End of Year Lists

[redsock]

Originally posted by Celeste:
   

Originally posted by redsock:
   

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  Of course I like their influences...Byrds and Beach Boys  

No wonder I thought they kinda sounded like the Shins... [/b]

did you have a stuffy head or congestion in your ears, maybe? that might be a more likely reason [/b]

With the volume down low, while busy doing other things, lots of things sound like the Shins.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Now you know how I feel, with all of these Anglophile Americans hanging out here.
 
    At least the Thrills lived in California...
 
 

Originally posted by mark e smith:
  Its fine to celebrate other cultures, but to immitate the accent and the style is not paying homage to America, but claiming, falsely, to be part of it. Its just a rip off.
 
 I guess it is somewhat reminiscent of Kafka's AmeriKa..... A book about a country he never visited.....

[markie]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  Now you know how I feel, with all of these Anglophile Americans hanging out here.
 
 

[/QB][/QUOTE]
 
 Thr thrills had a 4 month holiday in California. I dont call that living somewhere.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Kind of like the people on this board when they get back from London...
 
 

Originally posted by mark e smith:
   

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  Now you know how I feel, with all of these Anglophile Americans hanging out here.
 
 

[/b]

Thr thrills had a 4 month holiday in California. I dont call that living somewhere. [/QB][/QUOTE]

[markie]

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  Kind of like the people on this board when they get back from London...
 
   

Only Fico.

[Bags]

And  here's  The Onion's Lists (done individually by each reviewer).

[Jaguär]

Originally posted by mark e smith:
   

Originally posted by Rhett Miller:
  Now you know how I feel, with all of these Anglophile Americans hanging out here.
 
 

[/b]

Thr thrills had a 4 month holiday in California. I dont call that living somewhere. [/QB][/QUOTE]
 
 Though I agree with you, I couldn't care less about all of that. Quite simply, I just don't like their music.
 
 Never liked America either. The band, not the country.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Popmatters top 50 http://popmatters.com/music/best2003/index-46-50.shtml
 
 Interestingly, we own four of the top 15, and none of the next 35...

[brennser]

the moment we've all been waiting for.....
 
  Pitchforks Top 50

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by brennser:
  the moment we've all been waiting for.....
 
  Pitchforks Top 50

I think I will call it the list that finally proves pitchfork's irrelavance
 
 it is good for finding stuff to look in to for yourself, but their judgement is just way off in my opinion

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Wow, I have one in the top 50 of Pitchfork, none in the NME list. I guess I fail the coolness test.
 
 

Originally posted by brennser:
  the moment we've all been waiting for.....
 
  Pitchforks Top 50

[Venerable Bede]

hmmm. . .i've got 4 from pitchfork, and 7 from nme and popmatters. . .

[brennser]

I managed 5 from the Pitchfork list....

[grotty]

Pitchfork's mission statement summarized:
 
 obscurity = cool
 
 That list in no way summarizes the best records of 2003. It should correctly be called:
 
 The best stuff you may not have heard & may want to check out.

[markie]

Originally posted by brennser:
  I managed 5 from the Pitchfork list....

I wonder if we have exactly the same 5?
 
 DecemberistsX2
 Ted Leo
 Postal Service
 Shins
 
 There are two others I listened to a bit, but never bought....
 
 M.Ward and the Exploding hearts.