Year-end top-10 lists are the unicorn stickers and glitter pens of music writing.

therichgirlsareweeping:

Our darling Hot Rod, on the mark, as ever.

(Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with unicorn stickers and glitter pens, mind you.)

“Even the worst album I listened to last year couldn’t be properly described in four long paragraphs.”

You have been very lucky in yr choice of albums mister.

(Reblogged from therichgirlsareweeping)

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  1. isabelthespy reblogged this from jonathanbogart and added:
    wait wait wait is someone trying to insult unicorn stickers and glitter pens why don’t you come over here so i can take...
  2. occupythedisco reblogged this from katherinestasaph
  3. ley-lines reblogged this from jonathanbogart and added:
    Premise only works if: album reviews are the box-of-64-crayons of music writing; genre columns are the sidewalk chalk of...
  4. jonathanbogart reblogged this from katherinestasaph and added:
    Definitely screw the idea that something is dumb because nine-year-old girls do it. As if nine-year-olds are bad enough,...
  5. popcornnoises reblogged this from tomewing and added:
    Everyone knows it takes ten short, numbered paragraphs to properly describe a thing you don’t like. Four would be...
  6. katherinestasaph reblogged this from alexmacpherson and added:
    My parents went to Office Depot a bunch when I was a kid and dragged my sister and I along, and I’d always beg them for...
  7. alexmacpherson reblogged this from tomewing and added:
    Haha I saw the headline and immediately assumed this would be an article in PRAISE of year-end lists. That metaphor...
  8. tomewing reblogged this from therichgirlsareweeping and added:
    worst album I listened to last year couldn’t be properly described in four long paragraphs.” You have been very lucky in...
  9. rawkblog said: I think lists (not necessarily ranked ones) can be really fun and useful when they’re actually representations of taste and not vehicles for corporate publications to look relevant.
  10. therichgirlsareweeping posted this