Well, we’ve already done best songs of the decade (Stendhal list here, Linus list here).
Let’s try best albums.
Top ten, no order:
Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Sometimes a band’s conflicts lead to trauma and the end of creativity. Every so often, they lead to acts of genius. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is the latter. Haunting, with the right [...]
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“So we’re going to skip ahead to the Single Ladies part…”
Posted in Music, Video, tagged beyonce, harmony, pomplamoose, single ladies on November 19, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve listened to this about 100 times in the last few days.
Also worth reading for the musically inclined, here’s this analysis of the chord structures (or non-structures?) of “Single Ladies.”
The best music videos of the 00s not on this list
Posted in Music, The Internet, Useless Bullshit, Video, tagged best videos, e-40, electric six, juvenile, kanye west, m83, music videos on October 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Antville has a list of the 101 best music videos of the 2000s, and the list is fairly canonical. I recommend a look.
I would, however, like to point out five of the best videos not included on Antville’s somewhat limited list…
M83 – Don’t Save Us From the Flames: A sweet unrequited high school love story [...]
I definitely remember all the words to this song
Posted in Movies, Music, Useless Bullshit, Video, tagged ghostbusters, a capella, songs i know all the words to on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The twisted politics of Toby Keith’s “American Ride”
Posted in Music, Politics, Useless Bullshit, Video, tagged american ride, patriotism, toby keith on October 15, 2009 | 6 Comments »
In case you haven’t been paying attention to the Billboard charts, you may have missed the #3 debut of Toby Keith’s latest record, American Ride. It blows, of course, but that is besides the point. On a Billboard chart dominated by Michael Buble, the rejuvenated Kiss, and Barbra Streisand, it’s hard to say that American [...]
Oh, man it’s back…
Posted in Education, Music, Video, tagged back to school, rap, school, sick beats on August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Classes resumed after summer vacation. I’ll be treated to many more scenes like this one, I imagine.
The Freewheelin’ Carolin’ Bob Dylan
Posted in Music, Useless Bullshit, tagged bob dylan, christmas album on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Dylan Christmas album… it’s coming.
The Christmas album is a weird rite of passage for pop musicians. They range from the straightforward to the outrageous to the cottage industry.
It is, however, generally (save for Sufjanian cases) a ploy for quick album sales in the Christmas season. That’s why it’s a bit strange to see Bob [...]
International relations theory vis-a-vis Jay-Z
Posted in International Affairs, Music, Politics, Useless Bullshit, tagged abu aardvark, hip-hop, international relations, jay-z, the game on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As I am in Taiwan, I have limited blogging to do. Nevertheless, I did want to comment briefly on this quite virtuostic post by Marc Lynch aka Abu Aardvark, about the application of international relations theory to the current “beef” (if it can honestly be described as such) between The Game and Jay-Z.
The post meanders [...]
