The next time I get a lab placement, I'm going to TMS my brain until it fixes my musical preferences.

Muse
Every time JJJ bring up Survival, they talk about how it's such a terrible song, yet they still keep playing it! Now apparently they're talking to Matt Bellamy and playing the new single, Madness. It's pretty awful too. However, Unsustainable is the worst thing I've heard in a while.

Animal Collective
Naw, I'm not streaming your album if it's in fuzzy video format. I can't be bothered; I'll wait for it to come out properly. What I have heard of it seems a bit more normal than what I expected from them. Not sure if BNM.

X Factor Australia
After seeing the US Voice coaches give a good show of bantering, these judges seem terribly amateurish. They're so awkward! The worst part was how the cameras kept making faces at the poor 14 year old girl, and the background music was Lily Allen's Fuck You. Even I thought that was unnecessarily asshole-ish. Also, there is X Factor fanfiction.

Birdy
TV has been pushing her album. I think she made Skinny Love popular. It's a shame that the production/arrangement of her version is so dull, because I'd rather listen to someone other than JVernon sing it. White Winter Hymnal doesn't work as a pop song at all though.

Unfortunately, I was wrong about indie folk going out of fashion. The winner's song is basic as hell. It's just a folk song with little electronic wooshes. The beginning sounds like a bit in Feeding Line. The handclaps are the worst. Blargh.

It's not like I expect anything great from high school kids, but I even thought Tyler Touche and Jessica Cerro were both better. I bet that first guy might be able to at least make the next ridiculously catchy dance song and I wouldn't mind having an Australian knockoff of Fiona Apple. The hardcore band was meh, I think they picked them just so people would whinge less about marginalizing that genre.

Clickety click. I guess Pitchfork got tired of people complaining that they don't provide opportunities for reader interaction, etc.

I'm looking through other lists, and I bet that a lot of reviews are going to get changed as a result of this poll. People seem to love Transatlanticism, which got a joke review! Lots of Dark Was The Night, which I personally didn't think was that good, but okay.

The homogeneity is a little disheartening. My list seems to be missing a lot of things that everybody else is including, e.g. Animal Collective, Spiritualized, The Microphones, and a few other things that got 10.0s, but I haven't heard them yet. Heck, I'm somewhat ashamed that I know which albums got the perfect score.

While making my list, I realized that a disproportionate amount of stuff I like is from before my time. Some people think it's cooler to like old music, but I feel that I should like things that are coming out now, just so I can later say, "Yeah, I totally remember when that came out." Isn't that even cooler than liking something that everyone has liked for ages? You have to think about the long term!

EDIT: I'm updating this as the situation changes. It's going to turn into a fun way to discover new music.

I know it's really stupid, but it's annoying to see posts on Facebook from distant acquaintances talking about something I like. Part of it is because I'm bitter about having no friends who like what I like. Another thing is that it's usually some vapid post like "[critically acclaimed album/artist] is awesome!" or some random lyrics, and then it gets a whole lot of likes and circlejerk comments. Karma whoring.

Well, screw that. I'm going to find alternatives that my news feed doesn't mention.