Good job, guys! We survived the long (or not so long) journey homeward, the stifling embrace of our families’ collective bosoms, Thanksgiving, and now we’re rounding the corner on Black Friday. Well, most of us are. Be thankful that you weren’t one of the fallen few—and maybe try shopping online next year? Anyway, this week, we asked our team of Noisey editors what they’re thankful for this year.

Kim Taylor Bennett, Style Editor
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NOFX – “THE DECLINE”

Eric Sundermann, Managing Editor
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TY DOLLA $ – “STAND FOR”

I’ve never really been the biggest Ty$ fan for reasons I haven’t been able to pinpoint. Maybe it’s because I’ve always liked The Weeknd, who operates in the same ratchet realm, albeit in a vocal range that’s closer to Ariana than Nate Dogg. Or maybe it’s because I live in a place where there’s winter for six months of the year, so I’m unable to properly enjoy the visual imagery of cabanas and sun soaked orgies that Ty$ so often employs. But one day, in Montreal, Kyle Kramer chose to put this song on during a pre-drink session. Ever since, I’ve been unable to get it out of my head and now need to hear it at least twice a day or else I’ll explode into a cloud of ash. Oh yeah, and happy Thanksgiving America! Hope you enjoy celebrating the sloppy seconds of Canadian Thanksgiving, making your holiday the equivalent of Chinese New Year happening every February. Sorry.

Slava Pastuk, Noisey Canada Editor
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AC/DC – “JAILBREAK”

I am thankful for Based God. Really. I value friends, you feel me? I am thankful for rap music being weird. I am thankful for music being dope. I am thankful for people finding the capacity for kindness toward each other. I am thankful for jokes and for when those jokes get to be made at Big Sean’s expense. I am thankful for the new Frank Ocean song. I am thankful for my loving family and my cool coworkers and for the fact that sometimes I have the luxury to sit down and do nothing and drink coffee and look out at trees and feel like maybe the world is an OK place.

Kyle Kramer, Editor
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HANK WILLIAMS, JR – “A COUNTRY BOY CAN SURVIVE”

When I was a little kid, my family used to go camping all over the East Coast. Mom, Dad, my little sister, the dogs, and I would cram into my dad’s pickup truck and haul ass from our home base in the South Jersey Pine Barrens to upstate New York, down to West Virginia, and to most points in between. At night, we’d collect a bunch of kindling, then settle in by the open fire to roast hot dogs and marshmallows. Mom and Dad would drink beer and laugh at us kids, and invariably, Hank Jr. would be blaring through my dad’s truck speakers. Now that I’ve grown up and moved to “The Big City”, I don’t see my family as often as I ought to. I do miss them, especially at times like this when I can’t make it down for a holiday. I’m thankful for them, and to them for bringing me up under the pine trees and clear blue sky. I’m thankful for how my life has turned out, for my boyfriend, for my friends, for my dream job and badass colleagues, and even for our ridiculous butterball cat. I’m thankful for country music, for adventures and libraries and good bourbon. I’m thankful for black metal, black tea, and of course, Black Sabbath.

Kim Kelly, Guest Editor
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