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The AV Club's Best Albums of the Decade List
scarred:
God, hipster runoff is annoying.
KharBevNor:
Don't let Emilio hear you say that. He loves that shit so much he probably writes it.
I don't really get it, but I guess I don't have a very deep knowledge of what it's satirising.
Johnny C:
I am Carles.
a pack of wolves:
--- Quote from: Be My Head on 19 Nov 2009, 18:51 ---The Dillinger Escape Plan is metalcore.
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I feel a little petty bringing this up, but I feel it's relevant since we're talking genre classification here: DEP do not play metalcore. Not even close. You would have something of an argument if the album they'd picked had been Calculating Infinity (not sure I'd buy it then either though), but it's Ire Works. Not that it's necessarily metal either, the best genre for it would probably be that much-maligned term alt rock. The reason I mention this is because it's often hard to say what genre something falls into, and because of this people often only get irritated by it when it's either incredibly off the mark (The Mars Volta and Queens Of The Stone Age being the truly 'er, no' examples on this list) or something they dislike and therefore want to see excised. For example:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 19 Nov 2009, 21:21 ---Codex Necro, Phantom Limb and Frozen Corpse Stuffed with Dope are all good albums but probably not my choices.
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Significantly, the thing he doesn't mention is that of the three only Codex Necro is a metal album. I understand why, it isn't galling to have some include Frozen Corpse... in a metal list because it's totally banging and similarly I wouldn't bitch about someone slipping Codex Necro into a punk list, but there's a lot more reason to leave AN and PD out than there is to exclude Boris.
And there's a good reason to leave in bands that aren't strictly metal. Because it's become acceptable to talk about metal and something like the AV Club will allow a best of metal list it allows a writer who cares about the harsher side of rock music to promote albums that would definitely be left off the main list but can be slid into a metal one. They'll know there's no chance of a punk or general heavy guitar music list, so it's hard to blame them for wanting to promote this stuff, and these days calling it metal actually makes it more respectable.
Inlander:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 19 Nov 2009, 23:46 ---Or, this.
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I don't know what the fuck that was but I couldn't get out of there fast enough.
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