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Pitchfork Top 200 albums of 1996-2011 voted on by the readers. I have a love hate with these lists. It's fun to look through them but then I just realize how little I have in common musically with most people. Out of the 200 albums there are only about 20 that I really like and maybe only a few would make my top 10 of this time frame. It's got the Hold Steady but it's Boys and Girls in America which is far inferior to Separation Sunday.
But I thought I'd post it anyway.I'm unconsoled I'm lonely, I am so much better than I used to be.
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The White Stripes are the only band of which i own a CD.
No Rush..What a joke"I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth."
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Here are 25 that I like and the ones in bold are ones that I consider to be great.
4 Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
7 Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
14 The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin
31 Belle And Sebastian If You're Feeling Sinister
37 Elliott Smith Either/Or
43 The Postal Service Give Up
47 The Shins Chutes Too Narrow
52 The Magnetic Fields 69 Love Songs
55 The Shins Oh, Inverted World
77 Wilco Summerteeth
86 Built to Spill Keep it Like a Secret
103 The Dismemberment Plan Emergency and I
104 Built to Spill Perfect from Now On
109 Bonnie "Prince" Billy I See a Darkness
117 Ryan Adams Heartbreaker
118 Weezer Pinkerton
137 Titus Andronicus The Monitor
147 The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America
155 Wilco Being There
157 Fugazi The Argument
158 The New Pornographers Twin Cinema
170 The Decemberists The Crane Wife
186 The Wrens The Meadowlands
188 The New Pornographers Mass Romantic
193 Bright Eyes Fevers and MirrorsI'm unconsoled I'm lonely, I am so much better than I used to be.
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Originally posted by BuckyBuckner View PostPitchfork Top 200 albums of 1996-2011 voted on by the readers. I have a love hate with these lists. It's fun to look through them but then I just realize how little I have in common musically with most people. Out of the 200 albums there are only about 20 that I really like and maybe only a few would make my top 10 of this time frame. It's got the Hold Steady but it's Boys and Girls in America which is far inferior to Separation Sunday.
But I thought I'd post it anyway.If DMT didn't exist we would have to invent it. There has to be a weirdest thing. Once we have the concept weird, there has to be a weirdest thing. And DMT is simply it.
- Terence McKenna
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Originally posted by DMT View PostWell if you don't like Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Animal Collective or the White Stripes then it's not surprising you feel disconnected from that list. Not sure how you don't like any of those four bands, but I'm sure you're itching to tell us.I'm unconsoled I'm lonely, I am so much better than I used to be.
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Originally posted by BuckyBuckner View PostHaha. I don't dislike Arcade Fire but I never really got into them. OK Computer has some really good songs but overall they are just an OK band to me. The White Stripes are unlistenable to me.I don't know Animal Collective that well but they haven't caught my attention.If DMT didn't exist we would have to invent it. There has to be a weirdest thing. Once we have the concept weird, there has to be a weirdest thing. And DMT is simply it.
- Terence McKenna
Bullshit is everywhere. - George Carlin (& Jon Stewart)
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? - Satchel Paige
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And just to be clear, my comments are not an endorsement of that list as definitive by any means. The fact that Calexico and DeVotchKa were left off shows their ignorance.If DMT didn't exist we would have to invent it. There has to be a weirdest thing. Once we have the concept weird, there has to be a weirdest thing. And DMT is simply it.
- Terence McKenna
Bullshit is everywhere. - George Carlin (& Jon Stewart)
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? - Satchel Paige
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The list seems to be totally void of any music that his heavy (and I don't mean heavy metal - I don't expect Pitchfork folks to like metal) but some hard rock. If they love Wilco then why is [/]Too Far To Care[/i] by the Old 97's not on the list?
Kids made the list, 70% of people are under 30 and half are under 25.I'm unconsoled I'm lonely, I am so much better than I used to be.
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Originally posted by eldiablo505Uh, how about the bands that are on EVERY list? Bob Dylan? Amy Winehouse? Bruce Springsteen?
That list is some kind of lame alternative list or something.I'm unconsoled I'm lonely, I am so much better than I used to be.
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The Stone Roses ... that was one of those epic religious experience gigs. As far as reunions go, that was just as good as the first Pixies comeback gig I went to. I wasn't sure about going ... didn't think they'd be able to live up to the legend, but the whole thing was perfect ... even the weather behaved.
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Originally posted by eldiablo505Sorry, I shouldn't have said "lame". I actually like a bunch of the music on there.
Bob Dylan's 'Modern Times' is the #8 album of the 2000s according to Rolling Stone. I don't really love Dylan all that much so I can't really say whether it's worthwhile.
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I think there is something really wrong with music today when guys in their 50s rock harder than any of the new contemporary "indie rock" bands out there today. Granted they are playing songs written 10-15 years ago but they are still out there rocking harder than the likes of Bon Iver, Wilco, Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Beach House etc. New music just lacks any punch.
I'm unconsoled I'm lonely, I am so much better than I used to be.
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