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Watters: I was walking in my street, a car drives by and I give him a wave. He rolls down the window and says, “F U fascist.” He doesn’t know I’m a fascist!

Jessica: Yes, he does. You’re on TV.

YouTube video by aode333 Chickasaw Mudd Puppies - 8 Track Stomp - Words And Knives

This one has a few more, possibly because Michael Stipe sings on it:

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

Corvette of Theseus

On their list, but not ours**:

The Avalanches*
Michelle Branch
Circulatory System
Incubus
Jennifer Lopez
Moldy Peaches
P!nk
Rammstein
Saves the Day
Sum 41
Usher

*was in the 2000 bracket
**errors/omissions/etc. entirely my fault

In a notable 2024 interview with Vulture, Quincy Jones says: "Brando used to go cha-cha dancing with us. He could dance his ass off. He was the most charming motherfucker you ever met. He'd fuck anything! Anything! He'd fuck a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye." https://www.vulture.com/article/quincy-jones-in-conversation.html

Quincy Jones on Brando:

📚 #PubLibs

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Country Singer, songwriter Charley Crockett well said......

A deliberately terrible meme, with Dory and Nemo are in a pelican's mouth, and text reading 'Don't Panican!'

Pixar's Nemo and Dory are in the mouth of a pelican. The text reads 'Don't Panican!'

I'm not opposed to a mini-tourney, but would also be good with a quicker, 'Here's a checklist of the albums that got this many votes. Pick as many as you'd like, and the top x albums move on to a spot in the bracket,' kind of thing.

(This is someone else's idea, I'm just amplifying it.)

YouTube video by J-Live - Topic Satisfied?

Dang, I feel like I plugged THE BEST PART a whole lot for it to only get six votes.

Better start cheerleading for his next album now:

Based on a bad faith reading, I have developed an entirely hypothetical and unrealistic reason why this is a bad idea, because I lack the emotional awareness to realize I don't like being told what to do.

It's a little known fact that, before launching his career as a rap singer, Kid Rock was a backup dancer for Elvis Presto.

YouTube video by Kelly Hogan - Topic Papa Was A Rodeo

A cover of a song from the best album of '99:

Poster for the 1985 movie 'Better Off Dead'

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.”

This is why we need to be telling our stories.

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

That was hands down the best halftime show ever. It was filled with so many references to Puerto Rican culture and history. The sugarcane fields, the casita, the streets of NYC, and the power lines. All of it resonated so much. Boricua por siempre.

Seguimos aquí. 🇵🇷

In a bracket of groups with the word stereo in their name, what’s the final?

I’m thinking Stereolab over The Apples in Stereo.

Twitter user RestrictedDaily says "There are probably 75 million Americans who couldn't care less about the Super Bowl--but they WILL be watching Kid Rock at Turning Point USA's All-American Halftime Show. Love him or hate him, that American Badass presence pulls a crowd every single time."

"75 million Americans."

The 1955 British movie would've been more popular if it had an LL Cool J song written from the sea's point of view.

rappers kid n' play hang out with sesame street's count muppet (the count has a high-top fade mimicking kid's hairstyle).

well wishes to christopher "kid" reid who recently underwent a heart transplant... stay up.

Fun Super Bowl fact to throw out at your party:
When Green Day took “American Idiot” to Broadway in 2010, Donald and Melania went to the premiere.

Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services’ grant application process has taken a political turn under Trump.

“It’s clear the administration wants a whitewashed story,” said a Republican who led the agency from 2019 to 2024. “And that’s wrong.”

JD Vance getting booed, as called around the world (auto transcribed & translated, mostly):

Thinking that Rage Against the Machine are True Revolutionaries® while Green Day are not sounds like one of those 'tell me how old you are without telling me how old you are.'

At the time this aired, Kid Rock was 29 years old, and Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen were 13.