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No doubt this displays shocking ignorance, but what show is that and how can I watch every episode immediately?
Pretty good list, considering. I thought St. Vincent would make top 5, if not #1. Not that #11 is bad by any means, but they LOVED that record.
Yeah, A+ throwing in those subtle Leno digs. Who then, true to form, responded with a fat joke ("Did you thank your personal trainer for NOT working you out?). You got him, Jay!
"download that entire four-song Daytrotter session for free" - nope, they charge $2/month now.
I would guess PJ Harvey? Not by much though.
Eh, I thought it was one of the worst episodes of the season (but it's been a pretty strong season, so that's okay). Katy Perry was fine, but I almost would have preferred her to be hilariously awful than just kind of boring. She was a good sport about everything she was in, but never really seemed to go for broke with the impressions or characters. Oh well. Next week Jimmy Fallon!!
Not to be a stickler about this INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT topic, but the original Rebecca Black video probably had 20 times as many "dislikes" before she took it down and uploaded the new one on her account a few months ago. Rebecca Black For the…Win? Loss? They're both just terrible?
Honestly, I think the fact that SuperHeavy made this list at all tops even that. Weird for anyone to take the position that Mick Jagger can do no wrong when there are MOUNTAINS of evidence refuting that.
That's actually a pretty solid singles list.
I was surprised to see St. Vincent so far down too. I agree though - good album, not great. Overall an excellent list (even if I still don't quite understand the Drake hype). Is it too soon to assume Best Album of 2012 lists will be a Lana Del Rey sweep?
I used to drive 1.5 hours in college to go to shows at Higher Ground. A really great venue, by any city's standards. Saw the Roots there, Junior Brown, State Radio (ugh), Grace Potter, and a few others. In NY I can see a zillion bands any night of the week, but there was still something special about that Burlington venue behind the Quiznnos.
I disagree with a lot of this stuff, but I always support a list that has actual character. A lot of these lists end up feeling like a generic aggregate of every music writer in the world's opinion. I doubt we'll see such an eclectic Top 5 from Rolling Stone or P4k… 05 Josh T. Pearson – Last Of The Country Gentlemen 04 White Denim – D 03 Metronomy – The English Riviera 02 Gillian Welch – The Harrow & The Harvest 01 PJ Harvey – Let England Shake
For whatever reason, the British mags all LOVE him while the stateside music press ignores him. Strange given that his music seems so deeply rooted in strictly-American musical traditions (and he's from Texas).
Hey, at least they didn't include Beady Eye. For a British rock mag, that's something like progress.
Pretty good for the first big list of the year. More surprises than I would have expected from one of the more prominent publications. Wonder if Spin or Rolling Stone will throw any such curveballs (doubtful).
"an actual Michael Jackson impersonator" As opposed to what, a FAKE Michael Jackson impersonator?
Ha! I was thinking Big Freedia, or even Katey Red. These are the real superheroes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ZeYslcGNg
Les Jeunes de Paris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqQw7nYkwCg
The Adele sketch was amazing! Really just one simple joke, but the concept itself was so dead-on that all it needed to do was not get in its own way. Incidentally, it's streaming in the full-episode stream on Hulu (near the end).
The related videos Bing is providing for this post are upsetting.
That second girl is there to take Em's verses. Two peas and a tripod! (If you got that last part...sorry. I'll escort myself to jail.)
These ads have been up in the subway platforms for months. Wonder why they're just rolling out the press push now.
Truly, Johnny Depp is OUR generation's Hank Williams Jr.
Love that. Catchy tune and attitude to spare.
Really, THREE songs from the new album? I like Collapse Into Now, but come on. These are not, nor ever will be, greatest hits by any stretch of the term. Especially when, as you point out, an album like Monster only gets on track.
I think it's a little more nuanced than that. African-Americans have a different cultural history than just People of African Descent in White Cultures generally. In particular, "blackface" as a cultural construct came straight from America. If you had no idea of the history of blackface performance you were linking yourself to, it would be less offensive than someone who appropriated that tradition deliberately. There's a difference between "painting yourself black" and "going in blackface.". As Gabe pointed out, both are absolutely unacceptable, but one is racist and the other just astoundingly ignorant. Point being, the fact that they're Canadian does explain how they could just be ignorant of what they were doing, which would be a hard excuse to buy from anywhere in (most parts of) America.
I'd just like to point out that the same YouTube uploader also offers this gem from the 2008 election. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPOVdsA8Hgo
Yep, this feature makes about as much sense as expected.
Does this mean the end of the Best Videos of the Week series? Sure hope not! Best feature Stereogum has.
"U Should Know Better." Snoop's best performance in years.
You know what it doesn't work on? "Zach Galifianakis." You end up in an endless loop between "telecommunication" and "transmission." Otherwise, though, yeah. This is amazing.
Yeah, I kept waiting for it to get hilariously homoerotic. But then it ended, and all I'd seen was two fans acting a little goofy singing along to a song they liked. I feel misled.
My favorite feature every single week. The Augustana video didn't do it for me (seemed to be mostly a generic Killers-esq desert performance clip with only minor tweaks), but that Wiley is fantastic!
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