OK, Promise: The Last Year-End List We'll Talk About. Seriously (But Maybe Not).

Perhaps lost amongst the abundance of year-end lists made by just about everyone in recent weeks are, well, the lists of albums people didn't listen to in 2008.Hipster Runoff took this idea and ran with it earlier this week, and, yep, the results are pretty golden. For instance: No, the...

By Pete Freedman

January 9, 2009

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Perhaps lost amongst the abundance of year-end lists made by just about everyone in recent weeks are, well, the lists of albums people didn't listen to in 2008.

Hipster Runoff took this idea and ran with it earlier this week, and, yep, the results are pretty golden. For instance: No, the Hipster Runoff people did not listen to New Amerykah Pt 1: 4th World War.

"Erykah Badu - A lot of people liked this album, but I just remember her as a Zany, free spirited black woman who is largely responsible for making Andre 3000 the zany black man that he is today."

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