http://www.losanjealous.com/2009/12/11/breaking-news-metallica%e2%80%99s-kirk-hammett-picks-dengue-fever-song-for-decade%e2%80%99s-best-list/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:05:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.losanjealous.com/2009/12/11/breaking-news-metallica%e2%80%99s-kirk-hammett-picks-dengue-fever-song-for-decade%e2%80%99s-best-list/comment-page-1/#comment-247194 Ryan Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:40:07 +0000 http://www.losanjealous.com/?p=28402#comment-247194 If Kirk can drum up some exposure for DF, my favorite Los Angeles/Long Beach-based ’60s Cambodian Khmer pop group named after a debilitating disease, power to him. The list is all over the map but clearly he had some fun with an inclusion or two (Afroman, I do not believe for an instant). Would that more list-compilers would do the same; best-of lists are so overblown at this point. Hell, Stereogum invigorates its base by <a href="http://stereogum.com/archives/list/spins_40_best_albums_of_2009_104771.html" rel="nofollow">reposting everybody ELSE's lists</a> these days, from what I can tell. (Occasionally I'm glad they do, because no way would I actively go seek out a bunch of "best of" lists from the publications themselves.) If Kirk can drum up some exposure for DF, my favorite Los Angeles/Long Beach-based ’60s Cambodian Khmer pop group named after a debilitating disease, power to him. The list is all over the map but clearly he had some fun with an inclusion or two (Afroman, I do not believe for an instant). Would that more list-compilers would do the same; best-of lists are so overblown at this point. Hell, Stereogum invigorates its base by reposting everybody ELSE’s lists these days, from what I can tell. (Occasionally I’m glad they do, because no way would I actively go seek out a bunch of “best of” lists from the publications themselves.)

]]> http://www.losanjealous.com/2009/12/11/breaking-news-metallica%e2%80%99s-kirk-hammett-picks-dengue-fever-song-for-decade%e2%80%99s-best-list/comment-page-1/#comment-247189 My Poproks » Kirk Hammett’s Best Songs of the Decade List is Just Weird Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:38:25 +0000 http://www.losanjealous.com/?p=28402#comment-247189 [...] Really, Isn’t this just the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen? (LosAnjealous) [...] [...] Really, Isn’t this just the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen? (LosAnjealous) [...]

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