Albums that oughtta got a 10.0 score

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0001XPT1G.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Criteria being:

1) no flaws, or its imperfections make it interesting
2) historically significant
3) captures a zeitgeist

4) Has an "After School Celebration Mix" of key track.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zbrPvB8AoWw/SYjaxpCuvzI/AAAAAAAAADQ/28ZTyVgrBUc/s320/BeastieBoysPaulsBoutique.jpg

Surely not.

http://www.billboard.com/images/album_images/cov200/pop/cov200/drc800/c841/c841296ylb7.jpg

5) Hit used as incongruous outro for greatest movie of all time.

Weezer - Pinkerton
1) definitely flawed, but in the most interesting way that Rivers Cuomo has ever been flawed
2) for better or worse (mostly worse) it has influenced a decade's worth of pop-punk and "emo" bands, also a pretty common touchstone for people of a certain age
3) this is probably the weakest of the criteria for this album, but an argument could surely be made

fuiud

oh, also...
4) "El Scorcho (After School Celebration Mix)" is fantastic

4) "El Scorcho (After School Celebration Mix)" is fantastic

Will allow this.

http://www.culturebully.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/burial-untrue.JPG

sadly, no "after school celebration mix," tho.

the most recent one i can think of right now is probably New Amerykah Part One (4th World War).

I think Daniel when you say "untrue" you mean:

http://members.toast.net/Tac/Unforgettable.jpg

the recent poll thread/some deep listening has it on my mind but:

http://991.com/newgallery/Autechre-Confield-446310.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4IO4mEmRGoA/S-lU2G20T6I/AAAAAAAAH7w/3oSJMaWIMNM/s1600/WaterboysThisSea0001a.jpg

would pay good money to see a burial/natalie cole collaboration.

http://betterpropaganda.com/images/artwork/the_action_packed_mentallist_brings_you_the_fucking_jams-kid606_480.jpg

the most recent one i can think of right now is probably New Amerykah Part One (4th World War).

Yeah, I would totally give this one a 10.0 on my own rating scale. I think it definitely meets criteria 1 & 3, but I believe it is too soon to tell how historically significant this will be.

Burial likes to make "hauntological" music but people actually came back from the dead to be on Natalie's album.

1 - 0 to Natalie.

LOL

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_M6Fw8uH75QE/SWeptBYopRI/AAAAAAAAAfE/XoDnXdPQx80/s400/Frankie-Goes-To-Hollywoo-Welcome-To-The-Pl-27843.jpg

1) damn the naysayers, there isnt a bad song on it. bonkers proggy bit at the start is great too obv.
2) is lots of people wearing Frankie Says t-shirts historically significant?
3) t-shirts, controversial video, nuclear war etc.

^^^ Finally a worthy contender. I was gonna suggest this on similar grounds:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61kO4NGxJsL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61kO4NGxJsL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

Also:

http://z.about.com/d/rap/1/5/r/9/-/-/PuffDaddyNoWayOut.jpg

even though there are two records i like better from that year (to which i wouldn't give 10.0s), yeah new amerykah pt 1 is a perfect choice

http://imgur.com/C4NUJ.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pV4H971PFdw/S2oEttjqFKI/AAAAAAAABaA/YXbHnoOtk7Y/s1600/wit.jpg

This thread is all kinds of wrong.

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcScsPVX1IOI8HlC1f_3I2Pum5s73swvb1V8YGIEAGu4V426pywALQ
http://www.amiright.com/album-covers/images/album-Various-Artists-Saturday-Night-Fever.jpg
http://ridunkulousexperiences.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/1_cvr-loveless.jpg

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/p/pet-shop-boys/album-pop-art-the-hits.jpg

a 10.0 score from who? some of these albums are from long ago, and they probably did get the top rating from one significant review journal or another.

there's only one significant review journal

lol, scaruffi, right?

scaruffi never gives 10.0s tho

It's been ten years since this came out, and there still hasn't been a better indie rock record since. If you're one of the few people who knows this record, back me up!

http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/Glands_Album2.jpg

albums that oughtta got a 10.0 score from kornrulez

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51718f%2BUqAL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HoCfmxA4L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41H7V8P0Y0L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41B6QEM83EL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411ZGKH8B1L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://saladdaysmusic.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/12rods.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51kR%2Bt4WSwL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/b6/a8/38cf4310fca0b31c812c2010.L.jpg

http://saladdaysmusic.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/waltmink.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jaJ3ZbJ8L._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://chairmanmeow.files.wordpress.com/2006/07/b000e1158g01_ss500_sclzzzzzzz_v1138143704_.jpg

