Acknowledgments Foreword by Chuck Klosterman Introduction 1 1. Predicting the Future-- 2 Over and Out-- 3 Rhymed Funk Hits Area-- 4 Skin Yard, Skin Yard-- 5 Drug Crazed Teens: Flaming Lips-- 6 Music That Passes the Acid Test-- 7 New Kids in the '90s: A Decade in the Life-- 8 Radiohead, The Bends-- 9 Walking into Spiderwebs: The Ultimate Band List-- 10 Talking World War III Blues-- 11 2. Alternative to What-- 12 Bombast in the Blood: Bad Religion-- 13 Conscience of Some Conservatives: The Ramones-- 14 Punk's First Family Grow Old Together: The Ramones-- 15 Howls from the Heartland: The Untamed Midwest-- 16 An Indie Rises Above: SST Records-- 17 Slime is Money (Bastard)-- 18 Big Black Give You a Headache-- 19 Nirvana, "All Apologies"-- 20 Wrong Is Right: Marilyn Manson-- 21 Live: Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, 18 February 1997-- 22 City of Dreams: Rock in Mexico-- 23 Chumbawamba at the Piss Factory-- 24 Mr. and Mrs. Used To Be: The White Stripes Find a Little Place to Fight 'Em Off-- 25 3. Umlauts from Heck-- 26 Five Great Beats-Per-Minute-- 27 Seduce, Seduce-- 28 Agnostic Front, Beyond Possession, Dr. Know, Helstar, Raw Power-- 29 Top 40 That Radio Won't Touch: Metallica-- 30 Welcome Home (Sanitarium): Metallica Seek Psychiatric Help-- 31 Mentors, Up The Dose-- 32 Robert Plant, Technobilly-- 33 Def Leppard's Magic and Loss-- 34 AC/DC's Aged Currencies-- 35 White Wizzard Escape Each Other-- 36 4. To the Beat Y'All-- 37 Mantronix: Strange Loops-- 38 Spoonie Gee: Unreformed-- 39 Just-Ice: Rap With Teeth-- 40 Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1989: N.W.A.-- 41 Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1992: Arrested Development-- 42 Sir Mix-A-Lot: Chief Boot Knocka-- 43 From Taco Bell to Pachelbel: Coolio-- 44 Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1997: Erykah Badu and B-Rock & The Bizz-- 45 Timbaland, Magoo, and Ma$e, As the World Turns-- 46 Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 2001: Jay-Z-- 47 Licks: Bone Crusher, Turk, Crunk & Disorderly-- 48 Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 2003-- 49 5. Race-Mixing-- 50 Emmett Miller: The Minstrel Man From Georgia-- 51 Mississippi Sheiks vs. Utah Saints-- 52 Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1984-- 53 Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1985-- 54 Boogie Down Productions: Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip-Hop-- 55 Yothu Yindi: Tribal Voice-- 56 Living Colour: Biscuits EP-- 57 3rd Bass: Cactus Love-- 58 Teena Marie in Wonderland-- 59 Shake Your Love: Gillette-- 60 The Iceman Cometh Back: Vanilla Ice-- 61 Motor Suburb Madhouse: Kid Rock and Eminem-- 62 The Daddy Shady Show: Eminem's Family Values-- 63 Spaghetti Eastern: The Lordz Of Brooklyn-- 64 6. Country Discomfort-- 65 Yippie Tie One On: Rural Roots and Muddy Boots-- 66 John Cougar Mellencamp: Life Goes On-- 67 K.T. Oslin, Greatest Hits: Songs From An Aging Sex Bomb-- 68 The Temptations of Mindy McCready-- 69 CMT-- 70 Banda, Si, Por Que No-- 71 Big & Rich Boogaloo Down Broadway-- 72 Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 2004: Montgomery Gentry and Chely Wright-- 73 Please Stop Belittling Toby Keith-- 74 Brad Paisley Is Ready to Make Nice-- 75 7. Pop Muzik-- 76 Cutting It as a Bay City Roller in 1989-- 77 People Pleasers: The Village People-- 78 Arrivederci, Bay-BEE: Nocera and Fun Fun-- 79 Debbie Gibson: Angel Baby-- 80 It Was In The Cards-- 81 Pet Shop Boys' Mad Behavior-- 82 Gimme Back My Bullets: Will to Power Shoot for Disco Valhalla-- 83 Michael Jackson Loves the Sound of Breaking Glass-- 84 If It Ain't Baroque, Don't Fix It: Michael Jackson and Faithless-- 85 They Know What They Really Really Want and They Know How to Get It: Spice Girls and Gina G-- 86 Pazz & Jop Ballot Excerpt 1998-- 87 8. Singles Again and Again-- 88 Sucking in the '70s: Have A Nice Day, Volumes 1-10-- 89 Zager and Evans: "In The Year 2525"-- 90 Radio '86: Dead Air-- 91 Radio On reviews-- 92 Ten Cents a Watusi-- 93 Singles Again: Tangled Up in Blue-- 94 Singles Again: Paranoia Jumps Deep-- 95 Singles Jukebox reviews-- 96 The Year of Too Much Consensus-- The End? Index.