SPIN Top 40 Of 2003

My tastes are, but my listening isn't, really. Well, not totally; I don't listen to the radio, ever, but I watch MTV every day.

Nah, the stupid fuck didn't list any record labels for all those 25 year old albums, and I didn't want to waste my time looking them up, basically. If you're gonna be a moron, at least DO YOUR WORK, you know?

Exactly. So they couldn't afford to miss this one. Which was my pint. (Though I bet it had more to do with THAT SONG than with Eminem. It's not like ever single he's ever made has placed on their lists, right?)

Judging by his Top 100 Greatest Albums list, he seems pretty obsessed with canonical boomer rock.

Also: I misunderstood your implication of "covering their asses," sorry.

Good to see !!! on the singles list, but no Junior Senior = TRASH.

Matos: you only have one toenail on your left foot? What the hell?

I forget, but not especially, I don't think. I mean, I think he even put the Sex Pistols on there. So the list was not only a dumb music-sucks-these-days statement, it was also completely boring about it.

I didn't even bother to address this earlier in the thread because this is the Donnas', what, SIXTH album. And the Distillers' THIRD. AND BOTH bands have been selling out and headlining shows in clubs for years. That and it's a stupid fucking thing to say to begin with. "Women In Rock are Back." Fucking die, please. But it doesn't piss me off half as much as Stone's insistence to put Eve, Mary J. etc. on the cover of this year's Women In Rock issue. For fuck's sake, change the issue to WOMEN IN MUSIC. Drives me NUTS.

15. The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get-Joe Walsh
16. Slayed?-Slade
18. Bridge of Sighs-Robin Trower
28. Fool for the City-Foghat
49. Thick as a Brick-Jethro Tull
55. Straight Shooter-Bad Company
57. Lights Out-UFO
63. Frampton Comes Alive-Peter Frampton
70. Starless and Bible Black-King Crimson
71. Flat as a Pancake-Head East
76. They Only Come Out at Night-Edgar Winter
77. All American Boy-Rick Derringer
80. Molly Hatchet
81. Dreamboat Annie-Heart
82. Little Queen-Heart
86. Montrose
90. Klaatu
91. Brain Salad Surgery-Emerson, Lake & Palmer
92. Hair of the Dog-Nazareth
94. Mirror Stars-Fabulous Poodles
100. Not Fragile-BTO

Most of them are actually pretty good, too.

(Hey Jeanne, I'll check that record out based on your recommendation just now, so hey, good thing you posted it here.)

40 Electric Six "Fire"
38 Basement Jaxx "Kish Kash"
34 My Morning Jacket "It Still Moves"
29 Joe Budden "Joe Budden"
28 Drive By Truckers "Decoration Day"
27 Bubba Sparxx "Deliverance"
25 The Darkness "Permission To Land"
24 The Rapture "Echoes"
19 Atmosphere "Seven's Travels"
15 AFI "Sing The Sorrow"
14 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists "Hearts of Oak"
12 Dizzee Rascal "Boy In Da Corner"
10 Radiohead "Hail to the Thief"
06 Jay-Z "The Black Album"
05 Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Fever To Tell"
03 The Strokes "Room On Fire"
02 Outkast "Speakerboxx/The Love Below"
01 The White Stripes "Elephant"

Haven't decided on Missy yet. Like 50's birthday song just fine.
Bubba Sparxxx is the only one that will make my top ten, probably.

The Darkness are way marginal, but I like how some melodies remind me of old Scorpions/Boston/Night Ranger proto-pop-metal stuff. Their songwriting kinda sucks, they don't take enough guitar solos, and the Tiny Tim dork is way better singing in a lower register. That said, I definitely find hooks all through that CD that I respond happily to.

If all it takes to make Spin's top 40 is cop a Neil Young line for a hook, I need to start a band, post haste!!

I gotta admit I'm digging Decoration Day a lot more than the cheapo Lynyrd comp called What's Your Name? that I've got. Compared to the Darkness and Rapture guys, Karen O, Patterson Hood and Ted Leo are definitely NOT as monochromatic and empty.

You couldn't have made more of a mindfuck if you tried! Let it slip in your ballot and then deny ever having thought about it.

Anthony, I can only chalk this up to your famous "rhythm section problem." (And remember, DBT's considerably less alt country but still not danceable enough previous album topped my list last year, unless you count bands from 25 years ago.) (Also, I didn't compare Ted Leo, etc to Darkness, etc; I compared them to Thin Lizzy, etc.)

Yeah judging bands on more than their rhythm section IS my problem, Chuck.