Some times things move quickly. In a couple of minutes, one gets a handful of friends for life.<\/p>\n
After more years than I care to think about as a somewhat (some people might say) autistic Dylan listener, I woke up one day with the urge to find out what had happened in the music world outside <\/em>since 1990 or thereabouts.<\/p>\n So a year ago, I went to Pitchfork’s list<\/a> of the best singles in the 2000s. And I listened to horrendous amounts of LCD Soundsystem, Beyonce, Jay-Z and other modern stuff for a while.<\/p>\n And lo and behold if one’s musical horizon wasn’t extended a bit, although I still don’t get Daft Punk’s greatness.<\/p>\n When the new year was still green, I wanted to check out what had been big in the old one (while I had been busy catching up — there’s a barely concealed irony in there somwhere, which I’d rather not get), and again, I headed for Pitchfork — this time the 100 best singles<\/a> of 2010 list.<\/p>\n Again it was LCD Soundsystem, Robyn, Kanye West all over the place, and I thought:I’ll be damned if I want to go through that once again.<\/p>\n And I did what I should have done right away: I found hearya<\/a>‘s Best of 2010 (so far)<\/a> list.<\/p>\n And this was something else. At the very least<\/em>, one doesn’t have to pretend to love well-made but commercial techno-hip-hop-electronica.<\/p>\n But there was more.<\/p>\nNew Year — New List<\/h2>\n
I Hear Ya<\/h2>\n