It's that time of year when you can't visit a website without lists, lists, lists, of all the things that need to be listed about this horrible year of twenty sixteen. Generally, I stay away - except maybe for the photos. As I complained yesterday, "best of" lists bore me, so I don't pay much attention to them - except when I feel a need to compare my list of favorites to theirs.
You see, when you're super cool & you ignore stupid commercial crap, looking at lists like that can make you feel a bit superior - sort of like when you go to a site like Rate Your Music & the usual suspects are there, the ones that'll end up on everyone's lists because, you know, they're supposed to. (Does anyone ever really listen to some of the records they claim to love?)
Except 2016 has to be different, damn it. You know what's at the top of many (if not all) of these lists? David Bowie's Blackstar. & it's a good record. On Rate Your Music, Leonard Freakin' Cohen is in the top fifty! Maybe it's because they died, maybe that drew attention to their work, but then there's Iggy Pop's latest, doing well in opinion polls. Motherfucker!
Why should I care? Because those records are on my list, too!
How galling! How awkward!
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