It was rumored to be getting 10.0, and for my money it should have.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41jl8CsrzpL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

Thanks mccoll, we can search Pitchfork's archives too.

scaruffi probably gave that lot about 8.5 combined

http://green.cx/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/combo-breaker-2.jpg

xpost@boners lol

I cant post pics right now. but the soundtrack to R.A.D. should get a perfect 10.0

holy shit @ mcoll

first thing that comes to mind for me:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kkCHUk87bYc/R9uxPI1TauI/AAAAAAAADzM/r-gHeRstrM0/s400/REM+-+New+Adventures+in+Hi-Fi+1.jpg

dorks ruining my thread ;_;

i don't know, i think you were doing a pretty good job on your own.

you want albums released while pitchfork was what it is now that either got lowballed or ignored?

pretty sure tim explained what he wanted in the first couple posts

okay reading that i am mean sorry tim love you. bestest of the best threads just make me grumpy.

the only serious answers here are records that came out before the internet, though

the most demanding criteria here by far:

3) captures a zeitgeist

is what takes a lot of albums out of the running.

well, that and "Has an 'After School Celebration Mix' of key track."

Yeah, I don't know if capturing a zeitgeist is necessary for an album to be a classic or get 10.0'd.

also the ones that do the best job of that are often the ones that wind up feeling dated after awhile

http://www.lordsofwinter.com/images/chroniques/Darkthrone%20-%20Transilvanian%20Hunger.jpg

also the ones that do the best job of that are often the ones that wind up feeling dated after awhile

― antexit, Wednesday, December 1, 2010 3:02 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark

xpost. very good point.

If You're Feeling Sinister is a contender for zeitgeist-definer reasons--what else gets the feel of the early-internet saddo indie culture so right?--but now we're all sick of it and it just sounds twee

Get Rich or Die Tryin', too, if you can remember what it was at the time, and how influential it was for awhile, and can forget the fact that you never want to see or hear from 50 Cent again

you want albums released while pitchfork was what it is now that either got lowballed or ignored?

(sigh)

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/b/bright-eyes/album-letting-off-the-happiness.jpg
http://991.com/newGallery/Carla-Bley-Escalator-Over-Th-453340.jpg
http://www.normanrecords.com/images/covers/78/105578.jpg

this one too, maybe (less sure of it than burial, but i think tim lol'd my burial suggestion, so . . .)

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/2345-boy-in-da-corner.jpg

eh, already i'm unsure about that one.

I am lolling every suggestion in this thread except Frankie.

i mean, it's not my thing, but i guess the strokes' disc, is this it qualifies? also arcade fire's funeral.

Do I got to spell it out to you all:

In this thread, you post images of albums that technically fit the criteria people think motivated Pitchfork to give Kanye a 10.0, but which you know would never receive a 10.0 from Pitchfork or anyone else.

omg at everyone in this thread

^^^^^

criteria:

1) by one of the most famous and recognised pop star celebrities around
2) grotesquely self-absorbed and solipsistic
3) portrays the artist as crazy and full of contradictions

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/g/geri-halliwell/album-schizophonic.jpg

4) voice is unpleasantly nasal

Ha ha perfect.

lol

Its amazing how truly awful you guys are at distinguishing between real and zing.

who reads pitchfork these days?

man, some ppl are just the worst

halliwell album rehash of older material
correct opinion until proven wrong

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/utah1.jpg

Criteria being:

1) no flaws, or its imperfections make it interesting

Every track on Utah Saints is great, and they all sound different from each other: one tune is this atmospheric percussion piece that could be from the Predator soundtrack, another one is bleep'n'bass, third one is a Simple Minds cover, etc.

2) historically significant

"What Can You Do For Me?", "Something Good", and "Believe in Me" were all dancefloor hits, I guess that counts?

3) captures a zeitgeist

It captures a point in time when techno/dance music hadn't yet become rigid and you could all sorts of awesome shit, like sample Kate Bush, Slayer, and Sylvester on the same record (as they do here) without being either ironic or silly. Also, this is what the inside sleeve has to say:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/utah2.jpg

4) Has an "After School Celebration Mix" of key track.

