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Post by Kapitan on Jul 11, 2021 11:33:10 GMT
Agreeing it is odd, I went back to investigate: seems I intended to include it, but made an embarrassing typo, listing "Of Montreal, Heimdalsgate...," so I accidentally listed the first word of a song title instead of the album title. But your instinct was correct: I should (and indeed mean to) include Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Though "The Past..." is one of my least favorite songs on the album!)
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 19, 2021 15:33:25 GMT
I posted this in the Music News thread, but realized it has relevance to this conversation. In case anyone didn't see it there but has interest in weighing in on the best music of the past 25 years: If you're so inclined, help make Pitchfork's upcoming "25 Best Albums of the Past 25 Years" list better than you know it is going to otherwise be. Readers can vote anytime up through August 20. You must provide a list ranking at least 10, but up to 25, albums. It's funny to me thinking how different this is likely to look compared to if they had done something like this in, say, 2011, with their style and perspective having massively changed in the '10s. The kind of guitar-based indie rock they were founded on has long-since given way to a more pop- and rap-oriented base. I'd assume (?) the majority of their readers are of the new ilk, but maybe there are other "legacy readers" such as myself who have shifted from majority to minority opinions within the site.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 22, 2021 20:59:11 GMT
A more thorough overview of my thoughts on the most recent classic albums, maybe: my top 25 albums of the past 25 years for the aforementioned Pitchfork poll. I had another 30-something candidates that I ended up not using, but all of which I'd be rating probably in that 8.5+ territory.
Pursuant to kds and my conversation in the News thread, I kept track of which albums it prepopulated and which it didn't. An x before the artist means it did. What's really funny is how many of the artists I chose prepopulated, but not the albums I chose--even in cases like The Mountain Goats where they had something like six or seven prepopulated options and I chose two albums! But also Bob Dylan, Kacey Musgraves (where they had everything else except the one I chose), Beulah... In the end, they knew about half of my choices.
Cotton Mather, Kontiki (1997) xNeutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998) Bob Dylan, Love & Theft (2001) xVampire Weekend, Father of the Bride (2019) xJoanna Newsom, Ys (2006)
xBelle & Sebastian, Dear Catastrophe Waitress (2003) xOf Montreal, A Satanic Panic in the Attic (2004) Herman Dune, Giant (2006) xDavid Bowie, Blackstar (2016) xTom Waits, Mule Variations (1998)
The Mountain, Goats Beat the Champ (2015) xBrian Wilson, BW Presents Smile (2004) xCourtney Barnett, Sometimes I Sit And Think…(2015) Lou Reed, Ecstasy (2000) xThe Shins, Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
xFiona Apple, The Idler… (2012) The Beach Boys, That’s Why God Made the Radio (2012) Puerto Muerto, See You in Hell (2005) Kacey Musgraves, Same Trailer Different Park (2013) Andy Shauf, The Neon Skyline (2020)
Voxtrot, Raised By Wolves (2005) The Mountain Goats, Tallahassee (2002) Beulah, The Coast is Never Clear (2001) xRadiohead, OK Computer (1997) xHaim, Women in Music pt III (2020)
Apologies to Beck, Beulah (again), Dylan (again), the Delgados, the Fiery Furnaces (several times), D'Angelo, the Magnetic Fields, Parquet Courts, Iron & Wine, Meghan Trainor (yep), the Flaming Lips, Elvis Costello, Heartless Bastards, Okkervil River, more Of Montreal, more Kacey Musgraves, more Tom Waits, Wilco, Amy Winehouse, the Streets, Eels, De La Soul, Simon Bookish, MGMT, and Kiwi Jr. You were considered!
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