Shut Up, Dude: This Week’s Best And Worst Comments

Ok here we go. Let’s start a Taylor Swift cover band with all of the lyrics changed to be about The Smiths.

The band name?
The Swifts

Vol. 3 as #1? This is a joke, right?

Man, that is an unfortunate choice of words.

I hear some version of this in the comments pretty regularly, and I never address it because one reply from me isn’t going to do much to change popular opinion, but I probably should try anyway, so here goes: As the person who edits these things, let me say for the record that there’s absolutely no internal policy guiding the writer’s choices in any of these lists. I’ve never said, “Hey, we all know Slanted is the best Pavement album, but slot it in at number 3 to generate some commentary.” No one here has. Nothing of the sort. The writers who do these lists know these catalogs backwards and forwards; all I ask of them is that they provide readers with as much historical and cultural context as possible, so these things aren’t empty clickbait but stand up as informative and illuminating works of analysis that provide value to the expert and novice alike. I’m honestly being totally transparent here. I’d be much more likely to ask a writer to re-work his or her list if it seemed deliberately contrarian than I would if it seemed painfully obvious. There’s no conspiracy at work, just differing opinions, you have my word.

Guys… I’m starting to get a sneaking suspicion that all the albums released in ’92 might be turning 20 this year.

comment defies judgment, yo

I have no real input re: the album rankings, but after watching this gif for about 3 solid minutes, I am confident in saying that that must be one of the most perfectly acted moments of all time.

Dunno who these guys are, but they are really ripping off Jet!

If you’re having list problems I feel bad for you son.