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Kid Rock

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What's that? The one thing that's been missing from your misbegotten existence of late is dope new Kid Rock sh!t? Well, true believer, thrill to this wah-wah-pedaled-out '70s porn-flick jam, replete with post-Beasties invective about the titular freeloader from the erstwhile Mr. Pamela Anderson/"Cowboy": "He sips from your 40 and he always backwashes."

Talib Kweli feat. JustinÊTimberlake

"The Nature"

When Kweli explains that "It's kinda hard to keep faith in the things that you do/When everybody turns their back on you," he's summarizing the mindset of many down-and-out ghetto youth, but that rhyme doubles as commentary on his not-so-successful posi-rap career. For unrealistic "crossover hit" purposes, Timberlake's enlisted for fake-MJ hook duty, making this whole thing that much more depressing.

Radiohead

Rolling Stone predicted that these moody Brits were "the future of rock" back in, what, 2001? Anyway, here's a suspiciously delicate and disinterested ballad about consenting adults beginning a secret affair; it's much more fun if you imagine Thom Yorke or a member of Radiohead's management team whispering, "I don't wanna be your friend/I just wanna be your lov-ah" into the voicemail boxes of whatever record companies they're courting to release In Rainbows traditionally.

Sunset Rubdown

There is such a thing as being too excited about whatever "creative anachronism society" conceit you've hitched to a sweaty barroom workout, which is what shoves this song over the fine line between "tolerable" and "background pop for being forever-on-hold in Hades."