…according to last.fm, anyway.
my top 20 artists for the year:
- depeche mode
- pet shop boys
- brian eno
- coil
- the cure
- new order
- peter gabriel
- einstürzende neubauten
- the orb
- b! machine
- muslimgauze
- the church
- current 93
- and one
- front 242
- de/vision
- the the
- project pitchfork
- david sylvian
- 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.
