On Friday, Roy told me that Pitchforkmedia.com just gave the Beastie Boys‘ second album, Paul’s Boutique, a 10/10 – something the overly elitist, pompous, horn rimmed glasses with a septum ring wearing hipster douchebag of a website almost never does. Holy fucking shit! You think, 20 years after it’s release, Paul’s Boutique was a perfect album? Way to go, assholes, you came to a conclusion everyone who’s ever listened to the album has come to. Also, you did it in the most obnoxious way possible:

10/10! Brilliant! Especially since we can now see in hindsight its impact on that which eventually succeeded it!

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Frequently I find myself gazing at this site. This magnificent creation which I and a few co-conspirators have grown from literally nothing to an unstoppable force of comedy and music destroying an Internet filled to the brim with bullshit. However, when I lovingly bear witness to my creation, I oftentimes wonder “why is it called SmartassRadio.com?” Is it because we’re a bunch of smartasses parading around the radio industry and internet with a sword of wit and a shield of good-natured joshing? Is it because we feel that Internet radio needs another batch of smartasses and shock jocks? No, neither of these answers suffices. In fact, the real reason is far greater than I or even the Internet at large can comprehend. The real answer is this: James and I drunkenly bought the domain like two years ago and now we’re stuck with it.

So, here we are: we have the word “radio” in our URL and I find myself looking at a site without a single music related post on the entire front page. So here, for everyone’s enjoyment, is the list everyone’s been waiting for. What do I, DJ Scully, creator and overlord of SmartassRadio.com, think the best albums of the past year are?
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