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Cash’s Hurt and NIN’s Closer should be one and two… but seriously, without Take on Me and Thriller, this list doesn’t make much sense. Although I love Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása at seven, one of the most beautiful and appropriate to the music I’ve ever seen.
James Blake’s self-entitled literally made me weep, on several occasions throughout the album – it was absolutely breathtaking. This is lackluster at best, a copout at worst.
Why are people comparing it to Coldplay? This is why: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvDWn_zDPRc
If you say you don’t hear similarities, you’re lying. That being said, I like that Coldplay song, and Calgary is by no means the same song, it just has some similar cord progressions, instrumentally and vocally. Yes, it’s better. Don’t worry.
Fantasy is a fantastic album, there’s no way to deny it. I do listen to hip-hop and rap, I worship Cannibal Ox, and I can still definitively say this album was bordering on a masterpiece. But it wasn’t.
MBDTF is not a ten. It is not an A+. It should not be Time’s album of the year, nor Stereogum’s, nor Pitchfork’s. You want a ten? Listen to Hospice. Listen to Boxer. THOSE are tens. This album was good, but vastly overhyped. Stereogum, I agree.
Songs
1. All Delighted People – Sufjan Stevens
2. You Fucking People Make Me Sick – Swans
3. Keep the Dog Quiet – Owen Pallett
4. Not In Love (ft. Robert Smith) – Crystal Castles
5. Lemonworld – The National
6. The Last Prom on Earth – Gayngs
7. 10 Mile Stereo – Beach House
8. Mouthful of Diamonds – Phantogram
9. On Melancholy Hill – The Gorillaz
10. Yulia – Wolf Parade
Albums
1. Teen Dream – Beach House
2. High Violet – The National
3. Heartland – Owen Pallett
4. My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky – Swans
5. Plastic Beach – The Gorillaz
6. The Suburbs – Arcade Fire
7. All Delighted People – Sufjan Stevens
8. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Kanye West
9. The Wild Hunt – The Tallest Man On Earth
10. Big Echo – The Morning Benders
Clams Casino remix is stunning. In the very best of ways.