Me Mucho Gusto

The internet is absolutely drowning in year-end best-of lists right now.  Every blogger in the world wants to tell you about their best albums / songs / movies / whatever of 2006.  Some bloggers have thrown up their hands and just started making lists of the lists.  It's understandable, and it's an easy way to feed the content beast, but here at eLucid, we're thinking bigger.  (Plus, ok, we kind of already did it.  Also, you don't care about our tastes.)  Despite the big facade of creating a listing of all the really fantastic things you heard this year, we know what you really want, deep inside your angry little troll heart:  A year-end roundup that music snobs won't take a dump on.

Yes, it's true: we see through your charade.  What you're trying to do here is to create a list of things so artistically meritorious or wantonly obscure that you will somehow become cooler and gain prestige in the eyes of your music-snob friends by implication.  The actual listening-pleasure derived is completely secondary to how much music-snob cred you can obtain by creating the right kind of list. 

So, without further ado, here you go: eLucid's Patented Guide To Creating A Best-of 2006 Music List That Music Snobs Won't Take A Crap On.

eLucid's Patented Guide To Creating A Best-of 2006 Music List That Music Snobs Won't Take A Crap On.

10. Canadian band (Preferably from Montreal)
9. Obscure shit nobody's heard of
8. Ensemble composed of people famous for being in another band (extra credit if the other band is Rilo Kiley or the White Stripes)
7. Canadian band with whimsical animal name
6. Non-Canadian band with whimsical animal-name
5. Something Swedish, or Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of Overlong Album Titles
4. Folksy-chick who plays stringed instrument and yodels, yelps, and/or screeches.
3. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
2. Rap (Oooh, scary.)
1. Bob Dylan

I think we can all agree that this is an unassailable and foolproof method for creating a Best-of-2006 Music List That Music Snobs Will Not Take A Crap On.  All your indie cred are belong to us.  You're welcome. 

Comments

[dki]

you couldn't be anymore dead on.

[brian T. Murphy]

I really like point number 2.

[ill]

BTM - when you say "point number 2" - do you mean number 9, which is the second point, or number 2 which is the 9th point?

Anyways e, number 10 (number 1) is inapplicable ever since "Of Montreal" started writing and singing Pizza Hut commercials. It not only ruined Of Montreal, it ruined everyone From Montreal.

[chadio]

I'm pretty sure Of Montreal are actually from Athens