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| From | "Steve Clay" <sbc@pobox.com> |
| Subject | Does year-end-poll cramming lead to skewed lists? |
| Date | Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:08:48 -0500 |
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Like many of you, I bought a *ton* of stuff in the last month. (In fact, an
Amazon shipment arrived New Year's Eve with the Long Winters, Ballboy,
Visqueen, Postal Service, Thrills, Delgados and Beulah discs. Whew!) I find
it incredibly hard to decide where some of these fit, after only a few weeks
of listening, especially for some of the slower-to-develop records, like the
Beulah and even the Long Winters, which I absolutely *adore* now, and
haven't stopped playing for the past week.
Then I worry if, five years down the road, I'll look back and wet my pants
that I had the Bangles disc ranked above the New Pornographers CD. Or that I
was in a bad mood the day I listened to the Broken Social Scene record, and
it slithered away into a stack of CDs somwhere, not to be found even when I
went looking for it. Plus, I get caught up in all that 'I really should put
the White Stripes in there, so my list will look cooler' peer pressure.
(Not to mention the factor of seeing the rankings as we go along, and
rooting for the underdogs by maybe slipping FoW down a few notches...)
Is anybody else having this angst, or does it simply explain quite
adequately why I couldn't even lurk on this list for the past seventeen
months? :-)
-steve
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