With regards to the hip-hop mentioned in this thread I would most likely rate as follows:

The Game
Ghostface Killah
The Roots
Clipse

Just out of personal bias', that is how I perceive it.

I find the Game to be overrated.

Ghostface Killah
The Roots
Clipse
The Game

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Originally posted by Mike:
Just because someone

• Critiques one's taste
• Does not agree with one's taste

does not mean that said critiquer is attacking or taking personal shots at whomever is being critiqued.

All too often, we see overall productive and important members have squabbles about, essentially nothing save a difference in personal tastes.

Before getting defensive, we should all consider whether the offender is calling you a lard-based-chowderhead or just saying that they like Clipse more than you.

Having said that I would just like to add that you are all lard-based-chowderheads.

LOL. I hear what you're saying Mike, but you have to admit that whatever FKA's intentions were, it was kind of a douchy way to say it. As Musicalifragilistic said, a simple, "What? All that rap, and no love for Clipse?" wouldn't have been bad, but calling half of someones choices "poor" (as if it were fact) before getting around to your point is...well...douchy.

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So, can we all agree to summarize as follows:

"You're a lard-based chowderhead." - PERSONAL ATTACK

"Half of your picks are poor albums." - DESTRUCTIVE CRITICISM (aka "BEING A DOUCHE")

"I don't agree with your picks because..." - CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE

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Originally posted by LD:
"You're a lard-based chowderhead." - PERSONAL ATTACK

I enjoy a nice bowl of chowder from time to time. If that makes me a chowderhead, so be it. I'm not offended by this so-called "personal attack".

ericg.... that's the first time I saw you typed "LOL".

Mike's example of a personal attack was pretty funny. I had to.

I am only offended by being labeled "lard-based." True, I have developed a bit of a middle this past year, but it is quite obviously beer-based.

I think we're going to have start a new thread and move the actual lists!

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Originally posted by PRG:

quote:

Originally posted by Hisopenedout:
11. Casiotones for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette

Yes!

I 2nd that! I love this album.

nathanielkt's much-awaited and ballyhood end-of-the-year list! Huzzah!

01. Joanna Newsom - Ys
02. Islands - Return to the Sea
03. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
04. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
05. M. Ward - Post-War
06. Danielson - Ships
07. Ghostface - Fishscale
08. Evangelicals - So Gone
09. Figurines - Skeleton
10. Girl Talk - Night Ripper

11. Belle & Sebastion - The Life Pursuit
12. Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
13. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
14. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette
15. Boris - Pink
16. Cursive - Happy Hollow
17. Peter, Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
18. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I am Dreaming
19. Mew - And the Glass-Handed Kites
20. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely

I think that the pages 4 to 6 made this topic the topic with the strangests posts on Metacritic



very...



weird...



stuff...



(running away)................................

More like "sliding away, leaving a goopy concoction on the floor as you do so." What with you being a lard-based chowderhead and all.

quote:

Originally posted by nathanielkt:
nathanielkt's much-awaited and ballyhood end-of-the-year list! Huzzah!

Finally we get to see what all the ballyhoo was about!

It's lame that my #1 pick of the year is a very personal choice, but this year, it's the most boring #1 to have.

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It's lame that my #1 pick of the year is a very personal choice, but this year, it's the most boring #1 to have.

It's your personal choice so it's not lame and I'm not sure what you mean by it being the most boring #1 to have. I think it will be lots of peoples' #1 choice.

I have the Dears as my number one... very personal... and no one else even seemed to find the record half interesting.

1. M Ward - Post-War
2. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
3. Eric Bachmann - To The Races
4. Fear Before The March Of Flames - The Always Open Mouth
5. The Twilight Singers - Powder Burns
6. Built To Spill - You In Reverse
7. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
8. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier
9. Gomez - How We Operate
10. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
11. Joanna Newsom - Ys
12. Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
13. Vetiver - To Find Me Gone
14. The Appleseed Cast - Peregrin
15. Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
16. Tom Waits - Orphans
17. Slayer - Christ Illusion
18. Mastadon - Blood Mountain
19. Evangelicals - So Gone
20. Serena Maneesh

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Originally posted by Bongo:

quote:

It's lame that my #1 pick of the year is a very personal choice, but this year, it's the most boring #1 to have.

It's your personal choice so it's not lame and I'm not sure what you mean by it being the most boring #1 to have. I think it will be lots of peoples' #1 choice.

I have the Dears as my number one... very personal... and no one else even seemed to find the record half interesting.

I meant boring as in it will be a lot of default #1's.

Well, considering my screen name on this site, this better be a decent top 10 list:

10. Band of Horses-Everything all the time (best is yet to come)
9. Gnarls Barkley- St. Elsewhere (a bit top heavy but still a very good album)
8. Ladyhawk-Ladyhawk (growing on me all the time)
7. Destroyer-Rubies (still great after 50 listenings)
6. Hot Chip- The Warning (Not my favorite type of music, but it really grew on me)
5. TV on the Radio-Return to Cookie Mountain (see above)
4. Danielson-Ships (interesting, a bit annoying, weird, and yet somehow very beautiful)
3. Midlake- The Trials of Van Occupanther (anyone who has read my posts knows how much I think of this band)
2. Joanna Newsom-Y's (beautiful, epic, etc.)
1. Beirut-Gulag Orkestar (no guitars, eastern european sounding, a 19 year old singer, yet still the most original, and my favorite of this year)

Is that the first mention of Gnarls Barkley? I'm not a huge fan, but I thought that one would wind up on more lists. It's still early though...

1.Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say...
2.Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
3.Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
4.The Beatles - L O V E
5.Yo La Tengo - I am Not Afriad of You...
6.Beck - The Information
7.Joanna Newsom - Ys
8.TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
9.The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier
10.Bob Dylan - Modern Times


Whew! that was tough...

I almost added The Strokes' First Impressions fo Earth, Jenny Lewis' Rabbit Fur Coat and My Chemical Romance's Black Parade.