Robert Smith doesn't stream music "on principle and never will," he said on a podcast this week. "I’ve got loads and loads of different iPods with stickers on them so I know in the dark which one’s gonna play which." If you get a 4GB iPod Mini for Christmas, here's some playlist inspo from 20 years ago:
THIS WEEK'S 10 HIGHEST RATED COMMENTS
THIS WEEK'S EDITOR-IN-CHIEF'S CHOICE
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| Dec 14th | |
Merry Listmas Gummers! With Dan out of commission I wasn’t sure I’d have time to do this but here we are! In years past this has been multiple sweeps of the comments by two people who then hashed it out to get all the minor details straightened out. This time it was all me with one sweep last Friday and another one this Friday for anything new. Can’t recall another year doing this with such large gaps all through the top 10. The world may be more divided than ever, but the commentariat sure ain’t. So without further ado:
1. Charli XCX-BRAT (128, 42) 2. Vampire Weekend-Only God Was Above Us (98, 33) 3. Cindy Lee-Diamond Jubilee (82, 26) 4. Waxahatchee-Tigers Blood (74, 26) 5. MJ Lenderman-Manning Fireworks (64, 28) 6. Kendrick Lamar-GNX (54, 24) 7. Mannequin Pussy-I Got Heaven (53, 24) 8. Los Campesinos!-All Hell (48, 16) 9. Magdalena Bay-Imaginal Disk (46, 16) 10. The Cure-Songs of a Lost World (42, 21) 11. Jessica Pratt-Here In the Pitch (33, 15) 12. Fontaines DC-Romance (32, 16) 13. Wishy-Triple Seven (29, 15) 14. Jamie Xx-In Waves (24, 12) 15. Father John Misty-Mahashmashana (23, 13) 16. St Vincent-All Born Screaming (22, 11) 17. Cassandra Jenkins-My Light, My Destroyer (22, 6) 18. This Is Lorelei-Box For Buddy, Box For Star (19, 12) 19. Blood Incantation-Absolute Elsewhere (19, 9) 20. Mk.gee-Two Star & the Dream Police (19, 9) 21. Nilufer Yanya-My Method Actor (17, 10) 22. Liquid Mike-Paul Bunyan's Slingshot (17, 5) 23. MGMT-Loss of Life (16, 6) 24. Hurray For the Riff Raff-The Past Is Still Alive (15, 8) 25. Ducks Ltd-Harm's Way (15, 6) 26. Chat Pile-Cool World (14, 6) 27. Fabiana Palladino-Fabiana Palladino (14, 6) 28. Nala Sinephro-Endlessness (14, 6) 29. Mount Eerie-Night Palace (14, 5) 30. Clairo-Charm (13, 7) 31. Wild Pink-Dulling The Horns (13, 6) 32. Adrianne Lenker-Bright Future (12, 7) 33. Foxing-Foxing (12, 7) 34. Jack White-No Name (12, 7) 35. oso oso-life til bones (12, 5) 36. The Smile-Cutouts (11, 6) 37. The Smile-Wall of Eyes (11, 6) 38. High Vis-Guided Tour (11, 5) 39. Christopher Owens-I Wanna Run Barefoot Through Your Hair (11, 4) 40. The Last Dinner Party-Prelude to Ecstasy (10, 4) 41. Young Jesus-The Fool (10, 4) 42. Future Islands-People Who Aren't There Anymore (10, 3) 43. Johnny Blue Skies, Passage Du Desir (10, 3) 44. Abriction-Banshee (10, 2) 45. DIIV-Frog In Boiling Water (9, 6) 46. Infant Island-Obsidian Wreath (9, 6) 47. Origami Angel-Feeling Not Found (9, 6) 48. SPRINTS-Letter To Self (9, 5) 49. Glass Beach-Plastic Death (9, 4) 50. Friko-Where We've Been, Where We Go From Here (8, 5) 50. Heems & Lapgan-LAFANDAR (8, 5) 51. Spirit of the Beehive-You'll Have To Lose Something (8, 5) 52. Dummy-Free Energy (8, 5)
Same methodology was used as in prior years. Total score, number of votes in parentheses. You get two bonus additions to the list because who am I to decide how to break that tie? | |
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Prison.The whole fucking lot of them.
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Wayne pulls the no-show act increasingly—just canceled last-minute at a Tahoe music fest because he wanted to watch a football game. And then he wonders why the Super Bowl chose a total pro like Kendrick instead.
About 90% of the music I listen to is made by artists with day jobs who work coffee houses, answer IT calls, manage hotel desks, etc, etc, etc. It always shocks me when I discover another band that has 50,000 Facebook followers, yet they still don't earn enough from music to afford their rent.
The fact that this grant money went to horrible people like Lil Wayne and Chris Brown instead of these struggling musicians who actually needed it is absolutely fucking maddening.
I get the front row thing. We’ve all gone to shows and met people who follow the artist or band for multiple stops and insist on being at the front of the GA every night. They are, without exception, insufferable, and make every one else who likes the act feel lamer by association.
"Let me tell you somethin"
Chrissie has earned the right to make the rules.
Kudos to Alice in Chains for being included in an article with Chris Brown and somehow coming out looking like the bigger assholes.
There is no way I could be any more "spitting-nails mad" than I am already.I was not given a single god damn penny of relief due to losses from COVID, beyond the small payments that went to everyone.It was eat or pay my mortgage.Obviously, I chose to eat.I just, not two weeks ago, emerged from foreclosure and was (thankfully) granted a loan modification - a process that took over two years.I realize I'm in a better position than many but 15K for lawyer fees and all the fines, penalties, late charges etc. that I have paid, and continue to pay, while still hearing these fucking stories makes me want to...engage in very fucking bad behavior.I'm seeing red right this god damn minute.
I have kept my composure and dutifully kept my head down, built my credit back up, and resolved these issues and then I read this.Die motherfuckers.Every last one of you.
Do crimes.Burn everything to the ground.The working man is a sucker.