The Days of Lore

Diss on my list

Friday, November 21st, 2008 | musiX | 2 Comments

It’s year-end list time already?! Everyone’s getting list-y, I tell you. Don’t you worry, I will soon. But not yet … not when there are releases by Fall Out Boy and Britney Spears still to come. Paste just came out with its Top 50 of 2008, which has already received some post-game commentary from Stereogum and Rawkblog.

I see a lot of the usual suspects in Paste’s Top 10 … the Vampire Weekends, the Fleet Foxes, the Shes, the Hims. I will only say this: Liam Finn’s I’ll Be Lightening (No. 27) should swap spots with Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago (No. 4). And, done (in my mind’s eye) … oh, and take out Flight of the Concords and add The Roots’ Rising Down. I’ll stop now.

In other slightly related news, former VH1 cool kids Third Eye Blind have already found their new song “Non-Dairy Creamer” as a runner-up for Worst Song of 2008 according to one Stereogum reader. The post received a ton of response, including one from 3EB frontman Stephan Jenkins … you’ll just have to read it for yourself. I will say this: Attack Jenkins’ lyrics all you want, but he is the guy who got the line “coming over you” onto mainstream radio.

And in a slightly related anecdote, I remember purchasing Third Eye Blind’s first album at Tower Records … I actually looked around to make sure no one saw me … and I’m pretty sure I told the clerk I was buying it for my nephew … and I took it home … and I like(d) it. Don’t tell anyone I told you.

And bringing this back around to the topic of lists, I also like “Kiss On My List” by Hall & Oates.

Tags: "Non-Dairy Creamer", Bon Iver, Britney Spears, Fall Out Boy, Hall & Oates, Liam Finn, Paste, Rawkblog, Stephan Jenkins, Stereogum, Third Eye Blind, Top 50 of 2008