<![CDATA["Rolling Stone," "Spin," And "Blender" Wrap Up 2007 With Lists, Quips, And Ad Supplements - Idolator Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/idolator.com.png <![CDATA["Rolling Stone," "Spin," And "Blender" Wrap Up 2007 With Lists, Quips, And Ad Supplements - Idolator Comments]]> http://idolator.com Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:24:18 EST Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:24:18 EST http://idolator.com/336680/rolling-stone-spin-and-blender-wrap-up-2007-with-lists-quips-and-ad-supplements <![CDATA["Rolling Stone," "Spin," And "Blender" Wrap Up 2007 With Lists, Quips, And Ad Supplements]]> http://idolator.com/336680/rolling-stone-spin-and-blender-wrap-up-2007-with-lists-quips-and-ad-supplements#c3437251 @MATOS, also the audio compression thing predates, and has nothing to do with, MP3s. It's all about making your music sound louder on terrestrial FM radio.

Captain Wrong

]]> 33:336680:c3437251 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:24:18 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone," "Spin," And "Blender" Wrap Up 2007 With Lists, Quips, And Ad Supplements]]> http://idolator.com/336680/rolling-stone-spin-and-blender-wrap-up-2007-with-lists-quips-and-ad-supplements#c3435790 "What, precisely, accounts for the human tendency to quantify music...during a calendar year? Unlike many folks of his acquaintance, KK lacks the compulsion to prioritize cultural artifacts along such clearly demarcated lines."

I can't speak for the top ten listmakers, but the ones who go through the trouble of making top 50 or 100+ lists, plus genres, do it for people who actually like music. You know, the ones who believe there were more than ten good albums released any given year. The idea is that there's too much good music to easily remember, and "prioritiz[ing] cultural artifacts" is a pretty good way to revisit favorites and discover new ones from other lists. If KK can come up with a better way, please share.

Fastnbulbous

]]> 33:336680:c3435790 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:49:27 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone," "Spin," And "Blender" Wrap Up 2007 With Lists, Quips, And Ad Supplements]]> http://idolator.com/336680/rolling-stone-spin-and-blender-wrap-up-2007-with-lists-quips-and-ad-supplements#c3429944 Get over yourself, KK. Mamas and the Papas made great pop records (and Doherty was instrumental to them), Rob Sheffield is an entertaining writer, and years/decades are units of measurement, measuring time just like yards and miles measure distance. Sure, the confines of a year are every bit as arbitrary as, say, 5280 feet constituting a mile. But recapping/reviewing a year's events, analyzing what happens in any given cluster of time, is as useful as knowing the landmarks within any given mile. Year-end roundups define and summarize a distinct fragment of time. For centuries, history has discussed things in terms of years, decades, centuries, all somewhat problematic but highly necessary distinctions. Why should a cultural history or time capsule(regardless of the unfortunate things are contained within it) be any different? That said, the "sticky Blender pages" quip is priceless!

Charles A. Hohman

]]> 33:336680:c3429944 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:29:07 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone," "Spin," And "Blender" Wrap Up 2007 With Lists, Quips, And Ad Supplements]]> http://idolator.com/336680/rolling-stone-spin-and-blender-wrap-up-2007-with-lists-quips-and-ad-supplements#c3428021 "Creeque Alley," also good. But aside from being miffed at the Mamas and Papas comment, good article. Every now and then it's heartening to be reminded that good music writing does surface amid the bullshit PR copy of print and the petty backbiting and hipster oneupmanship of the blogosphere.

PrinceHal

]]> 33:336680:c3428021 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:50:34 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone," "Spin," And "Blender" Wrap Up 2007 With Lists, Quips, And Ad Supplements]]> http://idolator.com/336680/rolling-stone-spin-and-blender-wrap-up-2007-with-lists-quips-and-ad-supplements#c3427708 Cougar hasn't been widely used in mass market magazines? Really? You mean I'm totally sick of it exclusively cause of the internets? Somehow I'm guessing People and US Weekly beat Blender to that one like a thousand issues ago.

magneticfields

]]> 33:336680:c3427708 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:34:38 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone," "Spin," And "Blender" Wrap Up 2007 With Lists, Quips, And Ad Supplements]]> http://idolator.com/336680/rolling-stone-spin-and-blender-wrap-up-2007-with-lists-quips-and-ad-supplements#c3427077 Dude, Denny Doherty sang all those M & P hits! So cry suck if you want to, but he's the frickin' man.

maddogm13

]]> 33:336680:c3427077 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:05:58 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone," "Spin," And "Blender" Wrap Up 2007 With Lists, Quips, And Ad Supplements]]> http://idolator.com/336680/rolling-stone-spin-and-blender-wrap-up-2007-with-lists-quips-and-ad-supplements#c3426883 @sfbeary: Also agreed. And "Monday Monday" is only a few notches behind "California Dreamin'" on my "Top _____" list.

JedTheMime

]]> 33:336680:c3426883 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:56:17 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone," "Spin," And "Blender" Wrap Up 2007 With Lists, Quips, And Ad Supplements]]> http://idolator.com/336680/rolling-stone-spin-and-blender-wrap-up-2007-with-lists-quips-and-ad-supplements#c3426073 @sfbeary: Agreed. "California Dreamin'" is on my "Top ___ Greatest Pop Songs" list.

Jess/Maura/Keyboard, fire up your search software and look for the version of this song by...wait for it!...BARRY McGUIRE!!! Which is even more awesome than it sounds because The Mamas And The Papas provide the backing harmonies.

Rob Murphy

]]> 33:336680:c3426073 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:09:40 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone," "Spin," And "Blender" Wrap Up 2007 With Lists, Quips, And Ad Supplements]]> http://idolator.com/336680/rolling-stone-spin-and-blender-wrap-up-2007-with-lists-quips-and-ad-supplements#c3425532 "the pretty much suck-ass Mamas and the Papas."

mean and wrong.

sfbeary

]]> 33:336680:c3425532 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:42:19 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone," "Spin," And "Blender" Wrap Up 2007 With Lists, Quips, And Ad Supplements]]> http://idolator.com/336680/rolling-stone-spin-and-blender-wrap-up-2007-with-lists-quips-and-ad-supplements#c3425173 Not sure compression is an "underreported phenomenon"--there were a few long pieces last year about it, including Joe Gross's in the [i]Austin American-Statesman[/i] and a [i]Stylus[/i] piece by Nick Southall that made it into the [i]Da Capo Best Music Writing 2007[/i] book.

Michaelangelo Matos

]]> 33:336680:c3425173 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:24:01 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone," "Spin," And "Blender" Wrap Up 2007 With Lists, Quips, And Ad Supplements]]> http://idolator.com/336680/rolling-stone-spin-and-blender-wrap-up-2007-with-lists-quips-and-ad-supplements#c3424736 He not only coaxes her into admitting that she did indeed piss herself onstage last year (which KK believes is a quasi-scoop)

Allure magazine was there first -- she admitted to that in last month's issue.

Nicolars

]]> 33:336680:c3424736 Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:01:33 EST <![CDATA["Rolling Stone," "Spin," And "Blender" Wrap Up 2007 With Lists, Quips, And Ad Supplements]]> http://idolator.com/336680/rolling-stone-spin-and-blender-wrap-up-2007-with-lists-quips-and-ad-supplements#c3424683 also, that article by any-relation-to-jared? kushner about Cormac Mccarthy was awesome in RS. it actually made me remember that sometimes i DON'T want to kill myself when i think about how i'm subscribed to that magazine through, like, 2013.

genevieveyorke

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