'best of' lists...

[the_watchmaker]

so pitchfork asked their favorite artists to provide 'best of' lists for the year in music, lists with the expected mentions of stuff like TV on the Radio. what i found particularly striking, though, is that the most popular solo projects were Joanna Newsome and Justin Timberlake - and not for wholly ironic reasons, as a lot of them explain. (if

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[holden_wake]

'Future sex' is actually a cool song, believe it or not.

[the_watchmaker]

i actually really like the first 6 songs - and generally hate the rest. pitchfork's review of the album is equally fantastic. so my amusement isn't derived from a dislike of the album - i own it, even! - but from how ridiculously different his album is from newsome's. jt's album is great because of the music, the texture, the tempo, melody, and genre changes midway through a song. newsome, on the other hand, is all about lyrics, storytelling, and narrative, where the music is there to express a tone or emotion but serves little aesthetic purpose.

[tarterus]

Well, not THAT many people picked JT, really.

I have to admit, until you put some of his stuff on in the car when we were going to Windsor, I sort of pegged you as being an ironic fan of his work...

[the_watchmaker]

the first album? yes, mostly ironic.
the second album? it's actually good.