The List Thread

[urth]

A list of best rock Xmas songs from the WashPost. I don't agree with all of it (and I hope I'm never subjected to DCFC's Darlene Love cover) but the guy loves him some "Fairytale of NY":

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/10/AR2010121003008.html

yeah, I think people on this board could write a better list... and points off for that headline ("Yes, virginia...") the lead "(It's that magical time of the year...") and for calling Burl Ives a fogey, too! 

And further deduction for crediting "I Believe in Father Christmas" to ELP rather than Greg Lake. (Yes, I know ELP recorded it subsequent to Lake's version, but his is the one you nearly always hear.)

[sundaygal]

A list of best rock Xmas songs from the WashPost. I don't agree with all of it (and I hope I'm never subjected to DCFC's Darlene Love cover) but the guy loves him some "Fairytale of NY":

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/10/AR2010121003008.html

yeah, I think people on this board could write a better list... and points off for that headline ("Yes, virginia...") the lead "(It's that magical time of the year...") and for calling Burl Ives a fogey, too!  

And further deduction for crediting "I Believe in Father Christmas" to ELP rather than Greg Lake. (Yes, I know ELP recorded it subsequent to Lake's version, but his is the one you nearly always hear.)

Plus, he must be smoking salvia thinking that The Flaming Lips song that came in at #10 is better than Do They Know It's Christmas?  I gave it a listen too.  No freaking way.

[Tinka Cat]

A list of best rock Xmas songs from the WashPost. I don't agree with all of it (and I hope I'm never subjected to DCFC's Darlene Love cover) but the guy loves him some "Fairytale of NY":

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/10/AR2010121003008.html

yeah, I think people on this board could write a better list... and points off for that headline ("Yes, virginia...") the lead "(It's that magical time of the year...") and for calling Burl Ives a fogey, too! 

And further deduction for crediting "I Believe in Father Christmas" to ELP rather than Greg Lake. (Yes, I know ELP recorded it subsequent to Lake's version, but his is the one you nearly always hear.)

you're right. I looked it up and saw they (as a group) had releases w that song on it, but it's Greg Lake's all the way.  And I would use s stronger word to describe the feeling of the song than "ennui."  Ennui to me means boredom: that song brings up stronger feelings, like disillusion, disappointment, maybe resentment and anger.    But he's right to include it on his list.

[Alicat]

Good lord. I found the following list on wikipedia and couldn't stop reading. Not good stuff.
List of youngest birth mothers, ages 5-11! Posted here just because there's a list thread.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngest_birth_mothers

[Gazoo]

Good lord. I found the following list on wikipedia and couldn't stop reading. Not good stuff.
List of youngest birth mothers, ages 5-11! Posted here just because there's a list thread.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngest_birth_mothers

My next-door neighbor back in Glassport, PA, gave birth at age 13.  Her mother had herself given birth at 13 and change; she was thus a grandmother at 27.  I wouldn't be surprised if the cycle has since continued.

[RGMike]

KFOG is aking Fogheads to name their favorite album of 2010 on FB.  Aside from the person who named Train (ugh!) the choices all seem to be CDs KFOG hasn't played. LOL!

[sundaygal]

KFOG is aking Fogheads to name their favorite album of 2010 on FB.  Aside from the person who named Train (ugh!) the choices all seem to be CDs KFOG hasn't played. LOL!

Big Rick played your Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings last night.  I've also heard Best Coast (my choice) & The National (Radical's choice) on his show.  That being said, he made some dodgy selections for his year-end list.  Sheryl Crow?  Really?

http://www.kfog.com/Pages/FogheadFavorites2010.aspx

[Tinka Cat]

KFOG is aking Fogheads to name their favorite album of 2010 on FB.  Aside from the person who named Train (ugh!) the choices all seem to be CDs KFOG hasn't played. LOL!

Big Rick played your Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings last night.  I've also heard Best Coast (my choice) & The National (Radical's choice) on his show.  That being said, he made some dodgy selections for his year-end list.  Sheryl Crow?  Really?

http://www.kfog.com/Pages/FogheadFavorites2010.aspx

local rascal columnist Mark Morford weighs in w his top 10 albums (and top 30 tracks) of 2010.  
He picks the National as his favorite release (that's what she sa..  oh, nevermind..)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/12/29/notes122910.DTL

