<![CDATA[Year-End List Mania: Music Bloggers Raise Their Voices And Lower Our Expectations - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA[Year-End List Mania: Music Bloggers Raise Their Voices And Lower Our Expectations - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:19:37 EST Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:19:37 EST http://idolator.com/tunes/blogs/year+end-list-mania-music-bloggers-raise-their-voices-and-lower-our-expectations-219378.php <![CDATA[Year-End List Mania: Music Bloggers Raise Their Voices And Lower Our Expectations]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/blogs/year+end-list-mania-music-bloggers-raise-their-voices-and-lower-our-expectations-219378.php#c706077 LHB is, I'm sure, a very nice man. But his blog is little more than a link dump.

brasstax

]]> 33:219378:c706077 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:19:37 EST <![CDATA[Year-End List Mania: Music Bloggers Raise Their Voices And Lower Our Expectations]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/blogs/year+end-list-mania-music-bloggers-raise-their-voices-and-lower-our-expectations-219378.php#c705332 Largeheartedboy is intelligent, but he has NO quality control. From one of the blogs he links to:

"TV on the Radio's Return to Cookie Mountain
Black people. God's gift to the ear."

Oh dear... Do they all have good rhythm, too?

The Mozfather

]]> 33:219378:c705332 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:42:12 EST <![CDATA[Year-End List Mania: Music Bloggers Raise Their Voices And Lower Our Expectations]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/blogs/year+end-list-mania-music-bloggers-raise-their-voices-and-lower-our-expectations-219378.php#c705061 um, that guillemots record is great. so is silversun pickups.

what's with all the snark and hate? i don't understand. lists are subjective. people like different things. largehearted boy is one of the most intelligent music/book blogs out there too.

hndinglove

]]> 33:219378:c705061 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:10:33 EST <![CDATA[Year-End List Mania: Music Bloggers Raise Their Voices And Lower Our Expectations]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/blogs/year+end-list-mania-music-bloggers-raise-their-voices-and-lower-our-expectations-219378.php#c705060 Going to have to disagree with xiu xiu and final fantasy. Although they wouldn't make it in my top 10, they're good albums. silversun pickups on the other hand, suuuuuuuuuuck...

GiantPanda

]]> 33:219378:c705060 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:10:12 EST <![CDATA[Year-End List Mania: Music Bloggers Raise Their Voices And Lower Our Expectations]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/blogs/year+end-list-mania-music-bloggers-raise-their-voices-and-lower-our-expectations-219378.php#c704260 Agreed with dennisobell. Saw Silversun Pickups at Schubas in Chicago...excellent show...record is listenable, and frankly, given the pussy ass stuff that frequently passes for indie "rock" it was good to see a lead singer who got visibly sauced, and a band that enjoys its walls of sound.

Ys will make a lot of year end records lists. And I will still never put that record on again.

Ascender

]]> 33:219378:c704260 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:40:00 EST <![CDATA[Year-End List Mania: Music Bloggers Raise Their Voices And Lower Our Expectations]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/blogs/year+end-list-mania-music-bloggers-raise-their-voices-and-lower-our-expectations-219378.php#c703391 "when did non-glammy feyness become acceptable?"

When indieboy bloggers saw how cute Joanna Newsom is.

brasstax

]]> 33:219378:c703391 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:54:56 EST <![CDATA[Year-End List Mania: Music Bloggers Raise Their Voices And Lower Our Expectations]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/blogs/year+end-list-mania-music-bloggers-raise-their-voices-and-lower-our-expectations-219378.php#c703364 I mean, it's the vintage Smashing Pumpkins sound with Billy Corgan's ego and talent surgically removed: what's not to like?

Fixed.

Ned Raggett

]]> 33:219378:c703364 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:48:25 EST <![CDATA[Year-End List Mania: Music Bloggers Raise Their Voices And Lower Our Expectations]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/blogs/year+end-list-mania-music-bloggers-raise-their-voices-and-lower-our-expectations-219378.php#c703327 He Poos Clouds has to be voted as Worst Title Of The Year, at least. And this goes for Ys, too: when did non-glammy feyness become acceptable?

The Mozfather

]]> 33:219378:c703327 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:43:11 EST <![CDATA[Year-End List Mania: Music Bloggers Raise Their Voices And Lower Our Expectations]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/blogs/year+end-list-mania-music-bloggers-raise-their-voices-and-lower-our-expectations-219378.php#c703212 Maybe this automatically disqualifies me from Jackin' Pop, but in a fairly weak year for rock albums in general, I'm pretty sure Silversun Pickups will make my Top 10. So sue me. I mean, it's the vintage Smashing Pumpkins sound with Billy Corgan's ego surgically removed: what's not to like?

Chris Molanphy

]]> 33:219378:c703212 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:27:37 EST <![CDATA[Year-End List Mania: Music Bloggers Raise Their Voices And Lower Our Expectations]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/blogs/year+end-list-mania-music-bloggers-raise-their-voices-and-lower-our-expectations-219378.php#c703173 I was just coming here to post that. Xiu Xiu, however...

tee.

]]> 33:219378:c703173 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:23:12 EST <![CDATA[Year-End List Mania: Music Bloggers Raise Their Voices And Lower Our Expectations]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/blogs/year+end-list-mania-music-bloggers-raise-their-voices-and-lower-our-expectations-219378.php#c703078 I'm just bracing myself for the indie-bukkake that will further slather the egregiously-overrated Ys.

King of Pants

]]> 33:219378:c703078 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:07:43 EST <![CDATA[Year-End List Mania: Music Bloggers Raise Their Voices And Lower Our Expectations]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/blogs/year+end-list-mania-music-bloggers-raise-their-voices-and-lower-our-expectations-219378.php#c703022 What's with the Final Fantasy hate? That's a great record!

GilloD

]]> 33:219378:c703022 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:57:23 EST <![CDATA[Year-End List Mania: Music Bloggers Raise Their Voices And Lower Our Expectations]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/blogs/year+end-list-mania-music-bloggers-raise-their-voices-and-lower-our-expectations-219378.php#c702973 WHITHER HINDER?

Nicolars

]]> 33:219378:c702973 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:50:24 EST <![CDATA[Year-End List Mania: Music Bloggers Raise Their Voices And Lower Our Expectations]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/blogs/year+end-list-mania-music-bloggers-raise-their-voices-and-lower-our-expectations-219378.php#c702928 i don't know what you're talking about, i love that final fantasy album, though i couldn't possibly explain to you why.

any such name

]]> 33:219378:c702928 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:45:31 EST <![CDATA[Year-End List Mania: Music Bloggers Raise Their Voices And Lower Our Expectations]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/blogs/year+end-list-mania-music-bloggers-raise-their-voices-and-lower-our-expectations-219378.php#c702792 The Guillemots might be on mine. Say what you will, but it's a damn enjoyable disc.

Dan Gibson

]]> 33:219378:c702792 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 13:25:28 EST <![CDATA[Year-End List Mania: Music Bloggers Raise Their Voices And Lower Our Expectations]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/blogs/year+end-list-mania-music-bloggers-raise-their-voices-and-lower-our-expectations-219378.php#c702494 I promise you none of those discs will be on my year-end list.

tankboy

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