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i ran into red, yellow, & blue earlier this year, and it’s been probably one of the five albums i’ve listened to most frequently since. these guys are solid, and i can’t wait to hear more from them.
despite these results, dawes is the clear winner of this category. they put out easily one of the best albums of the year.
anyone who claims to be a “big time hipster” is, by definition, not a hipster. more to the point, this is an extremely promising song, and i cannot wait for more. and even if this were bar rock, which it is not, there wouldn’t necessarily be anything wrong with that. the hold steady has pretty much perfected that genre.
i don’t really have anything to say about the song choices, but dave foley has certainly hit a new low. i mean, celebrity poker showdown was at least watchable.
how had i not heard of that site before?
i’ll agree that it’s a good list. and the descriptions are good. they don’t take themselves too seriously. still, i must favor pitchfork’s list, if only because it gave me a pretty decent list of cds to order for the library i work at.
[sic] indeed.
you raise a pretty good point. honestly, i don’t see what difference there is here from all of stereogum’s favorite bands jumping on the twilight bandwagon for the new moon soundtrack. these are great opportunities for these bands to get out there, to appeal to a larger audience with music that we consider great. you’re afraid of losing your indie cred because hot topic’s going to start blasting bon iver? what’s indie cred? who cares? these guys deserve the attention they’re getting.
phoenix isn’t going to start making terrible music now that they’ve garnered commercial appeal. what’s creating the commercial appeal for these groups is the part where they’re making genuinely great music. and that’s a very, very good thing. the more people that listen to this music – the less i hear about lady gaga and taylor swift and miley cyrus and nickelback and everything that’s come out of the american idol enterprise save “since u been gone” – the more faith i have in humankind.
and, yeah, i get it. wal-mart?! BOO!!! HISS!! it’s not like these guys are shopping at wal-mart or wearing axe body spray. they’re just taking their money and thanking their lucky stars.
yeah! and, while we’re at it, where’s talking heads: 77, and magical mystery tour, and black star, and kind of blue? where’s the dixieland jazz band, for god’s sake?!
what do you think this list will look like in ten years when they make it all over again? certainly different, yes, but kid a, yankee hotel foxtrot, and funeral aren’t going anywhere. they are one-of-a-kind, near-perfect albums.
you can’t possibly expect an objective list that chronicles an entire decade while you’re creating it within that decade. but pitchfork knows (certain types of) music, and their analysis (of those certain types) of music is pretty on pretty much all the time. that’s why stereogum pulls 90% of its news from pitchfork. that’s why we expected them to post something about this list right before the long weekend. and that’s why i’m pretty confident that this is a fairly legitimate list. did you read that description? that man feels music.
that being said, veckatimest higher than yellow house is a travesty, and that list in ten years will almost certainly reflect that.
the jerkstore called, and they’re running out of these guys.
what did i tell you? that’s two strikes. don’t make me use your full name now. and if you must, please respond with something that’s at least somewhat grounded in reality.
shut up, steve.
woof. if i were arctic monkeys, i’d be pissed.
back in the u.s.s.r., ob-la-di, ob-la-da, and glass onion are clearly three of their worst post-help! songs. i mean, glass onion is a song about the songs that make up magical mystery tour.
and your mother should know is one of their more underrated songs. it’s quite lovely.
i dono. i love wonderwall. it’s weird that there’s multiple comments like this one, as nobody (up to this point) has said anything negative about oasis’ music. their singles off of what’s the story (morning glory)? are pretty integral in what got me hooked on alternative radio in the fifth grade, and, therefore, fairly influential in the music i listen to today, though they themselves may be not-so-conspicuously missing from it. so, i don’t know. i guess what i’m trying to say is, tone it down?
hey man. just because you’re out of touch with or disillusioned by or ambivalent about or uninterested or SOMETHING in american pop culture, and you don’t get some of the jokes doesn’t mean that it itself is an unworthy blog. gabe has a head on his shoulders and i find him to be a pretty witty, savvy person and, moreover, a pretty good writer. he does the blog better than, oh i don’t know, 99.99(9?) percent of the blogs that exist. stereogum and videogum are both havens for hipsters that have an interest for all things americana, and that is a great thing, and it makes perfect sense to me why they’re joined together, and why they advertise one another. so the side that agrees with the opinions like the one you (continue to) state is always going to fall in the minority. so stop it. get over yourself. you do not, will not, cannot win.
anyhow. a will sheff/norah jones collaboration, i don’t think, can be anything besides absolutely beautiful.
oh ho. much obliged. there’s really not enough music like this out there. just outright sincere soul.
when you look like you got nothing, you look like you got nothin’ to lose.
i mean, this is purely speculation. there’s no need to get all heart-on-sleeve emotionally needy about it.
i’m as excited as the next person about all of the noise radiohead’s been making in my music-related news intake of late, but if nothing happens on monday, i think i’ll go about my monday like i’ve spent mondays for the last twenty months of my life: not disappointed in radiohead, and content with their mass quantity of musical output.
who really wants to be disappointed in something they love?
i like the way this guy thinks.
all he really needed to say was, “what would bill hicks say?”