I guess this shouldn't surprise me:
But the reason for the rating did: "This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:
- gay (20x)
- death (3x)
- hell (2x)
- dead (1x)"
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A 30-something gay writer's take on the latest in music, books, movies, television, sports, and politics
2007
The Shins: Wincing the Night Away
Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
Iron and Wine: The Shepherd's Dog
2006
1. Teddy Thompson: Separate Ways
2. Belle and Sebastian: The Life Pursuit
3. Scissor Sisters: Ta-Dah
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Show Your Bones
5. Rosanne Cash: Black Cadillac
6. Bob Dylan: Modern Times
7. Brahms: The Piano Concertos (Nelson Freire)
8. John Mayer: Continuum
9. Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
10. KT Tunstall: Eye to the Telescope
2005
1. Fiona Apple: Extraordinary Machine
2. Antony and the Johnsons: I am a Bird Now
3. Sufjan Stevens: Illinois
4. Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
5. Martha Wainwright: Martha Wainwright
6. Garbage: Bleed Like Me
7. Iron and Wine: Woman King EP AND Iron and Wine/Calexico: In the Reins
8. Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better
9. Aimee Mann: The Forgotten Arm
10. Sigur Ros: Takk
2004
1. Scissor Sisters: Scissor Sisters
2. Green Day: American Idiot
3. Arcade Fire: Funeral
4. Black Keys: Rubber Factory
5. Loretta Lynn: Van Lear Rose
6. Modest Mouse: Good News for People Who Love Bad News
7. Iron and Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days
8. Rilo Kiley: More Adventurous
9. Matt Pond PA: Emblems
10. Rufus Wainwright: Want Two
2003
1. Rufus Wainwright: Want One
2. Kathleen Edwards: Failer
3. The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow
4. Death Cab for Cutie: Transatlanticism/ The Postal Service: Give Up
5. Ryan Adams: Love is Hell & Rock N Roll
6. Annie Lennox: Bare
7. Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers
8. Belle and Sebastian: Dear Catastrophe Waitress
9. The Thrills: So Much For the City
10. The White Stripes: Elephant
11. New Pornographers: Electric Version
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell
2002
1. Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head
2. Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
3. Kylie Minogue: Fever
4. Joseph Arthur: Redemption's Son
5. Foo Fighters: One by One
6. Beck: Sea Change
7. Aimee Mann: Lost in Space
8. Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
9. Ryan Adams: Demolition
10. Lisa Loeb: Cake and Pie
11. Sigur Ros: ( )
12. Bright Eyes: Lifted, or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground/ Desaparecidos: Read Music/Speak Spanish
2001
1. Bob Dylan: Love and Theft
2. Ben Folds: Rockin' the Suburbs
3. Ryan Adams: Gold
4. Bjork: Vespertine
5. Jimmy Eat World: Bleed American
6. Weezer: Weezer (the green album)
7. Garbage: beautifulgarbage
8. Melissa Etheridge: Skin
9. Dave Matthews Band: The Lillywhite Sessions (CDR)
10. John Mayer: Room for Squares
11. Pete Yorn: musicforthemorningafter
12. Robbie Williams: Swing When You’re Winning
2000
1. Radiohead: Kid A
2. Everclear: Songs From an American Movie, Volume 1&2
3. Aimee Mann: Bachelor No. 2 (or, the last remains of the dodo)
4. Robbie Williams: Sing When You’re Winning
5. Coldplay: Parachutes
6. No Doubt: Return of Saturn
7. Joseph Arthur: Come To Where I’m From
8. Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker
9. XTC: Wasp Star: Apple Venus Volume Two
10. PJ Harvey: Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
1999
1. Fiona Apple: When the Pawn...
2. Matthew Sweet: In Reverse
3. Wilco: Summerteeth
4. Flaming Lips: Soft Bulletin
5. Robbie Williams: The Ego Has Landed
6. David Gray: White Ladder
7. Moby: Play
8. Travis: The Man Who
9. Melissa Etheridge: Breakdown
10. Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile
11. Beck: Midnite Vultures
12. Ben Folds Five: The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
1998
1. Lucinda Williams: Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
2. Beck: Mutations
3. Sheryl Crow: The Globe Sessions
4. Garbage: Version 2.0
5. Air: Moon Safari
6. Smashing Pumpkins: Adore
7. Hole: Celebrity Skin
8. Dave Matthews Band: Before These Crowded Streets
1997
1. Radiohead: OK Computer
2. Bjork: Homogenic
3. Bob Dylan: Time Out of Mind
4. Whiskeytown: Stranger's Almanac
5. Ben Folds Five: Whatever and Ever Amen
6. Ric Ocasek: Troublizing
7. Oasis: Be Here Now
1996
1. Weezer: Pinkerton
2. REM: New Adventures in Hi-Fi
3. Dave Matthews Band: Crash
4. Sheryl Crow: Sheryl Crow
5. Beck: Odelay
6. Sting: Mercury Falling
7. Counting Crows: Recovering the Satellites
1995
1. Radiohead: The Bends
2. Oasis: (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?
3. Chris Isaak: Forever Blue
4. Alanis Morissette: Jagged Little Pill
5. Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
6. Garbage: Garbage
7. Elton John: Made in England
8. Bjork: Post
9. Aimee Mann: I'm With Stupid
10. No Doubt: Tragic Kingdom
1994
1. Weezer: Weezer (1994)
2. Toad the Wet Sprocket: Dulcinea
3. Tom Petty: Wildflowers
4. Dave Matthews Band: Under the Table and Dreaming
5. Jeff Buckley: Grace
6. Beck: Mellow Gold
7. Green Day: Dookie
8. Oasis: Definitely Maybe
9. Seal: Seal (1994)
1993
1. Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream
2. Counting Crows: August and Everything After
3. Bob Dylan: World Gone Wrong
4. Sting: Ten Summoner's Tales
5. Radiohead: Pablo Honey
6. Bjork: Debut
7. Aimee Mann: Whatever
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3 comments:
That is kind of scary, especially considering gay can mean "happy."
If I dedicate my blog to the Gay Nineties, can I get an NC-17 rating, too? *snerk*
I'm pretty sure no one uses "gay" to mean happy 20 times. One "we had a gay old time" is pretty much the limit. Apparently the creator of this rating system believes homosexuality, death, and eternal punishment for your sins are three topics no child should be permitted to broach, even in the company of a parent or guardian. How helpful that must be for kids who are gay or know someone else who is, know someone who dies, or go to church and hear about hell!
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