Choosing to believe a Zappa head snowballed him for sullying Civilization Phase III

Thanks Gary!

oooh nice

I'm being redirected to the homepage when I click - maybe they put something up too soon - what was it?

So savage and fearsome it looks like it's just casually ambled into a primary school class on painting day and let the kids have at it

App's Last Tape

I eventually had to stop reading Lee in the Guardian for this exact reason, just wading through the ever-expanding paragraph of Boris Johnson nicknames was exhausting. This is good though

I think John Cale (via Shrek, and possibly Rufus Wainwright via its soundtrack album) has to take at least some of the Hallmark Hallelujah blame, that would certainly have been more people's frame of reference when it started being done to death by X Factor contestants

Perhaps less well known among general anglophone audiences, but Männer by Herbert Groenemeyer is my favourite of this: it's a witty, knowing pisstake of masculinity that to this day (judging by YouTube comments) some people insist is a Mens' Rights anthem

This film would be bad enough if it was an American remake of some halfway-decent Ringu-era Japanese movie, it doesn't even have that excuse

Let's Make Love And Listen Death From Above, by Cansei de Ser Sexy (CSS), everything else on that album annoyed the shit out of me but that one song was such a floor-filling banger it was in a class of its own

I must've listened to that album hundreds of times and never clocked she's quoting Shakespeare right before the Moby Dick bit; what with that, the Gravity's Rainbow song, the fantasy-comedy riff on the Fall of Man song and the closing Burroughs cameo, it's a thoroughly literary album

Oh definitely, there's Viz things that live rent free in my head decades after reading them, like Robin Hood & Richard Littlejohn, The Turd of Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed and Gary Bushell The Bear