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Ah, come on, National Review's not that bad.
I pretty much hate Oakenfold and don't care about Jamiroquai, but that's probably mostly because I'm prejudiced against their respective genres.
While I could choose to be annoyed at the entire list, as there are likely thousands of bands worse than anything on it, I'm only really annoyed with the following inclusions:
Live - Yeah, they were dying by The Distance to Here and dead by V, but they put out some good stuff beforehand. And Blender further annoys me by listing their best album - Secret Samadhi - as their worst.
Kansas - What? Okay, they may have nailed the demographic description (in my experience), but what the hell's wrong with "Dust in the Wind" or "Carry On Wayward Son" that didn't emerge from years of overplay? Plenty of solid material there, I maintain.
The Doors - Well, no, I'm not actually annoyed here, even though they obviously belong nowhere near this list, even though they're a decent band at worst. They always struck me as mostly dull, right up there with 90% of the Rolling Stones' catalog. Only ever found "The Crystal Ship" to be more than average. So this paragraph was just a bait-and-switch for bashing the incredibly overrated Doors. I'd take Kansas or Live (pre-Distance) over them any day. Hell, Blind Melon as well.
And one final tangent, related to their comments on Live, is this: U2 had a grand total of three worthwhile songs in their decades of existence. Fuck a U2, I sez.
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