User:Carlinal/Favorite recognized content

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This subpage isn't a collection of content I contributed to significantly, so why have this? For two reasons; to lay out my identity through high-quality reading and to encourage and inspire users to register or contribute on Wikipedia. Rather than just make a standard list of favorites like everyone else, I wanted to show gratitude to this wiki by displaying articles with sincere effort, which I know continues to grow every passing year.

Statuses counted are good articles, featured articles and lists, and recognized topics. The more content with these statuses, the more this subpage expands. But it can also further showcase my interests in various subjects. Any subject with at least six articles constitutes a separate category. This subpage also includes A-class articles, which are between good and featured articles and are not required for a GA review. A-class articles are uncommon; I learned of them much later than I thought.

The 20 articles that are bolded are my top favorites to read. Several of them are dense with information and discourse, with mentioned analysis and influence strong enough to cement them as historic. Others are much more interesting from a developmental perspective, with an elaborate behind-the-scenes laying out a rich story of its author. Sometimes it's both! Please give those articles a passionate read; you may gain some enlightenment from this!

Ordering these is a monumental task!

Visual art

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein was an influence who convinced me that pop is neither a blessing nor a curse, but a tool with the potential to enhance. He and fellow pop artist Andy Warhol are among my favorites.

Miscellaneous

  • Willie Gillis
  • Four Freedoms (Rockwell) (topic)
  • Marriage License
  • Comedian (artwork) (It initially reminded me of readymade art but with bombastic preparation. It also reminded me of Warhol and his cover for The Velvet Underground & Nico. I now believe the main point of the artwork isn't the sculpture but the fact that we're reacting and reporting and discussing it to such a great extent over the authenticity of art. The sculpture is the setup, and the reactions are the body of the joke that author Maurizio Cattelan is playing on us. The joke becomes bigger when the media's reports (and possibly even having some anime pinups created) led to the sculpture achieving enough notability to have a Wikipedia article, leading to the punchline of the article gaining GA status. The title Comedian is Cattelan's self-description, and his stand-up is about us, the audience. In the midst of Comedian's infamy, the roles have switched, and we have become the presenters of the jokes and Cattelan the audience. And he is still laughing at us for what we've done.)
  • K Foundation Burn a Million Quid (Such actions would never achieve or deserve the same relevance 23 years later.)
  • Stay Up Late (I remember this back when I first got into John Oliver, who bought this painting. Having completely forgotten about it, several years later I learned of Stay Up Late anew, just as its auction video was getting viral in today's fascistic YouTube, before that video was taken down for (wouldn't ya know?) violating terms of service. Guess the Rule 34 artist Biohazard already flew too close to the sun there. Stay Up Late and its auction videos are hilarious as hell all in all, and thankfully they're all available on the Internet Archive.)

Music

Blue in Brown

Easily my biggest section, because I love music so much and I love reading about how the authors produce them. A self-reminder to separate these into three groups; artist, albums and songs, with topics placed where appropriate.

