I love Pet Sounds, and wouldn't argue with anyone who considers it to be the greatest album of all time. But does anyone else rank at least a few Beach Boys albums above it? I'm pretty sure my top three is Sunflower, Surf's Up, and Today. And Love You might be number four. And, honestly, Smiley Smile might be number…

Honestly, I agree. I love their late '60s-mid '70s work, and if someone has an aversion to the Beach Boys I tend to play them something like "Slip on Through" or "Cabinessence" to convert them. But I love their early work as well, and I wish that those pre-Today! albums weren't so overlooked.

Well, they made some of their best and most interesting albums after 1967 (Friends, Sunflower, Surf's Up, Holland, etc). I think Dwigt's timeline is pretty much right: once Endless Summer became a hit and the demand for the surf-and-sun was there, they pretty much backtracked (with the exception of Love You, which is…

Beyond being a phenomenal singer, Carl was truly an incredible songwriter. It's a shame he didn't get the opportunity to prove that more often, but he has a handful of songs (the two you just named and "The Trader" especially) that I'd take over the entire catalogues of more prolific artists.

I also love "Feel Flows" at the end of Almost Famous. The Beach Boys know how to make end credit songs, I guess.

He listed like, 40 NY dudes who are more associated with the city/better at rapping.

Man, +1 for those last two sentences. It might be a good idea to forget about the whole "greatest rapper alive" thing if you go through his older stuff. If you listen to Dedication 2 with fresh ears without taking any of the hype and canonization shit into it, you'll probably get a lot more out of it.

Oh man, there's lots of gems in his 1999-2009 stuff. He's one that's actually kind of fun to listen to chronologically, because you can hear him gradually hone his craft.

I mean I'm a big fan of pretty much everything up to No Ceilings, but most of his '10s stuff has been dire.

I'm kinda optimistic. These songs are from 2009, which is a little after Weezy's prime but still before he started making the musical equivalent of Mountain Dew Code Red.

I think of 2002 as the weakest year of the 00s for rap releases, but it does have this, The Fix, Just Tryin' ta Live, Lord Willin', Come Home with Me, Under tha Influence, Grit & Grind, 500 Degreez, Dwight Spitz, All of the Above, Aziatic, Temporary Forever, Get Ya Mind Correct and The True Meaning in its favor.

- Made a top five horror-thriller
- Made a top five concert movie
- Made a top five comedy
- Made a top five family drama
- Made a movie that takes place in a world in which The Feelies would be the band playing at a high school reunion

*logs on to AV Club*
*sees thread about election*
*reads "I have zero sympathy for the working-class idiots who…"
*realizes Trump is going to have two terms*
*weeps*

"She's the classic Lisa Simpson/Hermione Grainger/Leslie Knope type, lacking in swagger and charisma but with startling command of the issues and appetite for understanding all the angles."

"…America and its formerly good name."

Your answer was thoughtful and was in no way a rant.

1992: Simple Men
1993: Dazed and Confused
1994: Chungking Express
1995: Toy Story
1996: Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
1997: Jackie Brown
1998: Buffalo ‘66
1999: Being John Malkovich
2000: In the Mood for Love
2001: The Man Who Wasn’t There
2002: Adaptation
2003: Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004: The Life…

Even Young Thug? Future? Gucci? Flocka? T.I.? Jeezy?

I mean, for me, yeah. I won't pretend that I don't stan for Boosie or that those projects are more significant releases than Blank Face, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't prefer Boosie's '16 mixtape run to Schoolboy's album. I like songs from that album but I didn't even remember it when I was making my list.

Top 30 Rap Albums from 2016 That Are Maybe In Some Kinda Order I Guess: