BARF

hah, I prob'ly like < half those records, to put it generously, but in any case, wow, what a weak conceit

i hate the av club's music section

whoa @ company flow being ranked ahead of biggie o_O x 1000

They forgot Emperor's Anthems To The Welkin at Dusk. Silly rabbits.

Their music section's end-of-year "Least Essential Albums" lists were usually pretty good, though, as I recall. And, going slightly off-topic, I respect their film critics quite a bit.

title of this thread reminded me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuuLowSr_Wc

(unrelated, sadly)

lol

And, going slightly off-topic, I respect their film critics quite a bit.

yeah, the film reviews are ok. i like their features on bad movies and flops especially.

i just hate, hate, hatehatehate, hate (hate) the smug canonization of corny indie fuck shit as the apotheosis of music.

yeah i dunno you could pretty much do a similar list for every year in the last 10 if you wanted to.

a bunch of indie rock records that got good reviews + a couple electronic dance tokens + a handful of awesome rap records

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Yeah, the "Films that Time Forgot" is pretty classic, IMO. And, yeah, reading it in, say 2005/2006, was like skimming through fodder for beating off to Sufjian Stevens, Iron and Wine, etc.

M@tt, agreed. To wit, some lazy journalism there-uh.

So, it's like a condensation of a condensation of a pitchfork end-of-yr list...

daft punk! that helium album was pretty great too, i liked dirt of luck better, but still..

Funniest Onion article I've read in years.

18. Other essential 1997 listening:

Portishead's Portishead, Pavement's Brighten The Corners, Clem Snide's You Were A Diamond, Catherine Wheel's Adam & Eve, The Verve's Urban Hymns, Smog's Red Apple Falls, Will Oldham's Joya, Rex's 3, Blonde Redhead's Fake Can Be Just As Good, Built To Spill's Perfect From Now On, Robert Wyatt's Shleep, The Chemical Brothers' Dig Your Own Hole, Cornershop's When I Was Born For The Seventh Time, The Spice Girls' Spice, Joan Of Arc's A Portable Model Of, Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope, Roni Size/Reprazent's New Forms, Timbaland & Magoo's Welcome To Our World, The Get Up Kids' Four Minute Mile, Blur's Blur, Foo Fighters' The Colour And The Shape, Grandaddy's Under The Western Freeway, The Sea And Cake's The Fawn, Godspeed You Black Emperor's F♯A♯∞, and Chisel's Set You Free.

Spice Girls > Catherine Wheel, The Verve, Smog, Get Up Kids, Chisel, etc., etc.

1997: The Year That Wu-Tang And Biggie Made Their Second-Best Albums

<i>Robert Wyatt's Shleep</i>

oldie mcProg weirdo jazzerton actually probably has the best album of all of these.

It was a pretty good year. Cornershop record deserves more than an hon. mention.

Adam & Eve is fucking incredible, Schleep not far behind.

NO RADIATOR??!?!! even in the 'also recommended' section? INSANITY

you should write a letter

Sometimes it seems as if the internet was made for canonization.

i wasnt reading music magazines before '99 = ive heard about 5 albums from that list (including 'essential listening')

I enjoyed nearly all those albums at the time quite a bit. I was in college and much of this was exactly what I into (I had all of them except for the Co Flo, Bjork, and Erykah Badu). But I don't understand the need to make Visionary Milestone Markers as every ten (or even five) years pass.

for a classic record i love in theory, i hardly ever want to listen to funcrusher plus