Turning a Bon Jovi cowboy ballad into twisted funk, tempered by subtle synth and pitch-shifted vocals, Beanie Sigel takes to pirate radio to get his plea for freedom heard by the masses. That being said: Daniel, why are you a SBS fan? I'd love to hear your take on that record!īest part of this thread is getting linked 2 wayback machine for this CLASSSSICīeanie Sigel : "Dead or Alive" I've had nothing hit me on quiet the visceral level this record did when I first started listening to it, and it has a high place in my personal canon of favorite records ever. The whole record though-especially because of (1) Jim O'Rourke's quiet, ethereal production work, (2)Jeff's lyrics and hey-my-vocals-are-quiet-and-fucked-because-I'm-fucked, and (3) the fucking stellar arrangements-is just wonderful. The three descending piano chords, Glenn's drumming that follows the guitar and piano so closely, and Jeff's note-spraying guitar work that, although it seems completely random, I wouldn't want to change a single note. I can't think of a better guitar song in indie rock from the past decade than "At Least That's What You Said." By that I just mean there's nothing I love more.
One of the things I love about Wilco is that everyone seems to have a different favorite record of theirs. Ghost has no chance, and both SBS and the new one didn't receive a high enough ranking, and aren't favored by enough people, to make it. P4k gave it a 10, it's their one record people are most aware of, and it's their highest-selling record to date. Yeah, I think YHF has a good chance to make it in the Top 10. We're just spreading it out over seven/eight weeks. Were this a print mag, that's pretty much what any year-end issue would look like, let alone a decade edition. It seems like a lot of content, but it's really not as much as it looks- three lists on our end, artists lists, a timeline wrapup of events, four essays. Not sure I'll personally vote for more than one or two. Doing this a few months later wasn't going to change the outcome much anyway: I doubt many 09 LPs would make it either way. the imperfections of doing it later were weighed and for once we were into being first with our stuff instead of last (which, next to pazz and jop, we tend to be at a year's end). On the whole the imperfections of doing this now vs. This being the internet, we can amend the list later with extra blurbs if need be- not re-rank but just add an extra page, not a big thing. Think of how much list fatigue you all get by the time our year-end list comes out anyway. Most of all though, by the time everyone in the friggin world runs their own 00s and 2009 stuff, the last thing you all will want in Jan/Feb is another gigantic list, bigger than the others. I also thought Blender would stick it out and end with a big 00s blowout around the same time. Or maybe I just want the non-obvious things, which will populate the second 100, to get some due.Īs for why now.Well, for one thing, Spin and RS did their 90s lists in Aug/Sept a decade ago, and so I assumed they'd do that again. Proportionally, I'm not sure 200 records on our site from the 00s is much different than 100 from a print mag a few decades ago.
As for LPs, contrary to opinion we cover a wide range of music than are credited with, go in depth w/reviews on way more records than most pubs, and this decade saw the release of much more music than most. I also think having streams of most songs cushions the could-be bloat and allows the tracks list to work as a library that people can/ideally will return to as much as a list. That's a lot sure, but I def don't think we are guilty of doing many lists, or listicles. Who else is gonna do 500 songs/200 albums? I'm saying no one goes as hard as pfork in the "making lists" dept. Yes reverts to the 1980s lineup (Anderson, Squire, Kaye, Rabin & White).I'm not fuckin.
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