  • Album era (What a history lesson. It's like a brief overview of the history of popular music in contemporary history. So many parallels are reflected in what influenced the album format in its past, present, and future.)
  • Blonde on Blonde (topic) (Bob Dylan's magnum opus. No, not Highway 61, we're talking about advancements in sound. Oh, his words aren't good enough for you? Get outta here, the guy demonstrates humor, religion and even fashion on not one, but two plates. You need more class. This album also holds the current record as the highest rated album on Acclaimed Music with a good topic.)
  • The Rolling Stones (They inspired all of us to run, yet they flew before any of us, and flew high for over 60 fucking years.)
  • Aftermath (by the Rolling Stones) (This isn't their first great album, but rather their first great album to primarily consist of their own words...oh shit, their own unholy words. This album is disgusting. Horrifying. Indeed, most of them are unfaithful to their girlfriends and engage in the most hedonistic of hedonistic things. Yeugh. Y'all can fuck off to heaven anyway. I love this album, not just because they get away with it with the most playful, punk-like baroque compositions amid a solid rhythm section, but their poetry is real, making people shiver from their dirty, dirty truths. Too low for the Brill Building, too composed for folk music, and it's raw in a way that certain areas of the old dirty blues could wish to reach. And yet, Camille Paglia and Patti Smith say it reinvented the cool. Yeah, even women call this ragged bastard a piece of art. It's limit-pushing all the way up to the record sides. 53 goddamned minutes, too intense for the Americans to enjoy at first. Oh well. At least we got a hit single in exchange. This raw lyricism atop some real eclectic instrumentation, gimme more of that.)
  • "Paint It Black" (Oh I'm sorry, did we remove "Mother's Little Helper" and "Out of Time" for your dumbass teen girl minds? Sorry about that. Here's a raga rock A-side opener for you to shaddap and play with in exchange. Oh, and pay attention to the drums, yeah the drums. They help ya dance horny.)
  • Radiohead (What should I say about this band? God, they're the greatest. They may not be as popular as Coldplay, but Radiohead is indirectly responsible for all of the great music that hit the charts in the 21st century. They fathered it all. And besides that, they've made some of the most gorgeous, limit-pushing compositions imaginable, and few artists have a stronger example of an innovative discography compared to them. On top of that, they're the most mature, professional group of people you can ever hope to meet. As far back as 1994, they've made themselves to be ahead of the game, whether in marketing and business, Internet presence, politics and activism, visual arts, and collaborations; this quintet of high schoolers have managed to retain an egoless, understanding relationship after 40 years and counting. If you want a band to idolize inside and out, there's your answer. Radiohead's not just the godlike band for alternative rock, they're the gods of alternative music, Ful Stop.)
  • Radiohead studio albums (topic) (YES YES YES YES YES)
  • "True Love Waits" (Perhaps the most difficult song Radiohead encountered, not just for making it a fitting album track, but the intensified weight it garnered from age and the emotionally stressful Moon Shaped Pool sessions. And yet in its final form it's one of the best songs in their history. It's like a mythical character referenced across several arcs that suddenly decided to appear center-stage.)
  • Led Zeppelin III
  • Who's Next (I love this album. Love love love love love it so much I really wished it was a double album with the other half of songs that had to be cut. I love the Lifehouse concept even more, but its songs are much more powerful when rendered individually, like what we got with Who's Next. "Time Is Passing", "I Don't Even Know Myself", "Naked Eye", "Too Much of Anything" and "Pure and Easy" are incredible, absolutely incredible, and they should've been as popular as "Baba O'Riley", "Won't Get Fooled Again" and the like. Even so, this album, alongside Led Zeppelin IV and Exile on Main St., comprise a trinity of first-wave hard rock where all the songs were tightly arranged classics while holding both emotional resonance and, shockingly, spiritual weight. This trinity has religious influences heard within the walls, and Who's Next, especially Lifehouse, is the most spiritual of them all. This near-exact form of rock music is priceless and was always really hard to come by, even if it's not as popular anymore.)
  • Kanye West studio albums (topic) (Novel of this absolute genius savage of a man. I initially read one chapter, then read like two, then five. Eventually I bought the whole thing.)
  • "Good Morning" (Kanye West) (Perfectly simple intro for a deliberately underdeveloped album. But most importantly, the video is tear-jerkingly beautiful.)
  • "Lift Yourself" (Like "I Love Kanye" but extraaaaa)
  • Kind of Blue (It's the best for a reason, come on.)
  • Agharta (blowing through the fucking wall)
  • Nirvana studio albums (topic)
