So bla bla bla, right? Another “Best of the Decade” list. I can’t possibly bring myself to explain these choices in detail of any kind. I’m all detailed out for the year. Feel like I keep reading the same things about a few of these records on different sites, and no one likes when the [...]

Hey, 2009. I’d like to thank you for wrapping up what has been the best decade for music, and I’ll argue this til the day I’m convinced that the next decade is the best. What I’m trying to say is, it keeps getting better. And, technically, doesn’t the decade end after 2010? Uber confusing. But [...]

The first draft of this post, titled, “My Poproks 20 Best Songs Since 2000,” is from this past March. 8 months, 1,000 edits, and 3,000 miles later, it officially exits the abyss of blogFAIL that is My Poproks “drafts” section. Making lists is hard! I will never complain about another ‘Blank Songs of Blank’ list [...]

As in, I wonder whatever happened to The Oneders?
And no, “That Thing You Do,” though an actual one hit wonder from the 90’s and one of the my favorite songs from the decade, will not be on my list. Considering that it’s original music from a film and is performed by a fictional band, I’m [...]

I wasn’t sure what to say when Michael Jackson died. I still really don’t know. Like a lot of people, I spent the better part of the weekend listening to anything MJ (had a round-trip flight to LA that included about 20 rounds of “I’ll Be There.”) Revisited it all except for those Thriller 25th [...]

If you read this blog regularly, you may find my 1500 word Coldplay rant from earlier this year to be pretty hypocritical, considering I didn’t even put the album on my own Top 10 for 2008. I guess, in the end, I couldn’t justify bumping any of these albums off of my list in favor [...]

It’s time to officially begin Top 10 season. All of the songs on this list either charted high (or high-ish) (or in general) on the Billboards in the US and/or the UK…or anywhere else. I guess that’s all pretty easy to figure out.
Prepare yourself for lots of Kanye. And Poproks.
Close calls:
“I Kissed a Girl” by [...]

So, The Idolator posted their first quarter Top 10 list, and while I disagreed with it for the most part (I’m just not on board with the Hot Chip thing), I feel pretty inspired to make my own.
You’ll notice my #1 (ehem, ugh. Oh God, I suck. But fuck it, I love it), and also [...]

Oh, don’t look so offended! By “poor people,” I mean everyday working stiffs like you, me, and everyone else besides your boss’s boss’s boss. Over on Poor People Like Pizza, we’ve been discussing the things that your employee (a poor person) likes and dislikes about the daily grind. One thing that poor people love to [...]

In celebration of EMI’s nonsensical Radiohead Greatest Hits release…
While I’d like to take a stab at the tracklisting for the Greatest-est Hits, it seems a pretty easy task. Creep: The Best of Radiohead….featuring “Creep,” etc. Too easy. This was a true challenge that required much deliberation, a few tears, and some blood shed.
Here goes. [...]