POP Goes The Fat Lady

O.k., by now we've all read the end of the year Best Of 2013 music lists from all the reliable tastemaker sources (Paste, Magnet, NPR, CMJ, Pitchfork, etc...), and, as per usual, the same handful of albums get mentioned on most of the lists.

(btw- if you'd like to know they compile these VERY SCIENTIFIC end of the year lists, here's the template)

So, yeah, Chvrches, blah blah blah.

I liked it better when it was called Erasure. Andy Bell was at least a gloriously flamboyant vocalist, unlike the generic, Disney radio sounding vocalist for Chvrches.

Arcade Fire?

As a good friend of mine recently said, "Arcade Fire's like some obscure disco group you'd see in the background  of some bad movie from the early 80s"

Disclosure?

Where were you guys when Rick Danger, Tony T Fernandez, and myself were playing this stuff at Club Parliament in 1993?

Haim?

Seriously? Not even going to dignify...

POINT BEING...

All these lists are merely a prelude for when the fat lady sings tonight as POP Goes The World  delivers the only Best Of 2013 show that truly matters!

Don't Believe me?

Talk to me in 20 years, and we'll see which music actually held up.

 

 

 

Song Artist Album   Year Confidence The Dodos Carrier   2013 Calm Down The Love Language Ruby Red   2013 Comfort Arms EP2   2013 ++++++++++++ ++++++++++++ +++++++++++     Barriers Suede Bloodsports   2013 Don't Play With Guns The Black Angels Indigo Meadow   2013 Bag Boy Pixies     2013 Golden Sweater Vest Little, Big Edgewood   2013 You Should Consider Having Sex With A Bearded Man The Beards Having a Beard is the New Not Having a Beard   2013 ++++++++++++ ++++++++++++ ++++++++++++     Velvet The Ballantynes     2013 Rip Van Winkle Shannon & The Clams Dreams In The Rat House   2013 Walk On In Darkness Ezra Furman Day Of The Dog   2013 A Lizard State King Krule 6 Feet Beneath The Moon   2013 ++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++ ++++++++++++     Apples Literature     2013 Waiting For Your Call Warm Soda Someone For You   2013 A Note To Self Paranthetical Girls Privilege (Abridged)   2013 Q_Q Pretty & Nice Golden Rules For Golden People   2013 Careless The Delphines Live @ WRIR Vol.2   2013 Baby Boogie Warren Hixon Style Weekly's Best Of RVA 2013   2013 Haiku The Garbers Style Weekly's Best Of RVA 2013   2013 Stoned and Starving Parquet Courts Light Up Gold   2013 ++++++++++++ ++++++++++++ ++++++++++++     The Swan Cheetahs     2013 Shelter Song Temples Colours To Life   2013 She Smokes In Bed TV Girl Lonely Women EP   2013 Planet Anamanaguchi     2013 ++++++++++++ +++++++++++++ +++++++++++     Laugh Now I'm Weak The Death Of Pop     2013 Dropla Youth Lagoon Wondrous Bughouse   2013 Is This The End Brøthers     2013 Rebirth Yuck Glow & Behold   2013 Another Tomorrow Lusine The Waiting Room   2013 ++++++++++++ ++++++++++++ +++++++++++     Just Make It Stop Low The Invisable Way   2013