In yeas past I have labored heavily over my year end music list. I plan to provide my top releases tomorrow night but it will probably be contained in one list rather than a multi-part series. To be honest, I am much more interested in my year end book lists coming up next week.

I think there were a couple of factors that contributed to a less than enthusiastic desire to share my musical picks of the year:

1) eMusic opted for big name back catalog rather than quality new releases. I am not a fan of the new eMusic. Sure it was great to be able to add back a few older recordings I had not converted to MP4. However, the change meant that there was less appeal to Tuesday new releases. There just were not as many. I canceled my subscription as of tonight.

2) My available time to listen to music declined rapidly the second half of the year. I no longer sit before a computer in an office by myself all day. I also had less discriminatory funds to purchase music outside of eMusic.

That does not mean that I have no opinions. I do and will get to those in due course.

I can state right now the two biggest disappointments of the year:

Monsters of Folk–Rather than four times the greatness it was four times the suckitude.

That Derek Webb album–I will be the one to say it: his music stinks. I like the lyrics and appreciate a good controversy but I will pass. I can’t pretend to be a fan any longer.