http://www.listosaurusrex.com A blog about those ridiculous lists that everyone loves Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:36:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The IMDb Top 250 is one of my favorite lists to follow.  It's a list of the best-rated movies by hundreds of thousands of users on the International Movie Database, imdb.com.  The Godfather had been #1 for the two years I've been following the list, and sources online state that ... http://www.listosaurusrex.com/2008/07/31/list-news-imdb-top-250-has-new-1-who-will-end-up-on-top/ Weezer is a fantastic alt-rock band that I have loved since I first heard "Buddy Holly" on the radio a decade ago.  Since then, I've taken the time to get to know their music.  I own every album and just about every EP and single, so I've observed the band's ... http://www.listosaurusrex.com/2008/07/18/the-25-best-weezer-songs/ The first post on Listosaurus Rex covered SydLexia's spectacular Top 100 NES games list. I just ran across the site's sequel covering the SNES. I'm a bit too young to have experienced the NES in the prime, but the SNES blew my mind as I was growing up. A ... http://www.listosaurusrex.com/2008/07/13/sydlexiacom%e2%80%99s-100-best-snes-games/ There are a few things that I tend to wax nostalgic about.  Any victory of the Redskins over the Cowboys would qualify, as would any Billy Joel record my dad played for me as I was growing up.  But another thing I that I have countless warm memories of is ... http://www.listosaurusrex.com/2008/07/12/igns-top-25-pc-games-of-all-time/ I finished the finals of the classes I was taking and I'm settling into my summer job, so it is my pleasure to announce that the four-month hiatus of your lists is at an end!  I've built up a nice little stash of lists that would make good posts, and ... http://www.listosaurusrex.com/2008/07/12/and-were-back/ I came across a funny site the other day: Peter's Site on Multiply.com. This portion of his site is dedicated to finding and discussing the ugliest cars in the world. So far nine have been nominated. Here is my rank of his nine nominees. I've linked to ... http://www.listosaurusrex.com/2008/03/27/what-is-the-ugliest-car-of-all-time/ Including games that have come bundled with systems, here is a list of the top fifteen bestselling video games of all time, as of March 2008: Super Mario Bros. - NES - 40 million copies * Tetris - Game Boy - 33 million copies * Pokemon Red/Blue - Game Boy - 20.08 million ... http://www.listosaurusrex.com/2008/03/11/a-look-at-the-top-ten-all-time-bestselling-video-games/ A couple weeks ago I posted about Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists.  But what good is discussion of artists without discussion of art? Guitar World magazine put together a list of the one hundred greatest guitar solos by polling readers of their favorites and ranking the results.   Although ... http://www.listosaurusrex.com/2008/02/21/the-top-100-guitar-solos-guitar-world/ Pretty much every major video game site or blog put together big "best-of" lists for the last major console as the next generation of games started to come out.  The most interesting of these was the Gamecube lists, for a few reasons.  First of all, it had the fewest cross-platform ... http://www.listosaurusrex.com/2008/02/17/top-10-greatest-gamecube-games-a-comprehensive-study/ Roger Ebert is absolutely my favorite movie critic. I don't always agree with him (for example: he gave The Usual Suspects only one and a half stars) but I always like the thoughtful analysis. "Roger Ebert loves movies more, and better, than almost any critic" says famous director ... http://www.listosaurusrex.com/2008/02/14/roger-eberts-favorite-movies-of-2007/