1. They Might Be Giants - "John Henry"
2. Boiled in Lead - "Antler Dance"
3. Gabriel Yacoub - "Quatre"
4. Varttina - "Aitara"
5. Weezer - "The Blue Album"
6. Miranda Sex Garden - "Fairytales of Slavery"
7. Garmarna - "Vittrad"
8. Phish - "Hoist"
9. The Klezmatics - "Jews With Horns"
10. La Bottine Souriante - "La Mistrine"

For Firefly, I'd go for "Bushwhacked", because the reavers were just cheap cash-ins on the fast zombie craze.

It's April 1957 to October 2007, which makes it fifty and a half years.

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The Men They Couldn't Hang - "Silvertown"
3 Mustaphas 3 - "Heart of Uncle"
Boiled in Lead - "From the Ladle to the Grave"
Thinking Plague - "In This Life"
Crispin Glover - "The Big Problem?"
Pixies - "Doolittle"
Steeyeye Span - "Tempted and Tried"
Ad Vielle Que Pourra - "New French Folk Music"
Oysterband - "Ride"
Rare Air -…

The real question is why didn't Joanna Newsom win the best metal grammy for Ys. I mean it's 5 tracks averaging 11 minutes sung in faux-Elizabethan English by someone who sounds like a muppet. Take into account the album art and title and it's the most metal album ever made.

And it's also the "Cowboy-Horse-Train-Pulley Symphony" from The Fall, which should help.

Phonemena
If you like crazy avant-garde music AND really bad puns, you should check out Babbit's "Phonemena".

Oysterband/Fiddler's Dram
British folk-rock band Oysterband used to be called "Fiddler's Dram", where they had this novelty single on "Top of the Pops" in 1979:

Repo Man already appears in the AV Club's "Old Cult Canon" list.

If you insist:

I'm rather fond of this one myself, especially because of the bit explaining that the rest of the review is going to be pretentious nonsense in order to convey the feel of the music.

Barachois - Barachois
Blozabella - The Blowzabella Wall of Sound
Eliza Carthy - Heat, Light & Sound
Garmarna - Guds Speleman
Moxy Fruvous - The "b" Album
Oysterband - The Shouting End of Life
Steeleye Span - Time
They Might Be Giants - Factory Showroom
Weezer - Pinkerton

Awesome albums from 1999

But the Big Bopper was still around for one month, two days and half an hour of 1959. 1960 was the first completely Bopper-free year.

And Dave Sim wasn't thinking right because of his close proximity to a member of the inferior sex.

Also check out "A Glenn Gould Fantasy" from the Silver Jubilee Album. It's a radio show he did where he got "interrogated" about his artistic views by all the characters he made up like Sir Nigel Twitt-Thornwaite, Karlheinz Klopweisser and Theodore Slutz.

The Maxx
I had seen a couple of episodes of the TV show back in the day, but I finally got around to checking out the comic books this year. I'm glad I did.

This is the first image that came up on Google when I searched for "Todd VanDerWerff" so I assume that's what he looks like.

Cory Doctorow parody No. 1 Cory Doctorow parody No. 2 Cory Doctorow parody No. 3 etc. when are you going to get to Waylon Jennings no incest just show me some fucking pussy and I won't have to watch you puke to get off!