Maybe a Gen Z. Joy Division were a foundation text for any aspriring music nerds of the 00’s. But then why would someone in Gen Z come up with this weird list. In short, I have no answers.
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None of these albums are going to get any better if they’re being criticised all the time
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Only listened to 2 of these albums, how many indie points do I get?
PJ harvey and boygenius are great, they know this, but they want to piss me off
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Picking In Utero and not Nevermind is some very megabrained stuff also.
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There is nothing in music journalism I dislike more than LOOK EVERYBODY, THAT THING YOU LIKE IS ACTUALLY BAD AND I SAY SO BECAUSE I AM KING OF OPINIONS. Actually writing about 25 albums they like would take them far longer.
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Bet Robert Plant and Jimmy Page are crying into their millions of pounds and Ferraris now that the Independent have declared an album they wrote 55 years ago as “over-rated”
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Obviously not going to read the article, but is Songs of Innocence by U2 meant to be highly rated?
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That’s a very random selection. Feel like that Florence album in particular has been largely forgotten, the presence of The Horrors as well is bizarre, highly rated when it was released 15 years ago but hardly something that people still talk about that much.
edit: they do kind of explain Florence in the blurb tbf
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Yeah think it reads like a list of “stuff I didn’t like when I was a teenager but my friends did but now I’m an adult with a column I can complain about it finally”
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Nah you’d think that but I’ve been surprised to learn in the last couple of years that I know some big fans. She did some big outdoor shows here last year that a couple of people I know raved about, and the article mentions the album is getting its own night at the Proms this year.
Letter To You and Tranquility Base are weird selections. Not cos I vehemently disagree, although I do love both, just cos of their place in the canon.
Letter To You didn’t really move the needle for anyone but existing Springsteen fans and Tranquility Base is famously divisive and hated by a lot of people
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Some of them do make a lot more sense when you read the blurb on them, I can understand what they mean in the PJ Harvey blurb, even though I do think it’s easily her best album, though I feel like on here I encounter more Let England Shake naysayers.
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Think they’ve written up The 1975 quite accurately
This is largely well written and argued and far better than the clickbait title suggests.
Although I agree with most of it, a few points to pick:
- Grace by Jeff Buckley- “The remaining 45 minutes of Buckley’s own songs, however, sound like the velvet-lined padding on which this Faberge egg of a song rests.” Nonsense. Hallelujah is a good cover but it’s not even in the best five songs on Grace. Mojo Pin, the title track, Last Goodbye, Dream Brother, Lover, You Should Have Come Over are all better in my opinion.
- Trout Mask Replica. “We’ve never met someone who genuinely like TMR”- well-
. I like it but not all of it and it’s definitely not his best. Lick My Decals Off is similarly batshit but half the length, prettier and more enjoyable. But TMR is his most pure artistic statement. - I’ve heard this critique of Kid A before, that it’s a record which enjoys high status “because Radiohead made it” and that most of it is insubstantial. However, since Kid A was released, pretty much every artist who inspired it- Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Can- have all received their dues. Also- “The aimless “Everything in Its Right Place”, the dreary “How to Disappear Completely”, the plentiful ambient stretches that do little more than prove they’ve heard Low”- mate, those songs are beautiful. Also, everything from Optimistic onwards slaps.
- The issue they have with TOTBL is the vocals. But it’s the dark, tense mood I like most about it, which is mostly in the playing and production. The vocals are good, but yes, he’s no Ian Curtis.
On the whole, however, most of these pieces are worth the read.
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Interpols biggest flaw have always been the lyrics imho.
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‘In Utero is too noisy’ is baby talk though
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Totally. “Let’s see about this ham”, “bluff/tuff” and “um, he has a beard”.
I still really like TOTBL but there are definitely some dodgy lyrics on there.
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Yeah, its my favourite album of all time and yet even I can admit the lyrics are extremely clunky, I just happen to still enjoy their weird idiosyncrasies
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True. It’s not really a full-frontal noise assault like Godflesh or Melvins at their most abrasive. It’s got a perfect mix between noisy and clear, and there are enough strong, clear melodies to counteract the likes of Milk It and Radio Friendly Unit Shifter. In fact, it’s far more dynamic than Nevermind.
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