I understand that a classic musician business plan is to make remixes of high-profile songs before, but, yeah, taking other musicians' work and making money off of your tweaks seems insane. This is the 1 time where, "Do it for free, for the exposure!" actually holds.

Wisconsin remains great, thanks!

Also, Sean kind of cheated. This is clearly an "American list" that doesn't include music released in other countries, and OK Computer came out here on July 1, 1997, according to Discogs and Wikipedia. This is especially true in a new internet era where it's import or nothing.

I can still remember every beat of The Runaway Girl/Silversmith's for the reasons that you said (best friend gets taken advantage of cooking so owner can run a music venue in Yorkshire, he finally stands up to him, Gordon tells them to reconcile and that the chef has real potential, which he responds to with tears…

I really would have loved to see their concerts before they made the switch to their current sound, back when it was punk that would have ended up on these compilations. (I enjoyed an article that was actually about something. Thanks, A.V. Club!)

Great Lakes-area music venues are shockingly affordable, even for bigger shows. I won't see any of these, but I think I'll have made 5 or 6 trips from Milwaukee to The Empty Bottle before 2017 is up.

If this was some no name, I'd understand, but Johann Johannsson built up immense credibility before scoring tons of movies, had an immense hot streak (including 1 of my very favorites, The Miners' Hymns), and then got proper popular and critical acclaim. How can there be lack of trust?!

My girlfriend and I are 20 recipes in to Plenty, and it's a perfect balance of strong point-of-view, variety in difficulty, user friendliness (I am in Milwaukee, so ingredients for his style can be hard to come by and substitutions are clear), creativity, excellence, and beauty. I think it stands as my favorite.

Do be well! I truly appreciate it.

Hey, we agree! I do wonder whether people really mean it sometimes. For example, rich people of any political stripe talk about a lot about district schools and would hypothetically appreciate the abolition of any other form of accredited education, but I don't think they would actually except anything but a de facto…

The premise of the comment and of Katie's post was not that it was not hypocritical, but that it was "wrong."

And I tolerated the infection of politics, as it had heightened around 2012 and 2010, too. It was just when substantive articles were replaced that The A.V. Club became interchangeable and indistinguishable.

A "large majority of people" (let's keep it to Americans) do not have access to landlines? I get that if you said "computers," but mobile phones seem like a convenience. It is a wonderful convenience, like air conditioning, but a convenience nonetheless.

No. Other examples include:
-as Bang mentioned, people using the questionable productivity of modern finance to increase financial resources despite detesting it or using that money to advocate against it through other types of investment, donations, or advocacy.
-pork doesn't exist so much these days, but accepting…

It's not her song, but she heavily leans on producers, so I am okay with it.

This is my favorite comment here honoring her. It's not about "doing voices," it's about "voice ACTING." Too few could have done what that team did.

My father died yesterday from pancreas cancer at 64, and he and my family left no regrets. I am crushed, but knowing that we did everything that we needed to do rather than being a family that needed to cram in 2 decades' worth of love in 2 months is such a salve. We are already in the "laughing to memories" stage…

Yes! Maybe do more of that and less of the other stuff. That crew is awesome.

Before it became big business, my memory of YouTube is that it was 99 percent Kingdom Hearts cutscenes edited to Linkin Park tracks. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I will happily defend that album on its merits and argue even more if you're comparing it to pop music in general.