Mac Demarco is definitely 2012. Both albums. I remember putting him on my list last year. But definitely a good choice. And Parquet Courts! And the Oh Sees!

In no particular order. Lots of young talent:

Oh, my fuck, are you an asshole. And the worst part is, you don't appear to realize it. This is probably worthless, but this is you: I'll come on this website to shove my personal taste in music down the throats of people who do not want it, as they are perfectly capable of deciding for themselves what music they like…

Oh, yeah. Ghostface's Italian giallo soundtrack. I thought about putting it on my list, but… on the first listen, I loved it, and then with each subsequent listen the impact somehow lessened until it got to 'I only like 2 or 3 songs.' On the first listen, it was like an assault. Like he was really serious about…

Add some album titles you liked, then.

I love them, but I didn't even know they released a new album… may be why.

A blues-rock list (in no particular order):

Yeah, Parquet Courts! I can't remember the last time I liked a recent album in the '90s alt-rock/punk genre this much. Very high energy, very march-like (both the melodies and the vocals), screechy guitar, no overemotional singing. Right up my alley.

Supposedly, Gaga smoked lots of pot while making this album, which, if you believe Belinda Carlisle, who's a pretty good authority on the subject of drugs as she did them all, does not help the creative process at all as everything sounds good to you on pot. As the story goes, Belinda Carlisle made an album on pot and…

Gaga's problem at this point is that she's boring. If you make a career out of dressing up, eventually, and inevitably, people are going to get tired of the whole thing. She got away with it up until Born This Way because the hits kept coming. But now the hits have dried up and you can't help not being interested.…

Why would that shit make anyone cry? (Other than because it's fucking terrible. A standard indie song with too much pathos and those insufferable Aaaaa aaaaa aaaaa! interjections so common in indie songs, like they're in the middle of a dental appointment gone bad.) I was expecting something good, and what I got was…

About 10 years ago, when I used to post on the Halloween message board, I read this thing about how most Halloween fans can be divided into three camps: 1) fans of H1, H2, H20 (and to an extent H:R), i.e. fans of the Laurie Strode storyline, 2) fans of H1, H2, H4, H5, H6, and H20 (and to an extent H:R), i.e. fans of…

I used to play the Silver Shamrock song every Halloween to annoy my family. There used to be a clip of the song on YouTube with a picture of a pumpkin and "I bet you can't sit through this…" written on it. No idea if it's still on there because too lazy to check. But it's seriously one of the most annoying songs in a…

Actually, she was passionate about both her likes and dislikes. I guess people like to cherry pick her more negative quotes because they get folks riled up, but she tended to offer harsh criticism as well as high praise (when she thought the movie deserved it). She thought that, as a critic, her obligation was to…

Don't forget obscure Asian movies. She loved those. Almost anything Asian/foreign and "perverse", she liked.

I don't care. I like this album. The songs are catchy, hook-filled, and melodic. They're f-ing pop songs. Birthday (Mariah Carey!), Walking on Air (early-to-mid-'90s Eurodance), Spiritual, This is How We Do, Ghost, and Legendary Lovers are some of my favourites. I'm not a ballad person, but I love the uptempo/upbeat…

McCartney's always been my favourite Beatle precisely because he always seemed like the most whimsical one. Not the butt of the joke like Ringo, but a joker. Lennon always seemed slightly too self-serious and too '30s-message-movie for me (I love his solo stuff, but I could never warm to the man or the 'social cause'…

The fucking Go-Go's were/are an all-female band. The A.V. Club just did a feature on them not long ago.

Basically.

Funny because I have no patience for filler and, to me, Honey & I, My Song 5, Let Me Go and Running If You Call My Name are the fillers. The rest are catchy tunes. 7/11 (number of catchy tunes/number of songs on the album), not a bad ratio.