Information Leafblower’s Blogger Top 40 Confirms Our Worst Fears

noah | November 16, 2006 2:04 am
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Information Leafblower’s Top 40 Bands In America list, which surveyed 25 bloggers about their favorite American musicians, came out yesterday; the full list of nominated bands, which inexplicably includes Stellastarr*, is here. Don’t go looking for too much outside the guitar-dude realm; IL proprietor Kyle Gustafson prefaced the list by saying, “I’ve emailed dance bloggers and hip-hop guys in years past and never get a response, so I didn’t even bother this year. Get over it.” So the list is heavy on rock-crit standbys (Bob Dylan, Wilco, Sleater-Kinney) and next-blog-things in wait (Lavender Diamond, Aberdeen City). We do have to give Gustafson credit, though, for using a totally cute piece of nature’s clip art to illustrate the list, which we’ve broken down further below:

Number of hip-hop artists: 4. But that’s only if you count Timbaland, Danger Mouse, and Ryan Adams. Earliest point in the list when we said, “Whaaaa?”: No. 8, occupied by the Corgan-biting Silversun Pickups. (Seriously, who voted for those jokesrs? We want names.) Artists who, it seems, made the list based on anticipation over what they might do in 2007: 4. It’s never too early to get that blog buzz going! Percentage of Cat Power commenters who used a play on the title of The Greatest in their description of the record: 100. Number of Track Marks-featured bands on the list: 0. We’re a little surprised that “Weird Al” Yankovic didn’t make the cut. Number of Zune-featured artists on the list: 1. Number of deluded commenters decrying the Strokes’ absence from the list: 1. Description that never made us want to listen to music again: “Their ‘Ghostface Observatory’ mashup, which combines Ghostface with Ghostland Observatory, is easily the greatest mashup I’ve ever heard.”

The Top 40 Bands in America – 2006 Edition [Information Leafblower]

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