As it happens, I'd already participated in an equivalent critics' polls organised by Stylus, a webzine that had been Pitchfork's "friendly rival" until it closed down a few years ago but whose writers have reconvened for a special one-off decade-assessing issue (the results, plus a raft of overview essays, are due in a few weeks' time).
Simon Reynolds at the Guardian
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Monday, 7 December 2009 17:42 (sixteen years ago)
nick or whoever- can we at least get a list of writers involved? for example is lex involved? i'd love to read his end of decade essay along with the rest of the obvious names.
― adorable cheese inscription (a hoy hoy), Monday, 7 December 2009 17:45 (sixteen years ago)
Just about everyone from the original staff's involved.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 December 2009 17:49 (sixteen years ago)
::cough::
― radric in manehattan (some dude), Monday, 7 December 2009 18:08 (sixteen years ago)
Not sure what you mean by "original staff," Alfred. As far as I know, only a few of these people are involved.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Monday, 7 December 2009 18:40 (sixteen years ago)
why are you such a literalist?
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 December 2009 18:53 (sixteen years ago)
wholehearted mass -> you do you -> lovesick teenagers is a great run.
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 18:55 (sixteen years ago)
whoops. wrong thread.
― caek, Monday, 7 December 2009 18:56 (sixteen years ago)
Lex isn't involved, no, because he was too tardy to submit a ballot; thus he is banned from bitching about under-representation of anyone or anything on our list - he had the chance to represent, and failed.
We are STILL waiting on a handful of writers to submit blurbs. I'm going to start publicly naming and shaming them VERY soon; basically if the final few blurbs aren't in by 8am my time Saturday, I'll write the remainder my fucking self.
But the lists are 90% ready; we just need to get them 100%, passed to our web dude, and uploaded and published.
― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 7 December 2009 19:04 (sixteen years ago)
Sorry, dude. I really don't know what you mean by "original staff," though: there was a lot of turnover, and lots of people that wrote for Stylus at one point or another aren't involved at all.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Monday, 7 December 2009 19:07 (sixteen years ago)
i was mid-party conference season when the invites were sent out! and i STILL can't work out how to open excel documents on my mac :(
― lex pretend, Monday, 7 December 2009 19:08 (sixteen years ago)
use google docs
― bnw, Monday, 7 December 2009 19:10 (sixteen years ago)
Try NeoOffice - free MS Office alternative.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 7 December 2009 19:16 (sixteen years ago)
i wasnt contacted about it afaik
― unicorn strapped with a unabomb (deej), Monday, 7 December 2009 23:02 (sixteen years ago)
when did s reynolds write for stylus?
― lords of hyrule (c sharp major), Tuesday, 8 December 2009 01:12 (sixteen years ago)
We have a date.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:24 (sixteen years ago)
Our first ever weekly article, courtesy of Simon Reynolds - http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/weekly_article/seeing-the-beat-retinal-intensities-in-techno-and-electronic-dance-videos.htm
― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:53 (sixteen years ago)
I think he's the only person who submitted a ballot who was writing for Stylus BEFORE I was (Todd Burns didn't submit a ballot).
― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 December 2009 15:54 (sixteen years ago)
― saturdayclub, Saturday, 19 December 2009 02:44 (sixteen years ago)
You should get a Nobel.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 19 December 2009 02:46 (sixteen years ago)
If not a Fields Medal.
― alter cocker jarvis cocker (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 December 2009 02:53 (sixteen years ago)
Don't tell anyone, but it's the Heisman I'm really holding out for.
― saturdayclub, Saturday, 19 December 2009 05:16 (sixteen years ago)
Three days to go...
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:56 (sixteen years ago)
...until the disappointment of the decade!
― Christmas With Mark Hollis (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 23:22 (sixteen years ago)
By that measure you're saying the rest of the decade will be unalloyed wonderfulness.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 23:27 (sixteen years ago)
Tick tock tick tock.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 23:39 (sixteen years ago)
It's January 1, 2010 and I see ***NO*** Stylus decade so chalk another point up for KBP.
― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Friday, 1 January 2010 08:31 (sixteen years ago)
We do not care about the concepts of 'time' as expressed by capewearers.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 January 2010 08:32 (sixteen years ago)
get off the pot, ned
― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Friday, 1 January 2010 08:39 (sixteen years ago)
Give it a few hours for the love of hangovers.
― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 1 January 2010 09:48 (sixteen years ago)
wake up you drunks
― eagle tears was a popular drink and it still is (a hoy hoy), Friday, 1 January 2010 17:51 (sixteen years ago)
i woke up at 8 in the morning FOR THIS??
― een, Friday, 1 January 2010 18:56 (sixteen years ago)
so is it just the intro today?
― eagle tears was a popular drink and it still is (a hoy hoy), Friday, 1 January 2010 21:36 (sixteen years ago)
Lists commence Monday.
― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 1 January 2010 21:41 (sixteen years ago)
What about the essays?
― eagle tears was a popular drink and it still is (a hoy hoy), Friday, 1 January 2010 21:42 (sixteen years ago)
EVERY-TING.
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 January 2010 22:00 (sixteen years ago)
Hate to say I told you so but...
― striker, currently playing for Italian Serie A club Milan (King Boy Pato), Friday, 1 January 2010 22:11 (sixteen years ago)
oh come on. "1/1/10" and then an intro?
― sacredselections, Friday, 1 January 2010 22:14 (sixteen years ago)
Man you guys are jerks. Lookin' forward to Monday!
― Quiet, I'm making my Youtube Star Wars Review (Z S), Friday, 1 January 2010 22:19 (sixteen years ago)
can't wait to see the same albums as every other list in slightly different order. tingles!
― keythhtyek, Friday, 1 January 2010 22:36 (sixteen years ago)
just want to read dom's lol indie that even indie kids dont like but i heard it on steve lamacq + some j-zone essay, who cares what the blurb to #1 kid a is.
― eagle tears was a popular drink and it still is (a hoy hoy), Friday, 1 January 2010 22:38 (sixteen years ago)
Wow, that Lil Wayne drawing looks incredible. Looking forward to this.
― ana, Friday, 1 January 2010 22:49 (sixteen years ago)
will Embrace make the top 10?
― keythhtyek, Saturday, 2 January 2010 00:51 (sixteen years ago)
URL please - I'm going to stylusmagazine.com and seeing nothing but a leftover page from '07.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Saturday, 2 January 2010 02:02 (sixteen years ago)
http://www.thestylusdecade.com/intro.html
― djmartian, Saturday, 2 January 2010 02:04 (sixteen years ago)
Can't wait for there to be something other than the intro there.
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Saturday, 2 January 2010 17:38 (sixteen years ago)
this whole rolling-out-the-lists-gradually thing seems a little bombastic. "t-minus three days" or whatever. just post it.
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Saturday, 2 January 2010 18:15 (sixteen years ago)
If only it were that simple.
― exploding angel vagina (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 2 January 2010 18:17 (sixteen years ago)
??
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Saturday, 2 January 2010 18:19 (sixteen years ago)
i like this graf:
If there’s anything I really regret about this decade, it’s impatience. I mourn all the songs deleted from hard drives over the last ten years that would have been tolerated and eventually, perhaps, fallen in love with if they were on cassettes or LPs or CDs, the b-sides and album tracks and filler that get overshadowed by ego-songs demanding attention. Thinking about it though, I guess that lists like these are antidotes to impatience; they’re about taking stock, slowing down, making sure we didn’t forget anything important. I’m sure we did though.
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Saturday, 2 January 2010 18:20 (sixteen years ago)