Yeah, I like 808s quite a bit. I agree that the run from "Love Lockdown" to "Paranoid" to "Robocop" to "Streetlights" is as anything I've heard on an album. "Say You Will" is a great opener. But there are weaker songs on there as well. It's a good album though—and a bold one.

I second Tom Waits in finding College Dropout a better album. I don't think it does lose track. I think it goes through very clear and thoughtful stages. Though I will admit that I do sometimes need to skip over the second part of "We Major"—it's a great song, but it does drag. "Gone," though—shit, that song alone…

Blueprint is a solid pick for Jay-z. It's iconic, and it holds up as a coherent album. American Gangster was good, but it wasn't anywhere close. I would have picked Late Registration over College Dropout. College Dropout is an excellent, game-changing album, but Late Registration holds up just as well as a concept…

Wow. I was born in 82, and this most absolutely was on a LOT of family movie night lists. On good old VHS taped off of TV. I'm not sure why it "obviously" wouldn't be a pick, but then again, what do I know.

Clean dirty
I don't know if I'm the only one with this issue, but I'm always really thrown when the show goes adult—like with masturbation references, or the cleavage, or the horniness, etc. I don't know what it is. It doesn't LOOK like a show that talks about those things,and a lot of times, it just feels really,…

Yes, this was the first episode where it really bothered me, but it's true. It was just awkward at times (can't remember the exact scene, but at one point, I was thinking "When is he going to talk?"—the camera was just stuck on Baldwin's face for the longest, silentest time). The pace used to be faster, and the…