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Some time ago (last week) we foreshadowed an impending animated music video listicle, only to find that someone else had sort of beat us to it. Fortunately, fasthack’s Top 11 Most Excellent Animated Music Videos is far from perfect (though two of their entries figure here) and includes some mostly-live action entries, like Blur’s brilliant [...]

Some sobering news from the funny (if occasionally sexist-classist-racist) gentlemen over at NextRound: even though a self-parodying celebrity like David Hasselhoff might be able to pull off a strange or unlikely look with ample sex appeal, it doesn’t mean you, me, or any normal person can. Hence: 15 Looks David Hasselhoff Can Pull Off But [...]

The manly men over at Asylum inform concerned readers and trashy food-eaters of some especially dangerous foods in this list of 15 Delicacies That Might Kill You. Strikingly, the list goes against the entrenched tradition of proving masculine superiority by vacuuming the most disgusting foods as though they were little more than baby carrots. Arnold Schwarzenegger [...]

The year-end list onslaught continues, this morning with Entertainment Weekly’s retrospective list of the 15 Most (and Least) Stylish Movie Characters of 2008. Important detail: the characters have to display fashion sense, but the movies they inhabit can be (and some were) completely awful. Culled from the list of 15, here are EW’s top 3 [...]

Back for another edition of Listicles’ weekly sports column, this is freelance mascot and sports writer Onesie. With last week’s Thanksgiving-themed eating competitions list being a slight overdose of American competitiveness, we head North for a cleansing excursion.
The NHL’s Montreal Canadiens celebrate their 100th year this season, which (I’m guessing) might make them the oldest [...]

Today marks the annual release of the Hollywood Reporter’s coveted (and for the top 25 or so, unchanging) list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment. There are relatively few surprises, least of all with the head of the pack. For the third year in a row, the podium looks like this:

Oprah Winfrey (Chairman [...]

And so it begins, the tidal wave of year-end lists approaches, and for Listicles’ first observance of this seasonal web-data migration we look at a list of the Top 40 Music Videos of 2008 from those totemic (sometimes tyrannical) arbiters of indie-alternative musical taste, Pitchfork.
Fittingly, they pick a mix of indie, dance and semi-mainstream fare [...]