Spin's "Ten Recent Albums That May Also Stand The Test Of Time" (2005)

like, i couldn't imagine wanting to have a conversation about, or even really listen to, any dubstep in 2015, but i could imagine a full-blown revival in maybe just a few years time.

2003/2004/2005 surely the years that spawned a shitload of 80s synth revivalists. what records from that period are still perceived as relevant anyway? goldfrapp's black cherry? cut copy's bright like neon love? hot chip's coming on strong? chromeo's she's in control?

if green day plays "american idiot" the woos will be there, if they play "basket case" the woos will REALLY be there, but if they play "know your enemy" the woos are a little tempered

Arular but I love More Adventurous as well

i think funeral will be the most listened to one of these in 20 more years if that's what we're voting on

it's probably my favorite here too, let's be real

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

dizzee

where is turn on the bright lights

i vote no confidence

coldplay is the one people are still going to be playing in the future tho, sry

The Arcade Fires

lol omg this list

i am actually voting for the coldplay album, it is my favorite of theirs by many miles and was in some ways a very important record to me

Agree that Coldplay will probably be the "stands the test of time" album out of this bunch, with M.I.A. and Arcade Fire being the only ones to really compete.

Franz Ferdinand keeps on existing and I always find that charming and/or surprising. Bless their hearts.

* I am American. I acknowledge that Dizzee will probably endure longer in the UK than it ever will on this side of the ocean. It could also be lumped in with my M.I.A. and Arcade Fire runners-up grouping above.

Coldplay

Have the people who are knocking this list heard that Rilo Kiley record? If so, fine, but if you haven't, it's fantastic.

Rilo Kiley don't inspire much piss & vinegar out of me anymore, but in the early 00s I was a notorious hater.

Basically, Barsuk records was a one-stop shop for all things terrible.

Electric Version. First song

diz and MIA

No winehouse no credibility

Funeral should win in a landslide despite the ILM backlash.

xp Back to Black wasn't out yet when this list was assembled, and don't try to tell me you're talking about Frank.

Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground might not get any love but i have a story. when i moved from San Francisco back down to SoCal, was still in my walk phase. so i walked around neighborhoods in this vast area called Los Angeles as the CD was over an hour long. they called him the Bob Dylan of this generation and at that time i believed it.

after saying that, it probably has aged horribly.

I think Lifted is a great album. It's a perfect collision of early Oberst 9-minute angst-folk jams and his later, more chilled, more conventional stuff that came into focus on Wide Awake.

In other words: more accessible than the stuff that came before it, but more ragged and pissed than the stuff that came after.

Wither Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot?

The Streets is the only inclusion that's embarrassing; the rest of these have held up pretty well

xp Back to Black wasn't out yet when this list was assembled, and don't try to tell me you're talking about Frank.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2015 05:35 (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heh this is what I get for posting while drinking. didn't pay attention to the date.

though I do love Frank

coldplay and arcade fire seem like the only ones among these that were even interested in 'standing the test of time'

voted lifted over arular

i mentioned clocks last night and someone (~25) asked what it was and i was like cmon you know clocks, it's the one that goes DA da da DA da da DA da DA da da DA da da for five minutes. she looked blank and apologetic. and that's clocks! if you try to tell me a single human alive w the possible exception of "apple" knows how "green eyes" goes in 2015 i'm gonna buy this place and burn it down.

my problem with more adventurous is it's really uneven and not remotely as good as the execution of all things

i like the fake country song a lot but i think it's "the absence of god" i can't deal with.

this is the band Jenny Lewis was in, right

The "test of time" is a stupid, pointless test IMO.

Time will tell if we pass the test of time.

The music goes thru yr typical wear and tear over time. Just gotta take it in for a tuneup

extremely confused by all the coldplay love in here

Likewise.

if you try to tell me a single human alive w the possible exception of "apple" knows how "green eyes" goes in 2015 i'm gonna buy this place and burn it down.

i remember! i loved that record when it came out

it coincided with the first huge world destroying break up i ever had

imo the great enduring coldplay record is viva la vida tho

only the Pet Shop Boys version of that song is worth the listen.

i prefer Viva La Vida as an album too but Rush O' Blood is definitely their big canonical blockbuster

extremely confused by all the coldplay love in here

― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Saturday, March 7, 2015 1:56 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

to clarify my mild affection for Coldplay itt is being expressed out of extreme indifference to all the other options

it really is kinda weird to be saying "lol these albums don't stand the test of time!!" when I did think we'd generally agreed that "the test of time" is some rockist horseshit

the test of time is some rockist horseshit

regardless i listened to lifted on repeat when i was 16 and doubt i could make it through a single listen now

I'VE BEEN SENT TO MY ROOM I'VE BEEN SAT IN A CHAIR

so i guess it didn't survive a shift in my tastes, which makes me feel disenchanted toward it bc most things do

got

goat

I was on board with him up until about his first solo record, and I still think that I'm Wide Awake It's Morning is a masterpiece. Since then, though, he's become far too comfortable to play to the NPR/Paste crowd. I was unable to get all the way through his most recent solo disc; he sounds positively middle-aged on it.

dude's hype usually revolved around his youth so once that was gone you just had a elvis costello-type making real music for real millenials

read music/speak spanish remains his "politically outraged pinkerton fan" testament, beyond that i only need a few tracks

it's funny that both he and john mayer wound up walking around california in a big floppy hat