Comments on: Get Ready To Hear A Lot Of Pontificating About The Best Records Of The Decade

By: cruncherman

cruncherman — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:09:48 +0000

Have you seen those laughably bad “best of” lists at Amazon? Perfect case in point –more music illiterates doing the bidding of the labels.

By: baconfat

baconfat — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:47:59 +0000

chinese muthafuckin democracy: we waited long enough, right? it should be considered the best album EVAR.

By: thesemodernsocks

thesemodernsocks — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:34:59 +0000

I’ll add this- Love and Theft remains a career highlight for Dylan, but is kind of out of step with this whole millenium, I wonder how much love it will get.

From me, it still gets lots. It makes its way into my rotation easily once every other month, and has since 9/11.

By: Thierry

Thierry — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:48:29 +0000

@Lucas Jensen: You're not alone.

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:23:16 +0000

@Thierry: I'm the lone TFC defender here. I like that album at least as much as Nevermind.

By: brasstax

brasstax — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:09:25 +0000

@Thierry: Pitchfork's already sort of overcompensated for initially rating CYHSY so highly in the beginning by trashing or reluctantly covering all the things they've done since (not that they should've ever been rated all that highly to begin with).

By: Thierry

Thierry — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:02:59 +0000

@brasstax: I knew I should've added an emoticon...I was actually wondering which one of the three was going to be Pitchfork's or others' "Sorry!" pick, like Spin - still - apologizing for ranking TFC over Nirvana in 1991.

By: brasstax

brasstax — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:35:15 +0000

I’d probably throw Vampire Weekend in there. I still listen to that album a bunch.

By: Thierry

Thierry — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:28:05 +0000

Also, Vampire Weekend, Cold War Kids and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, anyone?

By: Rob Tannenbaum

Rob Tannenbaum — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:09:57 +0000

Fifty posts proving/exemplifying Christopher R. Weingarten’s recent diagnosis, and one post from Christopher R. Weingarten.

By: TheRunningboard7

TheRunningboard7 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:23:22 +0000

@brasstax: I reference him for timing purposes. I've been able to enjoy or tolerate every song they've put out since he joined them.

By: brasstax

brasstax — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:13:13 +0000

@TheRunningboard7: It's not even that, really, because Johnny Marr's real contribution to the last album wasn't as big as advertised. Isaac's just writing better songs now I guess.

By: joshooaah

joshooaah — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:06:29 +0000

You can already sort of guess what Pitchfork will say, they did a list for 2000-04.
http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/5956-the-top-100-albums-of-2000-04-part-one/

By: Christopher R. Weingarten

Christopher R. Weingarten — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:36:32 +0000

I just want to predict:

Daft Punk tops Pitchfork
American Idiot tops Rolling Stone
Kid A tops Spin and Magnet

By: TheRunningboard7

TheRunningboard7 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:16:46 +0000

@brasstax: I remember in 2001, freshman year, this dude I met says “you ever heard of modest mouse?” and I say, “no, why” and he says hold on. Through methods which I’m sure are illegal he produces a burnt cd of everything they’d released and says “tell me if you can stand even a solid minute of this”

I could not. At all.

Then came Johnny Marr!!!!!!!!

By: bcapirigi

bcapirigi — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:20:20 +0000

@NunyaB: Yes! To Sophie and to Liz!

Over on my blog I’ve been reviewing my (original) top 10 singles lists from each year this decade, and planned to do two songs a week so I’d hit 2009 by (approximately) late November, but it’s like halfways through the year and I’m still on 2001, so, you know, who knows if I’ll even finish.

No idea what I’d put on a best albums list, for some reason, although I can think of plenty of singles that I might call the best (Hellooooooo, Sunshine Anderson.)

By: brasstax

brasstax — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:07:48 +0000

I’m not.

By: D.R.Mosby

D.R.Mosby — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:05:09 +0000

I’m surprised that we’re 40+ posts into this discussion without any mention of Funeral by Arcade Fire.

By: brasstax

brasstax — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:46:58 +0000

@Thierry: How would you settle on a definitive version of the Robyn album, though? Along with its staggered worldwide releases, it also has about 8 different tracklisitings.

By: Thierry

Thierry — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:34:29 +0000

@SonofaVondruke: If The Slow Wonder's been slept on, what about the first two New Pornographers albums? They may not be as willfully artful as Neko Case's own releases, but as guitar pop, they are just about perfect. Another one I forgot is Robyn's self-titled album, which might also count as album of the decade just because it seems its worlwide release dates were spread over the entire decade (I exaggerate, but not by much).