no, seriously
As we start to settle into aught eight, and adjust to a new reality (maybe that's overstating it, but I feel different after That Speech), it's time to bid adieu to an old friend. Not somebody who was always there for you. Or one you could borrow money from when times were tight. But a guy who bought you a few beers, told some decent jokes and always marched to the beat of his own drummer.
That's right friends, I have a terminal disease.
Actually I don't, but I am 'sploding the Cake.
It served its purpose for a while, but Sumner forced me to neglect it -- leading to its ultimate demise.
Never fear, I'm leaving on two high notes.
-Hope springs eternal
-A little after the fact, but still in advance of Pazz and Jop, dj applesauce's Top 25 of 2007 (rank-ordered)
I'll see you motherfuckers in the future.
1/ Radiohead - In Rainbows
2/ Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday
3/ M.I.A. - Kala
4/ Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
5/ Interpol - Our Love to Admire
6/ The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
7/ Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3
8/ Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
9/ Spoon - GaGaGaGaGa
10/ Mark Ronson - Version
11/ Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
12/ Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
13/ Feist - The Reminder
14/ Jay-Z - American Gangster
15/ Papercuts - Can't Go Back
16/ Kanye West - Graduation
17/ Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
18/ Bonde Do Role - With Lasers
19/ Common - Finding Forever
20/ Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
21/ Ghostface Killah - Big Doe Rehab
22/ Cass McCombs - Dropping the Writ
23/ UGK - UGK
24/ Pharoahe Monch - Desire
25/ The National - Boxer
