WOEBOT

Having knocked my Top 100 list just before Christmas, I very nearly pulled the plug on it, deciding it would be more fun to run as a limited edition pamphlet. Beautifully laid-out and mailed off to nobs-in-the-know. I reasoned I could suck up to Paul Morley and post him one. Anyway I'm glad I didn't cos one month later there are still nice bits of feedback trickling in.

Ironically, or maybe not, I got the hardest time at Dissensus, but the list got picked up by a whole raft of other boards, the excellent Black Cat Bone, Death Valley Driver, DJ History and a few more besides. I also got a link from Large Hearted Boy, who given the traffic he inspired, must be some kind of heavyweight (excuse the pun). I was also amused, and covertly flattered that Large Hearted Boy referred to WOEBOT in the plural though, as it's rumoured of Jared Diamond, I was a commitee masquerading as an individual. No. I, WOEBOT, just am that marvellously educated, discerning, trendy, intelligent and generally fantastic.

One of the most interesting spin-offs came via Opinionated Diner who has done his own Top 100 twelve inches. As a project I think there's a whole lot more sense in it than my kind of vainglorious stab at encapsulating musical culture "in toto". There's a one or two things in there that made me look askance (Lionrock? Dave Clarke?) but you've got to hand it to him that's a pretty fine breakout. These charts, although they're a bit nerdy, are always extremely useful, and as I remarked at Dissensus, there's no point whatsoever trying to be objective.

Opinionated Diner's list made me flash on these two compilations (see jpegs above) that I came across in a record shop and earmarked for possible future investigation. Googling them I came across a review by none other than eagle-ears himself Jess Harvell at Pitchfork about three hundred years ago.