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NME votes 'Is This It' as best album of the decade.
elizaknowswhatshesfor:
Taken out of context that is an awesome quote.
a pack of wolves:
You know me, as puritan as the day is long.
David_Dovey:
If you absolutely must just go to the Vice website and file through the Do's & Don'ts, have a shuftie through the "most emailed"/"most popular" list, go through the fashion section for some alt-porn masquerading as art that would make Dov Charney blush, jack it, fall asleep, and then never go back again. Good for about an hour's entertainment.
valley_parade:
Guys guess what!
I'm going to fill in Vice's joke list from the last page. Feel free to put in albums I've missed/couldn't think of.
--- Quote ---Number 35: Bonkers novelty rap collective. Shows staff have sense of humour.
--- End quote ---
35. Ummmmmmmmmmm........ Brokencyde.
--- Quote ---Number 34: Reserved for Britpop “survivors” who’ve made “their best album in years”.
--- End quote ---
--- Quote ---Number 33: Wacky side-project of big-name band singer, which is a wacky electro-pop concept album about magic animals.
--- End quote ---
33. That dude from Interpol put out an album this year, right? Close enough.
--- Quote ---Number 32: Something from Iceland.
--- End quote ---
32. Olafur Arnalds - Found Songs
--- Quote ---Number 31: The name that keeps turning up on every electro/house compilation CD released that year. e.g. Simian Mobile Disco in ‘07.
--- End quote ---
--- Quote ---Number 30: Real authentic alt. country dude who made the album in a cave in the Appalachians/once dated Joanna Newsom.
--- End quote ---
30. Mountain Man - S/T
(okay, they are not dudes)
--- Quote ---Number 29: Return of once-derided old-timer who used to symbolise naffness, but has subverted expectations by making an album of honest, brooding ballads with a hip young producer.
--- End quote ---
29. Morrissey....oh wait, was that a compliation album, though?
--- Quote ---Number 28: This space is reserved for Bruce Springsteen if he makes an album in the year of the list.
--- End quote ---
28. *ticks box*
--- Quote ---Number 27: Some dubstep record which actually came out last year but has roundly been heralded as “the sound of the future”.
--- End quote ---
--- Quote ---Number 26: Disappointing third album from previously much-touted act, which is so bad that editorial embarrassment means it’s been crowbarred in here as a Pravda-style exercise in shrinking them slowly rather than dropping them like a hot brick, as would be most appropriate.
--- End quote ---
26. Bloc Party.
--- Quote ---Number 25: The band that everyone was tipping as the year’s biggest act in January.
--- End quote ---
25. Future of The Left - Travels With Myself and Another
--- Quote ---Number 24: You’ve never even heard of this one. You never will. Even as your read the blurb, you find your mind simultaneously erasing the entry.
--- End quote ---
24. Princeton - Cocoon Of Love
--- Quote ---Number 23: Glitchy and worthy and difficult record you’ve listened to once. Squarepusher, basically.
--- End quote ---
23. What was that Lightning Bolt record called?
--- Quote ---Number 21: British Sea Power.
--- End quote ---
21. British Sea Power - Man of Aran
--- Quote ---Number 20: Token world muso.
--- End quote ---
20. Ai Aso - Aida
--- Quote ---Number 19: The band who’ve got a reputation for being “influential”, and have a geographically specific “scene” organised around them that they put on semi-mythical “parties” for at a semi-mythical “venue”. e.g. HEALTH and The Smell.
--- End quote ---
19. Wavves - Wavvves
--- Quote ---Number 18: Band who wrote album of songs inspired by the tragic accidental/drug death of their bass player last year. Somewhere the blurb says “courageous”.
--- End quote ---
--- Quote ---Number 17: Fever Ray.
--- End quote ---
17. Fever Ray - s/t
--- Quote ---Number 16: Sexy pop act masquerading as “wonky-pop”/”nu-pop”/”underground pop”, which only barely disguises the fact that they’re Lulu with alt. dress sense.
--- End quote ---
16. Lady Gaga
--- Quote ---Number 16: Put in a “stunning” performance on Jools Holland.
--- End quote ---
We only get repeats of Jools Holland here. But I did see an episode that made me check out Seasick Steve.
16. Seasick Steve - Man From Another Time
(there are two #16s..)
--- Quote ---Number 15: DJ who made “the year’s party-starting mash-up compilation” that you’ve never actually heard at a party that wasn’t put on by media insiders. And never made any of those party-goers do more than pout extra aggressively.
--- End quote ---
--- Quote ---Number 14: Dirty Projectors.
--- End quote ---
--- Quote ---Number 13: Hyper-obscure album everyone was bamboozled into voting for ‘cos Pitchfork gave it a 9.9, despite sounding like every other folk album ever.
--- End quote ---
13. Girls - Album
--- Quote ---Number 12: Rapper facing child sex charges.
--- End quote ---
--- Quote ---Number 11: Dizzee/Chipmunk (pop-grime slot shared on a rotational basis).
--- End quote ---
--- Quote ---Number 10: Album described as a “groundbreaking fusion of dance and rock”.
--- End quote ---
10. Passion Pit - Manners
--- Quote ---Number 9: Tape of Bob Dylan coughing up some phlegm in June 1972, found in someone’s attic, dusted off, reissued, and hagiographised in the Sunday papers as a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
--- End quote ---
9. Dylan's Christmas album!
--- Quote ---Numbers 8-2: Records that were OK, but no one was mad about them, but no one disliked them much either, so they swum through the middle course, whereas intense records that some people were truly passionate about but others really hated all ultimately failed to make the cut.
--- End quote ---
8. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
7. Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
6. Royksopp - Junior
5. Mountain Goats - The Life Of The World To Come
4. Eels - Hombre Lobo
3. Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love
2. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
--- Quote ---Number 1: people humming transcendentally over distorted tape loops of concrete being laid (Wire).
--- End quote ---
1. Animal Collective - Meriweather Post Pavilion
If you make the second #16 into #15 and adjust accordingly, it becomes 0, though. Off the list, BECAUSE IT IS A TERRIBLE FUCKING RECORD.
elizaknowswhatshesfor:
Just to prove how redundant NME is, let's have a look at their edgy cover star, who clearly champions underground, independent or exciting new music:
Right.
http://www.nme.com/news/joe-mcelderry/48880
Quite interesting what Cowell has to say though.
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