Oh, miss!  I am in your debt for that superbly-turned phrase!

As luck would have it, several of us have expressed an interest in banging the quirk right out of her.

Actually, I think you'll find that this video is mocking the type who make videos mocking the other type.  She's meta as fuck.

You're a man after my own heart, Sir Longstaff.

Didn't you just indicate that you'd never heard a Nellie McKay track?  How then are you in any position to make this judgment?  What exactly are you playing at?  I am beginning to suspect that you may not be reliable.

She's an adorable kook!

Exile topped the Pazz and Jop critics' poll in 1993.  That it was acclaimed widely is a fact whether or not it means anything to you.  As it happens I am the biggest PJ Harvey fan on the planet and would unthinkingly commit a murder for her if she asked me to and I still find your comments on Exile to be silly and…

We'll I'm glad you've implicitly conceded that Exile was widely acclaimed.  As to whether it was deserved, we'll have to agree to disagree, clearly.  Personally, I think it was easily one of the very best of the decade. Even if they aren't your cup of tea, I don't know how anyone could fail to acknowledge those songs…

Well, listen, you're welcome to your eccentric opinions. You're absolutely free to think that Pet Sounds, Kind of Blue and Bach's Violin Concertos are horrible too but it's childish to pretend they aren't widely critically acclaimed and beloved by experienced music fans. The same holds for Exile which, yes, was in…

I guess mentioning Liz Phair as an influence isn't so much a stretch given that the band has publicly acknowledged her as an influence:
http://pitchfork.com/featur…

Yeah, what a piece of shit Exile in Guyville was.  Terrible, terrible album.  Universally panned it was.

I took up your challenge and succeeded. 

I was reminded of a documentary about the Rwandan genocide in which the Gen. Romeo Dallaire (Canadian CO of UNAMIR) talked about playing a Stompin' Tom cassette to buoy the spirits of his men when their HQ in Kigali came under bombardment.