Keep the Eydie Gorme, but lose the Steve Lawrence right away -- he doesn't make you a racist, just a crazy person. Rode her coattails for decades.

Racist? Never. You're cursed with taste and with the knowledge of what makes a great song great - both traits increasingly rare, I'm afraid. You're just a KIXI boy. And fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.

Who the F are these people? Where's Slayer?

racist? the list looks like a perfect one for a gay man.

Anyone else have a feeling of deja vu?

Um, no. It makes you a zionist.

what if the article read...

In 2004 Chuck Taylor, writing in The Seattle Weekly, chose seven records for a feature called Playlist. None of the records he chose were by black artists, prompting Charles Mudede, a writer at The Stranger, to conclude at the time on his SLOG that Mr. Taylorr had a bias against black music...

This whole nontroversy makes me very sad. Sasha Frere-Jones is the best music critic alive (or maybe second best if we're counting John Darnielle), and Jessica Hopper is a smart, righteous person, too. But the (stage) whispering campaign of character assassination based on musical preferences is just abominable. They're both better than that.

This piece is all I know about Sasha and Jessica. Based on this piece alone, I'd have to call 'em both scumbag idjits. If you don't like rap you're a racist? Puh-leeze.

I agree with Slate's John Cook:

The renewed argument caught the attention of John Cook, a contributor to the online magazine Slate, who wrote an article last week titled "Is Stephin Merritt a Racist Because He Doesn't Like Hip-Hop?" He said Ms. Hopper had misrepresented Mr. Merritt's comments and argued that Mr. Frere-Jones's attacks on Mr. Merritt were based on "the dangerous and stupid notion that one's taste in music can be interrogated for signs of racist intent the same way a university's admissions process can: If the number of black artists in your iPod falls too far below 12.5 percent of the total, then you are violating someone's civil rights."

I don't find it sad at all, I find it incredibly interesting. Especially living in this cracker-town.

My mom use to torture me with Eydie Gorme singing in Spanish along with her faves, El Trio Los Panchos. She did do a decent rendition of the Cuban classic, Cachito mio.

I remember that album cover that had a pic of Gorme and now that I think about it, she looked like Goodfellas' Jimmy Conway's wife.

Frere-Jones was also in Ui, who have made at least one album of beautiful music, so I can't hate him either.

maybe frere-jones should be worried about how THIN his skin is instead.

or about how homophobic and misogynistic rap is.

how about going after the big guys and not the little fag sasha?

how about finally outing the GAY rapper you know sasha?

sasha is homophobic. but in a polite zip-a-dee-doo-dah kinda way.

Here is a pic of the original album cover.

http://www.shop.com/op/~Eydie_Gorme_Y_Los_Panchos_Canta_En_Espanol-oprod-8644435

If I had an IPod, my playlist would look almost exactly like yours. With the addition of Cole Porter.

Wow - someone shares my taste in music!
(and in men as well; but that's another topic)

I like the formulation: KIXI boy (or girl). We keep KIXI going 24/7 for our 19 mo. daughter. She's napping to it now.

I cock my eyebrow at the number of Germans listed in your playlist.

Here's John Cook's Slate article: http://www.slate.com/id/2141421/

Hey Schola Nigga, Savage and Erica - nice dodge of the phoney racism shitstorm you stirred up!

Call Seattle Weekly racist because they don't promote a "colored" Hip Hop boyband enough, and now turn the whole thing around and admit you don't listen to Hip Hop yourself. Very cool.

I don't listen to hip-hop. Never have. Charles listens to it, I believe. Not sure about Erica—but thanks for keeping us honest, Nice Ignore.

Hey Ignore, it's Seattle Weakly that's calling a Hip Hop band numberone, NOT the STRANGER. Dan Savage never said he liked hip hop. The hippies at Seattle Weakly are trying to look hip by promoting Hip Hop but no one really likes or cares about Hip Hop anymore. The Hip Hop band Seattle Weakly promotes only won because their fans stuffed the ballot box.

Seattle Weakly is racist and antisemitic.

I'm going to take a wild guess that many African-Americans, especially those who like hip-hop, don't listen to white music. Does that make them racist?

What, no Lerner & Loewe? :P