Ugliness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder and everyone has a different opinion on what constitutes "ugly". Sometime last year I asked some music blogger friends and music biz insiders to answer the following question:

"Who do you think the ugliest musician/band ever to walk the planet is and why?"

I took the responses I received and shared them with a large group of music loving friends who then voted on the submissions. After the votes were counted I put the selections in order from ugliest to least ugliest. The resulting list contains the top dozen ugliest musicians, or the real "Dirty Dozen."

Please remove all sharp objects and children from the room before viewing the pictures displayed below. Each pick contains the reason why the artist was chosen in the selector's own words.

What are the World's Cheesiest Love Songs?

Hmmm... Well, it's a matter of debate, but this playlist is at the very least a great start in getting to the bottom of it. A fine collection of gooey, bowel-clogging slag that can provide the foundation for your own personal love fondue.

There have been more cheesy love songs written than most would ever care to hear, but don't fret. We've filtered out anything with even the tiniest amount of artistic credibility to help create the ultimate in love song trumpery. Only the most sappy, overproduced, pop hit fromage has been included.

This playlist works it two diametrically opposed manners. The first is as a group of emotionally charged tear-jerkers that will truly appeal to some percentage of the population. You know the type. These are the people that will be the first to die in the initial chaos that ensues when Armageddon unfolds.

The second is as a satirical look into the very worst of pop music that will make being alone on

1977 was a year that most rock historians look upon fondly. It was packed with music that would help define a diverse generation and inspire some of the most important musicians of the last three decades. '77 saw important albums in the genres of soul, funk, disco, reggae, blues, country and pop, as well as the continued expansion of rock and roll, including the further development of heavy metal, progressive rock, soft rock and the punk rock explosion.

Most agree that punk rock, as we know it today, started as an anti-establishment movement around 1974, however in 1977 the doors were blown wide open with some milestone albums. Namely, Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols by the Sex Pistols, Rocket To Russia by the Ramones,  and the self-titled debut by The Clash. 1977 also saw artists like David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Elvis Costello, Devo and The Talking Heads pave the way for what would later be called modern or alternative rock, but these were not the only new branches

Something I really love about subscription music services is the ability it affords to create and share compilations of unsung heroes, like the music producer. The producer is the person who puts it all together in the recording studio, gets the sound just right, and can transform mediocre tracks into things of beauty. It's hard to believe that it's been 13 years since the world lost the great Jimmy Miller, an American music producer who spent much of his career in England. He's arguably the best drum sound and percussion man to ever breathe oxygen. He's responsible for the greatest albums ever released by the Rolling Stones including Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Goats Head Soup and Exile on Main Street, as well as classic rock staples by Traffic, Blind Faith and The Spencer Davis Group.

Mr. Miller was able to capture music in a subtly powerful way. With a plentiful concoction of instruments, he crafted complex tapestries of sound, but the individual parts of his