Pitchfork's P2k: The Decade in Music

that kinda reminds me of the music from nausicaa

http://www.hamienet.com/Penis-Song-sheet-music-page_26996-2-1.png

Can we all agree that this needs to be on the list?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfCmYyG-yg4

How 'bout "X is the only album which has wrapped itself around my thighs like a lithe tendon."

That's fine, they're your thighs.

and dan why are you so aggressive? just propose another album. you told me what you think of my fave of the nils and i wouldn't mind to tell you what i think about yours.

I'm aggressive because I really, really, really dislike Amnesiac as an album. I think it was as hastily put together as Kid A with material that wasn't as strong and not nearly as cohesive. Furthermore, I thought that Hail To The Thief is a better album than either.

Right now, I don't have a favorite album of the decade. There's too much music that's come out that I really, really enjoyed. The ones that stay on my mind the most, for various reasons, are:

Portishead - Third
MIA - Kala
The Knife - Silent Shout
The Cure - 4:13 Dream
The Cure - Bloodflowers
Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel
Modeselektor - Hello Mom!
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Nelly Furtado - Loose
Bat For Lashes - Two Moons
Santigold - s/t
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
Poem-Cees - Paranoia
Outkast - Stankonia
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero Remixed
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Boards of Canada - Music Has A Right To Children
Kenna - New Sacred Cow
Missy Elliott - Under Construction
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
Thom Yorke - The Eraser

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.

Too true. It would be hard to do it right until you have at least eight months go by after the end of 2009 to even pretend to get any perspective. I don't know if I'll be able to get in the right frame of mind to try before then. I'm currently in a metal & stoner rock phase!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWQdltUMid4

I'm currently in a metal & stoner rock phase!

Then you've already got the spirit of hipsters circa 2006.

Whiney, what should we be listening to right now?

also in response to this: Yeah, Dan, but this entire thread is full of people declaring this-and-that the best of the decade and the claws didn't come out for those. Best=favorite for most people, and jumping down Alex's throat because he didn't couch his opinion in enough IMO IMO IMO IMO is pretty ridiculous.

I just started reading this thread! There's no fucking way I'm going back and killing my browser trying to read the entire thing.

And Matos, I'm going to beat the drum for explicitly acknowledging subjectivity until the day I die because lack of precision in ones usage of language makes everyone dumber and easier to misunderstand.

frankly, i'm a little shocked that a thread about pitchfork's decade in music retrospective devolves into fighting about radiohead.

thankfully someone was around to suggest that a popular rap song was better than radiohead.

Whiney, what should we be listening to right now?

u need twitter bro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IphR3A64VI

x-post

on amnesiac there is not only pyramid song and knives out but there is also like spinning plates. three pretty great songs if you ask me.

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

I'm on Twitter! I follow Whiney's feed.

Go back through the archives; I've hated "Like Spinning Plates" since the album came out!

it's nice to see the sarcasm dripping, m@tt.

i need to do a "reccommended" post, but I'm blastin the new Pissed Jeans on the regular.

Thanks, Whiney. I'm going to check that out.

Dan, i'm surprised that We Shall All Be Healed didn't beat out Tallahassee on that list of yours....but maybe that's because the former sort of changed my life.

it's nice to see the sarcasm dripping, m@tt.

― nice! he have the balls to say the truth! (the table is the table), Monday, August 17, 2009 9:15 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

xpost i mean, i think that song is great table but this more feels like we're doing a ILM Challops Greatest Hits of the decade I mean....c'mon...but you know, for old tyme's sake i guess

Dan, i'm surprised that We Shall All Be Healed didn't beat out Tallahassee on that list of yours....but maybe that's because the former sort of changed my life.

I considered listing it but I listen to the other two a lot more.

oh yeah, matt, i know the feeling. i am just bored and in my house on a crappy weather day.

and dan, i understand that-- haven't listened to it in a while myself, mostly because i got over my heavy addictions.

I just started reading this thread! There's no fucking way I'm going back and killing my browser trying to read the entire thing.

vs.

Go back through the archives; I've hated "Like Spinning Plates" since the album came out!

oh shit you caught me!

lol

anyway: I'm for explicit subjectivity too but I think on a thread like this it's not that big a deal

or rather, it's automatically implied.

i would also like to point out that alex mainhattan has a problem with Mark Hollis' voice, yet no problem with Yorke's. that, IMO, is cloth-eared.

in fairness, I would not have been as big of a dick about it if I didn't really, really have a chip on my shoulder re: Amnesiac

x-post, a dick u are not ;-)

think positive, dan. i don't care about the music you don't care about. maybe nobody does. i am not sure if i care about the music you love. maybe if you have got some solid arguments. probably not. vitriol is not something i am especially attracted to. if this was the 1st thread i had met you on ilm i'd have thought that you are a dick. i have been around for a while and i know you are not.

Actually I'm backpedalling too far here.

The thing that set me off was partially the mention of Amnesiac but mostly the idea that a single album can sum up a decade. I think that kind of signposting short-changes the breadth of music that comes out over a ten-year period and calls for willfull disregard for the vast diversity of human experience; no matter what you pick, you are de facto ignoring a non-trivial segment of the human population. It strikes me as nonthinking in a precise manner that makes me ballistic. I really hate that type of discourse and my first impulse is to stamp on it until it dies.

You are such a fucking liberal.

(j/k)

haha

I mean, have the past ten years of your life REALLY been so monochromatic and stagnant that you can sum it up with one album? The notion is not only inconceivable to me, it's repugnant.

you sum up your life with albums?

yes they have and the album is In the Zone (xp)

oh man, yikes

http://mousesafari.com/lowfives/images/foundimages/yikes2.jpg

haha wow is that a Curt Swan panel?

What this decade's music really lacked was testosterone.

yes yes big sweaty balls

lots of great songs in 300-201. toss the first four pages.
― abanana, Monday, August 17, 2009 1:34 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

OTM, although 350 through 301 isn't bad.

looks like it. yay, another comics person. (well i'm not anymore, i used to be).

mmm come to think of it I'm still not sure if the lack of big sweaty balls this decade is a good thing or a bad thing. But has to be better than having sensitive idiots spouting lines that sound as if they were lifted from hallmark cards. Right?

What this decade's music really lacked was testosterone.

― Moka, Monday, August 17, 2009 5:45 PM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I mean
'70s: punk
'80s: hardcore/college rock
'90s: grunge
'00s: http://themiddledistancerunner.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/natalie-portman-and-devendra-banhart.jpg

What this decade's music really lacked was testosterone.
― Moka, Monday, August 17, 2009 9:45 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

There were various pockets of it here and there.. I noticed quite a lot of bands who are very good at copying styles and precisely emulating various production elements, but who can't write songs for shit.

sorry 2003 lil jon proves the balls point wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSh_Oc78A4o

Music with balls appeared more often in the decade's first half.

wow you dudes are really good at coming up with bullshit trends and then willfully ignoring anything that contradicts those "trends" huh

wait a second

you are all "music writers" aren't you