This is the Very Best Blog Post of 2009

Oh no. Here we go again. It’s time for everyone and their mother to start making their best of 2009 lists. I really don’t know how people do it. I have trouble remembering what I ate for breakfast, much less what my favorite albums were that came out this past year.  It certainly doesn’t help that I spent half of 2009 catching up on the best music I had missed from 2008.  It’s hard to keep up with all the good music that comes out! Whenever I am pressured into making a “Top Ten” list for myself, it is basically a compilation of other top ten lists that I found around the internet. I can’t remember what came out in the past year, so I find a few other lists, pick the albums that I really liked from their lists and apply it to my own. It ends up being wholly unsatisfying and I feel like a fraud.

To make matters worse this is 2009, the end of a decade. I’m supposed to remember the best albums of the past ten years? If you blind folded me and put on two albums from my collection and asked me which one was released in 1994 and which one in 2003, I’d probably shrug my shoulders. Unless you played the Spin Doctors. Then I’d have a fighting chance of getting it right.

That’s why I like making Picks of the Week; it’s pretty much the limit of what I can remember listening to. So I am making a vow: I will not give in to the pressure. I will buck the trend, be my own man and not make a best of 2009 list. But when we get to the middle of December and I post a Top Ten list of 2009 with Morrissey’s Years of Refusal at the top, don’t call me a hypocrite. Just remember that I am a very, very weak man.

-DJ Bears!