Rants and Ranks

                Something weird was happening when I went back to school in August of ’98.   Every guy that I talked to (no lie, either they already were, or would be before the school year was over) was talking about wrestling.   Even some girls for that matter.   Everywhere I looked I saw nWo, DX or Austin 3:16 t-shirts.   Guys were constantly doing the crotch chop, or saying “give me a hell yeah!”   One kid even worked the latter phrase into a presentation he was giving in front of the 8 th period English class.   The crowd roared in approval.                   Initially I had no idea what any of this stuff was.   I asked my friend Josh Allen constantly about these various things because he was one of the main perpetrators of them.   After making fun of me for being dumb, he would tell...

It was quite the down year for the main roster in 2018.   Of the 23 matches, a whopping three were represented by them.   NXT however, had arguably it’s best year ever.   Meanwhile 205 Live continues to quietly be the second-best WWE show there is.   It’s shocking to me, and probably anyone else, that AJ Styles didn’t make this list.   (Daniel Bryan only made it once, but he also had a limited year.)   I thought AJ had a “good” year, but nothing that stood out.   His matches with Nakamura, while unfortunately got overhyped going in, were again “good.”   But just being “good” doesn’t make the list.   His matches with Samoa Joe were the same deal.   Good not great.     A special shout out to 205 Live for the same reason, but different intent.   The redheaded stepchild of WWE consistently delivered good matches this year.   Many of which just missed the cut here.   For example, the tournament to crown the ...

It's the quintessential band's extraordinary song catalog.  It's incredible how much work they work able to put out in seven short years.  Not just the quantity either, the quality is unreal- obviously.  You could argue the top 50 as "great" songs.  THE TOP 50!  No other band in the history of ever can boast an achievement like that.   If you've never read one of my posts like this before, the ranking is simply how much I enjoy the song.  There is no examination taking place about the song's structure/influence/difficulty/uniqueness etc.  It's simply, "what Victor likes." In the past, I had a rule when ranking that was "album tracks only."  Rarities and things not on a proper album wouldn't be considered due to me wanting to calculate the average of each album based on its songs.  Non-album songs would screw up my formula, so I didn't include them.  However, Hey Jude is not on a Beatles album.  How c...