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Although this place hates being like Pitchfork...
TheFuriousWombat:
...if their top 200 albums of the decade list is compared to ours, I see quite a few comparisons.
take a look: http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7706-the-top-200-albums-of-the-2000s-200-151/
In case you don't care to read it all, the top 10 albums are:
10. The Avalances - Since I Left You
9. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
8. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
7. The Strokes - Is This It?
6. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
5. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
4. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3. Daft Punk - Discovery
2. Arcade Fire - Funeral
1. Radiohead - Kid A
thoughts on the list overall? It's not great but it could be worse. A lot of these albums probably do deserve to be in the top 200. Of course, only indie-rock/pop and some hip-hop is really represented so obviously a ton of music is being ignored but that's to be expected I suppose. I think, on the whole, it could be a lot worse.
scarred:
I thumbed through the whole list and quite honestly, it's very respectable. But really, what it boils down to when you take on listing something as massive as the "Best albums of the 2000s" is personal taste, and my taste is pretty well-represented.
This makes me wonder what my top 10 would be.
Hat:
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 01 Oct 2009, 22:26 ---5. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
--- End quote ---
WARNING WARNING OBLIGATORY HIP-HOP ALBUM TO TRY AND CLAIM CULTURAL RELEVANCE BEYOND THE REALM OF SKINNY WHITE GUYS WITH GLASSES
David_Dovey:
I have enough trouble narrowing down ten albums per year so when we were nominating for our list I sat it out.
Honestly there's nothing surprising about this list and there's nothing surprising about ours. The moderating effect of a group voting process means any contentious outliers get left in the dust and what we're left with is safe choices that near enough everybody can agree on.
EDIT: Actually reading the whole list from 100 it seems that is exactly what has happened, a lot of interesting and unexpected picks in the upper numbers, with things getting progressively more cliché and safe as you head downwards.
AanAllein:
--- Quote from: Hat on 01 Oct 2009, 22:46 ---
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 01 Oct 2009, 22:26 ---5. Jay-Z - The Blueprint
--- End quote ---
WARNING WARNING OBLIGATORY HIP-HOP ALBUM TO TRY AND CLAIM CULTURAL RELEVANCE BEYOND THE REALM OF SKINNY WHITE GUYS WITH GLASSES
--- End quote ---
Shrug, i am a skinny white guy (with glasses!) that doesn't listen to a whole lot of hip-hop, and it's still hard to deny how excellent that album is. I think it made it's spot based on merit rather than "insert token hip-hop album" here. On the other hand, Supreme Clientele doesn't make any sense to me, but I guess this is because of the aforementioned skinny-white-guy-ness.
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