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Probably not. Tupac's style of rap is incredibly removed from the mainstream accepted style, and his stock probably would have fallen by now as he either released material which didn't fit the accepted model of what rap "should be", or he tried to change his style to fit the new zeitgeist. Either way, the answer is no.

I have no idea who Carly Pope is, but apart from Asia Argento, she's pretty much the only one I've liked thus far.

On a slightly off-topic note, I was really tense watching the England/Poland game, partly because it was quite a good game, but mostly on a cultural level. When England played Portugal last year there were huge riots in the streets after the game here, because it's a fairly racist place and there's a large Portugeuse population; any excuse, basically, and I was expecting the same tonight, as we've got an almost equally large Polish population, so I'm happy to say that (as far as I'm aware), no such thing happened. Good news.

Metallica are proper shit. Define selling out?

We should test this. Axl Rose is well shit.

Asia's up there, and she was pretty much the only one of my list I expected to see make it, so I'm happy. If Paris Hilton gets up there, though, someones getting proper stabbed.

Parappa.

Are there any decent zombie-themed games out there for the PC? Preferably MMORPG, but I'm easy. Anything with zombies. I want a game that feels like you're in a proper old-school zombie movie, cornered off from the world as the hoards advance on you, but such a game is hard to come by, because it doesn't fit traditional game conventions of progression. Oh well. Any help would be vastly appreciated.

Zulus, sir! Thousands of 'em! You've just made me incredibly tempted to start a game as the Zulus and lead them to world domination.

Nope, and the official website (http://www.spacebastards.com) is down, I found it on some Russian site but it was a freakishly slow download, most other sites' links are down. Fileplanet apparently has it, but I'm not a member.

The other day I had a vague recollection of an old shareware shoot 'em up-type game I used to play, where you could choose out of various cyborg versions of action heroes (Van Damme and Bruce Campbell, I remember) and a planet (Mars was the only one in the trial), and it was a kind of psuedo puzzle/platform/shoot 'em up, and the enemies were robots that would paraphrase movie quotes all the time ("you're only supposed to blow my bloody arms off!"). I seem to remember it having a fairly ridiculous name, and it being promoted as the greatest game ever made. Anyone have any idea what I'm rambling about? EDIT: "Attack Of The Space Bastards" comes to mind as a name, but I'm fairly sure that's wrong. Something along those lines, though. EDIT 2: Never mind, I've found it. "Robosaurs Vs. The Space Bastards". I suggest people find it, play it, and discuss. It's excellent.

The Cure, Joy Division, Elliott Smith. And you'll probably hate it seeing as you asked for emo, but Leonard Cohen.

Just to clarify, what would you consider conventions of emo as a genre (besides haircuts and cardigans, obviously )?

I hate how the word "emo" means emotional, as if no music before it had been. Emotional music's been around since...well, since music...so what makes this batch special?

Ahhh emo is about thinking you know something others don't! And that you're superior for having the haircut, and glasses, and polo shirt, and cutting yourself, and being your own "scene" or whatever it's called these days (Y) No, emo is a type of music. That's true, but a lot of music fans simply use "emo" to describe any kind of rock music with vaguely emotional or romantic leanings that they don't like, in much the same way that anything with remotely metal-ish tendencies that was widely disliked got branded nu-metal a few years ago. It's not correct, but it's what happens. I don't consider most "emo" bands to be emo at all, I think of them as "post-hardcore" (I hate all this genre shit, but it's fairly unavoidable), mostly because to me emo still means Goo Goo Dolls, Dashboard Confessional and other such trite radio-rock dirge. But even then, post-hardcore conjures up images of Sparta and At The Drive-In, so still wrong, I suppose.

It's all about the haircuts, baby.

Gutted. I love Tsunami Bomb, a bit of cheery female punk never goes amiss. They were started to get a bit emo, moving away from the likes of Rotting Vampire Eyeballs and Irish Boys, but they were still fucking quality.

http://www.myspace.com/steviedream It's a bit trendwhore-ish, and a lot pink, but I loves it.

What if it was Morgan Freeman?

1. Asia Argento 2. Karen O 3. Winona Ryder 4. Kim Gordon 5. Deborah Harry 6. Alex Parks 7. Cristina Scabia 8. Pink 9. Fredie Feedback 10. Zia McCabe Negatives: 1. Paris Hilton 2. Britney Spears 3. Lindsay Lohan 4. Jordan 5. Avril Lavigne

I saw that quote in the Daily Star today, and found it fucking hilarious. I still do. The same article said that Britney could become "the next Paris Hilton", which surely is the worst title to be given? You know you're shit when you're not even good enough to be Paris Hilton. I love how celebrities keep filming themselves having sex as their career's on the wane, then being oh-so-shocked when it "accidentally" makes its way on to the Internet. I couldn't give a fuck about this, because I've never found Britney attractive, and if it really is a "leaked" video and not meticulously planned, she's not going to be made up for a publicity appearance, so she'll look ugly as sin.

Sonic Youth, The Velvet Underground and At The Drive-In? I take back anything bad I said about this list

Pavement are a mid-to-late-90s cult lo-fi indie band, fronted by Stephen Malkmus. They're a bit good.

Friends was alright, but it went on too long. The golden rule of sitcoms is not to overstay your welcome, which Friends did long before it finished. The main problem is that by the end, Friends was so self-referential that if you hadn't seen it before, and only started watching towards the end (which seems practically impossible living in late 90s/early 00s Britain, as like Keith said, it seems to always be on at least one channel), you wouldn't get half the jokes. Instead of Chandler making sarcastic comments, you get jokes about Chandler making sarcastic comments. Pretty much the only character that didn't become either a shell of their former self or a complete self-parody was Joey during the Joey/Rachel storyline, but straight after that he reverted back to the old Joey and was complete dead-weight.

The Strokes, The Manics, Pavement, T-Rex, Blondie, Kaiser Chiefs and PJ Harvey make me happy. Bloc Party, Kasabian, New Found Glory, Incubus and the lack of Talking Heads make me less happy. I'd love to see something completely out of left-field like An Albatross or Lightning Bolt get in there, but that obviously isn't happening. I'm not even sure I voted for them.