10) Tame Impala - InnerSpeaker
9) Beach House - Teen Dream
8 ) Danzig - Deth Red Saboath
7) OoOoOO (EP)/James Blake - Klavierwerke/CMYK/The Bells Sketch (EPs)
6) Jónsi - Go
5) Spoon - Transference
4) Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
3) How to Dress Well - Love Remains
2) Girl Talk - All Day
1) The National - High Violet

 top 30 individual tracks of 2010 (in no particular order)

1. "Everyman and Woman Is a Star" - The Cult
2. "Love Came Here" - Lhasa
3. "Ruby" - Mount Kimbie
4. "Shine On, You Crazy White Cap" - Teen Daze
5. "Love Fade" - Tamaryn
6. "Always Malaise (The Man I Am)" - Interpol
7. "Come Undone" - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
8. "Blue Streak Mama" - Frazey Ford
9. "Isle of Avalon" - Iron Maiden
10. "Burning Hell" - Tom Jones
11. "Palaces Of Montezuma" - Grinderman
12. "Tightrope" - Janelle Monáe
13. "Sycamore Feeling" - Trentemoller
14. "Red Lights" - Holy F-ck
15. "Love Gun" - Cee-Lo Green
16. "Lost in the World" - Kanye West
17. "New York is Killing Me" - Gil Scott Heron
18. "Planetary (Go!)" - My Chemical Romance
19. "VCR (Matthew Dear Remix)" - The XX
20. "The High Road" - Broken Bells
21. "Reason or Rhyme" - Bryan Ferry
22. "Dandelion" - Charlotte Gainsbourg
23. "Die by the Drop" - The Dead Weather
24. "Love Cry" - Four Tet
25. "This Love is Over" - Ray Lamontagne
26. "Garden" - Sean Hayes
27. "Eyesdown" - Bonobo
28. "Broken" - Gorillaz
29. "Atlas Air" - Massive Attack
30. "Tiger" - Maximum Balloon (all praise, Daisy Lowe)

[RGMike]

KFOG is aking Fogheads to name their favorite album of 2010 on FB.  Aside from the person who named Train (ugh!) the choices all seem to be CDs KFOG hasn't played. LOL!

Big Rick played your Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings last night.  I've also heard Best Coast (my choice) & The National (Radical's choice) on his show.  That being said, he made some dodgy selections for his year-end list.  Sheryl Crow?  Really?

http://www.kfog.com/Pages/FogheadFavorites2010.aspx

Funny, they're gonna be playing those DJ picks on New Year's Day -- including the stuff they've ignored until now? Reminds me of when The White Stripes finished in the Top Ten of the Foghead poll even tho' KFOG had ignored that album completely. They played it a bit after New Years and then quietly stopped.

[RGMike]

The 11 Most Annoying songs of 2010 -- yay! Train made the list (as did the cast of Glee):

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/30/NSNS1GUOJ1.DTL

[Gazoo]

The 11 Most Annoying songs of 2010 -- yay! Train made the list (as did the cast of Glee):

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/30/NSNS1GUOJ1.DTL

I can't believe "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" didn't make the list.  That was a mess.

[RGMike]

The 11 Most Annoying songs of 2010 -- yay! Train made the list (as did the cast of Glee):

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/30/NSNS1GUOJ1.DTL

I can't believe "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" didn't make the list.  That was a mess.

I'm guessing it didn't really get that much airplay (enuf to be uber-annoying). I don't think I ever heard it outside of news stories about it.

[Tinka Cat]

The 11 Most Annoying songs of 2010 -- yay! Train made the list (as did the cast of Glee):

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/30/NSNS1GUOJ1.DTL

I can't believe "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" didn't make the list.  That was a mess.

I'm guessing it didn't really get that much airplay (enuf to be uber-annoying). I don't think I ever heard it outside of news stories about it.

I feel relieved I can't name some of these acts/songs.

Since so many people hate it, I must now call Hey, Soul Sister a guilty pleasure.   

[RGMike]

Since so many people hate it, I must now call Hey, Soul Sister a guilty pleasure.   

I can understand it becoming a hit. But after 14 months (!) you'd think even people who liked it would be sick of it by now, yet every Top 40, A/C and Triple-A station in America is still playing it 5 or 6 times a day. Jeezus.

[Tinka Cat]

Since so many people hate it, I must now call Hey, Soul Sister a guilty pleasure.   

I can understand it becoming a hit. But after 14 months (!) you'd think even people who liked it would be sick of it by now, yet every Top 40, A/C and Triple-A station in America is still playing it 5 or 6 times a day. Jeezus.

yes, I can understand it.  Still don't mind it when I hear it. 

And thank heavens I don't listen to every Top 40, A/C and Triple-A station in America!