Idolator

It’s almost the end of June in a year that ends in a nine! What that means: The runup to crafting “Best Records Of The Decade” lists by those people who are still holding on to the music-writer dream despite all evidence to the contrary is going to begin very soon, and get pretty heated as the days get shorter and the temperatures begin dropping. (Although you know what’s going to be even worse? Doing it all over again next year for those people who sniff that “since there was no year zero, a decade runs from 01-10, piker.”)


Some people have already started in on the process; if you want to go back and remember the big songs of the past 10 years, Intensities In Ten Suburbs, which is currently at No. 93 on its 100-best-songs-of-the-decade countdown, is a good place to start. (Remember the whole “Wait (The Whisper Song)” kerfuffle?) Honestly, I have no idea what I’d put on any list beyond Siobhan Donaghy’s Ghosts, “A Stroke Of Genie-Us,” and any/all Ida Maria-related things (and yes I’d put her on the list even if she emerged in ‘01 not ‘08) but perhaps you have your iTunes-tracking spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations in the works already? Feel free to share any outstanding items that simply must be on everyone’s list in the comments section here. Perhaps we can all come to some sort of consensus by the end of the week, so we can move on and try to start predicting what records will be the best of 2010-11!


Intensities In Ten Suburbs [HT Sound Of The City]