Oh yeah - I almost forgot that Feist wasn't on here. One of my favorite albums this year, so that was a bit surprising too.

I love you, AV Club
I am not going to bitch about this list at all. There was a lot of great music this year, and I can see how it is impossible to please everyone, so overall, I think you guys did just fine. (see everyone, that wasn't so hard, was it?)

Local Commercials…
Are always either the greatest things ever or the worst things ever.

usually I end this sentence with the voice in my head screaming, "…849, which is the number of times I want to stab you in the face with the most painfully blunt instrument I can find!"

Diamond Dogs on the River
I actually like Beck's cover of Diamond Dogs…

YouTube Clips
Man, of the petty complaints I have about surfing this site while at work, having YouTube clips blocked is the biggest one. Any chance that new web guy will start converting these videos to something NOT hosted on YouTube?

Yeah - I also heard something about that Saddam guy being captured. Also, at some point, Reagan died…

I like this song,
and I may pick up the album because of it.

Yeah, even as I wrote that sentence, I was picturing a Rocky-esque training montage.

The mood
Noel, what happens if you push yourself toward a "must delete" deadline too aggressively?

Jesus…
…it is a bad week to be a musician, huh?

PtP is the same as the boss you try to convice yourself is an evil genius, capable of pretending to be absolutely clueless in order to test you (and, in the case of one Major Rogers from my short Air Force career, your ability to control your temper in a war zone). Unfortunatly, the realization that (s)he is just an…

..If only someone had given those poor punk kids some LSD, they may have been able to focus that energy on something CONSTRUCTIVE.

PttP, in your experience, was the LSD helpful in destroying the American Political left and the, you know, selling out, or were you guys able to do all of that on your own? I want to know so I can get on top of ruining things for my future kids' generation just like you guys did for us.

Radiohead got me twice
I was in high school when OK computer came out. My friend gave it to me for my birthday, but since I was still just listening to whatever my parents listened to, I made it about 30 seconds into Airbag before I shut it off. Eight months later, I put the cd back on, and it didn't leave the…

Yeah, that would have been better. But then how would I have satisfied my hankering for hyperbole?

"…but his pillow talk just lights up the room."
I'd like to think that sometime, somewhere, someone will say this exact sentence about me.

Jay-z has always been a business man first, an artist second.
I can't decide if that makes him more off-putting than someone who is an artist first, but whose lyrics are violently misoginistic. Or hateful in anyway.

The lost art of type-setting
My grandfather was a succesful typesetter, and to this day, if you give him a book or magazine he will immediately start talking about how horrible the typeset is. I used to attribute this to him being, you know, old, grouchy and bitter about how computers took over his career. But then…

As soon as I read the part about the Lance Bass autobiography, I knew Christmas shoppping for my dad was done.