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"Top 100 Albums Of When Now?"
Stefu:
Pitchfork has never been known to like metal in general or black metal in particular, so it's not too surprising that KharBevNor's albums don't make the list.
On the whole, it's not that bad a list, really. (Oh forgive me, AAARGH PITCHFORK HAS OFFENDED MY MUSICAL SENSIBILITIES BY NOT AGREEING WITH ME. Right?) It's kind of ridiculous how Funeral is 47th or something on this list when it was the best album in 2004 list, though. Not to mention Pitchfork's continual fascination with mainstream pop/rap, which always comes off as a case of elitism-via-faux-populism for me.
jeph:
I'm never sure about lists like this one, because it feels like albums such as Funeral haven't had the time to gestate that, say, Kid A has. Albums that seem important as fuck right now might not seem so in three years.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Stefu ---Pitchfork has never been known to like metal in general or black metal in particular, so it's not too surprising that KharBevNor's albums don't make the list.
--- End quote ---
There's only 1-4 (depending on definition) black metal on there...
I would personally contend that even the most utterly sold out Black Metal has more artistic integrity, talent, credibility and probably taste than, say, eminem.
If there was anything on my list that I would honestly say deserved to be there from the point of music overall it would be the Ministry. I was suprised that there was absolutley NO metal in there at all though. I was expecting maybe Mastodon or Isis to make it in there somewhere, someone of that ilk.
Definitely not Jay-Z.
JP:
I gave it a quick read-through. On the whole, I agree that the selection is pretty good, nevermind the ratings. I like these sorts of things because it gives me a chance to find a band or an album that I might have missed when it came out.
est:
i have a problem with Pitchfork, and that is that every time i read one of their articles/reviews it seems more to me that they are peering down their noses at me, exercising their vocabulary & trying to impress with fancy turns of phrases.
i mean, i understand that after a while you have to try to make reviews interesting, but do you have to sound like such a know-it-all twat?
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