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This will be my AOTY, for sure.

It's ok to love this album. It's not a guilty pleasure.

Wow this song. It'll have to settle for being my favourite track of next year.

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange

I'm just looking at all these lists, and there is always a few "controversial" omissions or orders, and it kind of smells like bullshit. There is always wiggle room for the definitive order of a best songs or best albums list, but to use your website's influence to try to re-write history under the guise that "music lists are subjective" feels wrong. "My Girls" is one of the best AnCo songs, "Heroin" is one of the best Velvets songs, and "Pablo Honey" is the worst Radiohead album. Everyone knows this. It's not subjective. The editors must know that this kind of stuff will cause a shitstorm, so it feels like they publish bogus lists for the page views and comments. It's a similar mentality to that LA Weekly article a few weeks back about 'the worst hipster bands' or whatever. I really like lists, by the way.

You're sacrificing integrity for the sake of page views and comments.

Leonard Cohen is the best. Suzanne is my favourite song, by anyone, ever.

The Dead Prez/Two Weeks mash-up is just incredible.

Does California Stars count? Because it should.

A Shot in the Arm is easily a top 5 Wilco song (if not top 3). And A Ghost is Born is vastly underrated.

Well yeah

You Are Free is leaps and bounds better than Moon Pix.

This is great. but are we not going to discuss "Anything We Want", which also came out and is on soundcloud? Because it's even better.

There should be no reservations here. This album is great.

Fassbender

I think you meant to post at Brooklyn Vegan.

"Miss You" sounds a whole lot like Yeasayer

I'm between this and Radiohead's "Seperator"

This just further illustrates how Radiohead is so obviously tops. These live versions are amazing, the album is amazing. I'm hoping more people come around to it.

It's a difficult situation for Stereogum to be in actually. On the one hand, it does seem like they are praising this guy's music without adequately addressing how problematic his lyrics are (putting him 'on a pedestal'). On the other hand, Tyler is news and they have to write about him. This is especially true because they are a blog and so they let people (like you) voice your opinion. It's important for Stereogum to post about Tyler precisely so that you can talk about how offensive his lyrics are. Still, I don't know about other publications like Pitchfork. They're not a blog, and their features and reviews (not necessarily their news) are definitely crowning Tyler the Creator. I think that P-fork is assuming their readership will see beyond the offensiveness or be thoughtful about how problematic it is, and so they're don't feel a need to address it that much. Maybe they see it as a 'preaching to the choir'-type situation if they address it in a review or feature. But I think that's kind of a reckless thing for P-fork to do. It should be addressed.