Here ya go, kids -
It's 2009 and we're going to figure out on our own the top 10 pop/rock/hiphop (ie nearly everything except the weird shit david listens to) albums of the decade. Jerry and I fully expect this conversation to rage the entire year. Feel free to include others. At some point we may need to transfer to a different forum. Suggestions thus far are:
Wolf Parade: Apologies to the Queen Mary
Kanye West: College Dropout
Jay Z: Black Album
Jay Z: The Blue Print
DJ Danger Mouse: the Grey Album
Modest Mouse: The Moon and Antartica
Arcade Fire: Funeral
Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Radiohead: Kid A
White Stripes: Elephant
What else? Which Jay Z? Etc..
Alanis Morrissette's Jagged Little Pill. - DMA
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World. - TC
over chutes too narrow - TC
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Top Ten of the aughts
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Oh, and seriously? Well fuck all y'all - maybe the best reissue of the decade is, far and away, this:
Reissued this decade, to more ears and discerning palettes than back in '71 ---
Le Monde Fabuleux Des Yamasuki.
"This is some kind of proto-hiphop breaks music but strangely enough it was coughed out of France in 1971? I don't know what kind of vitamins these guys were popping but they were way out, and even now the psychedelic breaks heavy Franco-Japanese pop sounds utterly on its own in an overcrowded music scene."
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=26045
http://www.torrentz.com/73152040ed745c831b87eb94875f20b8664f332e
Reissues notwithstanding, I favor MIA's debut longplay, "Arular", over her recent effort "Kala". While commendable and a strong candidate for the '08 shortlist, I find it a flawed masterpiece. 'Bird Flu', 'Boyz', and the summer anthem 'Paper Planes' have stickaroundability. But for the conceits of the format, "Arular" hits home like a Tamil bicycle bomb.
This too, goddamn. Way to leather up a most fecund and supple quodlibet - but old classics die hard. This is a novel and masterful piece of interpretation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra_Haden_Sings_The_Who_Sell_Out
As Nick Lowe would've put it, pure pop for now people.
It's not hip hop, and if y'all break this down to a pissing contest between Kanye or Lupe Fiasco records, then I fold. ;-)
This should be fun!
Just start off by jogging my memory, here's a start of some great albums I remember from earlier in the decade:
Kid A, Radiohead
Deadringer, RJD2
One Word Extinguisher, Prefuse 73
The Lemon of Pink, The Books
Blazing Arrow, Blackalicious
Quality Control, Jurassic 5
Rounds, Four Tet
Sea Changes, Beck
Bloc Party, Silent Alarm
Labor Days, Aesop Rock
I did not mean to offend anyone with the exclusion of Tuvan throat singers and the like, just tried to limit the scope a bit.
Other considerations:
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (self titled)
The Decembrists- Picaresque (?) Castaways and Cutouts
Fiery Furnaces- Blueberry Boat (just for Jerry)
Lupe Fiasco- Food and Liquor
Iron & Wine: Our Endless Numbered Days
The National- Boxer
The Mountain Goats--The Sunset Tree
MF Doom - MM..Food
Edan - "Beauty and the Beat" (might be my contender for hip hop record of the decade?)
According to my iTunes play count, which is more faddish than critical given that it's been reset more than once, but still here are 10 awesome albums from the decade that I've listened to a whole lot:
-O.C.M.S., Old Crow Medicine Show
-Emotionalism, The Avett Brothers
-The Animal Years, Josh Ritter
-Shine, Estelle
-Night Falls Over Kortedala, Jens Lekman
-Alas I Cannot Swim, Laura Marling
-100 Mils And Running, Wale
-Youth Novel, Lykke Li
-Back to Black, Amy Winehouse
-And, finally, B-Day, Beyonce. Duh.
Honorable Mentions:
-Z, My Morning Jacket
-Writer's Block, Peter Bjorn & John
-Under the Blacklight, Rilo Kiley
-The Black Album, Jay-Z (it would have cracked the top if I hadn't accidentally deleted it)
-Either The College Dropout or Late Registration, Kanye
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And, really, tommy? If we're going to go Mountain Goats, and we maybe should, it's not All Hail West Texas?
I'd also toss out for consideration De La Soul's The Grind Date, The Hold Steady's Boys and Girls in America, and High School Musical 1-3: The Original Cast Recordings.
Joey - My Morning Jacket's "Z" is a choice recording. I haven't really dug anything of theirs pre- or post-. A good candidate for "that Goldilocks record". Whatever concoction of song and sound, they got it right for me there. Fine choice for honorable mention.
Note on Clap Your Hands:
This album has some of the sweetest singles of the decade (perhaps this should be a sub-category). I found myself only listening to those singles, though. Also, my opinion of the band is wickedly tainted by how awful their follow up was.
Another album: Franz Ferdinand S/T
Outkast - Stankonia and The Love Below.
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