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Yea Ed Sharpe should be on here, as well FRANZ FERDINAND - most underrated album of the year. All in all a good list, but pretty devoid of anything with some soul. Little Dragon anyone...?
he's trying so desperately to be taken seriously
Diplo is the coolest dude on the planet. And not because he attended the woodies..
Yep, wasting your time indeed. In music, I'm always looking for the wildest shit out there, and as a musician, Wilco remains my favorite go-to act because they have some unbelievable textural things going on. Gotta look below the surface, and see them live of course. They're rock and roll through-and-through and there's a great youthful draw in their innovation. i was drawn to them as a fuck-the-world 17-year-old obsessed with sex, drugs and rock n roll... far from wishing I was middle-aged. I do really like the Libertines, but shit, they're no Wilco.
Ahh, there's MMJ's "Z" My personal favorite from the decade
Great call! I always forget about that one.
Brendan Benson? Contrarily, that self-titled Libertines album is fucking awesome. Wincing the Night Away is by far the worst Shins album. I would fully endorse placement of Oh Inverted World on this list though
Bunch of crucial oversights, especially considering it's a list of 100: Franz Ferdinand, Ocote Soul Sounds, Quantic and His Combo Barbaro, Little Dragon
"Imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery." When done well, Funoka. When done well.
Embassy Row and Blue Hawaiian... that whole second half of Brighten the Corners is amazing. and the first half, rally, haha
Ben Gibbard: Please stop making music. Death Cab is the most overrated "indie" band of our lifetimes. Well, either them or the Decemberists... Same dif, right? Hahah, let the hating begin
WHY!!!!!!???!? WHY did you make me play the song?
Awesome. Jim James does no wrong. Wish they'd have kept that great guitar interplay outro from the studio version though. Such are late nite time constraints, I guess
Gotta love a Dj who knows his relative minors. Also like the fact that he kept this song in tact, as opposed to the Mad Decent jont. Seldom am I disappointed by anything from the MD camp, but this one didn't do much for me. Go Wallpaper. If u haven't heard his remix of the utterly absurd "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell," I strongly suggest doing so. But beware, it'll be in your head for days.
Laura kinda looks like Kate Hudson, circa Almost Famous. Pitchfork has these guys doing one of those rooftop performances - it's really good.
yep. terrible performance; cool album (Ican't say anything beyond 'cool' at this point because I've only listned to it 1.5 times)
My first time seeing it was at a house party in college. It was on in the background and it drew me in even as the party raged all around. Slowly it drew several other people in as well.
THE best concert film ever.
^^ just started listening to music two years ago
Where are Cat Power's "The Greatest" and MMJ's "Z"?? Both highly exposed albums, but for good reason. Kanye's "College Drop Out" should supplant "Late Registration." Also, "A Ghost is Born" and "Hail to the Thief" should somehow wriggle into the top 20.
AwesomeTown, USA. Anybody got audio?
The album's not great. This song, however, is.
I have the Classixx one on my blog from a couple months ago: http://newageturnstiles.blogspot.com/2009_08_01_archive.html Classixx are killin it this year
Doesn't include the Classixx remix of Litsztomania?? In a very remix-heavy year, that one's my favorite
Agree. Kind of spaced-out for the dance-floor really. The album's out in the UK - might try to cop it at this great record shop in Baltimore that gets all the imports.
Fucking love these guys. Breakout act if the year (now you tell me that they had an album out a couple years ago and they've been all over the place and I'm a slow, lousy person, etc) I liked the last couple tunes a bit better than this one though
Who doesn't like FLEA? WHO!?!?
the respected scientists you refer to are, in most cases, on corporate payrolls, commissioned to do environmental studies on corpoorations' behalf (note the implicit bias). if you're not persuaded by movies, read a book - Ishmael is a great start; not even that great narratively, but a cogent reminder that this small earth was once pristine and that we are now fucking it up/using it up at exponential, unsustainable levels. Also, it was written 17 years ago, before all this global warming hoopla
While I mostly agree with you, these artists aren't helpless - I blame them as much as anyone else involved with this abomination. Any taint or consequence brought on the artists by this project is well-deserved, although they're probably not gonna hate it (unless they hate money)
I'd like to nominate "Dude's Got a Tender Heart" for sweetest song title of the year
Am I an idiot because I can't find this stream now; or have they taken it down?
^^ Sounds like somebody needs to find a new website (and a more interesting choice of literature, but that's beside the point). Amrit pretty much nailed it in that last sentence.
^ with some punctuation that statement might make some sense
This dude's the most over-rated up-and-comer in a while. Day N Nite was only good after Crookers touched off that blunted remix. I'll continue to get my dose of space jams from bands like Little Dragon (just noticed stereogum has them in the player on the right); mmm, now that's tasty
I'd buy that. I'd love to beef up on their stuff, but they're so prolific it's difficult to catch up. Not quite as prolific, but equally legendary and deserving of a greatest hits are WILCO