December 2011
29 posts
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“I think my favorite movie this year was Submarine directed Richard Ayoade of the...”
– Toddrick Spalding—Sub Pop Records’ Top 10 of 2011, Friends of Sub Pop Edition [Honorary Unbest]
Dec 8th
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“When Coop discovered the black circles inside the square packages lining our...”
– Scott Tennent—”Best Songs of His Year, Per My Small Child,” Pretty Goes with Pretty [Honorary Unbest]
Dec 7th
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“As usual, I don’t feel at peace with my year-end list, because everything is in...”
– Kyle Ryan, The A.V. Club [Honorary Unbest]
Dec 7th
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“The Softies - Winter Pageant (1997). Decided after all these years that this is...”
– David Greenwald—”Best of 2011: Vintage Discoveries / Heavy Rotation,” Rawkblog [Honorary Unbest]
Dec 7th
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“But for me, Top Ten lists bring out the bratty anti-authoritarian, the...”
– Emily Nussbaum—”I Hate Top Ten Lists,” The New Yorker A sympathizer in TV land. [Honorary Unbest]
Dec 6th
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“Maybe it’s just that I’ve spent the past year doing the vast majority of my...”
– Nitsuh Abebe, a grammar [Honorary Unbest]
Dec 6th
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We have finally figured out how to enable Tumblr’s submission function for this blog. We are geniuses! (We are so not geniuses.) You can now submit right here in addition to all the other ways previously (and perhaps way less conveniently) suggested.
Dec 6th
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“For two of the last three years, including this one, there has been at least one...”
– Grayson Currin, Pitchfork While Unbest is in collection-mode, let’s celebrate some kindred spirits in year-end-list frustration, starting with Grayson Currin’s celebration of Dust-to-Digital’s …I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces. More on the way. [Honorary...
Dec 6th
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Hello everyone! Plus, some encouragement and...
Tumblr tells me we have about 50 followers at this moment. Considering this whole idea was just a vague notion in the back of somebody’s head this time yesterday, we’re pretty pleased. If just half of y’all submit something, we’ll have an excellent first month to look forward to. Interested? Here’s how to submit! Feeling stumped? Here are some things that might...
Dec 2nd
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Welcome to Unbest.
Learn what we’re about, send us your words, and stay tuned for more!
Dec 1st
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About Unbest
The problem Designating something as “the best” can be tricky, especially when it comes to music, which occupies such intensely personal space in our human lives—even among folks who deal with it professionally (or “professionally,” some/they might say). There’s a place in this world for best-of lists, of course—and a time, too. Usually that time is the end of the...
Dec 1st
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