The penultimate track is a "1926 Melodic Mix" of "What Can You Do for Me?".

I'm being totally serious here, btw. I loved this album when I was 13 and I still love it.

(xxx-post)

Okay, sorry, I had no idea this thread was about Pitchfork and we weren't supposed to pick actually good albums.

LATE REGISTRATION

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41jrLq4xRKL.jpg

orrite I assembled this list about 30 seconds before I realised this was a zing thread so fuck you all I'm doing it anyway

http://www.amiright.com/album-covers/images/album-Duran-Duran-Rio.jpg

http://www.themusiclibrary.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/blur-13.jpeg

http://www.addictedtovinyl.com/images/albumcovers/paul%20mccartney%20-%20ram.jpg

https://www.modularpeopleshop.com/uploads/90/apocolypso-high_product.jpg

sb at will

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/ugk%20cover-thumb.jpg

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/2531/gangoffourentertainment.pnghttp://www.normanrecords.com/images/covers/80/107080.jpghttp://www.covershut.com/covers/The-Stone-Roses-20th-Anniversary-2009-Front-Cover-36632.jpg

http://blahblahblahscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/pinkflag.jpg

despite not capturing any zeitgeists, this album is still perfect and deserves a 10.0.

stfu and gtfo anyone not reading the first post

Paris Hilton's 35-minute pornographic home-video peaks with a parade. Fireworks flash while red hoods march through a field. At the center of the spectacle is a huge, pale, cartoonish rendering of Michael Jackson's head. Paris's gargantuan "Nothing In This World" soundtracks the procession, with Paris pleading, "You should know what it's like / When it hurts coz it feels so right." The tribute marks another chapter in Hilton's ongoing obsession with the King of Pop.

Hilton's discography contains innumerable references and allusions to Jackson. Her first hit as a singer, "Stars Are Blind", clearly stole its astronomical setting from Jackson's film 'Moonwalker'. For many, her first memorable lines as a actor came during an episode of The O.C., a show set in California, where MJ has been many times. And when Paris was locked up for DUI, she had to attend court, just like Michael did for maybe having sex with children. Like most everything else, Paris may exaggerate the kinship, but it's real. And it's never more apparent than on Paris, a blast of surreal pop excess that few artists are capable of creating, or even willing to attempt.

To be clear, Paris Hilton is not Michael Jackson. As she told Snooki at the 2010 MTV Movie Awards last month, "I love you Snooks. Snookums!" She ended the thought with a laugh, but you get the impression she's not kidding. Unlike Michael, she's not interested in scrubbing away bits of himself-- her richness, her candidness-- to appease the masses. And while Jackson's own twisted fantasies of paranoia and betrayal eventually consumed him whole, Hilton is still aware of her illusions, though that mindfulness becomes increasingly unmoored with each newspaper-splashing controversy. The balance is tenuous, but right now it's working to her advantage. On Paris, Paris is crazy enough to truly believe she's the greatest out there. And, over half a decade into her public notoriety, the hardworking perfectionist has gained the talent on the mic and in the control room to make a startlingly strong case for just that.

This isn't the same resourceful prodigy who made The Simple Life or even the wounded soul behind The Hottie & The Nottie. Instead, Paris's Paris incarnation cherry-picks little things from her previous work and blows them up into something less than sane. The expansive, all-encompassing nature of the album is borne out in its staggering guest list which includes mentors Scott Storch and Kara DioGuardi. By the time she covers Rod Stewart's disco classic "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy", it begins to feel as if Paris is stage-managing her own award show with enough starpower, shock, and dynamism to flatten the Grammys, the VMAs, and the rest all at once.

Over the past few months, Paris has intermittently tried to flush away her rep as a ditzy child of privilege in interviews and on Twitter, which is, fortunately, impossible. Because without her exploding self-worth-- itself a cyclical reaction to the self-doubt so much of her music explores-- there would be no Paris. "If you show me real love, baby, I'll show you mine," she says on "Stars Are Blind", and though she's far from the virtuous paragons of bodice ripper lore, she's no less complex. In her public life, she exhibits vulnerability and invincibility in equal measure, but she's just as apt at villainy-- especially here.

