1. Naming baby girls "Layla," "Leila" or "Lila."

2. Menus written in chalk on walls of restaurants

3. Conversations about how mosquitos seem to be around longer this year

4. INXS songs on the radio

5. UFO sightings

The new single from the British MC Professor Green, who just happens to be a veteran of Knifecrime Island's brutality, is the self-referentially titled "Just Be Good To Green." It is a hypercompressed track that is mostly notable to these ears because it features the ever-chiding voice of Lily Allen on the hook, although she's not singing her own keenly observed material; instead, she's taking on the hook from Beats International's "Dub Be Good To Me," which is itself an early-'90s remix of the S.O.S. Band's stone classic "Just Be Good To Me." And yet… Lily's voice here sounds a little too pitched-up and wheedly — like if [...]

Were you ever at, I don't know, a Rite Aid or Penn Station or a Grateful Dead concert or a family gathering where you looked around and got to feeling like everyone else there was an alien from outer space? Well, you were probably right, according to Science.

20. Depeche Mode, Violator 19. Bell Biv DeVoe, Poison 18. Fugazi, Repeater 17. Sinéad O'Connor, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got 16. Deee-Lite, World Clique