Or does Aaron Sorkin actually just love telling audiences that a bunch of years ago, something really important happened, as explicitly stated by multiple characters from Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip?

Side two of Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love album, The Ninth Wave. Every bit as astonishing now as it was in 1985.

A lot of great albums have been nominated here, but the first one that jumped to my mind was Hospice by The Antlers. 

Happy to see The Protomen listed above, but I just skimmed through 99 comments and Cursives The Ugly Organ wasn’t mentioned in a single one of them. I guess it’s up to me and comment #100. Such a brilliant album. I got to see Cursive live a few weeks ago and they have a cellist in the band again now, so the Ugly Organ…

I think it is Tom Waits’ “Alice” for me too, especially for “Fish & Bird” and “Lost in the Harbour” 

The Monitor by Titus Andronicus, Seperation Sunday by The Hold Steady, all the Mountain Goats ones, In the Aeroplane Over Sea, that Aaron West album

The Wall is hideously overrated. It has a few good tracks, but those all have Gilmour in the writing credits. Anything that is credited solely to Waters is pompous overblown crap. It is the album that killed the second Pink Floyd.  For a good example, how about Pink World by Planet P Project?

Bjork’s first true concept album, Medulla, was probably her best.

We probably could’ve used a bit of a definition of terms. By the loose standard that made Sgt. Pepper’s generally regarded as the first concept album, many, many contemporary ones would qualify. I’ll skip the many jazz/instrumental, electronica/ambient, and hip-hop albums I like that probably would. In the all-time,…

The Magnetic Fields’ The Charm of the Highway Strip: a bunch of miserable synth-country songs that are frequently about vampires.

Murder Ballads from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

drawbacks to iZombie season 3: the horrible Ravi-Peyton drama

X Company (CBC) had its’ third and final season back at the beginning of the year, and I cannot describe enough how much I loved this show. It’s going to be airing in the US next year on Ovation, so if you’re into WW2 period pieces, make a point of watching. It’s definitely worth checking out. Notably, it includes…

Visually fascinating, you’re right, brazen in bucking against narrative expectations, but also the host of some of the best performances of the year. Mr Nancy’s first monologue was like nothing else on screen, and Mr World’s salsa speech, amazing.

I also was underwhelmed by the first episode of Wynonna Earp, but though it improved dramatically in pretty short order. The characters and their relationships got a lot more interesting, and the premise opened up in some interesting ways.

It’s weird to me that Doctor Who was a consistent presence on AV Club’s list during some of its weakest seasons (Matt Smith’s latter two seasons really haven’t aged well) but it’s gotten no mention during its last two seasons, when Capaldi’s performances have elevated new-series Who to a new level. It certainly…

Yeah I thought American Gods was under-rated. Weird ass show though but in a really refreshingly brazen way.

Wynonna Earp, the most feminist show on TV, should have been on the list. No hard feelings though.

American Gods.

So this is what a meme looks like in human form.