The best music of 2008, from the AV Club.
Cool! These things usually make me go on a downloading spree.
TV On the Radio, huh? Hmmm.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Vonnie K - Dec 10, 2008 5:58:11 am PST #53 of 6438
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
P.M. Marc - Dec 10, 2008 6:01:35 am PST #54 of 6438
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Uhm, her music's better than her dad's?
My heart! My achy breaky heart! It just can't seem to understand that concept!
Ailleann - Dec 10, 2008 6:08:28 am PST #55 of 6438
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Well then stop trying to tell it! Your efforts seem to be in vain!
lisah - Dec 10, 2008 6:09:10 am PST #56 of 6438
Punishingly Intricate
Does anyone else have an excuse to like Miley Cyrus? Or am I the only one?
I had a long, hilarious conversation with my 7 and 10-year old nieces about how to tell the difference between a Miley Cyrus and a Hannah Montanna song on the radio. While the 7-year old thought the Miley Cyrus songs were slightly more rock, the 10-year old came to the conclusion that the two are basically indistinguishable.
P.M. Marc - Dec 10, 2008 6:10:23 am PST #57 of 6438
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Hee! Though in all seriousness, BRC made me cringe back when I was a regular listener to C&W. Not that I could avoid the earworm.
A friend once gave me a Terminator action figure, telling me I could glue a mullet on it and have my very own Billy Ray.
juliana - Dec 10, 2008 6:16:37 am PST #58 of 6438
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Is anyone compiling the list of the 10 best/favourite albums of 2008 already?
Idolator's commenting on all the year-end lists they can find.
esse - Dec 10, 2008 6:19:15 am PST #59 of 6438
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
(I totally listened to Billy Cyrus without irony when I was a kid. Thank you, diet of CMT as a youngster.)
I just find her so inexplicably charming. Okay, not inexplicably--my pop princess preferences are generally well known and well mocked. But she's adorable.
A Charlie Brown Christmas OST! That's the other one I can listen to on end all year 'round.
Jon B. - Dec 10, 2008 6:34:35 am PST #60 of 6438
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
So, um. Does anyone else have an excuse to like Miley Cyrus? Or am I the only one?
I know one of her backup singers from the last tour, and she's really nice.
esse - Dec 10, 2008 6:36:50 am PST #61 of 6438
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Awesome! I was watching the tree-lighting at Rockefeller Centre thing and Miley was performing; her backup singers had about ten or fifteen years on her, and they were all dressed up to look like scene/emo kids. Hi-larious.
Fred Pete - Dec 10, 2008 6:41:44 am PST #62 of 6438
Ann, that's a ferret.
My 10-year-old niece is a big fan of Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana. I am not. On the other hand, niece is part of the target demographic. I am not.
I put her in the same category as Barney. I wouldn't object if my hypothetical kid in the proper age bracket were a fan. Just don't make me be in the room while you're watching.