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post #31 of 41
12/12/09 at 11:37am
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Originally Posted by MrGreen View Post
I'd say that 99% of what is on there is "popular" music, which has expanded over the last few years, particularly in terms of "black music" being marketed as R&B and Rap. Then of course you have the pitchfork quality 'indie' which is essentially mainstream v2.

I dont blame them for going the r&b/rap, as theyve gotta stay popular somehow, I guess. If they really listenned to these genres there'd probably be Emancipator - Soon it Will be Cold Enough (beautiful album, btw), DJ Shadow - Endtroducing and some kind of Immortal Technique, which IMO is some of the finer hiphop of the decade.
Endtroducing came out in 1996.
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post #32 of 41
12/12/09 at 3:03pm
The Libertines made the list? OMG, luckily the Strokes are placed higher at no. 2 which is a good thing
Kid A at number 1? Er...it could be worse.

A great surprise that PJ Harvey's "Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea" made the list, a very underrated album imho.

But two of the best albums of the decade, Sun Kil Moon's "Ghosts of the great Highway" and "April" are very very absent.
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post #33 of 41
12/12/09 at 3:19pm
There's a lot of good music on the list and I own a great deal of the list, as well.

I like everything, save for the rap/hiphop, which I've never been able to acquire a taste for. I used to like rap back in the late 80's/early 90's, but everything today seems so stagnant and cliched.
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post #34 of 41
12/12/09 at 3:53pm
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There's a lot of good music on the list and I own a great deal of the list, as well.

I like everything, save for the rap/hiphop, which I've never been able to acquire a taste for. I used to like rap back in the late 80's/early 90's, but everything today seems so stagnant and cliched.
If you'd like to check out the Hip-Hop from this decade that wouldn't make this Rolling Stone list, which is limited to multi-platinum Hip-Hop albums, I was putting this together for another forum:

El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
K-Os - Joyful Rebellion
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Cee-Lo - The Soul Machine
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
Mr. Lif - I Phantom
Brother Ali - Shadows on the Sun
Madvillain - Madvillainy
The Roots - Game Theory
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
P.O.S. - Never Better
CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange
Sage Francis - Personal Journals
Edan - Beauty and the Beat
Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Cage - Hell's Winter
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post #35 of 41
12/12/09 at 3:59pm
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Originally Posted by Mink View Post
A great surprise that PJ Harvey's "Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea" made the list, a very underrated album imho.
You're not the only one with that view. I'll go further and say that White Chalk was just as deserving. It was an exquisite chamber pop album to my ears.

My name is not Rolling Stone however, so I don't have a problem with their list.
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post #36 of 41
12/12/09 at 4:04pm
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Originally Posted by HipHopScribe View Post
Endtroducing came out in 1996.
Woops, didnt realise I had the deluxe edition ^^
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post #37 of 41
12/12/09 at 5:21pm
Milkshake over Wake Up...ugh
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post #38 of 41
12/12/09 at 5:36pm
Ooooh...Joanna Newsom?! I have one of her LPs and am just getting into this kind of 'Freak-folk'!

Yes - I guess Marissa Nadler, Lisa O'Piu, The Innocence Mission, Sam Phillips, Crooked Still and Eilen Jewel are way too eclectic for such a staid and boring magazine.

I was appalled to see that Rolling Stone's top 100 list actually included several albums I have, inlcluding PJ Harvey's Stories from the city and the sea, and Gillian Welch's Revelator. Seems there are a few non-mainstream journalists working for Rolling Stone, but generally their taste does suck. Albums like Fleetfoxes incredibly overrated rubbish of which I bought 2 copies after reading the reviews and couldn't bring myself to tolerate them more than 2 days) as well as Franz Ferdinand are little more than above average releases.

Not as bad as NME though

I'm grateful for other alternative outlets like Paste Music, Pitchfork and MetaReview for their opinions too. It is bad marketing to sell a personal list of 100 albums as 'the definitive' or 'best of'. But hey, that's marketing....
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post #39 of 41
12/12/09 at 5:57pm
Looking through the list I have a lot of the albums on there, but there is a lot of music there that I wouldn't even consider listening to a second time. Wilco at number 3 is a highlight, a bit of Beck, some Sigur Rós and the TV on the Radio albums are all ones I've enjoyed hugely. A touch of Dylan, Kanye West, QOTSA, Björk. There is some good stuff, just a shame about all the dross it's mixed with.

It's a pitty it doesn't go off into some less mainstream music (yeah, I know it's Rolling Stone). Blackwater Park by Opeth is my highlight of the decade. It came out in 2001, so it's not an album I'm going to forget in a couple of months. It's a shame Mark Lanegan's Bubblegum didn't make it too (and plenty of other albums I love from the last decade..

Of course any list like this is never going to please anyone. Does anyone love all of those albums? Unlikely.
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post #40 of 41
12/12/09 at 6:04pm
49 | Fiona Apple: Extraordionary Machine? Should be at least in the top 20. Great CD.
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post #41 of 41
12/12/09 at 8:47pm
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Originally Posted by HipHopScribe View Post
If you'd like to check out the Hip-Hop from this decade that wouldn't make this Rolling Stone list, which is limited to multi-platinum Hip-Hop albums, I was putting this together for another forum:

El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
K-Os - Joyful Rebellion
Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Cee-Lo - The Soul Machine
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
Mr. Lif - I Phantom
Brother Ali - Shadows on the Sun
Madvillain - Madvillainy
The Roots - Game Theory
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
P.O.S. - Never Better
CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange
Sage Francis - Personal Journals
Edan - Beauty and the Beat
Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
El-P - Fantastic Damage
Cage - Hell's Winter

x2 El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead

very interesting album. Also check out Saul Williams- The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust. It has some of the most thought provoking lyrics I've heard.
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