Comments on: “Paste” Makes A Very Tasteful Illinoise

By: Thierry

Thierry — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:57:28 +0000

@chachwitablog: A bit of both, but if I were them I would err on the side of consistency. I think that ultimately it should be considered a 2004 release – sure, much of it was composed in 1967, but the final track order and the actual recordings date from 2004. In the end it’s not unlike someone re-recording old previously unreleased tracks and calling it a new album (as Neil Young has been known to do) – the one difference here is that we’re very familiar with the backstory.

By: chachwitablog

chachwitablog — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:32:31 +0000

@whoneedslight: Agreed. But You Forgot It In People really, really should have made the cut too. (It is in my top 5 of the decade.) Thierry: Infuriating that it is being excluded now, or infuriating that it was wrongly included on those lists before? I'm honestly not sure where it belongs.

By: Thierry

Thierry — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:12:41 +0000

I’m finding the revisionist exclusion of Brian Wilson’s Smile (which everyone reviewed as a new release in ’04 and included in that year’s top new releases) from all of these Top of the ’00s kind of infuriating.

By: whoneedslight

whoneedslight — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:24:29 +0000

I think The Moon and Antarctica should have made the cut.

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:37:22 +0000

@iantenna: The other Feathers, from Miami, is pretty rad. They sound like Stereolab and Can.

By: fre2daa

fre2daa — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:49:38 +0000

I’m psyched about Vespertine being included, even though it being No. 50. It’s my favorite record.

Other thoughts:

- It’s weird seeing Coldplay in these sorts of lists. A rush… is my favorite record of theirs, though.
- Kala is so much better than Arular.
- Damien Rice, more like NO.
- Some people are right: KID A is going-to-bed music. But incredibly beautiful and complex and crazy going-to-bed music. It deserves the praise.

By: iantenna

iantenna — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:12:52 +0000

devendra and joanna are oddly missing and i know paste must have been huge supporters of that shit in the first half plus of this decade. yes, most of the shit connected to the freak-folk scene SUCKED (i’m looking at you feathers and espers and entrance and like a million others) but devendra and joanna haven’t made a bad album yet. and, for better or worse, that shit defined a huge portion of this decade. there’s no need to pretend it didn’t exist just cause you regret giving a positive review to some 3rd tiered nu-folk bullshit 4 years ago.

By: iantenna

iantenna — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:38:30 +0000

gentleman jesse is such a bizarre leftfield choice. totally mediocre rip on costello/joe jackson/nick lowe, even down to the this year’s model cover ape-ing.

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:31:04 +0000

@BradNelson: I'm with you on this, and I so don't like stuff like that very much.

By: bcapirigi

bcapirigi — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:28:12 +0000

Even Paste only put two women in their top 10. Paste, the magazine that might as well have had Aimee Mann on the cover of every issue from 99-04.

I was actually fine with the list up to #21. Control, Sound of Silver, Night Falls Over Kortedala and Vespertine are all really good, and I liked Up The Bracket enough that I’m glad it’s on there. But the top 20 is not so good, is it?

By: chachwitablog

chachwitablog — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:21:53 +0000

my thoughts:

1. Never liked Sufjan. Emphasis on the YAWN.
2. Glad to see that Kanye’s best (and first) album is the only one on the list.
3. Hail to the Thief and Amnesiac are underrated, and should be here (over In Rainbows in my opinion).
4. WHERE IS BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE YOU FORGOT IT IN PEOPLE?
5. Kala >>>>> Arular
6. Glad Stankonia is high on the list.
7. Vampire Weekend at 21. Huh. Really?

By: Audif Jackson Winters III

Audif Jackson Winters III — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:12:49 +0000

Yeah, just a joke based on my recollection of KINGDOM COME getting an inordinate amount of praise from random, presumptively clueless places. My specific memory is Stereogum briefly (and embarassingly) listing it in their dearly departed “Rocking the Ipod” sidebar.

By: BradNelson

BradNelson — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:11:13 +0000

Gillian Welch in the top ten is pretty radical. Time (The Revelator) is an incredible record, a series of songs in which to fall apart forever.

By: capnbecki

capnbecki — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:40:10 +0000

Van Lear Rose should be way higher.

By: Ted Maul

Ted Maul — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:14:46 +0000

@Audif Jackson Winters III: What, really? Although, now that I think about it, Kingdom Come is probably the Paste-ier record.

By: Tim_Grierson

Tim_Grierson — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:12:13 +0000

@moulty: I just wished they'd picked the right Westerberg record, Stereo/Mono.

By: TheRunningboard7

TheRunningboard7 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:05:21 +0000

@fna: My relationship with Radiohead's weird, because I hated The Bends and Pablo Honey, I fell in love with OK Computer, then I didn't like anything they put out until In Rainbows. I've been giving albums on Pitchfork's 200 list another once through (thank you Johnson County Library!!), but the only album on the list I don't already own that's grown better in my opinion is Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

By: moulty

moulty — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:05:00 +0000

@TheRunningboard7: Eh, I like about 60% of the album. I second the chorus of Boys And Girls In America supporters. That any list of 50 aughts albums could lack both Madvillainy AND both Dinosaur Jr reunion albums is appalling to me. Do paste readers abhor marijuana use?

By: Audif Jackson Winters III

Audif Jackson Winters III — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:01:30 +0000

The BLUEPRINT instead of KINGDOM COME? Come on, guys!

By: Evie

Evie — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:50:55 +0000

Whatever the good and bad of this list, it does not make me want to shoop, if you know what I’m sayin.