Here's a compendium of clips from our blog’s most popular music posts in 2009. Want to see the posts in their entirety? Click on the hyperlink.
By Ivan Pena, February 13.
“…I have been a student of the Bass Guitar for around 15 years and have always fought the “apparent unimportance” of bass players in contemporary music. Through this post I hope to once and for all assert the position of bassists everywhere in the highest echelons of cool…”
Top 3 reasons why a dead Biggie Smalls is better than a living Lil Wayne
By Infinite Skillz, March 3
“In the hip-hop community, no one really wants to be labeled a hater. While I don’t hate Lil Wayne, I am far from a fan. I respect the fact that he has put out more music than any other major hip-hop artist in the last five years and probably has the best work ethic of any rapper not named Tupac Shakur. But is doing your job really worth the iconic status he seems to have achieved? I’m going to have to say no…”
It’s 420, time for another Top 10 list! Sorry, it’s late — what’d you expect?
By Leilani Polk, April 20
“…I will say this before I share my list — a few days ago, after hearing Afroman’s “I Got High” for the first time in several years, I decided that, by and large, it’s a lame excuse for a pot song. More than anything, it’s representative of a small portion of pot smokers — the slackers who’d slack with or without smoking pot — and not the 90 percent of the rest of the population of regular imbibers. I’m sorry, but you can’t blame smoking pot for being a loser, and that’s just what this very song does…”
This article appears in Dec 9-15, 2009.