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Fuck yes, D’Angelo.
That’s really all I have to say about this lineup.
To be fair, these titles aren’t official, it’s just what mthrfnkr decided to call them.
And now, Senator Chuck Schumer (D) of New York. Take it away, Senator:
This metaphor is way more complicated than it needs to be, because the most appropriate metaphor for “meeting terrible human tragedy and thinking she was nice” is Courtney Love.
Meeting Courtney Love briefly and thinking she seemed nice is like meeting Courtney Love briefly and thinking she seemed nice.
You’re adorable.
I would award this comment a solid A- in my “Music Blog Commenting 101″ course.
I would like to comment that as long as the style is good enough, that is not necessarily a bad thing.
“…but I’m facebook friends with about 400 eighteen years olds…”
I think we have located your problem.
[Obligatory "Daft Punk Is Playing At His House" Reference]
I’m confused. Jack White is “no longer the genius [you] once revered him to be”, but he’s also “an unimpressive one trick pony”?
Between the White Stripes and the Raconteurs, Jack White had released 7 full-length albums by the time the second Raconteurs album came out. He’d produced 13 albums. Then there are the various EPs and singles, of which I’m sure there are many given his predilection for boutique vinyl releases.
My point is, if his aura of genius lasted for 7 albums, he clearly has more than one trick. Alternately, you have a very low bar for what you consider to be “genius”.
Disney didn’t make Nazi propaganda films. Der Fuehrer’s Face was actually a piece of anti-Nazi propaganda, and it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short in 1942.
You must be new here.
You’re adorable.
If your main criticism of a Rihanna song is that it sounds too much like a straightforward radio dance song, I think maybe you just don’t like straightforward radio dance songs. Which is fine and all, but some people do like straightforward radio dance songs, and that’s also fine.
The argument that a Rihanna song sounds like it belongs on a radio dance block isn’t so much an actual criticism as just a statement of the type of music you enjoy.
I’m confused as to how over-saturation can be used as an argument against a particular song being the greatest song of a particular time period.
If you think B.O.B. is better, that’s fine. But arguing that B.O.B. is better because it wasn’t as wildly, insanely, overwhelmingly popular as “Hey Ya” kind of defeats the purpose of identifying the defining song of a decade, doesn’t it?
undermythumb: It’s “would have”, not “would of”.
Also, is your avatar an Andy Warhol style portrait of Mick Jagger? And you’re complaining that hip-hop is too vulgar to “stand the test of time”?
This song reminds me of “Streets of Philadelphia”.
On a related note, I’d really like to hear the National cover “Streets of Philadelphia” now.
Actually, companies and bands probably do do that. Fleet Foxes, at least, seems to think it’s (semi-sarcastically) possible- http://twitter.com/fleetfoxes/status/14994037152944129
Obviously, most of the time the company just pays some anonymous studio musician to do the sound-alike, but it’s not exactly unheard of for the band itself to do it.
Why does a list only hold value to you if it matches your own personal opinions? Can’t a list, particularly a list like this that aggregates the opinions of hundreds of critics and therefore presents a reasonably accurate summary of critical opinion in 2010, be valuable for giving you something to compare your own opinions to?
But no, you’re right. Your opinions are entirely true and accurate, and other opinions are only valuable insofar as they match your own.
Nice to see Jonsi finally make one of these lists.
Calling Kanye’s album over-hyped is getting over-hyped.
MBDTF is probably getting a slight bump because it’s so new, but even if it had come out in September and the hype had died down by now, it’d still be in the Top 5 of all these lists, and it still would have nabbed its fair share of #1s. So, at worst, it’s getting inflated by 2-3 slots.
Besides, has there been a bigger or more memorable album, culturally, this year? Outside of Brooklyn, 2010 is not going to go down as The Year Teen Dream Came Out. So it makes sense that the biggest album of the year, which crazily enough was actually good enough to live up to the hype, gets the consensus #1 pick.
Am I the only one surprised that Jonsi hasn’t made any of these year-end lists yet? I’m not even saying it’s Top Ten material, but I would have expected it to break into some of these longer lists, at least. Especially on a site like Stereogum.
Alicia Keys: Greater Than Nina Simone since 2010.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. is an entirely unforgivable band name.