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System of a Down toured arenas this year with Bad Acid Trip, a spaz-metal band whose moniker fits System pretty well -- although Half-Bad Acid Trip would be more fitting. System like to channel-surf between screaming death-metal freak-outs and dilated art-mosh celebration, with bits of Armenian folk music and cartoonish vocals thrown in for good measure.

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On Vespertine, Björk built a perfect song ("Aurora") around the sound of feet crunching through snow.

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In the 2004 documentary DIG!, Portland, Oregon's Dandy Warhols came off as cute honor-roll rockers -- a smart, practical band with pleasant demeanors and flattering haircuts -- slumming it with their scuzzy, detention-bound buddies in the Brian Jonestown Massacre. By the film's end, you know whom you'd rather be a groupie for. And shamefully, it is not the better of the bands.

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The Ol' Dirty signature is that tremble in his flow -- a seizure vibrato that he deploys like a trumpeter and that sounds as if he's about to explode into a million bugged-out MC fragments.

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Ah, the lure of the open road -- a central tenet of American mythology since Tom Joad rolled down dirt trails in his Ford-tough SUV.

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Back in the day, new wave meant different things to different people.