I'll tell you what's not Rock and Roll...

this is not rock and roll (what do you expect? she just married this guy's kid). You tell every person you know living in or around McHatten that it's time to pack up the Etsy shop and come home. Time to find a new revolution, cause music ain't it. (as the excellent montage-metaphor-new-single below demonstrates. Thanks for that one, btw, I'm still trying to unpack all of my feelings about it, expect a post soon.)

2009

OK so beyond any bashing coming from the right, the end of the year is finally here..forget any list, forget any recommendations. I just wish these new-school cats would take some cue from their elders. Super groups! Perhaps if all the pop stars actually got together and put out some epic long song like this, the radio would just hit the loop button and walk away, rather than trying to fit the song in once every hour...this is for you Briggs!

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Unreleased Bad Boy track from back in the day (possibly recalled due to the Peter Gunz single that became a hit around that time, which uses the same sample) . Ma$e, The Lox; you know what it is.

Best of? Surely thou jest

The subject of today's lecture is Drew's picks for Best Albums Of The Decade. I was going write a long, archly witty breakdown of his list, one entry at a time, but then I took one glance at it and knew that Drew was tripping. It was safe and appealing to everyone of course, as I predicted. But never did I expect to see Radiohead and Aphex Twin showing up three times EACH. Or has been Q-Tip delivering 'The Renaissance', or fucking CLUTCH showing up within 1,000 miles of a best-of anything. What's more, I thought "boy this list is really reminiscent of the kind a certain shitty magazine would make". The kind whose music editors voted 'Toxic', 'American Idiot', and 'Get Your Freak On' as the three best songs of this decade. FUCK THAT! Next!

Rolling Stone's Best of Decade	Drew's List
	50. Queen's of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf/Rated R
	49. Auburn Lull - Alone I Admire*/Cast from the Platform
	48. Clutch - Blast Tyrant/Robot Hive Exodus
	47. Q-Tip - The Renaissance
	46. Justin Timberlake - Future Sex/Love Sounds
	45. Ben Kweller - Sha Sha
	44. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones**
	43. Modest Mouse - Good news for people who love bad news/The Moon and Antarctica
	42. Peter Bjorn and John - Writers Block
	41. Boards of Canada - Geogadi/The Campfire Headphase
	40. Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought
	39. Aesop Rock - Labor Days
	38. The Strokes - Is This It?/Room on Fire
	37. Sufjan Stevens -Illinois
	36. Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
	35. Bad Plus - These are the Vistas
	34. Ryan Adams - Cold Roses**
	33. Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
	32. Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
	31. Wilco -Yankee Hotel Foxtrott
	30. Spiritualized - Let it come on Down
	29. Gillian Welch - Time the Revalator
	28. Daft Punk - Discovery
	27. David Byrne and Brian Eno -Home
	26. Joanna Newsome - The Milkeyed Mender
	25. Four Tet - Rounds
	24. Radiohead - In Rainbows
	23. Tool - Lateralus
	22. RJD2 - Deadringer
	21. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls of America**
	20. King Khan and the Shrines - What Is!
	19. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals - Jacksonville City Nights**
	18. Bonobo - Days to Come
	17. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
	16. Deftones - White Pony
	15. Chihei Hatakeyama - Mini Moriala
	14. Low Motion Disco - Keep it Slow
	13. Air France - No Way Down
	12. Fujiya and Miyagi - Transparent Things
	11. Tom Waits - Alice
	10. Tom Waits - Blood Money
	09. Radiohead - Amnesiac
	08. Aphex Twin - Hangable Auto Bulb
	07. Drive-By Truckers - Decoration Day
	06. Radiohead - Kid A
	05. Peter Gabriel - Up
	04. Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes for cash
	03. Yo La Tengo - And Nothing Turned Itself Inside out
	02. Aphex Twin - Druqks
	01. Brian Eno - Another Day on Earth

**Same band, different album
* Not released during this decade

90s News

Billy Corgan and Jessica Simpson are dating. Yes that's right, that means Corgan and Nick Lachey have been in the same vagina! Hopefully some hot gash and a little dose of the limelight will pull him out of the epic slump he's been in. Yo Billy, why don't you get D'arcy off the farm and James out of that boy band, and starting writing some cool songs again you douche! Jimmy won't even play with you anymore, he doesn't need the heroin that bad. You also need to disown those last few aborted children of records that you put out as 'Smashing Pumpkins' or Zwan (including the 44 song poop-fugue you're about to release), have Alan Moulder and Flood dial you in some good tone, and stop wearing limited edition shiny gold Dunks!! Alright, brahda? And if you make a sex tape with Pete Wentz banging the Simpson sisters, SEND IT TO US.

eulogy

Alright, before I start slamming Drew's list (and I will), I gotta first show some respect. To Jay Bennett because he passed away this year - due to lack of health insurance... probably due to lack of record sales... probably due to being kicked out of Wilco - and because the whole Yankee Hotel Foxtrot drama was probably the best mainstream 'moment' of this bullshit decade. If Jeff Tweedy thinks he's ever going to make music as good as when Jay was in the band, he's kidding himself. Kanpai, brother Jay, and goodbye.



Can we get a list of essential sidemen who leave the band, foreshadowing its decline? Matt Sharp, John Cale, Lou Barlow are a few names. Who else?