"We'll have to make a deal with the Klump Kartel."

I've seen everything.

I mean, you're probably right about some people, but I think also, if you look at this list, a lot of it is pretty mellow music. There's not any metal or any hardcore, is there?

I love those first three De La Soul albums, but this one just hasn't caught on with me as much.

I gotta be honest, both TLOP and Yeezus seem like the work of someone who is very gifted but would rather be doing something else. Like "Father Stretch My Hands," he gets a really grand production going and then farts out a really insipid verse where he rhymes asshole with asshole, hits with a great chorus, and the…

Parquet Courts are sort of victims of their own success and also pace of working at this point. I like this latest album as much as any of their others, but because it's like "Remember last year and the year before that? Here's another 20 fucking great songs!" it's hard to be like "You gotta hear this!"

Didn't you learn anything from Gord Downie's death? America has a blind spot for "front-to-back listenable with a sense of humor to balance out the shouting and huge hooks and interesting choices on the best songs."

That's certainly an accomplishment on its own merit.

Angel Olsen, Weyes Blood and Kevin Morby in a bloodbath finish this year!

I wanted to like Preoccupations (because I loved Women, and liked Viet Cong), but it just didn't do it for me. I think I need to give it another listen, but it reminds me of Future Islands—another band that on paper I'm all for, but on record, stays on the shelf..

Freetown Sound seems to fit right in with the Solange/Frank Ocean/Radiohead ambient pop thing going on. My concern is that they're all so mellow…is this adult contemporary music now?

I'm kind of surprised that Noname isn't getting more love in these year-end lists. Given its really open production, Chicago origins, and ruminations on warm summer nights when you're a kid, it feels like the sister album to Chance the Rapper's Coloring Book, which is to say, it's really really good.

In no particular alphabetical order by artist:

I don't know about the eternal consequences, but you should probably make sure it's okay with Pinkie Pie. Friendship being magical and all that jazz. ;-)

Rosebud's the sled

I was actually surprised at how insensitive she sounded to me. Sounds like she found out it was sacred, didn't care and went ahead and wiped her ass on it, and then when it rolled down a hill, she describes all the natives calling it a curse.

I'm still pretty furious that someone THAT small is named "Grande."

He used to live in Hawaii, and even if he doesn't know that she's being offensive to Hawaiian culture, he probably knows it's bad form to almost crush your sound man.

Or the V for Vendetta guy! He was a such a cool atheist like us that he—*reads Guy Fawkes wikipedia page for, like, one second*

Maybe you just shouldn't throw pop cans out of tour bus windows, regardless of how sacred the side of the road is?