SPIN's Top 125 Albums of the Past 25 Years

*calls special victims unit*

p.j.b.'s kids otm, it is pronounced "little wayne"

lol i can't get beyond the front page. spin hates me.

Someone should do a poll of the albums mentioned in the comments. "Where is Kid A? (The Sgt. Pepper's of the 21st Century)"

'Where Is Kid A? (The Contact High With The Godz of the 21st Century)'

"Where are Sun Chips? (The potato chips of the 21st century)"

As the 21c is to the 20c, so the Sun is to a potato

WTF's up w/that picture of Fiona Apple?

oh come on, you remember the "Criminal" video

"Where are Sun Chips? (The potato chips of the 21st century)"

― max, Friday, April 23, 2010 1:54 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

they're corn chips u fukken savage

oh come on, you remember the "Criminal" video

<smacks forehead>

just for comparison purposes, here are my top 40 albums of the last 25 years:

the dove shack - this is the shack

thee hypnotics - soul, glitter & sin

to live and shave in l.a. 2 - kill misty threnody/300 dollar silk shirt

gangsta blac - down south flava

brighter death now - innerwar

expose - what you don't know

tiamat - wildhoney

murder by static - welcome to the stitchface scarsitter experience

ron house - new wave as the next guy

kate & anna mcgarrigle - matapedia

strapping fieldhands - gobs on the midway

yello - stella

cerberus shoal - bastion of itchy preeves

omar santana - hardcore for the headstrong: the new testament

kwisp - teriyaki vest odyssey

ildjarn - forest poetry

bosco - action

the mekons - f.u.n. '90

hey colossus - II

mo money crime family - life of a hustler

east river pipe - goodbye california

anathema - judgement

groovski - s/t

dj sixth sense - dc live

kommissar hjuler and mama bar - asylum lunaticum

3ds - fish tales/swarthy songs for swabs

dj spice - the saga continues

blood of the black owl - a feral spirit

mr. oizo - analog worms attack

vog - s/t

toy box - fantastic

beherit - the oath of black blood

lisa germano - happiness

terminator x & the valley of the jeep beats

fear of god - within the veil

world (of dreams) - who is yahdoosh?

mehkago n.t. - s/t

dj erik b - vol. 11

t.a.t.u. - 200 km/h in the wrong lane

leather hyman - sunshine and other forms of radiation

t.a.t.u. - 200 km/h in the wrong lane

...

inventing sorrowful anthems ("Oh lordy, trouble so hard") that you could still dance to.

those are alan lomax recordings

yeah, but no one would ever dance to them until Moby.

wait skot where is Styler?

"Where are Sun Chips? (The potato chips of the 21st century)"
― max, Friday, April 23, 2010 1:54 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

they're corn chips u fukken savage

― death cab for cutty (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, April 23, 2010 2:12 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

feel like u maybe didnt 'get' the joke

corn pass

ok you caught me these were just the first 40 cds on my cd shelf that i saw. that were 25 years old or younger. except i cheated with ron house.

Sun Chips >>>> U2

Sun City >>> U2

French Onion > Harvest Cheddar > Original > Spicy Chipotle

Ha ha, Scott, these are all on my CD shelf, too!

tiamat - wildhoney
kwisp - teriyaki vest odyssey
groovski - s/t
toy box - fantastic
t.a.t.u. - 200 km/h in the wrong lane
leather hyman - sunshine and other forms of radiation

I have a different Mr. Oizo CD. Might still have that Yello CD in storage, I'm not sure. Have no Cerebus Shoal at all anymore, sad to say.

The Queen is Dead topped one of their all-time lists at one point, I thought.

so "best" means "most influential" now?

and also if "best" and "most influential" are the same thing, why is the Achtung Baby review all about how everything since is too whiny?

admittedly i love plenty of the albums on this list, but after the facebook sun chips pop-up they can eat shit and die all the same.

pretty much

hey, spin, the 90's called and they want their web technology back. sheesh, its like trying to look at porn in 1999 with all the popups and crap.

