March 21, 2009

Is Anyone Else Doing This?

I spent a few minutes googlin' around, trying to figure out if anyone is going through these songs like I am (I'm skipping all the book review type things and all major media links and will look at those another day)

Best I can tell, there's the following:

(1) Jake and Jesse, who have gotten through the first 2 chapters (here's the first; here's the second) and, while not mentioning every song, do talk about the ones they like (out of those they heard before and haven't), the ones they don't like, with lots of media links and shit. These guys have some interesting takes; their stuff is worth checking out.

(2) This 16 year old guy from Munich who calls his site ForwardMusic, who mentioned that he's going through them, but only listed his thoughts on a few songs. C'mon man! Let's see some commentary!

(3) Here's Carlos, at Hipster Runoff, who re-wrote the final entry of the book (on the song Bros, by Panda Bear) here, and suggested in that post that he would be doing more, but apparently never has (and here's Carlos telling our dear President to stop campaigning and fix the fucking economy).

Maybe there's more, but I've pretty much found no one that has blogged more than half a dozen songs that isn't listed above (I'm also not including posts bragging about how they used bittorrent to steal all of the songs in the book efficiently; I'm talking about people that have read the book and at least claim to be going through the songs).

A few sites include some message boards on some of the songs, including:

(1) Patrick Wolf, where there are 20 posts of kinda lively, internet-ish discussion.

(2) And Tentfort, of course.

Then there's the people that have posted the lists, without including commentary on the songs:

(1) There's Reid, who made a spreadsheet of everything he has and doesn't have (he's at 75%, apparently), which one could adapt to their own purposes.

(2) There's Rate Your Music, which has all the cover art from the albums or singles, which is kind of cool.

(3) This guy at Closer to Near apparently was the first guy to get the list online, so just about the entire internet is linked to him at this point.

So while I've linked to quite a bit above, it's really me, and Jesse and Jake (if I missed anyone, please do let me know and you will be added).

Three of us? That's really the universe of people bothering to do this? C'mon people, I know it's only Pitchfork, it's not the fucking bible, but what other list is there to go after? You gotta start somewhere!

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