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Times albums of the 00s

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  • 23-11-2009 11:22am
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    whatawaster
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    http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6922991.ece


    It’s actually their best “pop” albums of the decade. Something they clearly forgot when compiling this awful, awful list.

    1. Kid A – Radiohead (not a pop album)
    2. Back to Black – Amy Winehouse
    3. In Rainbows – Radiohead (not a pop album)
    4. Speakerboxxx/Love Below – Outkast
    5. Blackout – Britney Spears
    6. Is this it – The Strokes

    Stopped reading after this


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    _sparkie_
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    out of ten years of music and amy was the second best thing they could find?


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    Notorious
    Registered Users Posts: 2,167 ✭✭✭Notorious


    I stopped looking through the list when I saw that Girls Allowed got a mention.


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    lordgoat
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    Pop despite your protestations is as valid a genre as any other one.


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    whatawaster
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    lordgoat wrote: »
    Pop despite your protestations is as valid a genre as any other one.

    Of course it is. But the list is filled with albums that aren’t pop. And I feel like the word “pop” was just added to the title of the list to justify some very strange inclusions.


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    Bubs101
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    lordgoat wrote: »
    Pop despite your protestations is as valid a genre as any other one.

    I love a bit of pop but putting Blackout by Britney ahead of the majority of pop releases this decade screams of sensationalist journalism


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    S.M.B.
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    whatawaster wrote: »
    Of course it is. But the list is filled with albums that aren’t pop. And I feel like the word “pop” was just added to the title of the list to justify some very strange inclusions.
    The Times have always grouped their listings like this.

    Also, I'm no Amy Winehouse fan but I'd imagine the album has been as influential as Is This It.

    Blackout would also feature fairly highly on my top albums of the decade.


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    niallon
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    Need some help here, it appears there's not a single entry from The Killers on that list even though it features Franz Ferdinand, The Strokes, Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys and just about every other band that came on the scene early this decade...yet they've ommitted the good one!


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    whatawaster
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    niallon wrote: »
    Need some help here, it appears there's not a single entry from The Killers on that list even though it features Franz Ferdinand, The Strokes, Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys and just about every other band that came on the scene early this decade...yet they've ommitted the good one!

    Well, I can’t believe I’m going to jump in to defend this list – Hot Fuss is 4 brilliant songs. Not good enough. Their subsequent albums are mediocre.


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    BaZmO*
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    whatawaster wrote: »
    But the list is filled with albums that aren’t pop.
    You do know that the word "pop" comes from "popular"?


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    humberklog
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    Yeah I'm confused by the OP's problem with referring to the two albums pointed out as not being pop. Surely they'd fall into the broad pop category?
    If not pop OP then what would you label them?


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    niallon
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    whatawaster wrote: »
    Well, I can’t believe I’m going to jump in to defend this list – Hot Fuss is 4 brilliant songs. Not good enough. Their subsequent albums are mediocre.

    Well obviously I'm speaking as a fan of The Killers but my point is more so to do with the fact that the list contains all the standard big seller bands of the last decade but is so abismally bad it omits The Killers


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    rcaz
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    Hahaha, am I the only one who thinks it's a decent list? It's impossible for anyone to write a list like that and please everyone.

    Kid A definitely deserves its place there. I would have put Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots at number 2 and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot a lot higher than it is. Nice to see Gruff Rhys there too :)

    And (imo), The Killers don't deserve a mention.
    niallon wrote: »
    they've ommitted the good one!

    ...........I disagree :pac:


    And in this context, 'pop' means 'not classical or jazz'. They did a jazz list too.


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    Kold
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    Lists are f*cking retarded. I wish they'd stop making them.


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    BaZmO*
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    Kold wrote: »
    Lists are f*cking retarded. I wish they'd stop making them.

    What's your top 10 most hated lists?


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    Jay P
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    whatawaster wrote: »
    http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6922991.ece


    It’s actually their best “pop” albums of the decade. Something they clearly forgot when compiling this awful, awful list.

    1. Kid A – Radiohead (not a pop album)
    2. Back to Black – Amy Winehouse
    3. In Rainbows – Radiohead (not a pop album)
    4. Speakerboxxx/Love Below – Outkast
    5. Blackout – Britney Spears
    6. Is this it – The Strokes

    Stopped reading after this

    Well if you stopped there, you read the 94 before that as well... ;)

    That list is full of crap. There are some truly awful, awful albums on that list.

    Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe pop is short for popular....


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    Kold
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    BaZmO* wrote: »
    What's your top 10 most hated lists?
    Number 1: Lists.


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    JerryHandbag
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    Sorry but, Britney...in the same list as Radiohead/The Strokes?

    /Guffaws loudly


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    rcaz
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    Jay P wrote: »
    Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe pop is short for popular....

    Well it is, but in the same way that 'classical' is taken to mean baroque, classical, romantic, modern and contemporary, etc., 'pop' is taken to mean anything that isn't classical, jazz, or world I guess. If you're talking about music from a very overall, general sense. Which is what they're doing here.


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    Makaveli
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    Speakerboxxx/Love Below but no Stankonia...


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