Monday, December 7, 2009

My Top List for 2009

Every year around this time, I start to ponder doing a "Best of" list for the year. Some years, people actually ask to see them, or, even more odd, ask me to do them for their sites/blogs/yadda yadda. I'm always puzzled by whether or not I should do one. Truth is, I usually start and fart out half way through.

Now, there's a few fundamental issues with these: First, there's no way I, or anyone else has heard EVERYTHING out there, (even within a certain genre) so it's more of a "Favorites of the year" as opposed to "best of." Plus, every year, without fail, there's SOMETHING out there I meant to check out, usually by an artist I really dig, but just for some reason, don't get to hear.

There's also the issue of when things are released. Every year, I try to put a list together and forget something was released that year, and vice versa, think something released the previous year was from this one. I've been looking at a lot of "year end" lists in recent weeks, and the top 5s, GENERALLY are cluttered with releases from the past 4-6 months, whereas, releases from the first part of the year are lower, if on the list at all in many cases.

So, since I now have this handy-dandy blog, I'm going to be posting a "My Favorite Releases" list over the next week or so. Since I tend to get very wordy at times, I'm going to do them individually, as opposed to as a list. Plus, I'm not doing 10, nor are they in any specific order. Hell, some may not even be albums; I could add some films, TV shows, events, etc.

Stay tuned for my next exciting entry.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Top Records of 2009, Coming Soon?

Think I'm going to use this site to post my year end list as opposed to Myspace. Working on the list now. Definitely not doing a "Top 10," rather my just my favorites of the year. There's way too much going on out there to come up with some ranking system. Should have something up this week.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Test Blog?

Check, check.... this thing on?