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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.

I second the support for What A Waster, it's pretty much their best song IMO. I also suggest Radio America, Music For When The Lights Go Out and Time For Heroes.

I don't agree with the Doherty hate, he's just a human being with a problem, there are people out there much more deserving of hatred than he is.

If he does die in the next two years or so, it'll be interesting to see how many of the "Make Doherty History" brigade will suddenly become oh-so-respectful of him.

They like to have an iconic figure to latch on to. Ever since The Libertines starting making waves, Pete was viewed almost as a potential "gone too soon star", to the point where some interviews with him would consist primarily of discussion of his legacy and "the rock and roll year of death". Basically the media have found who they consider to be the first true rock star of recent years, but the obsession is pathetic. You get stuff in the 'papers like "Doherty spotted in pub!" and it's frankly upsetting, not least because of the insane invasion of privacy, and on a more personal note to myself, because it's turning so many people away from his music, which isn't all that bad.

The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog. Fantastic song, pretty easy to play.

The Best Of Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music - Utter bloody wonderfulness. Sleek, stylish and so very good. The Halloweenies - Cheeky Demo. A band that only do gigs at Halloween? Sounds good. Especially when one of the tracks is called "Zomb-Emo".

Finally! This is the first "must-see movie" for me in a hell of a long time...now I just need to find anyone I can drag to go and see it with me when it finally comes out.

ROLLLLLLERBALLLLLLLLL~!!!

Yeah, but if you're brought up on classical music, and put in an environment with other people that have just been brought up on classical music, you're going to have very little incentive to listen to other genres.

Good lyrics? They're some of the most dire I've heard in years. "Look at this photograph Every time I do it makes me laugh How did our eyes get so red And what the hell is on Joey’s head " That's fucking appalling, there's no two ways about it, it's just dreadful. And as for being a nice concept, it is a nice concept, and one that's been done many times before, much much better (The Cure - "Pictures Of You" comes to mind), and has been so mishandled here that it's close to becoming self-parody. Soppiness isn't an issue, nor is poppiness, I listen to The Boy Least Likely To, who are perhaps the poppiest band in the world, and there are countless "soppy" love songs I listen to, most of them just aren't as shite as this. I didn't used to be on the "Nickelback suck" bandwagon, seeing as I didn't mind a few tracks off their old albums, but I can't stand "Photograph" at all.

They did a Dimebag tribute? Christ almighty... I don't want to hear it, because I can imagine it being even worse than Stain'd's Layne Staley tribute. Seriously, Nickelback didn't use to be appalingly bad, just mediocre, but I heard "Photograph" in the car on the way to college yesterday, and about halfway through my father asked if it was Weird Al or something. He's got the first two Nickelback albums, and he couldn't believe that it was actually them, because it was so shockingly awful. EDIT: I didn't write "Chris almighty"...that would be ridiculous.

That's not saying much. Fine. Megadeth is the best band ever. Good enough? I think his point was that it's not hard to be better than Metallica, not that you hadn't bigged up Megadeth enough.

Yeah, they're hugely under-rated in America, mostly because of their image, which the likes of Clear Channel have issues with. Scissor Sisters, and to a lesser extent The Darkness, are an example of how quirky the British music buying public can be. On one hand, you get crap like Amarillo and The Crazy Frog getting to number one, essentially shite novelty acts, but on the other you get bands like the Scissor Sisters who, in both their music and their image, feel like a band destined to be a culty underground New York act, that somehow make it huge over here. That's always intrigued me. And just to add slightly more to this discussion, Public Image Limited spring to mind. Most people haven't heard of them, and to a lot of those who have they're just "Johnny Rotten's other band", but they're so amazing, so original and unorthodox and, ultimately, so much better than the Pistols, that it amazes me how they can go unrecognised by so many people. They're goth before goth was goth, with reggae, punk, pop, dance and even snippets of what would become industrial rock in there. They take the pure youth snarl of Johnny Rotten and transpose it into a more mature John Lydon, with an entirely different musical landscape. Hearing him scream on "This Is Not A Love Song" and "Death Disco", especially live versions, sends a shiver down my spine. In a good way.

To everyone saying Fozzy, do you honestly think they'd be anywhere near as big as they are now if they didn't have Chris Jericho in the band? Because if you do, you're just deluded. Rich Ward is pretty washed up now, he's a shadow of his former Stuck Mojo self, and no one really cares about him anyway, and as a band they're about as generic as metal can get.

I wouldn't say Nightwish are under-rated AT ALL. At least not over here, as they get constant coverage in all the mainstream metal magazines, and pretty much any metal fan will have heard of them. If you want under-rated, try Within Temptation, who pretty much created that genre, and were the precursor to Nightwish. Mother Earth was Nightwish-lite, The Silent Force is only a bit better, but track down Enter, it's one of the best metal albums of recent years.

Sonic Youth They basically created "alternative rock" as it is today. Them signing to Geffen lead to the Pixies, Nirvana et al getting major label deals...and the rest is history.

That's Last Christmas by Wham, I'd stick it on a cheesy Christmas album more than a cheesy lovesong album. James Dean Bradfield's version was far superior.

What major events are you referring to, exactly? Sephiroth's in the Crater the entire time, he has very little actual impact on the story, other than the Nibelheim flashback. The only reason you see him as Sephiroth is that Jenova realised it was a form that would evoke strong emotional responses in Cloud.