#1621

300 posts about whether or not Joanna Newsom is any good

200 posts about whether or not music is any good

250 posts of people reacting to Bamnan

100 posts of people complaining that Grent Smurchington or Fucking Heck or whatever didn’t register

50 posts of white guilt

6 overcomplicated polls

Knock yourself out.

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#1622

What about the other 600!?

#1623

I gave Bamnan a mention already.

#1624

These are the ones that contain the good stuff right?

#1625

regretted not including anything from the last 2 years in mine, think it takes longer for me to consider an album a favourite these days though cos i tend to listen to more different stuff and binge on stuff less

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#1626

1 Funeral Arcade Fire Ok
2 In Rainbows Radiohead Bad
3 Kid A Radiohead Bad
4 Turn on the Bright Lights Interpol Ok
5 My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Kanye West Havent heard
6 To Pimp a Butterfly Kendrick Lamar Havent heard
7 Boxer The National Bad
8 Illinois Sufjan Stevens Good
9 Ys Joanna Newsom Very Good
10 Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven Godspeed You! Black Emperor Very Good
11 Carrie and Lowell Sufjan Stevens Ok
12 Sound of Silver LCD Soundsystem Havent heard
13 The Midnight Organ Fight Frightened Rabbit Havent heard
14 And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out Yo La Tengo Ok
15 Geogaddi Boards of Canada Good
16 100 Broken Windows Idlewild Like the singles
17 Let England Shake PJ Harvey Havent heard
18 Madvillainy Madvillain Havent heard
19 The Sophtware Slump Grandaddy Good
20 Is This It The Strokes Bad
21 Good Kid, m.A.A.d City Kendrick Lamar Havent heard
22 Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco Ok
23 Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters The Twilight Sad Havent heard
24 The Argument Fugzai Havent heard
25 Original Pirate Material The Streets Don’t like the singles
26 Untru Burial Havent heard
27 Have One on Me Joanna Newson Very Good
28 The Relationship of Command At the Drive-in Good
29 A Seat at the Table Solange Havent heard
30 Silent Shout The Knife Havent heard
31 Frank Ocean Blonde Havent heard
32 Rounds Four Tet Havent heard
33 White Pony Deftones Havent heard
34 The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place Explosions in the Sky Bad
35 Double Negative Low Very Good
36 Blackstar David Bowie Havent heard
37 Microcastles Deerhunter Good
38 Third Portishead Havent heard
39 And Their Refinement of the Decline Stars of the Lid Good
40 Vespertine Bjork Havent heard
41 Alligator The National Bad
42 The Age of Ads Sufjan Stevens Good
43 Things we Lost in the Fire Low Very Good
44 The Woods Sleater-Kinney Havent heard
45 Home, Like no Place is there The Hotelier Ok
= Drums Not Dead Liars Ok
47 Romance is Boring Los Campesinos! Bad
48 Didn’t it Rain Songs: Ohia Good
49 The Decline of British Sea Power British Sea Power Havent heard
50 The Meadowlands The Wrens Sublime
51 The Cold Vein Cannibal Ox Havent heard
52 Broken Social Scene You Forgot It in People Good
53 Lorde Melodrama Havent heard
54 Carly Rae Jepsen E.Mo.Tion Havent heard
55 The Antlers Burst Apart Good
56 The Go! Team Thunder Lighting Strike Havent heard
57 Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago Ok
58 Sun Kil Moon Ghosts of the Great Highway Good
59 Wild Beasts Two Dancers Havent heard
60 Why? Alopecia Ok
= Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness Good
62 Modest Mouse The Moon and Antarctica Good
63 Outkast Stankonia Havent heard
64 Bright Eyes I’m Wide Awake It’s Morning Very Good
65 Titus Andronicus The Monitor Good
66 Converge Jane Doe Havent heard
= 65daysofstatic The Fall Of Math Havent heard
68 The Mars Volta De-Loused In The Comatorium Good
69 Ghostface Killah Supreme Clientele Havent heard
= Elliott Smith From a Basement on the Hill Good
71 Glassjaw Worship and Tribute Havent heard
= …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead Source Tags and Codes Good
73 Scott Walker The Drift Good
74 St Vincent Strange Mercy Havent heard
75 Cloud Nothings Here And Nowhere Else Good
76 Taylor Swift 1989 Havent heard
= Why? Elephant Eyelash Havent heard
78 J Dilla Donuts Havent heard
79 The Postal Service Give Up Ok
80 The Field From Here We Go Sublime Havent heard
= Japandroids Celebration Rock Havent heard
82 Panda Bear Person Pitch Ok
83 Mastodon Leviathan Havent heard
84 The National High Violet Bad
85 Fucked Up David Comes to Life Havent heard
86 Primal Scream XTRMNTR Very Bad
87 Sigur Ros () Bad
88 Jimmy Eat World Bleed American Ok
= Bloc Party Silent Alarm Havent heard
= Big Thief Capacity Good
91 Lift to Experience The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads Very Good
= Kanye West Yeezus Havent heard
93 The Avalanches Since I Left You Havent heard
= Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Push the Sky Away Havent heard
95 Jon Hopkins Immunity Havent heard
= Calexico Feast Of Wire Havent heard
97 kurt vile smoke ring for my halo Havent heard
98 The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas Good
99 Doves Lost Souls Bad
100 mclusky The Difference Between Me and You Is That I’m Not on Fire Bad
= Death Cab For Cutie Transatlanticism Ok
= Antlers Burst Apart Good

