Do You Guys Agree With This?!

~~someonecompletelyrandom~~ · 12-19-2009, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Rickenbacker

Not to mention plenty of people who enjoy rap music and are outraged that Kanye was on the list. Honestly, only one of his albums works for me.

I'm still having a hard time figuring out why everybody seemed to love 808 and Heartbreak. I'm not a Kayne hater but every dang song just droned on and on about his relationships... atleast that's what I thought I could hear through the merciless auto-tuned production.

music_phantom13 · 12-20-2009, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

I'll give an example of what i'm saying..

Say you were going to do a list of the greatest 80s albums.
Even the most mainstream of magazines would include genuine independent labels from those times like Rough Trade, SST, 4AD, Beggers Banquest, Mute...and so on and so on.
Even the lists back then in mainstream magazines had albums put out by these labels on them.
How do I know this? Because that's how I found out about these labels and bands.
If you were to do a 90s list you could pretty much say the same thing.

But now it's not the case, the fact is the big 4 record companies dominate everything and little else has any chance of getting through, even with the internet at their disposal.

And that list is living proof of that.

I get what you're saying. Still, I see Rough Trade, Jagjaguwar (who also released Farm), Sub Pop, Matador, Asthmatic Kitty (Sufjan's own label), Merge, Secretly Canadian, Danger Mouse and In Rainbows were self released, XL Recordings, and Fat Cat looking through the list. I mean, if you consider any label under Alternative Distribution Alliance to not be an independent label, I guess you have a point. Otherwise, about half that list is not major label releases. And though ADA is owned mostly by Warner, the labels that release their music through the company sign bands themselves and don't work with any of the major labels. It was just Warner's way of making a little money of the independent scene without any control over the music that's produced. I'm not trying to be a **** or say their list is unexpected or even close to true, but I'd consider Jagjaguwar, Sub Pop, Matador, Merge, and Secretly Canadian to be the modern day equivalent of the labels you listed up there and I see all of them on the list.

Violent & Funky · 12-20-2009, 04:14 PM

FTW:

Glide's Best Albums Of The Decade - Glide Magazine

Anteater · 12-20-2009, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Violent & Funky

FTW:

Glide's Best Albums Of The Decade - Glide Magazine

Yet another 'Best Of' list compiled by people who all listen to exactly the same thing..yay?

And three White Stripes albums? Really now?

NumberNineDream · 12-20-2009, 04:47 PM

I found this list much worse than the first one, it's like the same bands over and over. Without even mentioning Animal Collective I noticed.

Burning Down · 12-20-2009, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Violent & Funky

FTW:

Glide's Best Albums Of The Decade - Glide Magazine

That list isn't any better than the RS one. Too many of the same bands are on there. It's not very diverse.

captaincaptain · 12-21-2009, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Rickenbacker

This is really bad. Worse than Pitchforks, and only a little better than the NME's. Three Coldplay? Four Kanye West albums? No thanks...

Kanye must have been a contributing editor on this one.

TheBig3 · 12-21-2009, 08:25 AM

Please post any and all lists here for disucssion and comparison. No list is exempt (save for double posts). Please post the list, as well as a link to the page you originally grabbed it from.

We'll be moving existing lists in here as soon as we can. Thank you.

storymilo · 12-21-2009, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

Please post any and all lists here for disucssion and comparison. No list is exempt (save for double posts). Please post the list, as well as a link to the page you originally grabbed it from.

We'll be moving existing lists in here as soon as we can. Thank you.

Do you mean lists made on the site, or lists made by publications like Rolling Stone?

Violent & Funky · 12-21-2009, 06:35 PM

Animal Collective must be groovy, eh?

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