding a porn site with models that look like your ex and bookmarking it for later.

-Or you'll wind up knocking up some waitress at a HoJo's who said she had an IUD!
—It was Stuckey's.
-BUT I BELIEVED YOU!!!

Agreed, although "Hopeless" does give it a run for its money; "Go thank yourself for nothing/it's really all you're good for" is probably the most scathing line on that whole album.

Next week
Not only do you get "The Body," but you also get two of my favorite (if memory serves) Angel episodes to mull over. Hell, even "I Was Made to Love You" isn't that bad even if it's mostly inconsequential/set up for "Intervention" and season six.

A good-to-crap ratio that exceeds 1:4
Best in the series so far? Or does the fact that the crap here is almost the pinnacle of craptastic crap negate the fact that there are 6 legitimately good songs for once ("Luv U Better," "Made You Look," "Beautiful," "Like I Love You," "Miss You" and "Somebody Like You")

Agreed, I really like the way that Dru's presented in these episodes. Plus I think Juliet Landau's performance is just better when Dru's actually, legitimately insane, not just TV crazy.

SPOILER

I actually think the whole stretch from "Dear Boy" through to "Epiphany" is one of the strongest stretches of any Whedon show. I don't recall much of what happens after that though, so we'll see if that opinion holds.

WERE a national treasure. Clumsy's as close to a post-grunge classic as anyone managed but defending anything post-Spiritual Machines is moderately insane.