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#1627

I am saying how everything is brilliant but I am a relentlessly positive person.

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#1628

reckon the SRSQ album I heard a couple of weeks ago might be in my all time top 10

#1629

really grinds my gears when people meta analyse threads

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#1630

often seems way more negative then the authentic discussion they are commenting on

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#1631

for me it’s just about de-legitimising anything people might have to say. Feels like all the stuff I have been saying and others has been quite specific, on topic or a mutual discussion back and forth. It’s not a bunch of bad faith or generic arguments. Not sure why it’s painted that way sometimes

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#1632

I’ll try and remember to check tomorrow

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#1633

I’d probably put the new yo la tengo one in a top something.

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#1634

Great chat this.

I have definitely found that the things you really love come around less frequently as you age. And you see a lot of stuff that is clearly a retread of something from 20-30 years ago, and it’s easy to be cynical and jaded.

I wonder if this is not just a reduction in capacity to love music, but an active resistance to wanting to enjoy new things. Like when an artist has a 'change of direction’™ and their fans start to hate them. Maybe people link the sounds they loved in their youth to emotional experiences and want to cling on to them, like @bamnan says, because they can’t separate their liking for it from their memories of enjoying it.

On the other hand, people have been listening to Mozart for over 200 years and not getting sick of it. Maybe they got into it when they were young though.

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#1635

Only skim read through the last few hundred posts since I last commented, so apologies if I’m covering trodden ground.

I thinking the rise of Spotify et al may be a factor in the number of 00s and 10s albums. It’s so much easier to reach such a large amount of music now even compared to when Limewire and that was at it’s peak. There’s so many more avenues to learn about new music compared to when magazines had more influence. I wouldn’t be surprised to find a similar amount of albums had be chosen from the 10s but accross a wider variety. I hope I still have a passion for new music as I enter my 30s, new stuff will always be made and reinvented.
I think it’s a great top 100 tbh, nothing in there that I’ve listened to that I wouldn’t think of as great music even if some stuff isn’t my bag. Hope the site and people’s passions are still around in 5 or 10 years for a comparative list.

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#1636

Thanks. So, just the standard ratio for any DiS thread then.

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#1637

would be interesting to look at the raw data to see if individual lists have more recent stuff

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#1640

(would have been in my top 40 I reckon, maybe even 30)

#1641

reckon Carissa’s Wierd are the single most underrated band of this era, they had so many stands of things that would become popular, bit of emo, bit of post rock, bit of that maximalist big band indie thing

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#1642

I guess it is their commitment to a typo in their name, doesn’t inspire confidence, looks sloppy