It’s Friday and our comment voting plug-in is still on the fritz. We should have a replacement up and running soon, though. For now we’ll have to consider every comment made this week to be the best, and call it a tie. Congrats! In lieu of the list then, here’s a look back at the week that was, as told by animated .gifs…

We had a comment party for and Premature Evaluation of the Knife’s Shaking The Habitual. Tom called it “stressed-out, disoriented, evil, angry art music” (in a good way).

We also favorably Prematurely Evaluated Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Mosquito, a sweeping and overblown rock-star love hymn that we all need in our lives.

The Flaming Lips visited Letterman and released a disturbing, NSFW video of Bon Iver collab “Ashes In The Air.”

Death Cab For Cutie got the Counting Down treatment. Ranking the band’s output from worst to best, Claire contended that 2000’s We Have The Facts offers the most complete journey of any DCFC record.

Chris looked at the legacy of the White Stripes’ Elephant and Exploding Hearts’ Guitar Romantic ten years after the release of both albums.

Cat Power’s released a clip for “Manhattan,” a beautiful love letter to the island and our favorite video of the week.

We watched Phoenix play Bankrupt! songs in Vancouver, San Francisco, and fake Versailles. Cole chatted with Thomas and Christian about their success and the Kardashians.

We celebrated the 20th anniversary of Tool’s Undertow. As Tom wrote, “it’s an intense, immersive album that feels like it belongs entirely to its own context, and albums like that have a way of developing their cults.”

Courtney Love joined Stephen Dorff as a spokesperson for NJOY. It’s her best performance since 200 Cigarettes.

Tim and Elizabeth ranked the 10 best songs by Lou Reed, noting that the ex-Velvet’s “large and erratic catalog makes passionate music fans head down a wormhole, never knowing where they are going to turn up a true gem.”

Bradford Cox — sorry, Connie Lungpin — led then abandoned Deerhunter in a Fallon performance of “Monomania” we won’t forget anytime soon.