With "Fightin' Over Me", she rousingly highlights her own douchebaggery, turning it into a rallying cry for all humanity. Like many of her greatest songs, it's funny, sad, and perversely relatable. And while the reggae horns and lilting drums of "Stars Are Blind" make it sound like the ideal outlet for the most over-the-top boasts imaginable, Paris instead inhabits the role of an abusive deadbeat desperate to make good on a one night stand. "Jealousy" attempts to bend its central credo-- "I thought you were my best friend / I felt we'd be together 'til the end / You're not the girl I once knew / Tell me where she is 'cause she's not you" into a high-minded judgment. As a woofer-mulching synth line lurks, Paris justifies her dreams of destroying a former BFF, peaking with the combative taunt, "And now I'm like the devil / Well if I am, then what does that make you?." Inspired by her two-year feud with fellow celebrity Nicole Ritchie, the song blurs the line between fantasy and reality, sex and romance, love and religion, until no lines exist at all. It's a zonked nirvana with demons underneath; a fragile state that can't help but break apart on the very next song.

On "Heartbeat", Paris sings, "You look at me and I see my reflection / You understand who I am needs protection / The way you rush to me / The way you take my hand / And I follow you to fall down in the sand." The lines nail another commonality between the singer and her hero. Like Michael, Paris' behavior-- from the poorly planned outbursts to the musical brilliance-- is wide-eyed in a way that most 25 year olds have long left behind. That naivety is routinely battered on Paris, yet it survives, better for the wear. With her music and persona both marked by a flawed honesty, Paris' woman-myth dichotomy is at once modern and truly classic. "Had a great day at Brooke's today hanging out with her and her twin boys. They are both so adorable and have the cutest personalities. :)" she wrote earlier this month. That may be true, but she's more willing than anyone else to cry.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7GF2kkMcTKc/STlKtVmlpvI/AAAAAAAAWrw/on1-n64ZpEQ/s400/ph.jpg

http://static.boomkat.com/images/151612/333.jpg

tim - inspired.

everyone else - smh and indeed kmt. fucking read the thread! why do people not do this.

I sorta feel like a parent of a kid who's on trial for something suitably embarrassing and the jury turn and look at me and shake their heads, like, "blame the parents, I say." Is it me? Is it my fault?

xp "ffs i didn't ask to be born", thread shrieked while the judge hammered order

but whigfield look interesting

Oh Matt not you too...

How do any of these not qualify under your criteria?

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc000/c027/c02706ei165.jpg

Do I got to spell it out to you all:

In this thread, you post images of albums that technically fit the criteria people think motivated Pitchfork to give Kanye a 10.0, but which you know would never receive a 10.0 from Pitchfork or anyone else.

but which you know would never receive a 10.0 from Pitchfork or anyone else.

Oh shit sorry missed this bit. I'm now expunging all my previous suggestions from this thread.

(xpost)

idk, which p4k, now or in 2k3?

or anyone else.

Do I need to break out the sock puppets?

Ha ha cheers Matt for actually deleting your posts!

I didn't want to sully the thread with an honest mistake. I think even Welcome To The Pleasuredome fails the "would never get a 10.0 score from anyone" test though.

It was about the best anyone else had come up with at stage. The Kid 606 too though maybe.

matt you should delete all the other dork posts in here too!

also sb everybody

http://www.google.ca/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://www.mp3lyrics.org/t/the-rembrandts/the-rembrandts_1.Jpg&sa=X&ei=Spr3TMeEC4KclgfappmLAg&ved=0CAQQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNGov1KJZhuT0vBXpWq90TfdivhYXg

1. its only flaw is that none of the songs which aren't the friends theme song are any good, but this is an essential element to understanding the complexity and contradiction that makes the album so exhilarating
2. Tremendous hit and the representative of a bygone era of the broad cultural influence one work of art was able to marshall before the fragmentation of culture with the internet
3. duh

My concern about giving The Rembrandts a 10.0 is what happens when an album comes along that does everything that album does, but even more so? What score do you give that album, huh? Namely:

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/t/the-bodeans/album-go-slow-down.jpg

no zeitgeist?

