Stereogum's 50 Most Discussed Posts Of 2008
It seems like only yesterday we were prematurely evaluating Black Mountain's latest, but the thousands of posts in our database since then suggest otherwise. In fact it's been a whole year, and a pretty good one what with launching Videogum and electing Obama. Those were the two things that everyone is most thankful for this year.
It's our job to post MP3s and indie rock wedding announcements. But when you share your opinions here, you do it out of love. Specifically, the love of anonymously calling someone a douchebag. Blogging about the new King of Leon video would be no fun without you guys calling us douchebags.
So we crunched the numbers and came up with this list of the 50 most commented Stereogum stories from 2008, covering controversial topics like Joe Satriani, Frances Bean Cobain's trust fund, the new Third Eye Blind song, and Third Eye Blind's response to our post about the new Third Eye Blind song.
50. Kanye's "Love" Letdown On SNL
49. Out's 100 Greatest, Gayest Albums Of All Time
48. New Ray LaMontagne - "Meg White"
47. Vampire Weekend On SNL
46. New Vampire Weekend - "Ottoman" (Stereogum Premiere)
45. Cheapest Audition Ever: Journey Searches YouTube, Finds New Lead Singer
44. Entertainment Weekly Drops Its "Indie Rock 25"
43. Courtney Love: Ryan Adams Stole $858k From Frances Bean
42. 2008 MTV Video Music Awards Red Carpet Arrivals (Sorry)
41. SPIN's Top 40 Albums of '08
40. Jay-Z Responds To Noel's Opinion That Having Rappers At Glastonbury Is "Wrong"
39. Jim DeRogatis Hates Juno
38. New Coldplay - "Violet Hill"
37. Jay-Z Covers "Wonderwall" At Glastonbury
36. The Hold Steady Get "Sequestered In Memphis" For Letterman
35. New Kings of Leon - "Sex On Fire"
34. Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitar Songs Of All Time
33. New Vampire Weekend Video - "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"
32. New Weezer - "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations On A Shaker Hymn)," "Cold Dark World," "Everybody Get Dangerous," "Thought I Knew"
31. New Kelly Clarkson - "Sober"
30. Paste's 17 Coolest Record Stores In America
29. Rolling Stone's Top 50 Albums Of 2008
28. Make Us A Muxtape
27. More On Why You Should Probably See Fleet Foxes Live Like Now
26. Blender's Top 33 Of 2008
25. Josh Homme Verbally Abuses Fan
24. Vampire Weekend Is Out! Now, Counting Down To Backlash
23. Willie Nelson: "Twin Towers Were Imploded"
22. EW's 100 Best Albums From 1983 To 2008
21. Hold Steady Dude Disses Radiohead, Digs Oasis
20. Vivian Girls Hate Your Coworkers
19. Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
18. Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III Is So Good, You Guys
17. Joe Satriani Accuses Coldplay Of Plagiarism
16. Third Eye Blind Respond To Bitchy Stereogum Post
15. Gummy Awards 2008: Polls Are Open!
14. Pitchfork's Top 100 Tracks Of 2008
13. Liveblogging The 2008 Grammys
12. Uncut's Top 50 & Mojo's Top 50 of 2008
11. Bonnaroo: The Sun Exposes Kanye's Glow In The Dark Show
10. Premature Evaluation: Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
09. Paste's Top 50 Of 2008
08. Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums Of 2008
07. The A.V. Club's 20 Acts That Peaked With The Debut Album
06. NME's 25 Bands Making America Cool Again
05. The 20 Albums We're Most Excited To Hear In 2009
04. Meat Loaf And Tiffany Duet (For An Uncomfortably Long Time) For AT&T's GoPhone
03. Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Singers Of All Time
02. Third Eye Blind Submit "Non-Dairy Creamer" To Worst Song Of 2008 Contest
01. VH1's 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs
485 comments and counting on that VH1 list! Obviously our New Year's resolution should be to slight Eric B. & Rakim well into 2009.
Posted at 12:28 PM by Scott
this is the worst list.
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..just when i thought i'd ridden my brain of "Non-Dairy Creamer"
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You guys should have an award for the biggest douchebag posting on Stereogum in 2008. Winner is the person with the most negative votes on a single post. I had like -80 one time in a Kanye West thread so I think I might be a contender.
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i think i had -120 once. can't remember the thread, but i think i said "fuck stereogum and douchey indie rock. oh, and GOBAMA." nobody seemed to like that at the time.
who's laughing now, fuckers! hahahah!
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The reason Stereogum works so well is because of the community we have. You don't always agree but it makes the posts that much more interesting.
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Apparently the community dislikes cheesiness.
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I would have had "New Kelly Clarkson" above "Pastes 17 Coolest Record Stores"
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i second the douchebag poster award
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Sir Lord Von Raven
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So...if we make this the most discussed post about the most discussed posts then does that mean we're going to eventually fall into a meta wormhole?
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Never did I think when I sent Stereogum the tip about the Third Eye Blind song that it would end up as the #2 most talked about story all year. I am honored.
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Group Hug!
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can you please post the highest and lowest scored comments next?
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OK, tomorrow!
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how about 'most different names used for posts from the same IP address'? i'd win that hands down, since i'm shady.
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LOL
I think I might win. I make up a new name every time I post
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I reminded of the new Michael Jackson & Akon song post that gave us the blessed and frightening bon mots of Wintersox. (Shit, he's going to show up after googling his name, isn't he?) Well consider that arrival my belated x-mas gift to the Stereogum faithful. You're welcome?
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Ughhh, doesn't anyone respect his art? The best one was where he made a poem about Elvis and Robert Pollard.
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The Deschagibbard post before this is already at 82 comments.
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That's really sad that that dairy creamer thing was #2 ... some scientist should explain it.
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probably wouldn't have been #2 if their fans hadn't seen the stories and unleashed a comment board blitzkrieg in support of the song. 90% of the comments on there are spam. it probably should be disqualified.
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I like how the first 10 or 12 comments are negatively voted.
anyway, same thing about the meatloaf post. the actor's fanclub started spamming it. "you guys, he's such a good actor! go adam!"
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Oh my god, that Meatloaf thing! I'd never seen that! The internet should collectively apologize for that shit!
I love that that kid from the commercial responds so quickly. Like, he obviously googles his name every day. And then a thousand people show up to defend him, all of them sounding bizarrely fake.
And it was over a stupid commercial! Starring Meatloaf! Can we unplug the internet and reboot it or something?
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"Posts Towards Which Readers Felt Most Ambivalent"
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that ryan adams-courtney love thread was a classic
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Please tell me that you'll be live blogging the Grammy's again this year. My side hurt from laughing.
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quality hipster blog banter, thy name is Stereogum. Nary a snarky comment passes that I don't thank my skinny jeans for the polarized post-squatters that flock to their screens at the mention of any kind of opinion about anything.
And for you joe six-packs out there reading this from home, "Douchebag" ;) *pop* *chuggg*
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