Best Albums of the Decade
Dec/12/2009 *
music reviews
NPR's music
team has posted a provocative list of their
"50 Most Important Albums of the
2000s", with different
critics of diferent genres weighing in, hence the
rock albums alongside classical alongside jazz
(reviews and samples from the albums are
found here). Note that these
picks aren't the BEST of the 2000s, but instead
representative of some important trend or defining
moment in music over the past decade. I am very
happy to see several non-obvious choices on their
list by artists that have inspired, challenged and
sustained me over the past decade: Burial, Bon
Iver, The Bad Plus, Iron & Wine, Yo-Yo Ma.
Radiohead is the only band with two albums on the
list -- can you guess which two?
Carey Brownstein's Monitor Mix blog at NPR has a lot of thoughtful essays, quizzes, timelines and whatnot about the past 10 years of music too.
I'm also enjoying studying the lists of "The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s" over at Pitchfork -- I always get a bunch of new musical leads to track down reading their various staff lists of this and that. They also rate the worst album covers and best musical videos of 2009.
Carey Brownstein's Monitor Mix blog at NPR has a lot of thoughtful essays, quizzes, timelines and whatnot about the past 10 years of music too.
I'm also enjoying studying the lists of "The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s" over at Pitchfork -- I always get a bunch of new musical leads to track down reading their various staff lists of this and that. They also rate the worst album covers and best musical videos of 2009.
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