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Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
Scandanavian War Machine:
i don't know but man chocolate chip cookies sound amazing right now
David_Dovey:
Isn't there some way we can limit suffrage for these things?
Hat:
I just want everyone to know that I have a long list of everyone who voted for The Books over Dopethrone and I know exactly who you are
I Am Not Amused:
Not joking at all.
The Blueprint is pretty much the greatest hip-hop album of the decade. Jay is completely on fire on those tracks, spinning ridiculous internal rhymes, jumping from breathing life into hip-hop's tired promiscuity (Girls, Girls, Girls) to one of hip-hop's all time heartbreakers (Song Cry). He spits some of the most intense wordplay in the game and, dammit all if the beats are fantastic, too. Kanye before sped-up soul samples were just an afterthought, Timbaland when he didn't just have to put a robot buzzsaw synth over a track to make it a hit, Just Blaze being fucking Just Blaze. Man, fantastic, fantastic record.
Futuresex/Lovesounds, by the way, is a pop record whose SHORTEST song is OVER FOUR MINTUES LONG. And there are MULTIPLE SEVEN MINUTE PLUS TRACKS. The Timbalake pair pushed each other and pushed each other, and basically set the template for pop and hip-hop's cross-pollination. They were responsible for the first top 40 record since the Beatles to have sitar melodies. JT's voice is, of course, incredible and it pushed boundaries while keeping terrific hooks and the best dance beats this side of Daft Punk.
Gnarls Barkley's debut was the most creative soul music has been since Motown, Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III jumped through more genres (synth-pop on "Shoot Me Down", minimalism on "A Milli", jazz on "Dr. Carter", R&B on "Mrs. Officer") than anything short of a Broken Social Scene record, Outkast crafted classics throughout their entire career, songs that'll be the kind of things that musically define our time. If you say you didn't bob your head at least once to "Hey Ya" or were impressed by Andre 3000's machine-gun flow on "B.O.B." I just straight don't know what to do.
Meanwhile, Dead Meadow's out-of-focus guitar riffage is a bit limp, failing to distinguish itself from a smoky haze, at times and, while interesting texturaly, songs tend to blend together to the point where I can't tell one from the other. Additionally, sometimes their psyche flourishes just bother me (The guitar squeals on "Lady" are fingernails on a chalkboard to me). While the band is obviously comfortable in its mid-tempo groove, it gets a bit stagnant for me, failing to differentiate it self in any real way (Except for "At the Edge of the Wood", which is a prety cool song).
Not to say its a bad record. It's not. But I can't in good conscious say its superior to any of the above.
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