  • London Calling (Certainly should not be your first punk rock album (hell, their debut is more appropriate), but this one is still the pinnacle demonstration of what punk music can be. Every song here gets better with every listen, as the words and grooves here are impeccable. London Calling provides a textbook example of what great pop and rock music should be, showing appreciation for accessibility while pushing the envelope a little and showing guts not always in talent, but personality.)
  • Cut the Crap (A crash and burn from the double-headed egos of Joe Strummer and Bernie Rhodes...clashing against what should've been a good revival and a good album. Only pieces of that album barely made it public, with the bank manager overestimating both his creative musical talent and his ego. Punk purism turned inward, as the thirtysomething Strummer refused to fully mature as a musician. Cut the Crap ultimately isn't bad given how much talent remained intact, but as it is, it's a 3/5. Seeing how the Clash became no more over the course of four dragged years is nothing short of fascinating, and a few important lessons are shown over how you should handle a band and how a relationship between band members and their management should be done. But please try out the Mohawk Revenge remake after at least one obligatory listen, the songwriting really was decent, and Joe never lost his lexicon talent.)
  • "Touch Me I'm Sick" (My kind of pop.)
  • Ramones
  • The Velvet Underground & Nico
  • The Dark Side of the Moon (What really got me into music. Albums, especially.)
  • Daft Punk studio albums (topic) (tha evolution of tha nu-funk)
  • "What'd I Say" (Bringing up the birth of soul!)
  • Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music (Cowboy Carter before Cowboy Carter. Saw both volumes available at my local record store filed separately, but it's with best respect you listen to both as they are one. Had to buy both to honor my Georgia roots, as with Stankonia.)
  • Horses
  • Marquee Moon
  • Is This It
  • There's a Riot Goin' On
  • Loveless
  • Rumours (I admit this was a fine read. Rumours is a very infamous album, and it felt a little rude, even by my standards, to list this article here. But wow, it's a hell of a success story. And the album's good!)
  • Endtroducing.....
  • For Emma, Forever Ago (Best proof that Wikipedia can present an academic-level story.)
  • The Slim Shady LP
  • A Crow Looked at Me
  • Radio (by LL Cool J)
  • Taylor Swift masters dispute
  • Blur (by Blur) (The White Album if it's post-Britpop. Fantano thinks 13 is better. Eh, I mean 13 gave us the Coffee & TV music video.)
  • The Yes Album
  • Doggystyle
  • Minecraft – Volume Alpha (First album I ever listened to. My birth giver downloaded "Sweden" for me as it latched onto me as the true theme song of this game like everyone else. Took a while for this album's impact to really grow, but it was always a masterpiece from the start. I'm beyond grateful to know of this work.)
  • "Beck's Bolero" (A chaotic and near-romantic masterpiece, exploding shades of the heavy rock era to come. And what an amazing lineup, a supergroup crossing the three or four bands within them.)
  • "All Star" (Of course this became a good article...)
  • The Black Parade
  • "Look at Your Game, Girl"
  • AC/DC (went through six FA reviews in a long history, and despite remaining in GA, it's still a very great read. A surprise favorite band for me, especially with Back in Black and Powerage.)
  • "Megalovania" (Halloween Hack preserved on Wikipedia for all eternity plus screenshot 😛😛😛😛😛)
  • "Lola"
  • "Planet Rock"
  • "Rock Box"
  • Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk
  • "Empire State of Mind"
  • Alice in Chains (Also known as Tripod, this is the bleakest and most depressing grunge album that ever grunged, which says something given the intense introspection that the Seattle rockers all went through. Calling this sludgy is an understatement; this album sounds like me in April 2021, at the fucking nadir of my depression. I was slow as a snail in molasses and thought I had nothing true to live for. Tripod is not my favorite compared to Dirt and Jar of Flies, but I appreciate its distinct, acoustic-assisted sound and fan-favorite status. I remember being indirectly introduced to Tripod when a user by the name of Dirty Dan did their frequent album reviews on Know Your Meme's Discord server, leading me to learn about both Alice in Chains and Layne Staley. It was an interesting time, and something I'll cherish in retrospect.)
  • Killing of Meredith Hunter (As if the concert that ended the 1960s wasn't bad enough, it had to end in a rather vulgar confrontation and death, reflective of all the bad vibes surrounding it. It was just bad-tempered all around. I don't blame the Stones for this or the concert as much as I blame Rock Scully, who suggested recruiting the wrong(?) Hells Angels for this, but wow...everyone writes about bad times but there's the haunting guilt that comes when you indirectly cause them.)
  • Disco Demolition Night (I agree that disco had been overtly commercialized and wrongly framed as hedonistic and elitist by 1980, but that night showed prejudice so visceral it shouldn't be given towards any genre's community, ever. FUCK Legs McNeil, by the way.)

