So I was wandering the Internets looking for something completely different and came across this little gem of a blog entry over on, of all places, the website of Mother Jones -- the progressive news and political magazine. Who knew they had a music blogger? Who knew said music blogger was basically extremely very enormously funny?
The topic? The just-released "Best of 2007" lists from Rolling Stone and Spin magazines:
Spin, America's Snottiest Mainstream Music Ragâ„¢, and Rolling Stone, America's Grumpy-Old-Man-iest Music and Whatever Else They Damned Well Feel Like Publicationâ„¢, just posted their best albums and best singles lists, respectively, and there aren't really too many surprises. Spin goes out on a limb with their #1 slot, awarding Against Me's New Wave "Best Album" honors. It's a good CD, but the choice smacks of a certain "we're down with the mall-rat Hot Topic punk-rock haircut emo kid crowd, please buy our magazine" desperation that Spin, in their insecurity, descends to a lot of the time. Other than that, you couldn't get a more same-old, same-old two through ten.
The whole juicy thing, including both mags' lists, is
here.