Personally I’m not counting Vaya because it’s an EP, but others may disagree. I’ve barely ever listened to Acrobatic Tenement but I don’t think that that should disqualify it as their first album!

True, but California has only one ‘meh’ track (‘The Holy Filament’) and otherwise it’s wall to wall bangers. Mr. Bungle and Disco Volante are both great, obviously, but the kind of great that you have to be in the right mood for. California is simultaneously experimental and consistent, which is a rarity.

Yes. It’s their In Utero – darker, less slick, and with better songs than the previous album. ‘Grind’, ‘Heaven Beside You’, ‘Again’ and ‘Over Now’ are all better than anything on Dirt (except ‘Rooster’ maybe, tbf).

Their fourth album after 77, More Songs About Buildings and Food, and Fear of Music. Also not their best album, since that’s Speaking in Tongues.

Parklife isn’t even close to Blur’s best (that’d be 13, their sixth).

Some correct answers that I’ve not seen here:

At the Drive-In, Relationship of Command
Mr Bungle, California
Failure, Fantastic Planet
Melvins, Ozma (hard to choose a best Melvins album, I know, but ‘Boris’ alone means that this is a contender)
Silver…

Swiss Army Man, conversely, seemed like it was going to be great but was even better.

imho the Stark Tower heist and Black Panther leading the reinforcements beat it out. “I am Iron Man” was just too on-the-nose for me.

“Headline contains spoiler [for a film that’s been out for almost four months and seen by about 180 million people]

No they can’t, because that isn’t a thing. You presumably mean ‘post-mortem’, with an ‘e’ and a hyphen.

ngl, I have no idea what Joey Fatone looks like, but I do know that whenever I see his name written down my brain reads it as ‘fat one’, and there is – brilliantly – one such member of Super Junior

First impressions: it sounds like the Platonic ideal of a Tool song, which is... fine. I wouldn’t skip it if it came up on shuffle but I wouldn’t seek it out specifically among other Tool tracks either.

Blood Meridian and The Road are the two that I’ve read, and likewise Blood Meridian was the one that I preferred. (Clearly I’m alone in my hatred of The Road because I’ve been in a room full of writers gushing over how emotive and evocative they find the prose, and for me it’s dead on the page, and not in a smart [or…

Full disclosure, I’m writing from a position of mock authority – I’ve only read Robinson’s Housekeeping, but that was so damn good that I reckon she might take the title even if Gilead and Home don’t match up. I’ve read two novels by McCarthy, one of which I tolerated and one of which I loathed more than anything I’ve…

It’s Marilynne Robinson, right?

Good counter-argument. I’m totally convinced of my wrongness now, thanks.

If Papa Roach has every done anything as good as ‘Pollution’ or ‘The Truth’ then I’d be intrigued to hear it. If such a song exists it’s certainly not on Infest, Lovehatetragedy, or Getting Away with Murder, and iirc after that they managed to go in an even worse direction than nu metal by embracing glam, so I remain…

Yeah, “nu-metal legends” my ass. Papa Roach was better than Linkin Park, but that’s about it. They’re still (somehow) worse than bands like Limp Bizkit and Korn that actually warrant the dubious title of “nu-metal legends”.

“the crowd loses; it is shit."

I seem to have tricked it into approving my ‘art’ after just three attempts. I’m not sure what this says about me.