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Lance-A-Million said:
Its called rhetoric. Try not to get too hung up on it.
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At best we can call it a logical fallacy. The word "rhetoric" to refer to a position within a conversation/argument/debate is generally used as a pejorative. What are a few of your favorite albums of the 00's? (I'm not going to diss them, I just want to talk about music.)
 
You know, for most of the 00s I was into the whole indie thing. I would have to say my favorite album of that time's gotta be Turn On The Bright Lights by Interpol. Truly a great listening experience. I can't say what the best is. So many genres and unfortunately I didn't really listen to too many or as eclectic of a mix as I do now. It used to be like choose my favorite bands and then label their CDs "the greatest!". Unfortunately that's the way I also feel it is for many critics. I actually liked Arcade Fire - Intervention and Ocean of Noise are probably my favorites by them.

I usually just digest individual songs these days anyway. I'm always excited to hear a new song that I enjoy, whether it be an old-school Metal song (Megadeth, pre black album Metallica), some new cutting edge "glam"-indie band, an OG indie song by like a Dinosaur Jr, Pavement or Superchunk, a Golden-Age hip hop song (Souls of Mischief for example), classic rock ranging from the Stones all the way to Rush, new-school Hip-hop like Kanye West, electronic like Dubstep or Calvin Harris for example, new-school rock'n'roll like the White Stripes (RIP), Dead Weather, Queens of the Stone Age, Wolfmother, etc. golden oldies Alternative like Oasis or Smashing Pumpkins, random songs by Neil Young, Steely Dan, Todd Lundgren, Jeff Buckley, even random artists like Das Racist (I know, who??). I know there's literally hundreds of songs that I will love that I haven't heard and may never hear. There's just soo much music out there.

I honestly feel like a new "favorite" song can just provide such a lift. Its almost like a fuel. My friends are usually the best at showing me new music, sometimes ill go digging for some of my own tunes, sometimes we'll just stumble upon them.

Damn I love music.
 
Best album of the century so far:

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Lance-A-Million said:
You know, for most of the 00s I was into the whole indie thing. I would have to say my favorite album of that time's gotta be Turn On The Bright Lights by Interpol. Truly a great listening experience. I can't say what the best is. So many genres and unfortunately I didn't really listen to too many or as eclectic of a mix as I do now. It used to be like choose my favorite bands and then label their CDs "the greatest!". Unfortunately that's the way I also feel it is for many critics. I actually liked Arcade Fire - Intervention and Ocean of Noise are probably my favorites by them.

I usually just digest individual songs these days anyway. I'm always excited to hear a new song that I enjoy, whether it be an old-school Metal song (Megadeth, pre black album Metallica), some new cutting edge "glam"-indie band, an OG indie song by like a Dinosaur Jr, Pavement or Superchunk, a Golden-Age hip hop song (Souls of Mischief for example), classic rock ranging from the Stones all the way to Rush, new-school Hip-hop like Kanye West, electronic like Dubstep or Calvin Harris for example, new-school rock'n'roll like the White Stripes (RIP), Dead Weather, Queens of the Stone Age, Wolfmother, etc. golden oldies Alternative like Oasis or Smashing Pumpkins, random songs by Neil Young, Steely Dan, Todd Lundgren, Jeff Buckley, even random artists like Das Racist (I know, who??). I know there's literally hundreds of songs that I will love that I haven't heard and may never hear. There's just soo much music out there.

I honestly feel like a new "favorite" song can just provide such a lift. Its almost like a fuel. My friends are usually the best at showing me new music, sometimes ill go digging for some of my own tunes, sometimes we'll just stumble upon them.

Damn I love music.
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I can't believe Smashing Pumpkins is already golden oldies. Where the **** is the time going? It seems like only yesterday I was a boy seeing the video for "Today" for the first time. There are things I miss about the nineties. I loved Billy Corgan right from the start because he looked like a clean-cut, nice young man. I thought: oh, he looks different. (It was a time of long hair and dirty Levi's.) Then the song proceded to kick ***. Oh, Smashing Pumpkins. I miss you and the teen memories I associate with you.

Turn on the Bright Lights was awesome.

The White Stripes (like The Black Keys) were a blues band, damn it.
 
Revolution 9 said:
Name 3 albums better than Funeral? I'm just curious. The crap statement was a joke for now.
While it's only opinion in the end, I believe most people who blog, and write about music had it listed in the top
5 albums of the decade. I tend to agree.
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Well, yeah, there's been only 1 year in this decade so far. It's a bit early to be throwing that out. And it got an 87 from critics on metacritic, so critically speaking, it'll probably only break the top 20 of the decade.

Getting a grammy is all about the flow of popularity. They probably should have got one for Funeral, but they hadn't established themselves enough.

Now, The Suburbs is "boring" depending on what you're looking for. It's a much more mature album than their previous two. The album is an entire concept, songs referencing each other lyrically, etc. The more you listen to it, the more you realize it's their smartest album yet.

Lastly, anybody who listens to Sprawl Pt. 1 and says, "This is boring," is dead inside.

- Craig
 
Lance-A-Million said:
Best albums of the past ten years... somehow thats something entirely up to personal taste. And the fact is that people pumping up Funeral so much probably listened to less than 20 new albums the past 10 years. There's just so much music out there. Arcade Fire just managed to become critical darlings from the start of their career (not to say that they weren't good) and has just ridden that gravy train all the way home.
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It's always personal taste, agreed.
I'm curious what albums in the past decade you think were better?
 
Craig K. Manscill said:
Well, yeah, there's been only 1 year in this decade so far. It's a bit early to be throwing that out. And it got an 87 from critics on metacritic, so critically speaking, it'll probably only break the top 20 of the decade.

Getting a grammy is all about the flow of popularity. They probably should have got one for Funeral, but they hadn't established themselves enough.

Now, The Suburbs is "boring" depending on what you're looking for. It's a much more mature album than their previous two. The album is an entire concept, songs referencing each other lyrically, etc. The more you listen to it, the more you realize it's their smartest album yet.

Lastly, anybody who listens to Sprawl Pt. 1 and says, "This is boring," is dead inside.

- Craig
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Pitchfork Media gave the album a 9.7 out of 10 rating, and ultimately ranked the album #2 on their Top 200 Albums of the 2000s list, after Radiohead's Kid A.[1]
 
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