Video games

Miscellaneous

People/biographies

These are in a different format from articles about a product or event, so there. Sorted alphabetically by surname, one-word nicknames and Asian family names included.

  • Leelah Alcorn (Kind of inappropriate to list this first, right? Otherwise I didn't really want to explain this one...When listing articles to heavy or controversial subject matter, understand that none of this is out of some edgelord humor or anything superficial, but with genuine interest and respect. I think about Alcorn every now and then because her circumstances spoke a lot to me and her hopelessness is much, much more than relatable. The corruption she refers to and lost the battle against is obvious. Situations like this are why I am so ardently pro-trans and why I firmly draw the line with how people approach religion. Her parents are the real sinners because the hate they displayed has no depth.)
  • Ann Bannon (Like her own life, her stories are heartbreaking. Yet Bannon's ended up heartwarming.)
  • Allie Brosh (Creator of the first webcomic I remember reading)
  • Ted Bundy (Including him and Gacy is a confession to the fascination of morbid subjects, kind of exacerbated by my interests in psychology and mental health, which I'm sure is not uncommon reasoning for a lot of other people. If Bundy's article is popular, at least it's cared for. Again, my listing of such content isn't glorifying crime but as support to research and validate heavy subjects. Inevitably, Jeffery Dahmer's article is the only one left to improve in this smut trinity. Speaking of which, Derf Backderf is one of my favorite graphic novel artists. Go check his stuff out.)
  • Henry Darger
  • dril
  • Eric Easton (More similar to the Beatles' Brian Epstein than Oldham, but much more obscure and less charismatic. His story is intertwined with the Rolling Stones' early yet sudden rise to fame and fortune, as well as the origins of their financial issues stemming from the lack of a decent enough pop rock manager at the time, all within about two years. A stunning read.)
  • Boughera El Ouafi
  • Etika (Took the opportunity to study the edit history and reviews of this one. Absolutely joyful for this achievement. First YouTuber to hit FA, even if it's posthumous. Internet history right here. PantheonRadiance nailed both GAN and FAC first try. PR, if you're reading this, I salute you.)
  • John Wayne Gacy
  • Willis Gibson (He won the biggest fattest possible dub in Tetris history bro, where do you go from there? Kid geniuses, man. His reaction to his (hopefully succeeded) first life achievement is something to behold.)
  • George Harrison (Even though Starr is my favorite Beatle, Harrison's contributions are oh-so saintly and groundbreaking. And boy, does he rock.)
  • Jeong Haneul (North Korean defectors. You can't not pity them.)
  • Margaret Ursula Jones
  • Kendrick Lamar (KENNY DOT DUCKY!!!!! KUNG FU KENNY THA GREATEST!!!!!)
  • Eugene Landy (Complicated man given a complicated mess.)
  • John Lennon (I love and hate this guy. Hate him because he was always a jerkass troublemaker who gave into his impulses. But I love him because no one can write and sing so passionately like him, and was, just as importantly, a secular feminist who tried and fought like hell. He's a New Yorker like his native peers, and a legend for most of all his notes of positivity. //0-0\\)
  • Li Rui (I said I'm an anti-communist, but certainly not the pro-capitalist type. I feel for this guy.)
  • Travis Ludlow (Airplane prodigy. Not much autobiography, but it's a short and sweet read on his WR achievement.)
  • Man of the Hole (Post-WWII example of burying Indigenous communities)
  • Paul McCartney (Sometimes critics treat him like Mike Love, and that's understandable from a purist's music career perspective. And then McCartney grew a pair during Flowers in the Dirt and showed some fine steel ever since. Look, let's not put down his softer stuff like "Honey Pie" and "The Girl Is Mine" either, or his completion of "Now and Then". He and Lennon are equals for entirely unique reasons, and they deserve equal respect in totality.)
  • PewDiePie (First to reach the heights as a YouTuber. Still keeping it strong.)
  • Keanu Reeves (😎x9000+)
  • Fred Rogers (He's the kindest man in the world because he wants to encourage us to strive. I can't overstate how much of an idol he is to me. Mister Rogers is so ahead of his time he makes Billy Graham bite the dust.)
  • Ringo Starr (First knew about him as the Thomas & Friends narrator before I read about the Beatles in like 6th grade. Plus he was in the same room as Junior Campbell, who was in the band Marmalade as the latter covered "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da". Oh, and the drummer thing. Yeah, he's still underrated in that regard just because he can't do a roll. And hates soloing. Starr is as much of a Maharishi saint as Harrison, and both performed at the Concert for Bangladesh. My Father Christmas.)
  • Jack Thompson ("activist") (Young gamers never felt true hatred until they heard of Jack Thompson.)
  • Molly White (Wikipedians historically have the unfortunate image of a bunch of nerdy nobodies who give no substance in life. Not with Molly. No, this Wikipedian is an absolute chad. You have no power against her.)
  • Anna Wintour (Perhaps the Harlan Ellison of fashion. Also her knowledge of music publications is as good as Madonna's knowledge in filmmaking. Bless her heart.)

