OK, so it looks like I'm going to organize this. Here's what I need from you guys:

If you want to write a blurb, post in this thread with 2 or 3 lists of albums that you want to write blurbs for. The first list will be albums that you like, the second will be albums that you don't like, and the third (optional) list will be albums that you haven't heard but are either curious about or have dismissed without hearing.

So for example, here's what I'd post here:

Like
Man Man - Six Demon Bag
Califone - Roots & Crown
M. Ward - Post-War
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Liars - Drum's Not Dead

Don't Like
CSS
Thermals
Thom Yorke

Never Heard
The Knife
Phoenix

Preferably, list them in order of what you'd most want to write about. You can list as many or as few as you'd like, but please list more than one for each. Also, please don't give a list of 50 albums because that will make it nearly impossible to narrow down what I should give to you. For things in your like and don't like lists, please list stuff that you already have in some format.

The deadlines for writing these will be adhered to absolutely. If you don't get yours done in time, it doesn't get posted with the final list. I will give out deadlines individually when I give out the blurb assignments. I'm thinking of allowing 3-5 days for them. They shouldn't be too long (no more than about 100 words max) so there shouldn't much reason to take too much time.

Ooh, a duel.

Lilke:

1. Califone – Roots and Crowns
2. The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
3. Bob Dylan – Modern Times
4. Ali Farka Toure - Savane
5. Yo La Tengo – I am not afraid of you And I Will….
6. Benoit Pioulard - Precis
7. Six Organs of Admittance – The Sun Awakens
8. Grizzly Bear – Yellow House


Do not like:

Beth Orton
Joanna Newsome
Film School
The Muse

Haven't heard:

Helios
Lucero
M. Ward
Josh Ritter
Willie Nile

Give Harry Modern Times.

i'll try my hand at this blurb thing. i have interest but wonder if i'll have time. but i'll try...


like:

01 "the life pursuit" belle & sebastian
02 "the crane wife" the decemberists

dislike

01 "ys" joanna newson
02 "blood mountain" mastodon

not heard

01 "western automatic music" paper airplane pilots
02 "sun awakens" six organs of admittance

ageist

from what I remember of the lists, Modern Times isn't gonna crack the top 20

it ain't dark yet, but it's gettin' there

?

I talked this over with shmoo and he gave me the go-ahead.

So do you want to write a blurb?

I think he meant that the blurb-writing will be a duel, not that you're dueling me.

knives out at 10 paces

I suspect there are going to be a lot of people signing up for "don't like joanna newsom" -- but I don't think it's going to be an issue in the end.

Oh, I see.

Well, it will be in a sense.

I assumed the idea was that each album would have a positive review, a negative review, and a to be determined review.

I think it's Filter that posts opposing perspectives on certain albums.

Yeah, ideally it will work out something like that, but I honestly don't expect three blurbs to get done on time for each one. If they do, great.

Like:
Thermals
TV on the Radio
Dylan
Ghostface (FIsh Scale, haven't heard the other one)
Waits
Girl Talk
Neko Case

Didn't like:
Uh, nothing struck me as totally revolting.

But really, I can review anything you need as long as I get a copy of it.
Thanks Drinky!

i didn't even vote.

Well, it's not over yet. Vote for something(s).

Also, don't be deterred if you feel like you haven't heard much from this year.

If you'd be willing to write a blurb and don't care what you write about, say so here.

oh hell I'll write something if I've heard the album. I'm not gonna listen to some shitty Antony and the Johnsons album again.

Assign me something, and I shall rise to the challenge like a bloated dirigible.

100 words? I'll do 100 words as a madlib and let you pick the nouns. I liked ghostface, peter bjorn and john, TVOTR, long winters, asobi seksu, and cold war kids. hated the strokes don't think i heard belle and sebastian...probably capable of hating a ton of other stuff as well. and i didn't hear anything really esoteric (on purpose, I'm old).

Like
Drive-By Truckers
Long Winters
Phoenix
Jason Collett
Josh Rouse
Jon Auer
Lucero
Josh Ritter
Kooks
Maritime
Rhett Miller


Dislike
Hold Steady
Cold War Kids
Thom Yorke
Man Man

Haven't Heard
Califone
Ron Sexsmith
Scott Walker
Ghostface Killah

Really though I can do whatever you'd need me to. I'm flexible, and I have time.

100 words is too short?

I guess up to 200 words would be OK.

Whatever, I just want to make sure we have enough people to do it all and that they get done on time.

Liked
TVOtR
Built to Spill
Willie Nile
Mastodon
Arctic Monkeys
DBT
Hold Steady
Tom Waits

meh/disappointed/underwhelmed
Band of Horses
Guillemots

Haven't heard
Beck
Thermals
Ghostface
Yo La Tengo

i already have blurbs written for my top 20, and i can elaborate longer on the ones that are short.

like:
hot chip
the knife
thom yorke

dislike:
joanna newsom
man man
liars

under the radar also does it.