In this thread, you post images of albums that technically fit the criteria people think motivated Pitchfork to give Kanye a 10.0

http://www.wwesuperstars.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/2.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/b/b9/20100429144817!CD_M_People_Elegant_Slumming.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/VP7ZB.jpg

Hello Dirty is a surprising effort by Sicilian Massimo Sapienza. His Hey Babe, Let Me See Your USB and I'll Show You My Firewire LP, while dealing with similarly sexually explicit subject matter, hardly compares for the potent revelations on Hello Dirty. With so much electronic music substituting morality and personality with Deleuzeian theory, Massimo's release comes at precisely the right time.

and that was only enough to get a paltry 8.1 from pfk in 2k2

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/11617-partie-traumatic.jpg

IIRC pitchfork actually gave this 8.0 b/c the fourth dude couldn't get his ears to stand up in the picture, but imo this is just quibbling in the face of greatness

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e9/ShoutattheDevilCD2.jpg

1) amazing set of songs. have you ever heard 'bastard'?
2) welcome to hair metal
3) see above

http://i.imgur.com/7dgZf.jpg

also it's a noise record with no vocals/samples so lol pfk basically....i only listened to it in popular 2k2 era compression format 'mp3' so i didn't get to see the quality epoch defining inlay [xps]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Shamen_-_Boss_Drum_CD_album_cover.jpg

disappointing non-single mixes

Really? I haven't actually heard it. Cancelling download.

Boss Drum album mix pisses all over the single

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1w3qBqgj-LY/SwHttWZjPlI/AAAAAAAAAmM/RXvK8jHTpNA/s1600/8471-highly-evolved.jpg

The Vines. Four young guys from Australia determined to tear it up in the States, their end goal being the glorious egotrip of international rock stardom. Now, let's be fair-- most guys starting bands regularly entertain notions of 'hitting the bigtime,' and there isn't a goddamn thing wrong with that. It's just that few are content to play it quite so safe. Even the metal guys have personality.

4.1 & some aspie trolling from the 2k2 pfk

Nothing with "Ebeneezer Goode" on it is getting a 10 on my watch,

I was basing that choice on:

- Captures zeitgeist
- Tabloid hysteria
- Several big hits
- Now expunged from official history

its imperfections fail to add to it tho

1. more confessional than anything she had previously done, this album delved into the very depths of her soul
2. no longer was her career just about her talent: it was a glimpse into the mind of a tortured celebrity, and perfectly encapsulated our TMZ-refreshing, gossip-addled, panoptic era
3. the ambition and artistic purpose was evident for all to see - especially compared with the catchy pop hits she'd previously peddled. you can tell it's ambitious because it has a chinese character on the cover

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ytvoAE5ctTU/SUsohBFX6SI/AAAAAAAAAVc/GETHiTE7C6Y/s400/scan0026.jpg

4. hilariously obvious title

(nb i do genuinely love that album, and also the more i think about it the more i think of it as a genuine parallel to MBDTF) (but with better songs)

also that might be japanese? idk.

Oh hang on I've got one:

http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/h/hole/album-celebrity-skin.jpg

yeah but that album actually SHOULD get 10.0

... and will never get one from anywhere. Not least because most people favourably predisposed towards it will go for one of the first two albums.

http://www.google.ca/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://musicshares.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/the-jon-spencer-blues-explosion-extra-width-mo-width-lossless-1.jpg&sa=X&ei=2673TM-WJ8OblgfD76yKAg&ved=0CAQQ8wc4Pw&usg=AFQjCNHCKOKCEasLAlMBB7FBPuBBrj1xkA

i love how tuomas accidentally got it right

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/619U37QJxdL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

1) no flaws, or its imperfections make it interesting
Yep - Saying "I wish there was more than just one member of Metallica on this record" is just nitpicking.

2) historically significant
A landmark in the career of James Lavelle and probably some other people.

3) captures a zeitgeist
Well, obviously.

4) Has an "After School Celebration Mix" of key track.
I think the Mike D song is called that anyway.

for that matter how about the album that defined the wild, pomo, eclectic vibe of the era of the dot-com millionaire and his work hard/play hard lifestyle?
http://www.google.ca/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://www.pollsb.com/photos/o/27663-fatboy_slim.jpg&sa=X&ei=fr73TO6ZFIK0lQfv9biQAg&ved=0CAQQ8wc&usg=AFQjCNHn6gDy-Vi102LQ21WEBWkyfF_h5w

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005V3WA.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://images.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drc800/c838/c838969u38g.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/Shocknyall.jpg

DJP with the deep cuts

I knew you'd have my back, but where's Ned?

