‘Forever Close My Eyes’ by Dälek would be my pick for song of the year, although ISIS certainly presents some stiff competition with ‘The Beginning and the End’ and ‘Weight’.

GRAMMARPOINT: The Streets is terrible.

On less wanker-ish note: Original Pirate Material has some good stuff on it – I’d put ‘Let’s Push Things Forward’ and ‘Same Old Thing’ in particular over ‘Has It Come To This?’. Beyond that, you’re probably right, imho.

Ye-eah, fair point. I have yet to watch any of JJ2, tbf, having only just now finished Punisher, and if ‘AKA Freak Accident’ genuinely does address the “why” and “to what end” as separate questions then of course I retract my snark.

Instead “AKA Freak Accident” sees Jessica dive headfirst into the mystery of who made her, why, and to what end

I somehow manage to agree both with you and this:

I remember someone (Funny or Die?) making a piss-take trailer after The Town (iirc) first used ‘from the studio’ in a trailer. I specifically remember it culminating in ‘From the plane of reality where sandwiches are a thing’. I cannot for the life of me find it now. Did I dream this?

Happy to oblige :)

And yes, having watched... 3? 4? I honestly can’t remember how many seasons now – I’m pretty sure that you made the right decision. There were probably moments in 2 and 3 that ranked alongside season 1, but tbh my lasting impression of it is some opaque political chat about a bridge or something, and…

No worries pal :)

That’s... what I’m saying.

I think that it means ‘natural causes’. If the cause of death was unknown it’d probably be described as ‘unexplained but not suspicious’, which would suggest to many – given her comparatively young age – suicide. It seems that it’s not that, thankfully, so I would guess something like cancer or heart disease but the…

No way does Radiohead’s second most boring album correspond to the Concords’ best song.

Fight Club, and anything else that Fincher has adapted.

Yeah, tbf I don’t know anything about Just Blaze’s claim compared to Kanye’s, I was more rushing to the defence of my boy RZA. It sounds like I’d need to really dissect his use of samples to get the heart of the matter – what you describe does legitimately sound like a valid reason for calling someone’s work ‘great’,…

Fair enough, it sounds like you have a similar relationship to Yeezus as I do to MBDTF, which I would absolutely defend as a great album even if I’d struggle to explain why I think that ‘Runaway’ and ‘All of the Lights’ are so much more impressive than anything else he’s done before or since. And I feel I should…

As with every Kanye album – the rapping. Obviously the man’s claim to greatness (tenuous as I believe it is) is in his production, yet he once claimed that ‘New Slaves’ contained not merely the best verse on the album but the best verse of all time. This is a song in which he rhymes ‘blood on the leaves’ with ‘blood…

Ummm, what? ‘Needless contrarianism’ would be disagreeing exclusively for the sake of disagreeing, e.g. if I said that Black Panther is a crock of shit solely to get a rise out of people who like it. In actuality, I haven’t seen it yet and am thoroughly looking forward to doing so – I consider it incredibly unlikely…

Yeah, I mean it’s all subjective etc. etc., but he definitely wasn’t the first to do ‘chipmunk soul’: http://ontheaside.com/uncategorized/20-rap-songs-chipmunk-soul/

‘Puss’ by The Jesus Lizard is better than any of the songs on this list, and also any of the songs in general.

How exactly has West’s work been groundbreaking? I’m asking out of genuine interest – I’ve listened to all of his albums, trying to understand the Pitchforkian hype, but MBDTF is the only one that I’d consider great, and even then I’m not 100% sure that I’d call it groundbreaking. From 808s on he at least seems to…