Rank Anything You Feel Like Ranking

alban berg
arnold schoenberg
anton webern

1. Erosphère
2. L'Expérience Acoustique
3. Tremblement De Terre Très Doux
4. Jeîta Ou Murmure Des Eaux
5. Grande Polyphonie
6. Camera Oscura - Espaces Inhabitables
7. La Forme Du Temps Est Un Cercle

G5+1:

US
Britain
China
Germany
France
Russia

1. Movies
2. On The Way To The Peak Of Normal
3. Canaxis
4. Rome Remains Rome
5. Full Circle
6. Les Vampyrettes
7. Plight & Premonition
8. Good Morning Story
9. Der Osten Ist Rot
10. Clash
11. Flux + Mutability
12. Moving Pictures
13. Linear City
14. Time And Tide
15. La Luna
16. The New Millennium
17. 21st Century
18. Snake Charmer

19. Radio Wave Surfer

1. The Phantom of Liberty
2. The Exterminating Angel
3. El (This Strange Passion)
4. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
5. The Milky Way
6. Un Chien Andalou
7. That Obscure Object of Desire
8. Simon of the Desert
9. Los Olvidados
10. Belle de Jour
11. l'Age d'Or
12. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
13. Viridiana
14. Mexican Bus Ride
15. Land Without Bread
16. Diary of a Chambermaid
17. Tristana

1. Blaze in the Northern Sky
2. Under a Funeral Moon
3. Panzerfaust
4. Transylvanian Hunger
5. Goatlord
6. Hate Them
7. Soulside Journey
8. F.O.A.D.
9. Ravishing Grimness
10. Black Flags & Dark Thrones
11. Underground Resistance
12. Sardonic Wrath
13. Plaguewielder
14. Circle the Wagons
15. The Cult is Alive

1. Vinterskugge
2. Høstmørke

dammit Total Death in between Soulside Journey and FOAD

1. The La's
2. BBC In Session
3. Callin' All
4. Lost La's 1986-1987: Callin' All
5. Lost La's 1984-1986: Breakloose

My March round-up

1. Perigourdine (crisp lettuce, walnuts, duck gizzards, vinegar)
2. Niçoise
3. Papaya salad (and all other Thai salads)
4. Slaw, pref. English style with the celeriac and fennel
5. Eggplant
6. Fattoush
7. Yuppie salad (you know, like arugula and halloumi)
8. Russian carrot salad (with the dry-roasted coriander seeds)
9. Gado-gado
10. Tabbouleh

Runner's Up: Chop, Cobb, Caprese, bean, avocado, quinoa

Walk of shame: Greek, "Russian" (on a tapas menu), Waldorf, wedge

Disqualified: macaroni, larb, fruit, Jell-O, crab, chicken, tuna, etc.

1. Donald Sinden
2. John Bardon
3. Rev. Ian Paisley
4. Some bloke out of Primal Scream

Beethoven Symphonies

1. #5 in C minor
2. #7 in A major
3. #6 in F major "Pastoral"
4. #9 in D minor "Choral"
5. #3 in E-flat major "Eroica"
6. #8 in F major
7. #4 in B-flat major
8. #1 in C major
9. #2 in D major

Finest Skit TV Shows ranked 3 ways

Skit TV Shows by Audacity of Innovation:

1. Monty Python
2. SCTV
3. Saturday Night Live
4. Kids in the Hall
5. Mr. Show

Skit TV Shows by Average Quality

1. The Kids in the Hall
2. SCTV
3. Monty Python
4. Mr. Show
5. Saturday Night Live

Skit TV Shows by Quality of Top Material

1. Mr. Show
2. SCTV
3. The Kids in the Hall
4. Monty Python
5. Saturday Night Live

Subjective Winner Based on Subjective Rankings:

1. SCTV (12 points)
2. The Kids in the Hall (10 points)
3. Monty Python (10 points)
4. Mr. Show (8 points)
5. Saturday Night Live (5 points)

invisible world
imaginary world
visible world

Finest Skit TV Shows are obviously The Kenny Everett Video Show and Victoria Wood As Seen On TV, very poor

Mother of All Saints
Lovelyville
I Hope It Lands
Strangers from the Universe
Wormed by Leonard
Bob Dinners etc
Tangle

soref, thanks for the belligerent tip, I did some watching on YouTube. The Everett stuff I saw was warmed over Python, other than getting real pop musicians in the skits ("bring a celebrity in to do jokes about their own celebrity" is the only thing that has kept Saturday Night Life-Support from flatlining altogether). I'll keep watching Holt, most of the jokes are incomprehensibly local for me, but I'll try. They tried to sell Tracey Ullman in America once upon a time, but I get now that Holt is the original.

Being trapped in my USA worldview, I conclude that Canadians made the two best sketch shows, & that Monty Python travels pretty well across time & space, considering. I can't imagine either of the shows you mentioned crossing the Atlantic or even the English Channel. Not that it should matter to you, of course - being objective about comedy is a joke.

