This is what the site used to look like
[tweetmeme]Five years ago today — at precisely 10:37 p.m. MST on Feb. 20, 2009 — Slicing Up Eyeballs launched so very inauspiciously, with just a simple 91-word post announcing plans to provide “the latest info on new albums, reissues, upcoming reunions and tour dates.” For the next day days, it’s likely the site had a single visitor: myself.
How times have changed. Five years and and 4,054 posts later, this site has garnered 10,269,313 pageviews from 3,332,838 unique visitors — numbers that would have been utterly inconceivable on that February night in 2009. Plus it’s spawned four hours of weekly programming on Sirius XM Satellite Radio and Strangeways Radio, a monthly mixtape series, our ongoing Best of the ’80s polls and more.
As I’ve written before, what started as a late-night labor of love — I figured I’d write about the music I know and love, and see if anybody else cared — has turned into a serious undertaking. And it turns out that other people do, in fact, care, which is why I’m keenly aware that any success I’ve had with Slicing Up Eyeballs is due entirely to those of you who visit the site every day.
So, once again, thank you so much for stopping by and helping celebrate this great musical era. None of this would matter if nobody cared, so please accept this very sincere thanks for commenting, voting, sharing — just participating in any way you see fit.
It’s been fun. Here’s to five more years.
— Matt Sebastian, founder/editor
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