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Alternative Number Ones on the Offspring's "Come Out And Play," a vaguely questionable song that blew my fuckin wig back in its moment.

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Cost myself a whole day in Barcelona because I brought an expired passport to the airport. When you read my reviews, please note that I am not a functional person and discount all opinions accordingly.

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Wrote about the miraculous new Pulp joint, my favorite album of the year thus far.

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Alternative Number Ones on Toad The Wet Sprocket, a band that existed as a constant reassuring radio-thrum for a few years, and on "Fall Down," a pretty good song.

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Number Ones on fake-steamy young-star duet "Señorita," a triumph of the mid.

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One for Sacha Jenkins

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Alternative Number Ones on Green Day's "Longview," a song that Changed Things.

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One for George Wendt

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Number Ones on Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy," the second column in a row about a great generational-shift song.

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Alternative Number Ones on the rise of Live, the band that arguably set the template for a whole generation of post-grunge wailers, and on "Selling The Drama," a much better song than I remembered.

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Number Ones on a 10.

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One for Sabu

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Alternative Number Ones on Morrissey, still doing numbers at the peak of the alt-rock boom, and on "The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get," a good song.

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Wrote about the new billy woods album, which is amazing.

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Wrote about the Grand National tour and about the way that the larger stadium-show experience splits the line between transcendence and outright misery.

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Number Ones on the fluctuating fortunes of the Jonas Brothers enterprise and on "Sucker," that institution's grand comeback moment.

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Father, can I tell your congregation how a 20-year album anniversary really feels?

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Alternative Number Ones on Baltimore legend Tori Amos and her noisily sweet sacred-profane track "God," a pretty unlikely radio hit.

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Number Ones on "Shallow": great song, better movie scene, very fun cultural moment.

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anybody who wants my vote in 2026 or 28 better be real-deal committed to prosecutions and prison sentences for a whole host of Trump admin people, including Trump himself, and his goons in various agencies

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Havoc: Obvious attempt for Hardy to get his own John Wick. Evans can't have actors doing crazy flying MMA like in The Raid, so they just shoot a lot of guns instead, which is more boring. Hyper-violence gets numbing and repetitive by the end. Also: fuckin awesome, can't wait to watch again.

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Wrote about Robyn's nothing-but-bangers self-titled album at 20 and about the wave of unpopular pop stars that it catalyzed.

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didn't know @tombreihan.bsky.social was working on this -- an intense read for me that brings up many memories, both of the time the album came out, the times that led to its writing, and the time since.

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Wrote about The Sunset Tree, an album that means a great deal to me, turning 20:

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Forgot how much of the Andor experience is me just being like "wait, who's that guy? how do these people know each other again?"

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Alternative Number Ones on the Crash Test Dummies' "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm," a very strange thing that happened.

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