Yay...

Lots of people now getting in on the whole question of who should be on the "I Hate" shirt in 2009... 

Simon is keeping tabs...

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and the Impostume and assorted commentators deserve special mention for this. 

I can see why Burial is a good nomination, given how many writers, including yours truly, who may have, at some point, ingested too much X (whereas X= Joy Division, post-Marxist critical theory, Ballard, rave music, late-night movies, etc.), convulse with rapture over the mere mention of the name, and yet, I have my reasons for disagreeing. 

Rather than give in and convulse, I am just going to say that, if some artists out there listen to Burial and come to understand the ramifications of the music in a similar way to what K-Punk describes, perhaps they will be inspired into exploring their own relationships to "music" and "culture" in general, instead of merely existing within these worlds.* 

As for Pavement, mentioned in the comments section, I thought about that group as one to nominate, but it didn't feel like the kind of heresy necessary to truly get a reaction. 

Another writer mentioned Wilco, but it feels a little late and a little easy, and personally, it is more interesting to attack pretenders to the "far-left" throne before turning towards the middle. 

*Critical thinking nowadays has to be more like peeling your way out from the center of an onion instead of the other way around.