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Although this place hates being like Pitchfork...
Hat:
--- Quote from: David_Dovey on 01 Oct 2009, 23:19 ---Why not? Are you suggesting that someone has to know a lot about a genre of music before being qualified to judge it on it's merits?
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A list of the best albums of the decade isn't judging an album on it's own merits it is judging an album on its merits compared to the sum total of all the music you have heard released in that decade, which in this decade included an amazing diverse and interesting range of hip-hop, of which the Blueprint is a tiny snippet.
I don't think not having listened to much hip-hop in one of its most fertile periods is a good excuse for largely excluding it from this list as a genre.
David_Dovey:
--- Quote from: Hat on 01 Oct 2009, 23:48 ---it is judging an album on its merits compared to the sum total of all the music you have heard released in that decade
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Exactly, it's not a list of the best hip-hop albums of the decade.
Hat:
--- Quote from: David_Dovey on 01 Oct 2009, 23:52 ---
--- Quote from: Hat on 01 Oct 2009, 23:48 ---it is judging an album on its merits compared to the sum total of all the music you have heard released in that decade
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Exactly, it's not a list of the best hip-hop albums of the decade.
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but by putting the Blueprint in the top ten of this list and having it be the only hip-hop album they by extension declare it the best hip-hop album of the decade by a pretty impressive margin, which I am disagreeing with. That is my opinion! What is your problem with that?
I guess I also resent that arguably the most powerful taste maker in music journalism obviously doesn't think the output of hip-hop in this decade was worth half a shit as much as The Blueprint, which in a good mood I might declare "A pretty good album"
Hat:
--- Quote from: AanAllein on 01 Oct 2009, 23:36 ---/not being trolled :mrgreen:
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you're right you weren't being trolled, someone was disagreeing with you (there is a difference)
scarred:
--- Quote from: Hat on 01 Oct 2009, 23:58 ---but by putting the Blueprint in the top ten of this list and having it be the only hip-hop album they by extension declare it the best hip-hop album of the decade by a pretty impressive margin, which I am disagreeing with. That is my opinion! What is your problem with that?
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The way you are presenting it, I would think.
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