Nothing too shocking, but I certainly like the list better than Pitchfork's.
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Posts: 4617 | Location: NE Indiana | Registered: 14 April 2005
Major YAWN with this list. They try and make it 'cool' by throwing in Jay-Z and having M.I.A. in the top ten but are left copying a ton of Pitchfork's list: is there going to be anyone that DOESNT have Wilco, Radiohead and Arcade Fire in the top ten. Their number one is 'brave' for them since that album is so all over the place but mostly just weak sauce. And I think saw Damien Rice's album in there, that's just a joke.
I get the impression that the writers at Paste are mostly older and lazy people who dont have the urge to find new music. Which is so unjust and unfair since it's there job. I'd trade places with them any second.
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Posts: 131 | Location: California | Registered: 17 October 2009
Agreed with around fifteen of those inclusions, at least in so far as they're not wildly out of place in a best-of-the-decade thread.
A lot of the choices just baffle me, like "Kill the Moonlight". I like Spoon, but I would've thought "Girls Can Tell" or "GaGaGaGaGa" would be more likely selections. Wonder what fans of the band would make of it.
Originally posted by Forge: Agreed with around fifteen of those inclusions, at least in so far as they're not wildly out of place in a best-of-the-decade thread.
A lot of the choices just baffle me, like "Kill the Moonlight". I like Spoon, but I would've thought "Girls Can Tell" or "GaGaGaGaGa" would be more likely selections. Wonder what fans of the band would make of it.
As a fan of the band, I like Kill the Moonlight the best.
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Posts: 1111 | Location: Los Angeles | Registered: 18 December 2006
Originally posted by Forge: Agreed with around fifteen of those inclusions, at least in so far as they're not wildly out of place in a best-of-the-decade thread.
A lot of the choices just baffle me, like "Kill the Moonlight". I like Spoon, but I would've thought "Girls Can Tell" or "GaGaGaGaGa" would be more likely selections. Wonder what fans of the band would make of it.
As a fan of the band, I like Kill the Moonlight the best.
I see that it's also ranked #19 on the P2K. Must just be me, no big, I like everything they've done (apart from "Gimme Fiction") anyway.
Originally posted by Forge: A lot of the choices just baffle me, like "Kill the Moonlight". I like Spoon, but I would've thought "Girls Can Tell" or "GaGaGaGaGa" would be more likely selections. Wonder what fans of the band would make of it.
The TRUE Spoon fans will knowingly acknowledge Girls Can Tell as the best, followed by Gimme Fiction. Which is why you like Girls the most too.
The ones who dont know shit and barely got into them say GaX5 is the best and then try to messily organize the rest. This is because that one is the easiest and by far smoothest to digest but it aint their best album.
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Posts: 131 | Location: California | Registered: 17 October 2009
Like, I lol'd hard. For a guy who knows as much as he does about music, Lypse is surprisingly non-academic about it. Not that this forum should only be a place for academic discourse, but that whole notion is just ridiculous. He wouldn't last five minutes in a conversation with any of my professors.
Also, my $.02 on this list: I really like it for what it is. The top 6 albums are all in my personal top 20, and seeing BAGIA at 11 is always a pleasant addition. I think I'm with Troy, this list will likely be the one I connect the most with.
My impression is, Spoon gained a lot of fans with "The Way We Get By" and as such Kill The Moonlight would have been the first Spoon album for a lot (most?) current fans. So in that context, it does have more 'meaning' to a lot of fans than its predecessors, hence it being so loved. (You never forget your first time, etc). I'm not being a 'snob' either; in a way, that's deserved, because that's the album where I think Spoon became 'fully formed' (think of the moment in the movie where the superhero emerges from his lair for the first time). Girls Can Tell is them at about 90% of their potential (haven't quite mastered flying yet), and on the albums prior to that you can tell they haven't quite found their groove, or their unique style. I prefer Girls Can Tell to their post-Moonlight albums, but (unlike Apocalypse) I think the 'consensus' amongst both 'true Spoon fans' and critics would be that Moonlight is their best work.
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Girls Can Tell is where they first became one of the best bands out there and that is exciting enough - but KTM was where my eyes widened and mouth drooled with goodness.
After KTM I am less sure about ranking - prob Gimme fiction and then Ga Ga and Girls on an even and sometimes shifting ranking.
But like J-pop says - ranking is pointless when it comes to post "Sneaks" Spoon albums - they're all just so tasty and exciting.
As for the "true fans" hoohaa - now that's truly tedious and can be ranked verrry looooooow in any discussion.
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Posts: 408 | Location: Australia | Registered: 09 March 2009
Originally posted by Apocalypse: Major YAWN with this list. They try and make it 'cool' by throwing in Jay-Z and having M.I.A. in the top ten but are left copying a ton of Pitchfork's list: is there going to be anyone that DOESNT have Wilco, Radiohead and Arcade Fire in the top ten. Their number one is 'brave' for them since that album is so all over the place but mostly just weak sauce. And I think saw Damien Rice's album in there, that's just a joke.
I get the impression that the writers at Paste are mostly older and lazy people who dont have the urge to find new music. Which is so unjust and unfair since it's there job. I'd trade places with them any second.
YAWN...another annoying, immature internet hipster trashing another best of list for placing the obvious (ie...legitimately well respected and influential) works of the decade in the top positions.
How much better it would be to come up with a best of the decade list comprised of little known albums of lesser artistic merit and middling critical support.
But I'm willing to keep an open mind and be proven wrong...Please be sure to post when your own exciting, "unlazy" top 50 or 100 for the decade has been made public on this board and I'll pick up the top three choices you list that I don't already own and see how they compared to Kid A, YHF, and Funeral..or my personal Top 3 of The Woods, In Rainbows, and Mark Lanegan's Bubblegum.
Originally posted by Apocalypse: Major YAWN with this list. They try and make it 'cool' by throwing in Jay-Z and having M.I.A. in the top ten but are left copying a ton of Pitchfork's list: is there going to be anyone that DOESNT have Wilco, Radiohead and Arcade Fire in the top ten. Their number one is 'brave' for them since that album is so all over the place but mostly just weak sauce. And I think saw Damien Rice's album in there, that's just a joke.
I get the impression that the writers at Paste are mostly older and lazy people who dont have the urge to find new music. Which is so unjust and unfair since it's there job. I'd trade places with them any second.
YAWN...another annoying, immature internet hipster trashing another best of list for placing the obvious (ie...legitimately well respected and influential) works of the decade in the top positions.
How much better it would be to come up with a best of the decade list comprised of little known albums of lesser artistic merit and middling critical support.
But I'm willing to keep an open mind and be proven wrong...Please be sure to post when your own exciting, "unlazy" top 50 or 100 for the decade has been made public on this board and I'll pick up the top three choices you list that I don't already own and see how they compared to Kid A, YHF, and Funeral..or my personal Top 3 of The Woods, In Rainbows, and Mark Lanegan's Bubblegum.
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