The Best Comments Of The Year

It's been a long year of breaking news, features, reviews and beat-ups at theMusic.com.au, and for the first time ever we've allowed you – dear reader – to have your say on all the matters we've covered – and more. Here at the very end of the year we've decided to point to a few of our favourite opinions posted by readers across the site, the funny, the endearing and the ruthless flaming when you think we got it wrong. Here goes:

We were subject to the wrath of Ultravox fan clubs around the world when we reviewed their album, Brilliant. We have two different reviews on the site – both which came to the conclusion that the post-punk '80s veterans' new album was underwhelming.

On the review where most of the bloodbath took place, one outraged reader posted: “I demand a retraction! I am completely offended! I am American...and we have such limitations here in the states to expressive music....and You have the likes of Ultrravox in your hands and you treat them like this?” (sic)

Another blasted us with; “Frustrated, you have-not Experienced the 80's! You do know nothing of music! DO NOT SPEAK OF WHAT YOU DO NOT KNOW.”

When we reported that Clairy Browne had stared in an international beer ad, the Americans were back again – this time giving the thumbs up. Perhaps out favourite commenter of the year, Ted from Arizona, summed it up with his post: “Heiniken beer sales are going to go up big time.”

We fucked up the members of Swedish House Mafia and, rightly so, got berated in the comments. It's always good to get acknowledgement for a decent save, though.

The most consistent performer for awesome comments was the weekly SPA Confidential column, which some agree is too outrageous to be false. With many fine comments throughout the year (here and here and here and here and here and here, for example), we also got slain a few times.

Like, “I think it' nice that you guys try to do something funny in this blog. Now all you need to do is ACTUALLY make it funny and it'll be great” and “Thanks for wasting 5 minutes of my time with this garbage! You are not The Onion or Weekly World News.”

Our reporting of Iggy Azalea's rise didn't please everyone, with one describing it: “What a poorly written, and seriously dated article. Complete waste of time. Dissapointing guys.” (sic)

As was to be expected, the AMID Power 50 caused all sorts of industry slanging.

And finally, it wasn't just on our site that we brushed people the wrong way. Recently we announced the Sasha tour on Twitter:

Have a great New Year's and we look forward to your input in 2013!