Favorite Albums: 2000-200449. New Wet Kojak, Do ThingsOriginal position on my Stylus ballot: #38 If you thought Girls Against Boys were ridiculous, wait until you hear the singer’s jazzy saxophone-blessed side project! Titles like “Go4theoverkill,” “Love Career” and “Sticky 2 Me” should scare away anyone not interested in cruising Scott McCloud’s new baby fly self, but if you have a generational tolerance to ’90s alterna-swagger, Do Things is a supersmokysexxy good time. If I was single and inviting thirtysomething ladies who’ve attended a Tibetan Freedom Festival over for wine, I might throw this on to set a steamy, Clinton-era mood. Especially if I knew they used to own a Stabbing Westward album. Whether it was a new contract with Beggars Banquet or the failure of GVSB’s Freak*On*Ica, the previously half-assed Kojak sounded defibrillated in 2000, ready to claim the bereaved Morphine fanbase with an album that’s basically Soul Coughing’s Night Beat. Sadly, slinky numbers like “I Want To See What’s Up With When You Move” never got spotlighted in a serial killer movie, and the group remained a GVSB footnote.

Favorite Albums: 2000-2004
49. New Wet Kojak, Do Things
Original position on my Stylus ballot: #38

If you thought Girls Against Boys were ridiculous, wait until you hear the singer’s jazzy saxophone-blessed side project! Titles like “Go4theoverkill,” “Love Career” and “Sticky 2 Me” should scare away anyone not interested in cruising Scott McCloud’s new baby fly self, but if you have a generational tolerance to ’90s alterna-swagger, Do Things is a supersmokysexxy good time. If I was single and inviting thirtysomething ladies who’ve attended a Tibetan Freedom Festival over for wine, I might throw this on to set a steamy, Clinton-era mood. Especially if I knew they used to own a Stabbing Westward album.

Whether it was a new contract with Beggars Banquet or the failure of GVSB’s Freak*On*Ica, the previously half-assed Kojak sounded defibrillated in 2000, ready to claim the bereaved Morphine fanbase with an album that’s basically Soul Coughing’s Night Beat. Sadly, slinky numbers like “I Want To See What’s Up With When You Move” never got spotlighted in a serial killer movie, and the group remained a GVSB footnote.