Wow, it was mandatory reading for us in high school. Of course that was in Canada.

You know, smhoo?

Sharronjparrish, you've gotta think about your target audience here. Now, try it like this:

*Reads comment. Googles "smh".*

And in even truer AV Club fashion, this didn't stop at least half a dozen other people from making more or less the same joke yet again after that.

So many amazing singles: "Maybellene", "Roll Over Beethoven", "Johnny B. Goode", "Rock and Roll Music", "Carol", "School Day", "You Never Can Tell"……yet "My Ding-a-Ling" was Chuck Berry's sole U.S. number one hit.

How long before the AVC posts an obituary?

"Who the hell wants to hear an actor talk?"

Clearly none of these people ever attempted the water level from the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game.

Nova Scotia, actually. I found an article about the phenomenon a few years back:

In our area, chanting "HEY MOTHERFUCKER, GET LAID GET FUCKED!" between every single line of the verses of "Mony Mony" was a thing for reasons that Billy Idol has not even been able to explain.

Let me guess. After that, some renegade student commandeered the turntable, threw on "Rock Around The Clock" and the student body proceeded to tear the gymnasium apart?

Agree on the "fuck-hop" part, but Maxinquaye is an all-time classic and pure sex from start to finish. Nearly God, Pre-Millennium Tension and Angels With Dirty Faces are solid albums as well, but are progressively darker, more abrasive and on the whole less sexy. But starting with the middle-of-the-road Juxtapose and…

Dirty is damn sexy as well. Those guitars and Kim Gordon's voice work wonders.

But a lot of it is crap that doesn't hold up at all. As a kid of the 80's, I basically spent my Saturday mornings watching a bunch of poorly animated, hastily written 22-minute long toy commercials with some sort of "moral" clumsily inserted into the narrative or tacked on as an afterthought at the end.

Nice to see this feature again.

It's a great album, but that seems like a cheap modal getting upvotes.

I agree that it's a good song, though Johnny Cash's baritone coming in pretty well always meant the end of the make out session.

Fully agree with Sean's choice - so much trip-hop was/is well-suited to that purpose. Honestly I think No Protection is superior to the original album.

Portishead's debut album is Dummy, which was released in 1994. The self-titled one is their second album from 1997. The linked track is from the latter. Both are great albums for making out and/or getting high.