…accord­ing to last.fm, any­way.

my top 20 artists for the year:

1. depeche mode
2. pet shop boys
3. brian eno
4. coil
5. the cure
6. new order
7. peter gabriel
8. ein­stürzende neubauten
9. the orb
10. b! machine
11. mus­lim­gauze
12. the church
13. cur­rent 93
14. and one
15. front 242
16. de/vision
17. the the
18. project pitch­fork
19. david syl­vian
20. covenant

part of me is a lit­tle let down that it isn’t “weirder”, but that’s really a fool­ish thing to com­plain about. in ret­ro­spect, i guess i had a pretty crummy year, so no shock i went with “com­fort” music.

two relat­edlys:

• yeah, there’ll be a best of 2009 list. prob­a­bly the end of next week.
• i’m launch­ing a new web­site for music reviews. no, really, i am, around about the same time. still no idea what to do to replace the podcast.

if this seems like a blog post that some­body would put up if they were post­ing more often, i.e. you expect there to have been more seri­ous, real­is­tic con­tent before this, espe­cially in light of the year chang­ing and hol­i­days and all that crap, well, you’re right. there is a bunch of con­tent in the space between this and my last post. no, you can’t see it. it isn’t writ­ten, it prob­a­bly will never be writ­ten, and, really, there’s noth­ing melo­dra­matic about that. con­sider this my apolo­gia to myself for beat­ing myself up over not post­ing more often. just because i’m not “post­ing to my blog” doesn’t mean i’m not record­ing events and gen­er­at­ing con­tent. it just doesn’t tran­scribe to this format.