As much as I'm not a fan, it's kinda impossible to argue against "Call Me Maybe's" stranglehold on a good 3/4ths of 2012, including the summer. Before that, I'd say "Umbrella" in '07 and (like last year) another one-two combo of "Crazy" and "Hips Don't Lie" in '06 qualify for the title.

We used to half-jokingly say that you can tell the Song of the Summer by what song is blared from the most floats in the Pride Parade, but according to that barometer, "Sexyback" has been Song of the Summer for eight years running.

There have always been those big summertime hits, but they were simply seen by most of us as hit songs that happened to be popular in the summer. I don't know when it happened, but one day/year someone coined "song of the summer," and now every summer HAS to have one.

"Snowpiercer."

For me, it's "Too Dark Park" and then everything else. That album is a goddamned sonic assault of the highest order, and it's creepy and unsettling as fuck throughout. If a blind person ever asks me to describe a horror movie, I'll just play him/her "Too Dark Park."

There are a couple of gems on "Rabies," particularly "Rodent" and "Tin Omen," but "Worlock" stands head and shoulders above everything else.

I cannot agree more.

There's plenty of forgettable stuff on Wax Trax, but it's worth sifting through to get to those singles (sometimes by one-off side projects) that you'll keep handy for decades to come. Like "Rubber Glove Seduction."

When Reznor can stop bitching about women, he's really a force to be reckoned with (see also, about 1/3 of the songs on "Downward Spiral.") I'm not a huge fan of "Fixed," but that's probably because I love "Broken" so goddamned much that remixes just seemed unnecessary.

One of the things I love about "That Total Age" is how crisp it all sounds, especially in a sea of voice distortion from other industrial bands back then (and since.)

I'll go you one better: NIN - particularly Pretty Hate Machine - is industrial pop. With the exception of "Head Like a Hole," the lyrics to all the songs on PHM are godawful moaning about getting dumped by a girl. N'Sync or One Direction could use those most of those lyrics verbatim with their own style of music and…

Is he strictly Twitter now? I enjoyed his feed, but it's not enough to make me go back to that hell hole.

I showed "Detour" to a new girlfriend long ago. A little more than halfway through, she blurted out, "he's lying! This guy's just been lying to us the whole time!" I knew then that she was a keeper (well, more like a very nice long-term lease…)

There's a moment in the new "Godzilla" in which we're given our first full, lingering look at the title monster. He roars directly into the camera as he's about to attack another monster, and then… we cut away to another of the human slice-of-life moments (and are given tiny glimpses of the fight via a news broadcast…

It's debatable, though I'd say you could isolate Urquart's dialogue (and Ian Richardson's masterful performance of it) into a one-man show that is undoubtedly satire.

Similarly, I'd like to make the obvious/cliche comment by saying that the British "House of Cards," while also belonging on this list, is superior to the Netflix version in every single aspect.

If there's a Mount Rushmore of people who get mediocre results from
stellar source material, whoever directed tonight's episode should be up there right next to Ron Howard and Jimmy Fallon.

"You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment."

And "Sanjuro" is even more fun than "Yojimbo." Take away the final scene and the damn thing's almost a full-on comedy. Those seven young samurai are like a mix of Greek chorus and comic relief, the sorta-voluntary prisoner is always good for a laugh, and the "silent celebration" near the end is one of the funniest…

Best Sisters of Mercy song ever? For me it alternates between "The Corrosion," "Dominion/Mother Russia" and "Temple of Love." I never paid much attention to the full lyrics of a Sisters song; that is, I never really cared what the song as a whole was about. But nearly every song of theirs has one or two lines that are…