From Pitchfork to
Artforum, publications love to pad out their year-end coverage with Top Ten lists from musicians, whether world-famous or positively subterranean, but perhaps only
Billboard could bring together Greg Dulli and Katharine McPhee. Instead of reprinting them all—there are many, and do you really care that the dudes from Vampire Weekend also liked that Panda Bear record an awful lot?—we've included our "Top Three Lists From
Billboards's Top Tens" after the jump, along with our "The Good," "The Bad," and "The Whaaaa?" wrap-up, so as not to spoil the fun.
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Idolator
Three years ago today Blink 182 officially announced their indefinite hiatus, thus ending a golden era of genuinely fun pop music. Commercial rock has been tragically devoid of dick jokes and scatological humor since their departure, and the new wave of punky pop bands (aka emo aka Those Dudes) just doesn't have the same kind of sarcastic swagger that Blink 182 possessed in such abundance. They were by no means great musicians, but if you were 13 years old in 2000 and too misanthropic for boy bands, yet still immature enough to enjoy sodomy jokes, they were pitch perfect. Let's examine some of their finer moments.
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