"What's your favourite album?"

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Drawing heavily on that discussion we had on Poptimists a week or two ago, here's my latest Pitchfork column. I wanted something straightforward after last month's reaction-free one (which I'm still quite pleased with) and I appear instead to have accessed my inner Nick Hornby.

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[edgeofwhatever.livejournal.com]

On one hand, I'm one of those people whose favorite album changes all the time, depending on my mood -- but on the other hand, I feel like if it's only been your favorite album for five hours, it's not really your favorite album. So I never know how to answer "What's your favorite album?" and I usually end up just saying "Fleetwood Mac's Tusk" and leaving it at that. It's not necessarily the album I enjoy the most -- it's not necessarily even the Fleetwood Mac album I enjoy the most -- but it is the album I have known the longest which is also at least a little cool, and it is a nod to my massive teenage Fleetwood Mac obsession, and it serves as sort of a reference point for what I like about music (melodies, messes, odd productions, behind-the-scenes drama, having to follow lyrics from song to song, etc.).

So basically...yeah, I agree, nice column.