Books

(Will add comics and graphic novel articles soon)

The Simpsons (in development)

South Park episodes (in development)

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SpongeBob SquarePants (in development)

Mario articles (in development)

The Legend of Zelda articles (in development)

Super Smash Bros. articles (in development)

  • List of major Super Smash Bros. for Wii U tournaments (What an era. How nostalgic I am for this one. I received a copy of this game back when I believed in half-birthdays. I remember getting into Smash and seeing the fans associated with it. Alpharad, Ninkendo, Etika, Ludvix, Heeew, AsumSaus...even if it's not the best title in the series, it's undoubtedly very kickass.)
  • List of major Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournaments (The first few months post-release were so optimistic, retrospectively. Then Etika's suicide left a slightly bigger hole as I wondered who would be the next fighter or Mii costume to come aboard. Even as I'm now an ex-Nintendo fan, I'll always have a bit of respect for Sakurai and the two greatest franchises he gave us.)

Beatles articles

Beach Boys articles (and related)

  • All Summer Long (ILIL being Wikipedia's signature Beach Boys fan, their edits aren't as much compared to that on Pet Sounds or Smiley Smile, but damn, they're no less impressive! Seriously impressive! Compared to the last few times I read this, the quality exploded out of nowhere! And a whole GA whose references are almost entirely composed of books. Going through so many literary sources, that takes guts compared to an article more reliant on web articles and pages. This is the kind of article only a real hardcore music fan can conjure up into beauty. I'm beyond surprised by its amount of depth. Love reading this. Thank you, lovely painter.)
  • Smiley Smile (This is when the band gets weird. And real indie. It took ten years for them to follow this up with something even weirder. But this jungle album is still there. It's uncanny. It's homely. And it's surprisingly cozy, welcoming you to a realm of music so passionate it spawned like two major genres that started out as fanbases of this album. And some Japanese folks did that one video game soundtrack partly from this, and in a way Toby Fox was influenced by this cute little album. Real crazy shit, huh? I mean, even Toby did a modular pocket symphony final boss theme, you guys know what I'm talking about. YMMV on how good this is compared to SMiLE, if it's arguably better or at least more influential, but it opened a new world separating the Beach Boys from their contemporary audience and slowly inching towards a bunch of good-willed weirdos. Okay um, to summarize all of this, a major amount of Beach Boys fans love them for the inexplicable, mind-fuckingly insane weirdness, and it really started with this album. Give it a shot, you'll understand why. It's not shit on purpose.)
  • Wild Honey (Less weird, more focused, more romantic and simple. And thrice as joyful. Pitchfork is stupid, just stupid for putting this one down. The Beach Boys never faked their black music, c'mon. Their R&B was genuine from the very start.)
  • Lei'd in Hawaii
  • Carl and the Passions – "So Tough"
  • "Good Vibrations" (My favorite song. I have so much to explain why because of how impactful it was to me, both in my personal life and my interests in music, including deciding to take on a career as a musician.)
