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Although this place hates being like Pitchfork...
David_Dovey:
Guys, I'm sorry but you weren't doing fun correctly in this decade. Better luck next year, I guess?
KvP:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 04 Oct 2009, 05:59 ---Does the review specify which generation? I mean I'm sure there's going to be an early-twenty-first-century dance music revival a few decades from now.
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I thought Daft Punk-derivative Electro House was already a thing.
Honestly, I think the list is pretty boring and from the standpoint of someone who really loves electronic music it feels staid. It seems like the rock and pop albums on the list sort of serve to impress upon the reader the diversity of those genres, highlighting some albums that didn't exactly take the world by storm when they came out. But looking for electronic music it's peculiarly zeitgeist-y. Aside from maybe Third from Portishead every electronic album is one that announced its niche to the world. Daft Punk's up there with Electro House, I knew Burial would be there representing dubstep, 2 Many DJs is there. It's pretty cursory. Which is to say, I echo Brett's sentiment that this list is made from a certain perspective, with interesting genres of music left at the margins.
rynne:
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 01 Oct 2009, 22:26 ---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
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I think it's funny that 8 of the Top 10 are from 2000 or 2001*. I suspect that says something about the way the internet has changed the rate and depth of music lovers' audio consumption.
Back in the beginning of the decade, file sharing was just starting to make an impact on music distribution outside of college campuses, and there weren’t many well-known sources of record reviews (only dead-tree mags like Rolling Stone, etc. or the spearhead online reviewers like Pitchfork). There were still relatively few tastemakers who were setting musical trends and not a whole lot of ways that people could hear and share more obscure music.
Contrast with today, where anyone can easily seek out dozens of review sites catering to a range of specific tastes, and have practically immediate access to any of that music through file-sharing sites. I think what you're seeing in that list is a breakdown of coherent musical zeitgeists near the beginning of the decade. Pre-2002, the "good" albums were well agreed-upon, at least so much so that they came out on top of Pitchfork's aggregate scoring system. Post-2002, individual tastes were given the freedom to splinter so much that only two albums, Funeral and Person Pitch, had wide enough consensus to make it into the Top 10 of the 00’s.
*I'm counting Yankee Hotel Foxtrot as an ‘01 album because that’s when the band put it up on the internet. Albums #11, 12 and 13 are also from 2000 or 2001.
Koremora:
I literally had that exact same thought process when I saw the dates of the top 10.
Professor Snuggles:
Only problem I actually have with the list is A Ghost is Born not even being on it.
Otherwise, decent p4k list.
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