All the Shabazz Palaces albums, and great they are too. They really are not that difficult to get into, I was led to believe they are ultra-crazy self-indulgent jazz-spacemen, but it's mostly all 4/4 with plenty to latch onto. They even concede to including hooks and choruses in a few tracks

A Grand Don't Come For Free is a great album and a less great collection of individual songs, it's 'do it all or nothing at all' with that one. Maybe try it if you are not familiar

Just as a sentence it doesn't make sense

You only bought ONE ball??

And what part of the song 'Barbie Doll' by Aqua led you to believe they were making a satirical comment and not joining in? How do you think they get that message across? Point out some sarcasm for me, specific examples please. What you just claimed could be said of Barbie dolls themselves - the restrictiveness of…

I've told you I can't be bothered, if you think it's no effort let's get those coffee photos. Unless you don't know how to make coffee, as I suspect. If you also don't value your identity then a) sorry and b) post your face and real name too

…and the desperate overwrought attempt at a get-out presents itself. I can't be bothered with the tedious semantics back and forth, but as with your tests at high school, you know you're only cheating yourself

Yeah, I'm not showing anything that could give away my identity. That shouldn't take too much thinking through really. Plus, how hooky something is could be considered subjective, at the very least it would take time to be proven.

Actually there's a 4-volume series of novels that explains this: Vader decreed all Stormtrooper helmets have to produce exciting tones and vibrations when struck, as it amused Darth Vader and reminded him of playing the Exoltentone Yib Yab Flute in his youth (please read the 3 book series 'Yoda and the Magic…

Sorry, I don't remember ordering any deflection with my coffee…whenever you're ready.

You really think every catchy song ever has been a hit? That's the position you are happy arguing? It's not a cop-out at all to not make such a vast and easily disproved assumption, but I'm eager to here where your conviction comes from in that regard if you feel like expanding.

It's up to him how he chooses to prove it. I never claimed to write hits

Prove you can make a cup of coffee, I don't think you have the skills.

What would you accept as a 'receipt'? Just your use of that term should give you some idea as to the difficulty involved

Do you have a bunch of excellent songs written that DEMAND swept arpeggios, but nobody capable?

Thought so, 'I realized there's little point trying to convey a hook in text form' thought so?

'Lalala, lala lalala and GOOD TIME GIRL lala lalalala', then a synth comes in and goes 'Weeeooww', then it's 'Dunna dunna WITH YOU TO-NIIIIGHT!'

Yeah maybe so, but I wonder if it wasn't just a difficult album to place in 1997: A dusty Americana-focused concept album heavily concerned with sonic qualities doesn't really sit with everything else released around this time. Then again, neither does OK Computer

Despite being well in the running for the favourite years of my life, culturally 1997 had a sinking, moribund feeling to me: it was the beginning of the end for britpop and indie in general (a good thing as most of it was utterly terrible manufactured tat by that point), and the rise of product in place of music.

Can you name one?