skyscraper101
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That list just exemplifies what a relatively crap decade it has been musically.
The worst I can think of since the fifties in fact.
The worst I can think of since the fifties in fact.
Uncut Top150 Albums Of The Century So Far
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Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
eh? it's been brilliant - any given year is brilliant for music
skyscraper101
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I haven't liked even a quarter as much as the stuff going on now as the general output of the nineties and I'm pretty sure I could make a better top 20 than this from any decade since the mid fifties.
chazegee
Number two.
What Elvisfranksinatraohnleehookermuddywaterselmoreamessammydavisuniorohnnycash?
White Blood Cells sucks.
it's been a fucking fantastic decade for music.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
you have shit taste in music then
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Really? Try to convince me. Apart from the folksplosion and dubstep it's been pretty mediocre I think. Maybe I'm just getting tired of mellowness.
but there's been lots of good hardcore, lots of interesting electronic stuff, lots of non-mellow country and the like. It may not be the greatest decade, but it's still brought me immeasurable pleasure and I still find stuff I love every week, or so it seems
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
cooly g
skyscraper101
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I just don't see it that way. Unless I'm missing out on some amazing underground scene that hasn't blown up into the mainstream yet I am seem to be surrounded mostly by bland pop, rnb, nme sponsored indie, and US commercial hip hop that puts everything through irritating vocoders at the moment.
All my old favourite ways to find out good new music (120 Minutes, XFM, Radio 1, NME etc.) have either disappeared or changed beyond belief to just pushing crap music now. Even 6Music is dull and doesn't seem to be introducing me to anything exciting.
I'd say you've generally got ok taste but I didn't think much of your DJ Surgeon recommendation. Perhaps I wasn't in the right state of consciousness.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
i just think it's a fallacious argument to say that one decade is better than another for any kind of art - there's always quality music if you're prepared to look for it
i don't listen to any of those things (ok, some pop
) but I find exciting new music every week.I think you've stopped looking - so many people I know claim there's nothing new and exciting there, and in each instance it's to do with them, not the music. I only have to ask what they're listening to, or where they're looking for new music, to work out that they're just not bothering
the good stuff is very very rarely in your face.
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
I think it's been pretty great and miles better than the 90's, which was the worst that I've lived through.
I don't think much of uncuts top 20 though - except for LCD.
And I reckon De Stijl is far better than either of those 2 White Stripes albums they've got in there.
skyscraper101
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i don't listen to any of those things (ok, some pop
I think you've stopped looking - so many people I know claim there's nothing new and exciting there, and in each instance it's to do with them, not the music. I only have to ask what they're listening to, or where they're looking for new music, to work out that they're just not bothering
the good stuff is very very rarely in your face.
Maybe so. I dunno.. I have the radio on all day at work. I flick between R1, R2, 6Music, NME Radio etc. - Although NME Radio seems to have the most diverse range of tunes of them all - I'm still failing to get excited by much new stuff. Then on TV.. there's no more shows like The Word or the Beat on late at night. MTV has ditched 120 minutes and every other music channel seems to be turgid and playlisted now with no slots for proper interesting videos or experimental genres.
I'll admit to not trawling myspace or reading many blogs or magazines to catch up with the very latest developments in music - checking out recommendations on Urban is about as near as I'd get to that but I don't find it a hugely enjoyable way to get at music. I like TV and Radio, its accessible and easy and has always served well in the past. But now I'm not so sure.
I just find and reading about listening to music on the internet less satisfying than being introduced to it through good DJs or tv/radio shows. I can't just tune out if I don't like something - I actually have to download it to listen to it and then decide I don't like it. It just seems less easy and less enjoyable. Especially when I don't have a huge amount of time on my hands.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
I guess I do find stuff every week too but it just seems the 90s were way more exciting with waves of indiepunk from the states and stuff like mathrock and post-rock more or less getting invented.
Most of the stuff I listen too (Hello Brooklyn by the way) is a rehash of the 90s.
Electronic music is rarely properly represented in these charts, so they mean very little, they are something I read to kill time. Rock and Indie music is stale in my opinion, more of the same with every album. Rarely does anything come up with anything new or innovative in those genres. Electronic music seems to be constantly evolve.
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Best I can remember, and I bought my first record in 1963.
stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
Another vote here for this being a superb decade for music. 
skyscraper101
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But really.. Ryan Adams, Dylan and Wilco in the top 10 of albums of the century so far?? I think I'd rather listen to Chinese Democracy than any of those records. Why no Doves 'Lost Souls'? No Thom Yorke 'The Eraser' No Jay-Z or anything on Rocafella, nothing on Warp or anything produced by the Neptunes or anything by Bjork even? I don't necessarily like all that stuff but surely there's better records than Bruce Springsteen's 'The Rising' that can make the top 20. The title track is okay but the rest of the album is pretty meh.
Off the top of my head there has been some good stuff like Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike, Rodrigo y Gabriella - Re-Foc, Radiohead - Kid A, Talib Kweli - Eardrum, Squarepusher - Go Plastic...etc. But the albums that come to mind this decade aren't as forthcoming as so many more I could think of for previous decades.
But then this is Uncut magazine, who are desperately in need of readers so it's not surprising that they're doing a Q Magazine by producing a definitive list that appeals to their market.
Off the top of my head there has been some good stuff like Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike, Rodrigo y Gabriella - Re-Foc, Radiohead - Kid A, Talib Kweli - Eardrum, Squarepusher - Go Plastic...etc. But the albums that come to mind this decade aren't as forthcoming as so many more I could think of for previous decades.
But then this is Uncut magazine, who are desperately in need of readers so it's not surprising that they're doing a Q Magazine by producing a definitive list that appeals to their market.
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
Pleased with White Stripes prominence though.
Watched a live performance and he's doing some of the freshest thing's on a guitar I've seen since Hendrix. I think that was another thread though.
And white blood cells has no guitar solos on it. It must be hard work being such an awesome guitarist and limiting yourself to battering out power chords but it works a treat. The arrival of guitar solos in the White Stripes' canon coincided pretty well with the beginning of their decline IMO
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
Not sure what is the biggest travesty, the absence of Kid A or the presence of Bruce fucking Springsteen 
ouchmonkey
Singe Gainsbourg
also that they didn't count Let It Be (naked) and the current reissues as new and go with an all Beatles top ten.
then perhaps they could put them on the cover. Again!
why would anyone buy a magazine with The Beatles on the cover?
wanna read about them? - there are 1000's of books covering all aspects, even song by fucking song and day by fucking day.
same with bastard Dylan. - fuck off with this tired old shit really
do something more interesting and you might gain yourselves a better circulation. twats
