For posterity, a few links to stuff written elsewhere that you may or may not be interested in perusing. If not, may you be subjected to a fate worse than Jeff Zucker. First, humor me as I again shill for The Stylus Decade. The lists and essays are done and the site is destined to molder in the digital dust bin until some dim-witted nostalgist spends a fortune to reanimate something that was only marginally successful in its prime. If Ruport Murdoch did it for Family Guy, all hope is not lost. Besides, as far as eccentric humor and jangled misanthropy goes, you will not find anything better than Stewart Voeglin’s “10 Years of Stylus Magazine: Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky,” the best Decade recap I read all year. If you ever wondered what I thought about Supreme Clientele and the Marshall Mathers LP, you can find out here and there. I enjoy them.
For the LAT, I enumerated “10 Reasons to Be Cautiously Optimistic about Hip-Hop in 2010.” The major label system is somehow decadent and decrepit and many of the gifted producers of this generation have drifted down the dolo blunted beat road. I know. But there is more good rap music being made today than at any point since there was good rap music being made. I’m sure I left things out. The planets will continue their rotation. Lastly, The LA Weekly ran a Best LA Albums of the Decade feature. I handled Donuts and Quasimoto’s The Unseen. If you don’t think Donuts is an LA album as one sage commenter opined, you overlook the facts of its Cedars-Sinai inception, the LA label that put it out, and the seismic impact it wrought on the Low End crew. It is also, of course, a Detroit album. If you still do not agree, then your bell went wrong wrong wrong.
4 comments
Johan says:
January 13, 2010 at 12:36 am (UTC -7)
That Stylus list is terrible. Fishscale over Supreme Clientele? Seriously? That’s like take Stillmatic over Illmatic, or pretending that Strokes album was ever more than fashion.
Passion of the Weiss says:
January 13, 2010 at 12:57 am (UTC -7)
Let the Record show:
1. Ghostface Killah – Supreme Clientele
2. Sunset Rubdown-Shut Up I Am Dreaming
3. White Stripes-White Blood Cells
4. Madvillain – Madvillainy
5. Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
6. Jay-Z – The Blueprint
7. Avalanches-Since I Left You
8. Aesop Rock – Labor Days
9. Belle & Sebastian-Dear Catastrophe Waitress
10. El-P – I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead
11. Sigur Ros-Agaetis Byrjun
12. Kanye West – Graduation
13. Dungen-Ta Det Lungt
14. J Dilla – Donuts
15. The Strokes-Is this It?
16. Ghostface Killah – Fishscale
17. LCD Soundsystem-Sound of Silver
18. My Morning Jacket-Z
19. Cannibal Ox – The Cold Vein
20. Wolf Parade-Apologies to the Queen Mary
21. Scarface – The Fix
22. Burial-Untrue
23. Edan – Beauty and the Beat
24. Interpol-Turn on the Bright Lights
25. Deltron 3030 – Deltron 3030
26. Hold Steady-Boys and Girls in America
27. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
28. Boards of Canada-Geogaddi
29. RJD2 – Deadringer
30. Spoon-Girls Can Tell
31. M.O.P. – Warriorz
32. Radiohead-Kid A
33. Devin the Dude – Just Tryin’ to Live
34. Flying Lotus-Los Angeles
35. Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
36. White Stripes-Elephant
37. El-P – Fantastic Damage
38. Arcade Fire-Funeral
39. D’Angelo-Voodoo
40. Grizzly Bear-Veckatimist
41. The National-Boxer
42. Reflection Eternal – Train of Thought
43. My Morning Jacket-At Dawn
44. Erykah Badu-New Amerykah
45. Black Moth Super Rainbow-Dandelion Gum
46. Go Team-Thunder Lightning Strike
47. PJ Harvey-Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
48. Islands-Return to the Sea
49. Franz Ferdinand-Franz Ferdinand
50. Nosaj Thing-Drift
VOEGTLIN says:
January 14, 2010 at 9:46 am (UTC -7)
Are you slicing my bologna, broseph?
Passion of the Weiss says:
January 14, 2010 at 1:11 pm (UTC -7)
Nah, just ensuring that you have a proper marketing jingle.