Also odd that while the list is full of indie records from various genres, nearly all the hip hop albums are mainstream releases. I'll never understand why Pitchfork reviews the most underground gutter indie releases no one knows about but won't touch an indie hip hop album unless it's the cool thing to doIt's to repeal their image as hipster contrarians. "See, we like music made by black people, we aren't skim milk-drinking yuppies after all!" I said it in another thread, but HUGE lol @ The Moon & Antarctica being knocked out of a top 5 spot by The Blueprint to pay lip service to hip-hop. That's one of my favorite albums ever, so I'm probably being a little biased, but come on now.
Also, PD, this is a staff collaboration with individual write-ups. So, even if a certain reviewer wasn't fond of an album a couple years ago, the rest of the staff might feel differently and I'm sure some choices were debated at a roundtable due to this. That's why Andrew W.K is on the list - when it was reviewed, it got a 0.4.
Origin of Symmetry >>>>>>> at least 190 of these albums.
Origin of Symmetry >>>>>>> at least 190 of these albums.
muse sucks get over it libertarians
Also, PD, this is a staff collaboration with individual write-ups. So, even if a certain reviewer wasn't fond of an album a couple years ago, the rest of the staff might feel differently and I'm sure some choices were debated at a roundtable due to this. That's why Andrew W.K is on the list - when it was reviewed, it got a 0.4.
But if the editorial board/staff ok'd a 0.4 review for Andrew WK and a 6.4 review of Discovery I don't see why they'd ok a greatest albums list that features those albums in prominent positions. :lol
I love this list only because it is exposing me to even more music! Listening to the clips on the top 20 for the albums I haven't heard.
Their choice for 2009's AOTY is blatantly obvious now.
Their choice for 2009's AOTY is blatantly obvious now.it wasn't already?
I'm going to finish my 60's-80's music binge and then start on 90's and 00's
When did Muse fans start stealing talking points from Tool fans?
I'm going to finish my 60's-80's music binge and then start on 90's and 00's
Meadowlands. Now.
Oh, as for their best of 09 list, Pains of Being Pure at Heart better be high up on it.
Pitchfork's list has Leviathan over Blood Mountain FFS. That alone is wrong.Naw, Blood Mountain was pretty underwhelming. Fortunately, Crack the Skye made up for it
I'm going to finish my 60's-80's music binge and then start on 90's and 00's
Meadowlands. Now.
Oh, as for their best of 09 list, Pains of Being Pure at Heart better be high up on it.
'Tis truth, all of this post. :rock
Oh, well, more enjoyable than Vecktimest, sure, but damn does Merriweather got a buncha hate :'(
Merriweather is still my album of the year, sure thing. No album in the last few years of my serious enjoyment of music has swept me up like that. In fact I would've put Merriweather higher on this list, tbh.
Oh, well, more enjoyable than Vecktimest, sure, but damn does Merriweather got a buncha hate :'(
Merriweather is still my album of the year, sure thing. No album in the last few years of my serious enjoyment of music has swept me up like that. In fact I would've put Merriweather higher on this list, tbh.
I don't hate Merriweather, I like Animal Collective a whole lot, but I also don't understand what is so AOTY-incredible about it either.
That's a bad example. Linkin Park is pattern-based down to a formula, which is a problem with their reliance on a gimmick. Muse has just been recreating Paranoid Android for the last decade, but they're not formulaic in how they go about doing it (lyrics aside). To their credit, lately they've been switching it up a bit, which is nice even if the results haven't been any good.
The only Muse song with a structure remotely similar to Paranoid Android is Citizen Erased, and the chord palettes are nothing alike.
Still waiting for one example of great Muse songwriting. Perhaps I was being too outrageous with the LK comparison. But even their best songs still sound like run of the mill hard rock songs
What do you consider good songwriting? If you're talking about lyrics and poetic, Bob Dylan stuff with a strong message, then no, they aren't good songwriters. But they're brilliant instrumentally on OoS. And I'm not talking about boring Malmsteen-esque shredding; what I'm saying that the stuff they play on their instruments sounds really fucking good (to me). The riffs are intricate and hard-rocking, and they sound original. The different sections of the songs all work really well together. The melodies are good.
But you know, I could just be biased since I saw them live in 2007 and they completely blew me away.
Pains of being Pure at Heart :-*
The XX :-*
Bat for Lashes :-*
That's my pitchfork friendly list for the year