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I actually love that Living End album and think well enough of Midnight Oil. And yeah, who is this Anthony Callea? The Whitlams? Missy Higgins? You Am I?

I looked through about the top 50 of your link, and it was already starting to feature a lot of Australian artists I've never heard of. I have no doubt that they're good albums, but man, most Australian music does not make it out of the country.

It's adorably provincial that Silverchair checks in at 24.

Porta Pros sounds amazing for their price. The build quality leaves a lot to be desired, but I like that the retro design a lot.

Not as as smooth as Jim is getting after it.

I certainly wouldn't argue that it's too iconic and revered, but Square's Vagrant Story is certainly singular. (Has anyone in this development studio even SEEN a harpy?) Its art style was such a departure from everything else at the time, but it's tough to argue that it (or any other PS1 game) has aged well visually.

I don't know if anyone remembers this, but on the first season of the OC one of the characters actually said, "Why don't you A9.com it?"

The junction system was absolute torture for us OCD types.

I would play an RPG entirely made out of clip art.

Stonekeep! I really don't think it was a very good game, but I enjoyed it a lot in 95.

I didn't know H2O was still around!

Well, Dead Man certainly won't change your mind about that. It's my second favorite Jarmusch movie after Ghost Dog, but I think "self-consciously affected" describes it fairly well.

I think this theory has a lot of merit.

Dear You is Jawbreaker's worst album, critical reappraisal be damned.

It is a year in the 90s without an Afghan Whigs album, so it's clearly not the best. I'm kind of surprised that they didn't mention Rancid's And Out Come the Wolves.

Any list that has 12 Monkeys above Welcome to the Dollhouse does not have my approval. And where are Dead Man and The City of Lost Children? There are also Leaving Las Vegas and The Usual Suspects.

I'm still super into watching Homicide: Life on the Streets. It's aged pretty well despite that overaggressive thing where they highlighted a certainly dramatic line by jumping back and playing it three times.

I was fine with them getting slaughtered in that first street ambush (although I feel like they could have pulled it together a little bit better than that), but in a setting like the coliseum, it just seemed ridiculous that they were so unprepared. It seems fairly clear that the Sons of the Harpy weren't done, so

I can't believe fifteen year old me was one of the handful watching it. I was so aggressively uncool.

Instead they're a bunch of feckless dopes who can't beat a bunch of rich bitches wearing masks they probably can barely see out of. They're the least effective fighting force since the Borg in Star Trek Voyager.