Paul Smith’s 2007 playlist
For the Guardian’s first celebrity playlist of 2008, they bring you Paul Smith of Maximo Park’s favorites of 2008. Includes The National, Feist, Lucky Cloud, Nick Lowe, and others
now you can slag off the Guardian’s readers, too
Embracing the people is really in over at the Guardian this year, with all their online content, which is totally awesome. They ran their first ever end of the year readers’ poll, and there are very few surprises: Radiohead has the best album and is the best band, LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends” is the best single, Amy Winehouse the best solo artist. (No, I’m not reprinting all the lists.)
The best one is this, though: The Top Ten Most Likely To Go Missing in a Canoe and Resurface in Panama.
1) Amy Winehouse
2) Pete Doherty
3) Morrissey
4) Britney
5) James Blunt
6) Klaxons
7) Lily Allen
Spice Girls
9) Richie Manic
10) Mr Winehouse
Radiohead was glad to be voted best band instead of this one, as “We’d be rubbish in a canoe because Ed’s so much bigger than the rest of us, it’d be like the end of Titanic.”
The comments are hilarious as always, complete with complaining about how sucky the list is. The readers’ poll. The people have spoken, and I’m sorry you’re SO indie and awesome, but the people who voted like Radiohead for some reason.
album list mania, Guardian style
The Guardian names their 20 top albums in print, and then makes fun of themselves over at the blog.
The Guardian’s 20 best albums of 2007 is clearly - and I’ll save you saying it - an outrage, a disgrace, a farrago. Was I really the only voter who put Gravenhurst’s incredible The Western Lands in their top five? Did no one else cherish Paris Motel’s In the Saltpetriere? Idiots, the lot of them. The lot of us. I guess, actually, those won’t be your most forthright criticisms. You might be asking: why is it so white? And why is it so male?
Well, since I can’t be arsed to listen to half the albums on their list (I am the laziest music commenter you will ever meet), I can’t agree or disagree. That’s what Megan and Sarah do. I’m not surprised Britney’s new album made it; the gays I work with say it’s fantastic.
