<![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:55:54 EST Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:55:54 EST http://idolator.com/tunes/year_end-analysis/spin-goes-slightly-against-the-grain-333988.php <![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/year_end-analysis/spin-goes-slightly-against-the-grain-333988.php#c3357692 @SuperUnison: Are you as unhealthily obsessed with them as I am?

NeverEnough

]]> 33:333988:c3357692 Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:55:54 EST <![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/year_end-analysis/spin-goes-slightly-against-the-grain-333988.php#c3343083 The new Wildhearts album is their first truly bad record. I was (Wild)heartbroken.

Lax Danja House

]]> 33:333988:c3343083 Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:59:47 EST <![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/year_end-analysis/spin-goes-slightly-against-the-grain-333988.php#c3340945 7 albums in that list coincide with mine - congratulations SPIN, you win again.

cerulgalactus

]]> 33:333988:c3340945 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:35:49 EST <![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/year_end-analysis/spin-goes-slightly-against-the-grain-333988.php#c3340277 @science vs romance: sure, in America.

Maura: didn't Doug Brod do a big feature on the Wildhearts/Darkness co-tour a few years ago?

Michaelangelo Matos

]]> 33:333988:c3340277 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:41:30 EST <![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/year_end-analysis/spin-goes-slightly-against-the-grain-333988.php#c3339146 Does Writer's Block really count as a 2007 release?

science vs romance

]]> 33:333988:c3339146 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:21:43 EST <![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/year_end-analysis/spin-goes-slightly-against-the-grain-333988.php#c3338414 Hurray Band of Horses made the cut!

PCLoadLetter

]]> 33:333988:c3338414 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:45:27 EST <![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/year_end-analysis/spin-goes-slightly-against-the-grain-333988.php#c3336657 Oh burn! No Interpol!

the rich girls are weeping

]]> 33:333988:c3336657 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:31:11 EST <![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/year_end-analysis/spin-goes-slightly-against-the-grain-333988.php#c3335146 So, Spin takes everyone else's list and slaps Against Me! on the top to snag all the blog credibility pub it can muster. Clever.

Rabi

]]> 33:333988:c3335146 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:28:20 EST <![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/year_end-analysis/spin-goes-slightly-against-the-grain-333988.php#c3334846 My lone complaint, no Easy Tiger, I've enjoyed the hell out of that album for the past 6-7 months.

This is a pretty good list though, truth be told.

BigRicks

]]> 33:333988:c3334846 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:15:26 EST <![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/year_end-analysis/spin-goes-slightly-against-the-grain-333988.php#c3334054 @DHMBIB: You have quite a bit of faith in my Rolodex, dude.

Maura Johnston

]]> 33:333988:c3334054 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:39:55 EST <![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/year_end-analysis/spin-goes-slightly-against-the-grain-333988.php#c3334024 @SuperUnison: Only decent thing they do all year, the guest lists, and this 'best of guest lists' was a long time coming. Although the most predictable lists came from the least interesting artists (Blitzen Trapper etc).

And Grizzly Bear are Jay Reatard fans? Best news I've heard all year. 2006's Slept On Of the Year Album.

As for this Spin list - I stopped reading before my sleep apnea finally killed me.

Jfrankparnell

]]> 33:333988:c3334024 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:38:20 EST <![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/year_end-analysis/spin-goes-slightly-against-the-grain-333988.php#c3333947 Waitaminnit--I'd have to add the inclusion of Turbonegro's Retox to the WHAAAA? list, please. Band hasn't done a damn thing worth listening to since Apocalypse Dudes, even if Spin did just discover them. Did they have a "faux-gay meathead-punx" quota to fill?

PAULMDAVIS

]]> 33:333988:c3333947 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:35:04 EST <![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/year_end-analysis/spin-goes-slightly-against-the-grain-333988.php#c3333302 @SuperUnison: Maura/Jess, please email these artists for a P'Fork-like list of what they were listening to this year:

Britney Spears
Lindsay Lohan
Paris Hilton
Pete Wentz
Ashlee Simpson
Tay Zonday
Colbie Caillat
any member of Wilco

kisses...

Rob Murphy

]]> 33:333988:c3333302 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:08:03 EST <![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/year_end-analysis/spin-goes-slightly-against-the-grain-333988.php#c3333123 can the bruce springsteen apologists please just go away? dude hasn't made a good album since nebraska. go listen to "badlands" and forget dude has existed for 25 years. it may not be a sin to be glad you're alive but it sure is a sin in my book to become a parody of yourself (i'm looking your way too mr. waits).

iantenna

]]> 33:333988:c3333123 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:58:52 EST <![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/year_end-analysis/spin-goes-slightly-against-the-grain-333988.php#c3333019 For anyone who gives a shit, Pitchfork put up a really good list feature today.

[www.pitchforkmedia.com]

If nothing else it isn't another snoozy, passionless iteration of the same stuff we've seen on all these lists. Plus, it's actual musicians; making it either way more or way less credible, depending on how you look at it.

SuperUnison

]]> 33:333988:c3333019 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:53:40 EST <![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/year_end-analysis/spin-goes-slightly-against-the-grain-333988.php#c3333002 You've been trying to goad me into talking about Wilco all week. I'm not doing it anymore!

Camp Tiger Claw

]]> 33:333988:c3333002 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:52:53 EST <![CDATA["Spin" Goes Slightly Against The Grain]]> http://idolator.com/tunes/year_end-analysis/spin-goes-slightly-against-the-grain-333988.php#c3332849 Go Wildhearts!

I like the Ben Lee cover of the Against Me album better than the original, mostly because Lee doesn't sing like he's trying to squeeze one out.

tigerpop

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