A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

THANK YOU, JOHN OATES. THANK YOU: It's about damn time: The Onion A.V. Club's Least Essential Albums Of 2003 is now available, including categories like Least Essential Solo Album (Smiths Division) and Least Essential 2PacSploitation.

If that weren't enough, the Least Essential Reality TV Offshoots list should do it, which has this to say about fellow tuffle-headed Delaware Valley native Justin Guarini:

Few "Least Essential" categories were as hotly contested in 2003 as "Least Essential American Idol Cash-In": American Idol Season 2: All-Time Classic American Love Songs may be the most hellish show-choir recital ever, complete with the Idols' calamitous rendition of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless The U.S.A." But Guarini takes the prize for his sudden inability to incite passion in the least demanding audience on earth.

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