She needs to protect her vocal chords in case her career revives.

Isn't that what Blank Space is about?

What's wrong with that though? Honestly you got my number completely - I've tried and tried to get what other people liked about Swift and 1989 and finally gave up thinking maybe there's something there or maybe it's hype but I cannot stand the delivery. Then this comes along and wraps the structure Swift created in…

Yeah also a reviewer ought to grade a work on how effective it is, not on how much merit the creator has. The place of a reviewer is not to give Taylor her due props, but to help the potential buyer/listener decide if they want to invest time/money in the work.

Also his Lou Reed is chillingly accurate and it makes the lyrics to Blank Space come of as very weird and dark.

Yeah. Some are saying he's mocking Ryan Adams, but both are so good that to me he's just saying, "Come on it bros, the water is great!" Bon Iver, Jose Gonzalez, Isaac Brock, Mount Erie, Mountain Goats, Kurt Vile - every indie folk rock dude do a Taylor Swift cover! We'll politely disregard the crap and celebrate the…

Holeeee cow, Father John Misty's response songs are awesome. http://pitchfork.com/news/6…

This is great but I'm holding out for Sun Kil Moon's cover of The Pinkprint. A little Portuguese guitar would really bring out the pathos behind Anaconda.

I need another person to put it on Spotify so I can listen to it.

This 1989 pretty much makes up for War On Drugs not putting out a record this year. Need pop hooks delivered in Springsteen-Petty-Seger stylings? Here you go. And it's pretty dang good too, other than the lyrics. But even the lyrics come out better with this delivery. I'm really loving the I'm On Fire approach to…

You're smarter then you look.

Pretty good but how did they not use Sax Man from Lost Boys? https://youtu.be/fDrTT5KbJf…

Is that a mouth-hole or does Birdo have a cloaca-face?

I've only recently begun to allow myself to indulge in MMA spectation after 15 years of overwhelming moral repugnance, and honestly I think it is a lot less problematic (ugh) than football. Sure, you're paying people to try to hurt each other and that still makes me squirm, but when you look at what an MMA fighter is…

I would but that doesn't assuage my guilt. Paying someone a lot to do something self destructive and degrading doesn't make it ok. Maybe it's even worse because it's a bit coercive in an "offer you can't refuse" way.

Congratulations on getting Prancer Maids.

Working my way through Yo La Tengo's discography for the first time and this is their best album in my opinion. Probably second best album of 2000 after Moon and Antarctica. All the attention Kid A got should have gone to this because YLT did what Radiohead did and did it better here.

I take it AV Club imported a bunch of old reviews in 2002? I'm working my way through Yo La Tengo's discography and to me this was their first great record.

It'd be fun to see the AVClub revisit this year's list. Does anybody still care about Marah? Boy do I miss these writers and this music.

Mine is trabbez. Though I had to uninstall last night because it was eating 100% of my phone's internal storage. I guess I'm finally going to try rooting a phone just to make Hearthstone put its data on my SD.