{"id":2402,"date":"2008-04-14T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2008-04-14T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T11:00:18","slug":"the-list-2008-30-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2402","title":{"rendered":"The List, 2008, #30-21"},"content":{"rendered":"

Starting the final week!
\nThe latest installment of my Top 100 All-time Favorites<\/a> list for 2008 looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n
\n 30<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n King Crimson<\/td>\n\n 1981<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Discipline<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Me and my uncle, playing Monopoly, eating crab legs. Me wondering if this was the Talking Heads. Go Belew! Go!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 29<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Gillian Welch<\/td>\n\n 1998<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Hell Among The Yearlings<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Death, whiskey, morphine, winter, murder. Beautiful.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 28<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Led Zeppelin<\/td>\n\n 1973<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Houses Of The Holy<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Where's that confounded title track?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 27<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Elliott Smith<\/td>\n\n 1998<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n XO<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Elliott, Elliott, Elliott. Sigh.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 26<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n The Beastie Boys<\/td>\n\n 1994<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Ill Communication<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n B-Boys makin with the freak freak.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 25<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Pink Floyd<\/td>\n\n 1975<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Wish You Were Here<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Wish you weren't so overplayed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 24<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Spoon<\/td>\n\n 2007<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Getting dangerously close to commercial appeal. But still fantastic.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 23<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Nick Drake<\/td>\n\n 1972<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Pink Moon<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n I too gave up a career in music in order to become a computer programmer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 22<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n REM<\/td>\n\n 1984<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Reckoning<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n "Time After Time" is my least favorite song, and "Little America" is my most favorite.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 21<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Andrew Bird<\/td>\n\n 2005<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Mysterious Production Of Eggs<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Did he just say he wanted to drill a tiny hole into her head? Should I laugh?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
\n

And the histogram for #100-#21 looks like this:
\n
\n(release dates of records listed so far, grouped into five-year spans)<\/p>\n

Next exciting installment will be out on Wednesday<\/strike> Wednesday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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