Top Ten Albums of 2008
Sunday, December 14th, 2008
Some bloggers whinge and grouse (and gripe and whine) about year-end lists, calling them juvenile, obsessed with rank and order, and arbitrary. To these critics, a response in the classical argument form of tu quoque: you write music reviews, jackass. I, for one, find the year end lists an excellent source of new music, they help me to find the reviewers whose taste most clearly matches mine, and compiling my own gives me a chance to see the forest of the year's musical offerings by closely examining the trees. I'm almost always surprised at how good a year it turned out to be. This year was no exception. (Note: Eric at… Read More