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Post by ScottsyII on Jan 22, 2005 20:04:58 GMT -5
Maybe we can find a way to sneak it in because it was released in 2000 in some backward country... it deserves to be in there on the basis of it's quality!
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Post by NdY on Jan 24, 2005 13:37:55 GMT -5
Um, just after a quick glance...
Patten, you need to give both Fennesz's Endless Summer and the Microphones' The Glow, Pt. 2 a good listen when you get the chance -- humorously enough they were Pitchfork's numbers 2 and 1 of 2001.... The former is thoroughly awash in My Bloody Valentine meets Post-Rock electro (I'm thinking M83 or Manitoba), a beautiful album that gets better with every listen and in if taken in the right mood is downright amazing. The Microphone's album brings Neutral Milks Aeroplane to mind... a sprawling album with it's own weird little idiosynchrasies and a very large beating heart holding it all together. I love both of them -- and they'd probably both hold a spot in my own top twenty of the naughts if I ever got around to making it (something I keep bugging myself to do).
I'm actually a bit surprised to not see the Wrens Meadowlands in there, especially seeing that it's number two on my 2003 list, and I know certain well respected sites (Tinymixtapes in particular) had it in their top slot.
I really like their top ten, though. Modest Mouse certainly deserves to be there, though the hip hop choices seem a bit high (aside from Stankonia). I couldn't argue with the Strokes being that high -- say what you will about that album, but it's importance to the mainstreaming of indie rock is undeniable.
And Kid A is the obvious choice. It blows everything else away.
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Post by melon1 on Jan 24, 2005 16:50:13 GMT -5
And Kid A is the obvious choice. It blows everything else away.
I stopped by to say the exact same thing. Dadblabitt! Beat me to it!
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Post by someone on Jan 25, 2005 2:13:40 GMT -5
And I came by to say, screw Kid A. I would like to one day live in a elitist online community that simply does not automatically accept and assume that Radiohead is the best thing since shoelaces. Down with obligatory Thom Yorke cocksucking!
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Post by AliveAndFatigued on Jan 25, 2005 2:33:39 GMT -5
WORD. FUCKING. LIFE.
I wouldn't even dare trying to list the best albums of this decade thus far. There's simply not enough time for the historical importance of each release: I guarantee you in 5 years more people will talk about Dizzee Rascal's first album than Funeral. That may be an unpopular thing to say now, but ask yourself: Which album ultimately ended up with more critical acclaim, The Chronic, or La Fin Du Monde?
BTW, I love the folks at Definitive Jux to death, but people need to get off their dicks. The backpacker kids are horrible. I'm glad there's a movement right now to bring hip hop back to the streets, because it needs an attitude adjustment. I also find the seeming loathing in that top 50 list for almost everything crunk (one album?) is hilarious.
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Post by maarts on Jan 25, 2005 7:11:04 GMT -5
What utter rot.
Simply because there's quite a few people out there who genuinely like Kid A, does that mean we all are collectively sucking Thom Yorke's cock?
I don't think that anyone here 'automatically accept and assume that Radiohead is the best thing since shoelaces' but there happens to be a staunch support for them...just like there's people who love The Beatles to death and others who don't see the fabness of them, the thing about communities is where the balance lies.
Radiohead may not have changed my life musically but they have enriched it. The thought that I therefore am guilty of orally pleasuring the main man of said combo is rather presumptious.
I get the point though that you find Kid A overrated.
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Post by NdY on Jan 25, 2005 10:12:05 GMT -5
And I came by to say, screw Kid A. I would like to one day live in a elitist online community that simply does not automatically accept and assume that Radiohead is the best thing since shoelaces. Down with obligatory Thom Yorke cocksucking! Bjork sucks. Deal with it slut. |
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Post by Philemon on Jan 25, 2005 10:17:07 GMT -5
Ha ! There must be something in the water ... ! Up with Grumpy People !!  |
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Post by luke on Jan 25, 2005 10:27:37 GMT -5
Seriously, Kid A is one total piece of shit album with about two or three catchy songs on it that don't even COMPARE with ANYTHING off of OK Computer, ANYTHING off of The Bends, or, uh, "Creep." Hell, I think Hail To The Thief even flows better than that piece 'o shit.
But hey, that's just my opinion. My opinion that Kid A is an overrated piece of shit and Radiohead's worst album. I sorta liked it when it first came out, then I listened to it again a few times down the road and wondered how the hell I ever enjoyed that bunch of blippity-bloopy sounding trash.
Must say, though, that the early part of this decade is a complete blur for me, so there's no way I can add anything positive to this discussion. Although I'm leaning towards The Moon and Antarctica. I think.
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Post by riley on Jan 25, 2005 10:33:51 GMT -5
I don't hate Kid A, and I love Radiohead, but mark me as another who hangs his hat on The Bends and OK Computer. This could change within days, even hours, but right now, I'm having a hard finding any better album from the 00's than this one.  |
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Post by luke on Jan 25, 2005 10:36:57 GMT -5
I've been playing that one a lot lately, too.
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Post by riley on Jan 25, 2005 10:41:55 GMT -5
I burned out on a it a while back, but just saw them live and have gone back to it in a big way as a result.
Perfect album in just about every way as far as I can tell.
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Post by NdY on Jan 25, 2005 10:55:14 GMT -5
You Forgot it... is great... save the filler at both sides.
You'd be hard pressed to find a stronger tracks 2 through 10ish though.
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Post by pattentank24 on Jan 25, 2005 16:40:14 GMT -5
Why must I always be the Instigator?
Everytime we try to have a interesting discussion of this decade someone has to to start bitching about Kid A
WHY?
But it's always entertaining though isn't it
I like Kid A and would say it's a easy Top 5 album for me because everytime I hear it it takes me back to that first listen where I had an advance copy and my production studio was playing it through giant speakers while my best friend Huitt kept saying
"This must be what it was like to Hear "Sgt Pepper's" when it first came out"
I guess I'll lose some of precious Indie Cred for saying this but at the time it sounded like nothing else I had ever heard
My Radiohead list still goes
OK Computer
Kid A
The Bends
Hail To The Thief
Amnesiac
Pablo Honey
Better Def Jux than Cash Money,Bad Boy or even Def Jam
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Post by Thorngrub on Jan 25, 2005 17:13:15 GMT -5
As of late I've been flowin to the beats of the WOLFPAC,
one of the best damn rappers with which I've been attacked.
And I am eagerly awaiting the arrival - on vinyl no less - of NAUSEA's classic "EXTINCTION".
Rock on
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