Pitchfork's P2k: The Decade in Music

u guys, have I told you I have horns and a dragon tattoo on my back?

I know, right?

i am just listening to amnesiac. and while i still like it lots i have to admit something. it doesn't sound as grim, as apocalyptic, as devastating as it sounded in 2001. i guess that has to do with the fact that the world has changed in the meantime. it has overtaken amnesiac in the respect of gloominess. on the other hand. no future has been the credo of my generation, i.e. punk. and there always has been a kind of future. anyways which other album could possibly capture the spirit of the decade?

There isn't an album that can capture the spirit of this decade. We won't even know what the spirit of this decade is until 20 years have passed and we've forgotten all the details.

dubstep

"dubstep"

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After this last time, I'm just going to ignore attacks on me, because it's a waste of time, words, and good thread real estate.

Look, I do have a clue. I'm younger than most of you, and I know less about music than most of you, but I'm making a good faith effort to contribute what I do know here and not get too down about being attacked all the time. The second thing becomes easier as I realize that's just how shit goes here. (I have been on forums in the past where it wasn't an accepted sport for posters to be dicks to each other.)

Anyway, I'm just going to keep trying, and I will become more OTM over time. I will also dispense more Wilco knowledge to the ILM collective, promise.

From this point on, I am not going to deal with haters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzXcNgCr0nk

what spirit of the decade? it's like you're grasping for straws that ceased to exist a while ago.

gahhhhhh this fuckin thread.

this thread

haha

http://weonsikecsd.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/bike_crash1.jpg

http://www.cameronmcewan.com/projects/magazine/culture_blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/neckbeard.jpg

needs a blingee

60 mph on ks highway

Spirit of the decade = this post...

http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/51285/thumbs/s-OBAMAECONOMIC-large.jpg

this picture is really cracking me up its like a dream bush is having abt when everything works out just how he planned and all his colorful friends are congratulating him

― ice cr?m, Monday, December 1, 2008 12:05 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

imo.

amnesiac sucks btw
yeah probably. but not more than this decade.

Awww, don't give in that easily.

it really doesn't, alex. we've just forgotten we're conversing in the parallel universe in which tuneless/amusical taylor swift is OMGAMZING and liking RH is unfashionable.

shit is getting heated

taylor swift is tuneless/amusical? there is a lot of potential criticism you could launch at her but that just seems way off

dudes, even when i listened to radiohead a lot, i thought amnesiac was mostly a load of pretentious bullshit.

taylor swift vs. radiohead poll plz

(xpost) Yeah, seriously. I don't even particularly like "Love Story" that much, but it gets stuck in my head something fierce.

Taylor Swift's suckiness has nothing to do with her alleged (and demonstrably false) "tunelessness" and everything to do with her not being a very good singer and being a glamorized version of the young white female ideal singing about how she's an ugly duckling who can't get the guy.

pretentious and unmusical are the two criticisms of music I do not get. Especially pretentious, kinda think pretentiousness is the precondition for awesomeness wrt music.

Taylor Swift's suckiness has nothing to do with her alleged (and demonstrably false) "tunelessness" and everything to do with her not being a very good singer and being a glamorized version of the young white female ideal singing about how she's an ugly duckling who can't get the guy.

― nate dogg is a feeling (HI DERE), Monday, August 17, 2009 9:34 PM (5 seconds ago)

have you ever heard the phrase "tv ugly"?

Taylor Swift's suckiness has nothing to do with her alleged (and demonstrably false) "tunelessness" and everything to do with her not being a very good singer and being a glamorized version of the young white female ideal singing about how she's an ugly duckling who can't get the guy.

― nate dogg is a feeling (HI DERE), Monday, August 17, 2009 3:34 PM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark

The whole ugly duckling thing is interesting insofar as she is so clearly NOT an ugly duckling.

Where's that Taylor Swift is a rat photo?

have you ever heard the phrase "tv ugly"?

Yeah, and she's not even that, is my point.

amnesiac isn't that pretentious, it's just a mashed together, poorly-conceived selection of crap they were working around around the time of kid a. there is nothing particularly memorable about any of it.

weird how the exact moment I decide that Taylor Swift is great she becomes a poster girl for post-contrarian meta-challop 2009

"Pyramid Song" and "Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors" are memorable IMO, but those two songs can't carry the rest of the album.

xp: I was slightly warming to Taylor Swift until I saw that horrifying duet she did with Miley Cyrus.

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http://www.furia.com/all-idols/2007/1096.html
http://www.furia.com/all-idols/2008/382.html

um, okay

shrug. just saying.

oh okay, awesome!

kudos for voting for two albums I couldn't possibly care less about

i can remember how knives out goes and can sort of remember pyramid song.

i remember when ok computer was kindof a big deal

but i don't give in at all, melissa. i was ironic. or understating. or whatever. there was neither one solid argument against amnesiac as album of the decade nor any serious argument for another record. that says it all, doesn't it? btw my track of the decade would either be pyramid song or knives out. aqny other songs which have engraved themselves in the human cortex like those two? i haven't heard them. but if you have, tell me i am open for music which breaks frontiers. i really don't get that amnesiac bashing at all. pretentious would be a band like yes or elp in the 70s but not radiohead's amnesiac.

"tuneless" is more like it.

ENGRAVED THEMSELVES IN YOUR HUMAN CORTEX, MORAN. for christ's sake.

There was no serious argument because it was a stupid statement and people were trying to not be flat-out insulting towards you for being so feeble.

maybe i would have an opinion on whether or not it is the album of the decade, but I have never heard it because I am too busy listening to Taylor Swift albums just so u no

don't u get it dan? it's our fault.

wtf do you want alex? me to tell you which songs from this decade i found more memorable than knives out? do you have like three days to spare?

I won't make an argument against or for Amnesiac as the album of the decade, but it's definitely my personal favorite and will sit atop any decade list that I make.

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Jesus, Dan.

u guys, the individual writers list will probably be more interesting tho

i eagerly await these interesting lists.