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