The Sauced Bulletin

That’s right!  It’s DECEMBER now.  I mean it has been for a few days, but I’m just now getting around to posting so SHUT UP.

Ahh…December.  The best month of the year.  Know why?  Because it has Christmas, of course, New Year’s Eve, and my birthday! (December 19, will only accept money as a gift).  Could it get any better!?!?

Oh, but it can.  Because December means one more thing, something very important to this blog in particular:  LISTS!!!!  Oooh do we love a good year-end list around here, and the season has already begun.  British music magazines (like Uncut and Paste) have already released their lists, and all of them seem have called each other up and agreed to make PJ Harvey’s extremely British, and pretty good, album, Let England Shake, their record of the year.  And yesterday noted indie blog Stereogum posted their Top 50 Albums of 2011, arriving at the conclusion that Girls’ Father, Son, Holy Ghost is number one.  I strongly disagree with them there because I thought that album was rather disappointing, but hey, that’s what lists are about!  Disagreeing and then yelling at each on the internet!

In the coming weeks The Sauced Bulletin is gonna send a flurry of lists at your face, along with some reflections on the year in music that was 2011.  It all kicks off soon (maybe this week even!) with the bad news:  The Most Disappointing Albums of 2011, and ends with the good stuff:  our Top 20 Albums of the Year!  In between there will be some other goodies, like lists from our wayward, yet occasionally contributing writers Matt and Will (and maybe Gabe too, who knows!?). 

So, get cozy by the fireplace, grab some eggnog or apple cider or something, put your slipper-encased feet up, and get ready to praise the records that were good, and mercilessly tear down the ones that weren’t.  Because, you know, holiday togetherness and stuff!