{"id":2412,"date":"2008-04-16T08:15:45","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T12:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2008-04-16T08:15:45","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T12:15:45","slug":"the-list-2006-20-11-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2412","title":{"rendered":"The List, 2006, #20-11"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are nearing the end of the journey. So sad.<\/p>\n

And here's the penultimate installment of my Top 100 All-time Favorites<\/a> list for 2008 looks like this:<\/p>\n\n\n
\n 20<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n My Bloody Valentine<\/td>\n\n 1991<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Loveless<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Mmmm! What's in this soup?! Guitars, drum samples and disembodied voices!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 19<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n The Cure<\/td>\n\n 1986<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Standing On A Beach<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n The collection of B sides on the flip side of the cassette make a great, splintered, pink-eyed album.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 18<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n The Shins<\/td>\n\n 2003<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Chutes Too Narrow<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Catchycatchycatchycatchycatchycatchy!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 17<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Sea And Cake<\/td>\n\n 1995<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n The Biz<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n It couldn't be better without being Nassau.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 16<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Robyn Hitchcock<\/td>\n\n 1998<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Storefront Hitchcock<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Proving that the best Robyn is live Robyn.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 15<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Fleetwood Mac<\/td>\n\n 1977<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Rumors<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Ridiculously good. Lindsey is god.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 14<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Sonic Youth<\/td>\n\n 1988<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Daydream Nation<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n The Exile On Main Street of dissonant guitar skronk.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 13<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Pink Floyd<\/td>\n\n 1973<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Dark Side Of The Moon<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Don't be a hater. It really is amazing.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 12<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Pixies<\/td>\n\n 1987<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Surfer Rosa \/ Come On Pilgrim<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/a><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Did Kim Deal really only sing lead on one Pixies song? Gigantically, yes. But Joey Santiago wins the world.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 11<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Cowboy Junkies<\/td>\n\n 1988<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n The Trinity Sessions<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n So much lovely empty space between the brushes on that snare drum.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n
\n

And the histogram for #100-#11 looks like this:
\n
\n(release dates of records listed so far, grouped into five-year spans)<\/p>\n

The top Ten will be posted this Friday! TiVo it, if you can't watch live!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are nearing the end of the journey. So sad. And here's the penultimate installment of my Top 100 All-time Favorites list for 2008 looks like this: 20 My Bloody Valentine 1991 Loveless Mmmm! What's in this soup?! Guitars, drum samples and disembodied voices! 19 The Cure 1986 Standing On A Beach The collection of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-list-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}