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

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

such a depressingly narrow and tepid selection. over the same four-year period, we also got:

William Basinski - The Disintegration Loops
Clipse - Lord Willin'
Orchestra Baobab - Specialist in All Styles
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Erykah Badu - Worldwide Underground
Jay-Dee - Vol. 2: Vintage
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
Björk - Medúlla
Deerhoof - Milk Man
Electrelane - The Power Out
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Mastodon - Leviathan
Moodymann - Black Mahogani
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
Amadou & Mariam - Dimanche à Bamako
Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Common - Be
DJ Quik - Trauma
High on Fire - Blessed Black Wings
Beanie Sigel - The B. Coming
Sleater Kinney - The Woods
Sunn O))) - Black One
Kanye West - Late Registration

read music/speak spanish is a classic tho

xpost with myself

"green eyes" is one of my favorites from that album lol

boy in da corner has some really dated sounding stuff but much more really prescient sounding stuff, imo

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

wow @ breadth

b but does it stand the test of space??

can i suggest ban anyone who voted for death cab for cutie

also i understand the value of the streets as a punchline even if i don't agree with it but can we just ban outright ppl who want to tar the first dizzee record with the same brush

that was the last good DCFC

i liked transatlanticism a bunch in high school but the best thing i ever read about it or death cab breakup songs in general was an early-pitchfork thing that said something like "the thing about glove compartments: what you get out of them depends on what you put into them"

Musically the Mia record aged terribly imo

Garbage

rong

I mean, I don't really like the 2015 version of that sound, but Diplo is still working the same formula he lifted from working with MIA and apparently has some level of success

Spin won't stand the test time.

Sick burn.

This thread reminded me of peak love for Bright Eyes (2002-2005?) and while I never followed the sensation, I keep wondering what happened to him, he was such a media darling. Everyone loved the dude.

Not unlike Justin Vernon today.

He got boring.

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