Not that Jim will ever admit it himself, but that's not him on "Total Eclipse." It's Rory Dodd, Meat Loaf's backup singer, who ghost-sang almost all the vocals on Jim's solo album. Anything that doesn't sound like a dubbed anime character is Rory, not Jim.

Best weird names has to go to just about everyone in "Gormenghast." Chef Swelter, Barquentine the Master of Ritual, Titus Groan, Rottcodd. It's like the goth version of Hogwarts as names go.

If BBC ever reboots Hitchhiker's Guide, I want Martin Freeman again as Arthur, Richard Ayoade as Ford, and ideally Russell Brand as Zaphod. Something about his highly specific set of talents makes him perfect to play the hedonistic, loquacious man-child who happens to be the most important person in existence.

That's always been the trouble with the name- it sounds almost too real to be absurd. Now that the Ford Prefect is mostly forgotten, it just sounds like a rather British name. It's a brilliant topical reference, but like so many topical references its fame outlasts its topic.

"Bad for Good," the two original "Bat out of Hell" albums, and "Tanz der Vampire" are a better career than most people have. But the trouble is just about everything else is dreck.

"Rootsy jam" seems to be a common last step in evolution. Even Danny Elfman's protean post-punk group Oingo Boingo, which had been everything from Latin-influenced horn rock to ska band in its time, wound up briefly as a goth-tinged grunge-Americana jam group before calling it quits without ever releasing the album…

Nah, they all work for them now.

The Beach Boys' deep stuff is mostly well-respected B-sides and album cuts, that everyone knows exists but few but the avid will actually seek out or hear accidentally. Even if you get the 2-CD, jam-packed "Essential Beach Boys" album, it's still stacked three quarters party time, one quarter metaphysics.

Joking aside, I believe the best "anthemic" song written in the past 100 years is "Anthem" by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, originally from the rock opera "Chess." It's most famous today for being Josh Groban's signature song post-"You Raise Me Up," and its lyrics are genuinely rousing and moving, about…

The best anthem is without a doubt Brian May's guitar-orchestra version of "God Save the Queen." Not "God Save the Queen" itself, but Brian May's arrangement and performance ONLY. (The British national anthem should be appended so that it, like a classic Queen live album, goes straight from "God Save the Queen" into…

In elementary school, we used to sing "Glory, glory hallelujah/It's chicken parmesan."

What about the last two minutes of "Suite Madame Blue?" The "America America America America" part.

The motion curries.

Look up "Magician" by Jefferson Starship. You're welcome.

Ah, Joshua Kadison. The product of when studio execs thought people liked Elton John because he was gay and had nonsensical lyrics, not because he was a gifted songwriter with a unique voice.

When I was a little kid and hadn't mastered listening to lyrics, I completely misinterpreted "Bad to the Bone" as being not about a rebellious, hard-drinking badass, but about an unrepentant serial rapist. He even has a list in the middle of the song of all the different kinds of women he assaulted.

"I don't FEEEEL tardy!"

You had me at new Phoenix Wright.

There was a European version called "La Belle Bizarre du Moulin Rouge," which was even more bizarre than the film, and ended with Satine's ghost singing "I Will Survive."

"And just like that, he unveils his glorious mangina… Eat my peach, baby, blow on my dice…"