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While I was compiling my top ten albums for 2k9 recently (as seen in Onion magazine) I came to a bit of a realization. I’m not into dance music, I’m into pop music. It just so happens that at the moment, pretty much all good pop music is influenced by some sort of dance music. Whether that record be a hip hop record or if it’s just some drum machines and synths buried in the mix. I know it’s just part of the revolving cycle of fashion in pop music’s sound (it was like this not that long ago, until The Strokes sent Daft Punk packing). But, it feels pretty much unstoppable right now, in between Lady Gaga dropping single number 6 of 312 singles off her debut album and not really any guitars in the entire US top 40. Even the Black Eyed Peas sound like Tiga now. It looks as though the only thing that’s gonna get rid of electro anytime soon is disco. But maybe, in the next couple of years a new Strokes will come along and save pop music once again and Electric Circus will be full of kids in leather jackets with long hair and I can start playing Stooges records again.

Louis' top twenty albums for 2k9

Pretty much in no particular order whatsoever (also there are 21)

1. WOOLFY - If Ya Know What’s Good for Ya! (Rong DFA/Stomp)
2. JAY-Z - The Blueprint 3 (Roc Nation)
3. THE JUAN MACLEAN - The Future Will Come (DFA/Inertia)
4. KIM - Selected Jerks (Modular)
5. TIGA - Ciao! (Different/Liberator)
6. SALLY SHAPIRO - My Guilty Pleasure (Permanent Vacation)
7. JOAKIM - Milky Ways (Versatile)
8. THE VERY BEST - Warm Heart of Africa (green owl)
9. THE XX - XX (Young Turks)
10. RIHANNA - Rated R (Def Jam)
11. BOYS NOIZE - Power (Boysnoize)
12. GIRLS - Album (True Panther)
13. YEAH YEAH YEAHS - Its Blitz! (Interscope/Modular)
14. COLD CAVE - Love Comes Close (Heartworm Press)
15. LADY GAGA - The Fame Monster
16. THE GLIMMERS - Disko Drunkards (Glimmertwins.com)
17. DANIEL WANG - The Balihu Years (Rush Hour)
18. PHOENIX - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
19. WHO MADE WHO - The Plot
20. VITALIC - Flashmob (Citizen, Different, PIAS, Liberator)
21. NITE JEWEL - Good Evening (Self Released)

Onion Column

I have broached the subject of “Normies” with friends a few times. Mostly I get this totally blank look. I thought everyone was familiar with the concept of a Normie but I guess not, which is kind of awesome because it’s a really useful term and I’m happy to let you all know about it.

So, a Normie is a term used to describe a certain kind of person, a demographic sub-culture, if you will. It’s short for Normal Person, you know, the people that vote and shop and live in houses and drive cars and have jobs and go to the beach and the pub and have children when they’re a bit older and visit their grandparents and like music but don’t really get it and other stuff like that. They’re different to bogans in that they often live in the Eastern suburbs and they dress in blue jeans that aren’t too tight but aren’t too baggy and they have haircuts and decent shoes and stuff. They can often be identified by the things they love, which include custom numberplates and nights out with the girls. They really love going to uni and getting a degree. While they’re at uni they may spend some time at the Uni Bar having a few beers with their friends. Their friends probably include an Asian one and maybe even a black one, but not more than one.

Normies love going out on a Saturday night and having a few too many drinks, they may even have some drugs if their friends are going to. Normies are great. They make the world go round. I love Normies. I have a few Normie friends. I bet you do too. with their friends. Their friends probably include an Asian one and maybe even a black one, but not more than one. Normies love going out on a Saturday night and having a few too many drinks, they may even have some drugs if their friends are going to. Normies are great. They make the world go round. I love Normies. I have a few Normie friends. I bet you do too.