The All-New STYLUS.

Great Stars of the Lid blurb. Gets to the crux of what we all love about them, without neglecting how 'apart' or 'other' they just seem.

Also, didn't notice Mike Powell or Ian Cohen with any bylines...maybe they're too prominent at Pitchfork now.

You'll see them soon.

Miguel Jiron, a friend of Nate De Young, our web designer, does the drawings.

I gotta say I thought the Stars of the Lid piece was a bit rote, and there were a couple of points I'd properly take issue with.

Yeah, Powell and Cohen are bigwigs now, they don't do lower-end list blurbs; only top 50s!

Gonna throw it out there:

Mike Powell is extremely gifted.

Awkward because I barely see this kind of complete unabashed praise for music writers on ILM, apart from people like Tom Ewing, [nabisco], (Reynolds to an extent).

He and I discussed marriage once.

reading Dom's blurbs is like meeting up with an annoying old friend you couldn't stand half the time when you knew him proper, but his foibles are kind of endearing now, in these small doses.

plus Biscuit got some love, so suck on that P4k

I've never listened to Biscuit.

Also, awkward punctuation/structure on my last post. Obviously like 50%+ of posters here have been properly published, but I feel I see more haranguing of prominent (and sometimes more widely respected) music writers than "oh what a great piece!"

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Powell's very goodlooking too, the bastard.

Guessing here but I think a sub might have confused Crass the band with crass the adjective in Dom's blurb

Correct. It'll be fixed later on!

man this list is indie-tastic.

How?

Javiera Mena! Did only Andrew vote for her?

I literally can't believe Javiera Mena made the singles list. OMFG

Many of us voted for her after having been introduced by to Esquemas Juveniles and the Prissa record via Casillas.

AND YOU PEOPLE ARE WELCOME!

Seriously though, Javiera e-mailed me and asked what secret favors I had to repay in order to put her behind the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Pretty rubbish list so far but I wouldn't have it any other way.

<3 pato

this looks great, good job, but ffs, did "float on" really beat "umbrella"

First shitty Girls Aloud single ("we ain't indie - this proves it") spotted.

Rats, the first part of my Hercules & Love Affair blurb has gone AWOL. They're fixing it later. The missing bit reads thusly:

"Grounded in disco, routing forwards via UK synth-pop and Chicago house, and reaching back through brassy Seventies funk, Andrew Butler’s project..."

And I thought that was a good write-up already!

I like that Okkervil River piece. Not enough kudos for this great band, and that helps to redress the balance.

biology should be higher

that was my first thought. biology should be way higher. all pop showing up on this list will be now be judged against it.

i love the look of the site, by the way.

Some great album picks already! Yay for Six By Seven and HMHB. Won't see them in any other high-profile list.

'Atlas' should be *way* higher btw

Very happy to see The Great Destroyer at No. 84. I haven't seen that disc on any other best-of-decade list.

For that matter, I can't recall seeing Girl Talk (Stylus' No. 93) on many decade-end lists, either.

these unexpected obscure picks are all well and good til the whole list rolls out and everybody realises that Discovery and the Blueprint didn't make it

I guess my big q is whether Aaliyah will show up on the albums list. I've been pretty surprised by the best album of the 00s not showing up on any lists.

these unexpected obscure picks are all well and good til the whole list rolls out and everybody realises that Discovery and the Blueprint didn't make it

Meh. As to any given picks or omissions: Dammed if they do, dammed if they don't.

Damn. I meant "Damned if they do . . ."

the good thing about waiting for everyone else's decade lists to be published is we're all expecting the same thing and don't really mind. if there's different stuff, then awesome, and if it's the same, then maybe the write-up will be good. can't lose, really. unless merriweather post pavillion is number one.

Rest assured on that last point.

Dom is killing it but all I have read so far is pretty good too. Only checked the album list so far.

Have to ask though- who is the drawing of that isn't MIA or Wayne?

R. Kelly.

Dom.

also saturday/ p-poppin/ move bitch/ all the singles from the first album>>>>>> rollout (my business).

79-67 is a flawless run of singles but both lists are pretty good so far.

"Since I left You" instead of "Frontier Psychiatrist"? I don't understand that at all. I will also NEVER understand the praise heaped upon "Umbrella," one of the most annoying songs of all time.

These are great and interesting lists so far. Good to see Dom Passantino is still alive.

"Frontier Psychiatrist" is by far the worst thing on that album.

Agreed, it's "Since I Left You" over "Frontier Psychiatrist" for me, too.

"Umbrella" should be top ten.

"Umbrella" should be top ten.

but there needs to be space in the top ten for a few curve balls!

<3 dom

Good to see Dom Passantino is still alive.

lol high cholesterol

It's good to see Stylus back, but I doubt that another decade-cumulating special is what the world needs. The same names, titles etc. as every other best-of-the-decade list, really can't see the point of it. Sorry.