Top 10 Reasons We Won't Make A 'Top 10 Albums of the Year' List

1. Nobody cares.

2. Music is all context – social, political and artistic.
Lists are the mortal enemy of context.

3. Who wants to spend the holidays trying to justify the difference between
a 5th and 7th ranked album?

4. You’ll argue with us. How do you think an argument about what sounds slightly better than something else will end?

5. Comparing hip hop and indie rock is like weighing a poetry book versus a novel – Yeah, they’re both meant to be read, but how do you read each one? How do you listen to each one?

6. Nobody cares.

7. You’ll completely forget about it the second you close the browser.

8. You already know what you like, why can’t we just show you new stuff you might like?

9. We would likely be out-hipstered by our own readers.

10. We’re lazy damned bloggers, what do you expect?