The 2026 Reviews finally got underway, but there are lots to come. January is always about our Best Of The Previous Year. The changes this year seemed to work well. Let focus on the countdown posts, but a much Busier Blog as readers / listeners went off to the original Reviews.
It did start too late though. The end of January is a bit late to start 2026 Reviews and so the plan will be to put everything up in the first ten days of next January and maybe gibe the Listening To This Week Playlist a rest for that one week. We are also thinking of going Alphabetical for our Best 100. Still posting in 10s and just naming an Album Of The Year numerically.
There are so many Reviews to come that February will simply be about Reviews and the 4 LTWW Playlists. See you there!
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First, thanks for the effort to make this a site that pushes great music and the overall layout you have established. I am astonished at the minimal overlap between the Best Of's list by people who cover similar terrains, pop, Power Pop and various offshoots. Yours, David Bash, and Poprock have such divergents lists. It's truly amazing.
ReplyDeleteHi Ken, You are spot on with your thoughts. I purposely didn't look at other lists before ours, but looking since, this does seem to be especially divergent between all three this year. There is obviously common ground as all meet in the middle. But as you spread outwards you do see differences which probably gets explained by tastes, formats and Poprock come at Reviews form a lovely different angle.
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