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Total fucking curse that comes of reading the bloody NME too much in your malleable youth - thinking of EVERYTHING cultural in terms of "[item] of the year". Can I just sit and enjoy "Discovery"? NO. My inner Hornby needs feeding and I am fretting over whether it is my ALBUM OF THE YEAR or not. This is particularly pointless given my ALBUM OF THE YEAR last year came out in December, and my FILM OF THE YEAR is moot since I never watch more than about 4.

But OK seriously isn't this somehow a crippling way to be going about things? How can I stop? I mean I dont go to the pub and think "whoa, conversation OF THE YEAR" or spend my moments of post-coital bliss working out whether that was my third or fourth best shag OF THE YEAR.

At least, I don't yet.

― Tom, Wednesday, 29 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

this is thread of the year

― Mike Hanle y, Wednesday, 29 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just take a reductionist turn and ask yourself if this is the *blank* of the right now.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, I avoid this easily (for music, anyway) by living in the past and buying old stuff. Although I could get my knickers in a twist about whether 'Kilimanjaro' was the album of the year 1981, I suppose.

― DG, Wednesday, 29 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's either that or Prince Charming, your call. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mike is the poster of the idea for stealing my idea.

― Ally, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ally is the poster of the idea of the idea for stealing my idea.

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mike is the poor man's James Van Der Beek of the year.

― Ally, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Kilimanjaro came out in 1980 DG. But Remain In Light is the album of that year.

― Tom, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's all maths and thatcherism, having to have something that is the 'best', the top of the pyramid. Just like things in the now.

― jel, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bumbags! I woz confused as the live tracks on my CD version are from 1981...excuses excuses.

― DG, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It fucked up the "...Of The Decade" lists lasst year as well when people decided that Goodfellas and Millers Crossing were the two best movies of the nineties. Both were out in 1990 which suggested they were not typical.

I still can't forgive the NME for giving the second Neds Atomic Dustbin album a (9) and then it not being in their top fifty albums of the year lsit...

― Pete, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Remain in Light? To quote Joe Bob Briggs' riff on arty German film dialogue: "Now I will kill myself."

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Another thing that fucks things up is different US/European release dates. This allowed 'London Calling' to be in a US poll of albums of the 80s and mader 'The Muppet Movie' eligible for a Finnish film critics' poll of top 80s movies.

― Nick, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ned: ixnay on the anusnessay.

― David, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You befuddle me, sir. Not all that hard a task, I know, but you have Pig Latined me into a corner.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"bumbags?"

― Mike Hanle y, Thursday, 30 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Fanny packs.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just like the concept of an actual word that is 'anusnessay.' It's so evocative.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

comedy moment of the year (following on from 'fanny packs' - ricky t you should be ashamed of yourself!!) was when ant and dec referred to a bra as a 'sprout pouch'.

oh i did laugh.

― katie, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The point Tom E is making is a really good one.

Helpful point for the pinefox to make: Good pop music is not really released any more, so there aren't really Records of the Year these days, on the whole, so in a pop context we don't really need to worry about Of The Year things. Phew!

― the pinefox, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I worked out last night that there are 14 whole albums released this year that I like! Which is good going for August!

― Tom, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How is that a helpful point, pinefox? It's completely untrue - what are you on about?

― Ally, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If it's untrue for you, that's great, and will - along, I hope, with your forthcoming marriage - contribute to the happiness in your life. From here, though, I can't see good new pop music out there.

― the pinefox, Friday, 31 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I always find that I forget to think of things in terms of 'Of The Year' then when all these polls turn up, I can't remember where I've been for the last 12 months. Then I tell myself to remember things next year. Then I forget again.

― Ally C, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

am i the only person who thinks pinefox is really just phoning it in by now?

― ethan, Saturday, 1 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think pinefox has been distracted for a while by the Beanie Siegal CD, do you think i could have it back now pinedawg?

― gareth, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ethan, this is the Interweb, so in a sense we're all 'phoning it in'

― dave q, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh if it's because of that new beans album then i'm cool with it, that's perfectly understandable.

dave q: you are right but your answer wasn't as funny.

― ethan, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I bet I wuz more influenced in my malleable youth by the NME than anyone here — it became my grail and I seexed it like Galahad and when I found it it was a red cracked plastic sandcastle bucket w. week-old rotting shrimp in it — but I never never never got "of the year" and still don't.

― mark s, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I realised that I had reached maturity when I stopped looking at the year-end 'Picks and Pans' in 'People' magazine

― dave q, Sunday, 2 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Am I the only person who thinks Ethan is really just tossing it off by now?

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pinefox, I've been thinking that for a long, long time.

Seriously though, I didn't mean my question to sound flip, I was seriously interested in your answer: what makes you say that pop music is no good anymore? I know you've said it before but I'm not 100% sure what your exact reasoning is. I'd honestly like to discuss it, what about modern pop turns you off so?

― Ally, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

Slightly late here, but if you remove the 'ay' from 'anusnessay' then you get the picture.

― David, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually no.

― David, Saturday, 13 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two years pass...

Was this really the thread of 2001?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 8 October 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

it is quite funny, and the original point remains sound

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Monday, 11 October 2004 08:21 (twenty-one years ago)

thread of the year

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 11 October 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, gag's been done. nm

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 11 October 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost of the decade

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 11 October 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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