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[KeithHernandez]

Yeah, somehow I think that if I was going to put together a mix tape for this year with songs from Coldplay and GNR and Byrne/Eno on it, I would basically guarantee that every person would hate at least one of those three tracks. Oh God, throw in Ben Folds, you know. There would be no thematic to it, no style, no unification, just a bunch of things that I like that vaguely fall under the banner of "rock".

I would be bad at this.

Any list I made right now would have 96 Tears as at least every other song.

[Golfhaus]

Any list I made right now would have 96 Tears as at least every other song.

My wife won't trust any CD I make for her right now, as she is positive I will sneak "Surfin' Bird" onto it somewhere.

[KeithHernandez]

Haha, I listened to the Cramps version of that tonight.

[CortJstr]

I spoke too soon, I didn't notice the song from The Else at first.

Vampire Weekend and She & Him both fall into the broad category of bands I've only heard of because they were eMusic's free daily download. I did end up getting the full album for both of them, though.

I just remembered that I already have some songs uploaded from this summer that I never shared here. If I was at home I'd swap out the MC Frontalot song (which was an in-joke at the time. It's not his best song) for Count It Off (feat. The Muscle Shoals Horns) by The Saturday Knights.

For some reason I'm all about The Saturday Knights lately. Has anybody else even heard of them?

http://www.cortjstr.com/partay/

[theinevitable]

man, this Slate year-end music thing is really bumming me out. They seem insistent on talking about "pop music" while they obviously realize that Pop Music is not a monolith the way they want it to be. So pretentious it's incompetent. They try to argue that people like Auto-Tune because we spend so much time on computers that everything is getting all computer-y, and don't the kids these days just love computers and want to do everything with computers?

I am trying to remember which Sonic Youth song used to be called "I Killed Christgau with my Big fuck*ng Dick."

[Carlos del Vaca]

I was actually interviewed by Christgau at CMJ in 1991.  Can't remember what we talked about, and none of my interview made it into his final article about the conference.  Oh well.

[miles]

Oh man even as a Slate devotee I can attest to how much their music coverage sucks. It sucks hard.