I didn't have any pop-up issues looking at this. Maybe you need to switch to a 21st Century browser.

"Illmatic is one the best three or four best hip-hop albums of all time, period" begins the blurb for the 7th-highest hip hop album on the list. It really amazes me how often disconnects like that occur in big list articles, like the writers and the editors don't even try to sync it all up.

i have no problem w/ this list really, Achtung Baby at #1 is a cool novel pick and emblematic of a lot of different stuff since then.

i have never understood the love for Achtung Baby. i bought it and have listen to it a bunch of time but it does nothing for me whatsoever. i pretty much hate U2 at this point in my life so that might be why, but i did like this band at one point when they were at least good.

really if the whole unspoken agenda/message of this list is "Achtung Baby is the classic 'reinvention' album of modern rock, fuck Kid A," that's kind of awesome imo.

no its not plus to put Head On the Door and not Disintegration on this list just shows how out of touch Spin actually is.

'out of touch' with the world today or like out of touch with the Cure canon? bfd.

"to put Head On the Door and not Disintegration on this list"

They what?!? That makes no sense. Don't get me wrong, I love just about everything The Cure has done, and it's nice to see Head On the Door get some love, but no Disintegration? Really? What metric are they using here? Is Spin in an alternate reality where Disintegration is considered a lesser work to HotD? Bizarre.

Looks like "Is This It" turned into their album of the decade, after coming in around #100 on the last top 100 they did.

I never understood Kid A. I can dig older Animal Collective and Sonic Youth's bizarrest of bizarre, but Kid A seems to be only an album one respects if they're familiar with the rest of Radiohead... as in you're astonished at their progression, or their change of pace. Otherwise, taken as a sole album it just doesn't do very much to impress me.

Jon Dolan, later assessing The Head on the Door's reissue, imagined mopey Robert Smith "ripping the black duct tape off his bedroom windows to let the sun shine in."

Ech.

Also, no Depeche Mode? No Violator?

I never understood Kid A. I can dig older Animal Collective and Sonic Youth's bizarrest of bizarre, but Kid A seems to be only an album one respects if they're familiar with the rest of Radiohead... as in you're astonished at their progression, or their change of pace. Otherwise, taken as a sole album it just doesn't do very much to impress me.

there's an incredible, buzzing energy on kid a, which always impresses me, e.g., the nat'l anthem.

There are certain records that disrupt the space-time continuum of musical history, issuing a pointed warning to anything that follows.

fuck this ^^^

the Loveless review they link to contains just the right mix of praise & criticism that the album deserves

no, no. it's true. once in a great while, a game-changing disc comes along and disrupts the space-time continuum of musical history, issuing a pointed warning to anything that follows.

http://www.counterpoint-music.com/specialties/images/williamhung.jpg

I love this list, but then I am a 40-year-old desperately trying to cling to being a 40-year-old.

s Spin in an alternate reality where Disintegration is considered a lesser work to HotD?

The reality-based community in which I live.

Then again, I prefer my Cure writing three-minute pop songs instead of nine-minute dirges about crocodiles that rhyme "pain' with "rain."

i love head on the door. i played it for the first time in years a couple weeks ago and it sounded AMAZING. like, really good. i figured i would probably play a couple songs and then play something else, but the hooks just keep on a comin'!

Yeah, srsly. The Cure never made a great album but THOTD comes closest to Gothic hook-a-rama than any other besides Wish.

i do kinda wish i had a copy of disintegration though. my cure love was pretty much all 80's and all vinyl. and that was their first album that i didn't go out and buy right away on vinyl. i always think of it as a cd. (plus, sad to say, i wasn't the hugest fan of kissme3x, and wasn't really eagerly anticipating their next album.)

(loved parts of kissme3x, but i thought it was way too long.)

("never enough" was the last thing i loved by them. which makes me a big fan of their first decade. never really listened to what came after that.)