must solidify fan base of 3

i mean like nationwide, not just on ilx

it's okay, we are the three most important people in the US

brb, paving the way for installing "Magic Jewelled Limousine" as the new national anthem

imperfect: easily --in fact, it's the *opposite* of perfect, and interesting because of it

historically significant: sure, if you're a fan of third-rate, yarling, pseudo-xtian, grunge-rawk blandness

captured a zeitgeist: YES, absolutely

http://www.progboard.com/graphx/covers/5910.jpg

(sorry, no after school celebration mix, though)

how much did someone get paid for that album cover, and how angry should i feel about it for the next five minutes

"a little" and "a lot", but in which order?

It's the decade bookend to the Nirvana baby, all grown up.

how much did someone get paid for that album cover, and how angry should i feel about it for the next five minutes

― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Thursday, 2 December 2010 18:10 (3 minutes ago)

so bad

A minute after I mention bookending the 90s, 33 1/3's blog trumps with this:

http://new.assets.thequietus.com/images/articles/5368/radioheadslint_1291042126_crop_550x567.jpg

those mountains dont look real tbh

this thread is stupid. op expects mind reading I guess

i guess i disagree with the "zeitgeist" criteria i don't think that's all that important

op expects people to have a sense of humor.

xpost

http://i55.tinypic.com/1zf290p.png

^^that album perfectly capture the mood of a post-zwan america IMO

honestly

i'm really bad at thinking of things on threads like this! awesome thread tho, apart from the morons

the best candidate i could think of is one of the MTV party to go comps, but that's probably cheating.

looooooooool xp

problem is, everybody thinks their snarky joeks perspective is or should be universal, but no. and ILX has a storied history of goofball pix at the top of more or less serious threads. and there was paul's boutique right off the bat, and who the hell knows what that oakley/moroder record actually sounds like (arpeggios, i'd guess)...

oh jesus wait, i DO know what that oakley/moroder record sounds like. memories get blocked for a reason, tim.

anyway, http://fnxradio.com/blogs/pdriscoll/ameriandiaiddfefwe.jpg

lol hello whiney good to see u again

lol

i dont know why anyone would start a thread on ilm tbh

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Shamen_-_Boss_Drum_CD_album_cover.jpg

― Matt DC, Friday, 3 December 2010 00:25 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and

Is the one in the top right corner the character for pyjamas?

no, that is the 'maybe'

or 不,是"可"

problem is, everybody thinks their snarky joeks perspective is or should be universal, but no. and ILX has a storied history of goofball pix at the top of more or less serious threads. and there was paul's boutique right off the bat, and who the hell knows what that oakley/moroder record actually sounds like (arpeggios, i'd guess)...

mostly I'm sad that people (including Scott) think so little of me they assumed this thread could actually be serious...

i'll admit i didn't rly know how to take "or even the wounded soul behind The Hottie & The Nottie"

(including Scott)

loooooooool

I think starting the thread with Whigfield said everything about how serious it was.

Your right Geir, that decision maybe made the thread look more serious than I intended.

imperfect: doubtless

historically significant: for the '00s ringtone generation, yes

captured a zeitgeist: you fuckin bet!

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512SBHZGFDL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

yr trying too hard

an albatross

In the same parallel universe where Whigfield and The Crazy Frog are 10.0 classics, the following are too:
http://img.maniadb.com/images/album/222/222468_1_f.jpghttp://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/006/782/0000678211_350.jpghttp://datewrecks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/KENNY-G-same.gif
http://org.ntnu.no/lydmurerlosjen/admin/filer/anbefalinger/Lotti.jpg

http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/68/Dave_Matthews_Band_-_Under_the_Table_and_Dreaming.jpg
Flawless: this guys are awesome musicians;
historically significant and zeitgeisty? I was in college in '94 so, yeah

also can't decide between Bijou Phillips and Milla Jovovich

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/TheDarkness-albums-PermissionToLand.jpg

surely this has to be a contender ?

1) debateable point maybe, i cant listen to it, but various people have assured me its a classic from start to finish.
2) very much so. well, for 6 hours. and there was that whole darkness vs nme kick off that made life fun for all watching
3) guess it did. there was even the xmas single - surely a sign of zeitgeist wave riding.

the darkness is legit awesome

http://i.imgur.com/mmvI9.jpg