Electric Version, easy.
And 2005 albums specifically that sound just as fresh as they did ten years ago (how was this ten years ago?):
Jackson & His Computer Band - S/TKanye West - Late RegistrationMary Timony - Ex HexPaavoharju - Yhä hämärääOut Hud - Let Us Never Speak Of It AgainHowling Hex - All-Night FoxGiant Drag - Hearts and UnicornsNew Pornographers - Twin CinemaDeerhoof - The Runners Four
― Ad Strawmanem (Old Lunch), Monday, 2 March 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
Funeral holds up better than Reflektor and Reflektor was only released a year and a half ago.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 March 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link
Michael B, i think a lot of the time, you have to go away to come back. Arular is harder to enjoy in 2015 because it is competing with a whole decade of music the way for which likely had some hand in paving. But in twenty years time I can see more people looking back and appreciating it on the level you're talking about, as well as for nostalgic reasons.
I spent a lot of time in charity shops this weekend, and there's a reason nearly all the CDs and a whole heap of the clothes seemed to date from roughly ten years ago. Anything half-decent from 20 years has become hot property and snapped up by vintage hunters and collectors.
― Unheimlich Manouevre (dog latin), Monday, 2 March 2015 14:57 (nine years ago) link
IMO
1-5 years after release: newish5-10: the uncanny valley of pop where you're neither new or old (think hair metal in mid 90s)10-15: nostalgia can begin (think when spin put axl on the cover in the late 90s)15-20: somebody if not everybody misses u (rocklahoma)
So we're at the cusp where some of this still seems wack but soon it will all be sweet to reflect on
― da croupier, Monday, 2 March 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link
^ this
― Unheimlich Manouevre (dog latin), Monday, 2 March 2015 15:02 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Unheimlich Manouevre (dog latin), Monday, 2 March 2015 15:05 (nine years ago) link
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?
― cock chirea, Monday, 2 March 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Monday, 2 March 2015 15:11 (nine years ago) link
Arular but I love More Adventurous as well
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 2 March 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link
i think funeral will be the most listened to one of these in 20 more years if that's what we're voting on
― ciderpress, Monday, 2 March 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
it's probably my favorite here too, let's be real
― ciderpress, Monday, 2 March 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 7 March 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
dizzee
― mattresslessness, Saturday, 7 March 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
where is turn on the bright lights
― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Saturday, 7 March 2015 02:47 (nine years ago) link
i vote no confidence
― five six and (man alive), Saturday, 7 March 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link
coldplay is the one people are still going to be playing in the future tho, sry
― five six and (man alive), Saturday, 7 March 2015 02:55 (nine years ago) link
The Arcade Fires
― nose, Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:04 (nine years ago) link
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
― dyl, Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:17 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:24 (nine years ago) link
* 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.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:28 (nine years ago) link
Coldplay
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:35 (nine years ago) link
Have the people who are knocking this list heard that Rilo Kiley record? If so, fine, but if you haven't, it's fantastic.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:36 (nine years ago) link
Rilo Kiley don't inspire much piss & vinegar out of me anymore, but in the early 00s I was a notorious hater.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:41 (nine years ago) link
Basically, Barsuk records was a one-stop shop for all things terrible.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:42 (nine years ago) link
Electric Version. First song
― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Saturday, 7 March 2015 04:13 (nine years ago) link
diz and MIA
― brosario nawson (m bison), Saturday, 7 March 2015 04:22 (nine years ago) link
No winehouse no credibility
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 7 March 2015 04:50 (nine years ago) link
Funeral should win in a landslide despite the ILM backlash.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 7 March 2015 05:32 (nine years ago) link
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 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 7 March 2015 05:42 (nine years ago) link
after saying that, it probably has aged horribly.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 7 March 2015 05:44 (nine years ago) link
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.
― alpine static, Saturday, 7 March 2015 06:50 (nine years ago) link
Wither Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 7 March 2015 09:48 (nine years ago) link
The Streets is the only inclusion that's embarrassing; the rest of these have held up pretty well
― Evan R, Saturday, 7 March 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
― 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
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 7 March 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
coldplay and arcade fire seem like the only ones among these that were even interested in 'standing the test of time'
― een, Saturday, 7 March 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
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.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 7 March 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
my problem with more adventurous is it's really uneven and not remotely as good as the execution of all things
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 March 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
i like the fake country song a lot but i think it's "the absence of god" i can't deal with.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 7 March 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
this is the band Jenny Lewis was in, right
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 March 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
The "test of time" is a stupid, pointless test IMO.
― daavid, Saturday, 7 March 2015 18:40 (nine years ago) link
Time will tell if we pass the test of time.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 March 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
The music goes thru yr typical wear and tear over time. Just gotta take it in for a tuneup
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 7 March 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
extremely confused by all the coldplay love in here
― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Saturday, 7 March 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link
Likewise.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
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
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
it coincided with the first huge world destroying break up i ever had
imo the great enduring coldplay record is viva la vida tho
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:20 (nine years ago) link
only the Pet Shop Boys version of that song is worth the listen.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link
i prefer Viva La Vida as an album too but Rush O' Blood is definitely their big canonical blockbuster
― some dude, Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:24 (nine years ago) link
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
― mh, Sunday, 8 March 2015 04:10 (nine years ago) link
Spin won't stand the test time.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 8 March 2015 06:41 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 8 March 2015 06:46 (nine years ago) link
He got boring.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Sunday, 8 March 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
got
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 March 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
goat
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 8 March 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
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.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Sunday, 8 March 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Sunday, 8 March 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Sunday, 8 March 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link