Saint Jonathan of Dayton, whose holiest act was transubstantiating coal into limestone

it has! I particularly enjoy the strategic aspect of it

which one of you was holier?

anyhow, thanks to @briank.bsky.social for the invite

(also I tied with the person ahead of me; he didn’t defeat me)

also, in the sort of clown-ass coincidence that seems to happen to me with alarming regularity, @putnam39.bsky.social was Pat’s high school classmate

I do have it!!!!

okay Jon is DEFINITELY a crank

(Jon is just a crank, probably)

I think it’s that my perspective on music was starting to shift—in ‘89 I was really starting to get into music and everything seemed so exciting and novel and in 2001 I was starting to lose interest because I wasn’t into garage rock revival/post-rock

but I am open to being surprised by 2001!

those are fighting words

you also like that Bob Dylan album from 2001

we have repeatedly established that you don’t like fun, so stop it

sir, there is nothing in your head

oh no let’s not get this started

very 1989-centric because I moved to Apple Music at the very end of the 2000 tournament

perhaps if you are an extraterrestrial who has never heard garage rock before?

wow this is the new iteration of two of the most overrated bands of the late 90s/early 00s, SIGN ME UP

wait, what? first they come for my em dash and then they come for my ✨?

2001 has some albums that I like well enough, but nothing that I love. 1989 was full of albums that I love.

it feels like an obstacle to pass on my way to 1988