The Very Very Annoying Poll

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1 good 1 bad this is easy

the reason that led zep IV and london calling seem to bookend the 70s (not that they're alone in that) isn't just sales or hooks or fans, it's that there's a narrative of significance attached to each.

--contenderizer in the what is the canonical rock album of the decade? thread.

kid a & mpp i think will bookend the naughts (aka the neo-70s) in pretty much this same way, if not even more prominent than the way zep and the clash...in the 70s there were other choices for both sides of the 70s (for instance, paranoid & metal box)

naughts = aughties????

"Kid A" is completely unimportant as a 00s album outside of ILM. In the real world "The Bends" and "OK Computer" are seem as the definitive masterpieces by that archetypical 90s band.

I would rather pick "The Soft Bulletin" although I realize it is from 1999. That album represents very much of what indie rock (indie pop) in the 00s has been about.

As for 2009, the year is still young, and I am pretty sure something with a more obvious mainstream appeal than MPP will come to dominate the year more.

"Kid A" is completely unimportant as a 00s album outside of ILM.

I don't even like Radiohead and this is completely wtf

lol these two terrible albums will not bookend this decade for anyone with halfway decent taste

really hate when people try to create these sweeping narratives out of nowhere - Kid A and MPP are totally meaningless to me and a ton of other music fans.

so in other words, you find this poll v. v. annoying...you might not be the only one...

fwiw, i like both these albums a whole lot...'out of nowhere' or not, i don't think it's offbase that both these albums are shoo-ins for top 5 on most end-of-decade lists...i mean, cmon it's practically preordained that this is 1 & 2 on Pitchfork's Best Albums of the 00s...the only question left is which is #1 and which is #2...

a lot of people on here seem to be allergic to MPP's hype, but I think it kind of lives up to it...my exposure to AC is very limited (I'd heard I think two songs before yesterday, plus Bros), so I can't say whether they sold out or not...but this album shows great potential for keeping me sane in the months ahead, and for the time being that's about all I can ask of music...

if Loveless is Pet Sounds merging with Metal Machine Music (this is Trouser Press, but their server's down or something, so I can't link to it...) then I think MPP definitely could be Pet Sounds merging with King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown...

Bang guests mixing an ILX meme (7,3)

I Don't see why MPP is any more significant than any other Animal Collective release.

I don't think art rock is what defines this decade.

And one thing this decade proved is that rock is really dead, all it can do anymore is recycle its own past.

I don't think art rock is what defines this decade.

^this.

This thread is madness.

where is the option for jagged-electronically mäandernden underbody (Drugs A. Money)?

A+, gold stars everyone, off to shoot self in head now kthxbi

This thread might have been OK if it hadn't been a poll.

yeah this poll is a bit of a joke...wuz sincere about mpp's potential to keep me sane in the oncoming months, but all the stuff about narrative and significance is kind of tongue in cheek...this is pretty much a safe place to dump all over either or both of these albums (and well done on that front)...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Explain the narrative to me. I feel stupid.

Some people like these bands but other people are sick of people liking these bands.

no agreement today
no agreement tomorrow

I wouldn't ess be so certain about that.