Try me.
Love it.
The following are (listed in alphabetical order by band name) cool songs that make creative and effective use of...
...backbeats:
Abandoned Pools - Clone High
April Wine - Could've Been A Lady
Nick Cave - There Is A Light
Beck - Sissyneck
Ginger - Everything You're Missing
Hot Butter - Popcorn
Pinback - Seville
Prodigy - Hot Ride
Radiohead - Talk Show Host
Ananda Shankar - Streets Of Calcutta
The Tragically Hip - Ahead By A Century
Wild Strawberries - Trampoline
...crowds:
Ash - Kung Fu
Beastie Boys - Stand Together
Ben Folds Five - Army
Foo Fighters - See You
The Heatskores - Commercial Success
Matthew Good Band - Man From Harold Wood
Pink Floyd - Waiting For The Worms
Refused - New Noise
Strawman Fallacy - This Unconvention Needs Attention
XTC - The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead
...handclaps and fingersnaps:
Arcade Fire - Antichrist Television Blues
Beastie Boys - Live At P.J.'s
Beck - Rental Car
Björk - Human Behaviour
Boney M - Rasputin
Bounty Killer - Sufferah
Cake - Meanwhile, Rick James...
The Constantines - Some Party
Dance Electric - We Are Dance Electric
David Bowie - Space Oddity
The Dears - Whites Only Party
Death From Above 1979 - Dead Womb
Feist - Mushaboom
Fleetwood Mac - I Don't Want To Know
Forward Russia - Twelve
The Haslund Project - Apple Juice
Johnny Harris - Odyssey
The Junction - It's Good To See You
K-OS - Follow Me
LCD Soundsystem - Daft Punk Is Playing At My House
Lo Fidelity Allstars - Battle Flag
Matthew Good Band - Giant
The Most Serene Republic - Proposition 61
Muse - Time Is Running Out
MXPX - Chick Magnet
Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl
Okkervil River - The Latest Toughs
Pilate - Overrated
Porno For Pyros - Tahitian Moon
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
Puddy (a.k.a. Red Elite) - I Gave You My Love, You Gave Me The Clap
Queen - We Will Rock You
Queens Of The Stone Age - Quick And To The Pointless
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop
The Replacements - Alex Chilton
The Roots - Water
The Rosebuds - Shake Our Tree
Santa Esmeralda - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Spoon - No You're Not
Steelers Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You
Steve Miller Band - Take The Money And Run
The Strokes - What Ever Happened?
Tenacious D - Double Team
The Tragically Hip - Thompson Girl
Weezer - The Other Way
As always, I encourage contributions to these compliations.
You should watch Donnie Darko...
...and Brotherhood of The Wolf.
I have three.
The best thing I ever saw on television was The Maxx. That was awesome. I bought the entire series on VHS, but MTV seems to have omitted at least one episode... That makes me sad and angry at the same time.
There is too much to read... I hate making decisions.
I did particularly like all five parts of The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy trilogy though. I've enjoyed some of recent history's "fluffier" novels like Anne Rice's Memnoch The Devil and Stephen King's The Green Mile. I also enjoyed some Booker-runners including Yann Martel's Life of Pi and Ian McEwan's Enduring Love. Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio was a great collection, though I'm still not sure why I enjoyed it so much. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series will be the death of me... Then there are all the actual literary, scholarly, and philosophical books and collections that I've read, but I can't remember all of them right now.
Tim Schafer. He designs video games. He designed Monkey Island 1 and 2, Day of The Tentacle, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, and most recently, Psychonauts. You should play Psychonauts.
Also,