Worst 10 Breads

1. Injera

WHAT?! Take that back!!!!

sorry, I didn't mean to sound belligerent, agree that the idea of objective opinions about comedy is silly, and that those two shows are maybe quite location specific and maybe era specific in their appeal (though I'm sure I remember a few US ilxors talking about Acorn Antiques? I like the idea of that having a cult following in the states)

It's all cool! Victoria Holt is obviously good stuff, although a lot of jokes are going to go right past me. And at the very least I need to see the Kate Bush skit on the K.E. show (I do already know the one she did with Rowan Atkinson on his tv show, the song with "do bears la la la....").

A REAL list of best breads

1. croissant, filled with chocolate
2. garlic bread
3. scallion pancake
4. focaccia
5. injera
6. flour tortilla
7. pocketless pita/middle eastern flatbread
8. donut
9. sourdough
10. bagel
11. croutons
12. soft pretzel
13. naan
14. baguette
15. english muffin
16. bread
17. waffle
18. pancake
19. biscuit
20. cornbread

xp Kate Bush skit can be seen at 6:49 here:

http://youtu.be/lXtXkf4ObP4

At this moment, on first listen:

1. Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head

2 - infinity. everything else

Top 5 post-Magma records (1984-93):

1. Offering: I-II
2. Christian Vander: A Tous Les Enfants
3. Offering: A Fiieh
4. Offering: Paris Théâtre Dézajet 1987
5. Christian Vander: Les Cygnes Et Les Corbeaux

WTF CORNBREAD SO LOW>>>>

Stevie, you cause sadness.

I think you hate the south.

I just had a conversation with my 1 year old daughter about not being like Stevie D and that she has to like good bread.

now i'm anticipating teenage ivy shouting, 'fuck cornbread' in a dawn davenport voice.

I sincerely think my cornbread could cause Stevie to bump it up 5-6 spots.

17. waffle
18. pancake
19. biscuit
20. cornbread

What is the matter with you?!

I love all of those things, you guys! Those are only the breads that I really truly like! I just like 16 other types of breads more than those breads!!

stevie your list is upside down what the FUCK

srsly this is an outrage

#yesallcornbread

2. stevie d's bread list
3. fgti's bread list

i have not made a bread list

1. the hide of stevie d.
2. the protestations of stevie d.

is this a list of favourite rainer werner fassbinder films

marvin
gladys
slits
ccr
zapp
all others

Top 10 best times of day:

1. 4:20 pm
2. 12:34 pm
3. 8:00 am
4. 11:00 pm
5. 6:30 pm
6. 1:11 am
7. 9:00 am
8. 1:00 pm
9. 10:00 pm
10. 7:30 am

And the worst of the worst:

1. 5:15 pm
2. 4:30 am
3. 2:22 am
4. 3:30 pm
5. 6:01 pm

Top ten happiest men's names:

1. Eduardo
2. Filipe
3. Mordechai
4. Wei
5. Rufus
6. Jackie
7. Gaylord
8. Angus
9. Sundeep
10. Buckley

Saddest men's names ;___;

1. Eric
2. Steve
3. Amos
4. Brad
5. Sigmund

Sad.

Don't worry man the list changes all the time, maybe by 2030 or so Eric'll be back on top

3. Amos

b-b-but 'Amos Moses' is one of the happiest songs of all time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7GyLr7Cz2g

I feel like the easiest way to ensure that your son will never enjoy life is to name him Chad. or Mervyn.

These are not ranked by the happiness of people who bear the name, but the intrinsic levels of joy/sorrow that these names contain in the abstract. Amos means "burden" so it's pretty sad.

Deviations were taken into account. "Jackie" is the happiest form of "John/Ian/Jonathan/Eoin/Johnny" and so on. "Chris", possibly the saddest name in history, is saved by the happy qualities of "Christopher". "Steve" and "Steven" are sad, "Stephan" and "Stefan" are still pretty sad; "Stevie" alone is joyful. Nobody should name their child Chad that is the name of a country, nobody should name their child North Carolina either. Mervyn is a terrific name

Oh no, I'm definitely very sad. Thanks, mom and dad, for the name.

Bradley,

1 Uncle Meat
2 Lumpy Gravy
3 YCDTOSA Vol 2 (Helsinki concert)
4 Hot Rats
5 The Grand Wazoo
6 Burnt Weeny Sandwich
7 Läther
8 Roxy & Elsewhere
9 Weasels Ripped My Flesh
10 Cruising With Ruben & the Jets
11 Shut Up n Play Yer Guitar
12 Waka/Jawaka
13 Freak Out!
14 Absolutely Free
Make a Jazz Noise Here & The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life
Zoot Allures
...at this point, most every album is a mix of manure and gems and it's hard to rank them. I haven't listened to the Yellow Shark and Civ. Phaze 3 in years but they would probably place pretty high up.

Apostrophe? We're Only in It...? Surely both too good to be lost in the murk.

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J
V
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R
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B
S
K
G
P
T
W
M
H
L
Y
C
I
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F
U
D
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Dang, I always leave out something important. I'd put WOIIFTM at 3.5, above Hot Rats. Apostrophe, Overnite Sensation, One Size Fits All -- I lump those in the gems/manure category. Never been a big fan of Apostrophe.