Deciding the 25 Best Hair Metal Bands is an exercise that provides a few laughs, some decent tunes, an appalling video here and there, and gets you kind comments from readers who feel a swelling in their hearts when they see their favorite overlooked band being acknowledged for their efforts.

Picking the 25 Worst Bands is an exercise that provides a few laughs, very few decent tunes, many appalling videos and angry comments from readers who feel a sudden need to beat my opinionated head into the ground. And for those who think I should stick to what I know: no one at Y! Music wanted my blog on the finest varieties of Irish Soda Bread or my expertise on bagpipe music (that's Scottish, by the way).

Wasn't it Spinal Tap who said it was a fine line between clever and stupid? Well, sometimes you can't even find the line. You just have to go with your gut and call it. Why one band sounds incredible and in command doing practically the exact same thing as another band who sound putrid and

Using the word "cheesy" to describe someone's singing isn't often looked upon as a compliment. However, this is show-biz and a certain amount of Velveeta is often necessary if you're going to be an entertainer. People come to your shows to see something larger than life. If they wanted to watch a bunch of average joes in everyday threads shyly singing into their armpits, they could attend a Yo La Tengo concert.

But some singers take cheese beyond one of the basic food groups and turn it into a way of life. Donny Osmond and his entire oversmiling family have made "corny wholesomeness" an accepted media trend. Donny (not even "Don") makes John Denver seem nutritious by comparison.

Over the years, there have been plenty of obvious ham and cheese puffs. Anyone who performs a showtune is embedded with cheese. So when devising this list of the cheesiest singers, it was important to choose singers who didn't have to resort to such over-the-top drama, singers who could've just sang the damn

Who doesn't love to pay taxes? The only thing more enjoyable than giving your money away to the government is the actual fun of filling out the forms. Why send in an E-Z form when you can amend all types of bizarrely numbered sheets of paper where your "non-farm" compensation can be modified into numbers that no one understands? Me, I got people! And they tell me what to do and I cross my fingers and hope they know what they're doing. Though next time they try to get me to invest in some land called Rio Rancho that I've never seen, I might take a pass. That didn't work out so good.

Musicians--the ones who make money--have to pay taxes. They don't always do so good with that. Chuck Berry had his problems and Willie Nelson even made an album for the IRS in hopes of placating their annoyance with his evasion tactics. I don't know if I would put it down in a song myself. It seems like he who doth protest too much...well, the "doth" will get you every time.

"Taxman"--The Beatles: George

A couple of lessons I learned early on: Never lie to your mother. Worship at the altar of Y! Music. Don't mess with the IRS.

Stay true to these rules and your life will be infinitely easier. If the IRS could take down Al Capone, then like Jim Morrison, they can do anything.

Musicians aren't known to be good with money.That's why they hire people like Gene Simmons to handle it.

Here are five folks who didn't have good relations with the IRS.

Marc Anthony: Poor guy thought his accountant filed his taxes for him. In his position, I would probably think that too. If I had finances, I'd hire someone who understood them to handle them. I'd assume the money I paid them to do that would mean they paid my taxes. Apparently not. I'm told he owed 2.5 million dollars in back taxes for income between the years 2000-2004. That's a lot of years and a lot of money. And to think he thought he had people!

Pavarotti: In 1999, Pavarotti owed 11 million dollars to the Italian government. In 2001, they