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The BS List-O-Mat: A (Short) Week of Narcissistic Reruns

Posted at 10:03 AM on December 26, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (1 Comments)

We're on a short schedule and a long leash this week. But we thought we'd take this opportunity to look back over the past five months of the Buffering Stream, and identify some of our more gratifying moments.

You laughed, you cried, you corrected our broken links...

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The BS List: Best band trend of the year

Posted at 10:10 AM on December 26, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

The Supremes, Motown Records
The band uniform!

Not since the days of grunge with its "unofficial" uniform of flannel and denim have we seen so many bands trying to look smart, look good--and most important--look like a cohesive unit. This trend was bigger than one post... we had to keep adding to the list.

Photo: The Supremes, courtesy Motown Records

The BS List: Best band trend of the year #2

Posted at 11:00 AM on December 26, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis (111 Comments)

The band name that is a complete sentence!

This became such a ubiquitous trend in 2006 that we once offered a quiz wherein readers ably distinguished the dependent clauses from the hortatory exclamations. Not every band name can be as memorable as "Now It's Overhead," or "I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness," but somebody still loves you, Boris Yeltsin!

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