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Despite my last post, this needs to be said:
This was an incredible decade for Canadian Music. The scenes in Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto produced an astounding number of stellar groups, who put out some of the VERY BEST albums in the last ten years. Full Disclosure: I am a proud Canuck, and I am somewhat dismayed, although not surprised, by the general American ignorance of this greatness (all references to the Arcade Fire aside).
Where would this decade have been without, Fucked Up, The Constantines, the New Pornographers, Wolf Parade, Holy Fuck, The Arkells, Cuff the Duke, not to mention Broken Social Scene and the entire Arts and Crafts crew. It would have been something different, so give your neghbours to the north a shout-out!
To all list-haters:
You are completely correct… but you also suck and have no sense of humour. Of course lists don’t matter! Music criticism doesn’t matter…. AT ALL. But my god it’s fun! It’s such a cheap thrill when your favorites are vindicated, and such a travesty when they are snubbed. I particularly love the hurt comments of the heartbroken. You can taste their pain in every sacrastic put down. It makes me feel good, because it reminds me that people still love music enough to fight for it… or at the very least whine annonymously on the internet.
But really folks, no need to get pissy about the lists. You can’t tell me that they’re not fun. Making ( and mocking) lists is favorite pasttime of many a music nerd. We don’t do these things because they matter, we do these things as leisure. This is baseball, this is footy, this is poker… or at the very least crazy eights. So lighten up.
p.s. my top fifty is infinitly better than any of yours. so there.
Can someone explain to me the album artwork? When I bought “This Is It” it had that yellow-blue, molecule-sciency-microscope artwork. I guess they changed it on the re-issue?
First of all why would you do that in general? It seems confusing and useless.
Secondly, the new album artwork is completely stupid. I suppose it’s mildly boner-provoking, but otherwise stupid and kinda insulting. “Smell the glove” is right!
As the lads in Spinal Tap wisely put it “its a fine line between sexy and sexist”.