  • "Never Learn Not to Love"
  • Brian Wilson is a genius
  • Don't fuck with the formula (A little sad this got merged. The impact section is my biggest argument for why it should remain independent from the Smile article. Even for the sixties, this is Mike "Niggers Don't Invent Guitars" Love I'm speaking of.)
  • Elephant 6 (The collective has at least a fifth of the overall influence in the foundations of indie rock. Otherwise, they're the Beach Boys' greatest fans.)

Leather club two blocks down

Pure Internet shenanigans. Some of these are probably more appropriate in other categories, but this section collects a pure, viral spirit. Sorted chronologically.

Lewd stuff ( ͡° ᴥ ͡°)

  • Lolicon (Seeing that little green button in this article made me laugh my ass off. I'm amazed this finally got to GA status despite it being the most infamous animanga-related genre in the West. And it's nominated by Fredrick Brennan, no less! Pleased this contentious issue is given quality dedication. The only thing left in this category is getting shotacon to GA.)
  • Yuri (genre) (Remembering Nobuko Yoshiya, I'm sad that nowadays, yuri is mostly a fanservice thing in anime.)
  • Yaoi (Gay ultra-feminine men)
  • Bara (genre) (Gay ultra-masculine men)
  • Gengoroh Tagame (Art historian on gay stuff and the King of Bara)
  • Sex (book) (OMG, it's da sex book!!!!!!11!!!!!!111! Jokes aside, this is a very progressive read. Best coffee table book ever. I don't care if it's out of print, I'm going to snag myself a copy.)
  • Fucking Trans Women (TAKE NOTE ON MUFFING.)

Film/Shows

Pixar

It's incredible (no pun intended) that all of these films from their "classic era" are at GA. Not that I mind the post-2010 films...some of them.

Food

hochi couch mama 🤯

Wikimedia/Meta

Don't fuck with Maher! She's with us.

Not like we couldn't talk about ourselves, but no one said we shouldn't, heh...but only if others bother to talk about us enough. (Sorted somewhat chronologically.) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • Essjay controversy (Oof. We had 10+ grueling yet somewhat astounding years of growth since this incident to have a new reputation. Shame this is far from the first to happen, but at least we're in a much different place now.)
  • Carlos Bandeirense Mirandópolis hoax (Esse pessoa conhece Chico Buarque? kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk)
  • LGBTQ and Wikipedia (Yah we exist bro)
  • Alan MacMasters hoax (Fake vintage image of a chad who invented the toaster? Well it was funny but it lasted eight years too long.)
  • Abraham Weintraub–Wikipedia controversy (Bolsonaro took a look at the Heritage Foundation's editing "efforts" and thought "hmmm what if")
  • Wikipedia and the COVID-19 pandemic (Wikipedia at the peak of its influence. Hell of a foglight heading towards an unknown future, and just as the website was showing balls of steel. These efforts wowed me and contributed somewhat to my joining as a member. I don't have the pandemic era as reasoning alone, but as an example of the reasons I have, and still do.)

Miscellaneous

Hundreds more articles are B or C-class, yet their subjects are fascinating. Wonder what I could do with them...

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