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The AV Club's Best Albums of the Decade List
Daft pun:
--- Quote from: scarred on 19 Nov 2009, 23:54 ---God, hipster runoff is awesome.
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\o/
Seriously though, what "bloghaus" album could've been on the electronic list? It's all about the singles and the remixes. Lots and lots of remixes.
David_Dovey:
--- Quote from: De_El on 19 Nov 2009, 16:02 ---Damn right. I think M. Dovey'd (and myself of course) be quite pleased to see The Argument is on it.
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Yer bet yer sweet bippy I am
Obviously some of what I personally would call "odd choices" on the list, and overall I'm surprised at the amount of "mainstream" -however you care to define that- stuff on there. Overall the only things that really disappointed me where that I felt a lot of bands were represented by the wrong albums in the list.
Also, Sound of Silver! hooray!
EDIT:
My $0.02 on the Metal list is that it's not as bad as some folks made it out to be but seriously how are The Mars Volta even remotely metal, that's dumb. I'm pretty liberal with what I consider metal and I'm more than willing to include stuff like sludge and grindcore in that, but TMV have literally nothing to do with metal at all.
It's not like they couldn't have just called the list something else and done away with the contentious aspect of it anyway. "Best Heavy Music of the Decade", perhaps. Of course, even then I don't think you could include TMV. They're not heavy, they're just weird. A lot of people who also like metal listen to them, because there is shredding guitar and insane drumming and whacky cod-mysticism.
Anyway, I feel that both this list and the big Best Music list suffer from being weighted too strongly towards the latter half of the decade.
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 19 Nov 2009, 21:21 ---Ayreon - The Human Equation
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I would never in a million years have guessed that you like this album, Khar.
EDIT EDIT: Actually do you know what I think the thing that is really making me indignant about this list is- coming back to a relatively minor point I made up there- almost purely based in their nomenclature.
Essentially I think the A.V. Club have gone and made a big, ballsy mistake by labelling these lists "The Best _______ of the Decade". It's slightly less heinous in the big list, which at least has the benefit of multiple points of view and some claim to a committee process in the list's planning, but having one dude who happens to write a column about metal name his favourite records from the last ten years (some of which are definitively not metal, even by my lax standards) and then tagging it "Best Metal" strikes me as asking for trouble.
Thrillho:
Am I the only one who's never heard of like half these fucking albums? Or am I asking on the wrong forum?
Kyros:
I can dig this list. Finally some Top 50 love for The Body, The Blood, The Machine!
E. Spaceman:
--- Quote from: DynamiteKid on 20 Nov 2009, 05:46 ---Am I the only one who's never heard of like half these fucking albums? Or am I asking on the wrong forum?
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You are asking the wrong forums. None of the albums on the list are remotely obscure.
As khar has mentioned, complaining about these sorts of lists is a bit absurd since this all comes down to personal opinion. There are some great records on that list but also a lot of stuff i don't care for. From the list, the albums i'd consider keeping for my own top 50 would be
Broken Social Scene, You Forgot It In People
Mclusky, Do Dallas
Fugazi, The Argument
Ghostface Killah, Supreme Clientele
New Pornographers, Mass Romantic
LCD Soundsystem, Sound Of Silver
Arcade Fire, Funeral
Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
OutKast, Stankonia
Radiohead, Kid A
Dirty Projectors, Bitte Orca
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