Lakenheath Old Boys

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Thursday, November 26, 2009

A list of the defining records of the decade from NPR


Bob hipped me to this list and it's full of potential for discussion and debate.

Have a look and see what you think.

click! for the list

posted by gooner71 @ 12:24 PM 

3 Comments:

Blogger The Blue Devil said...

Thanks for the posting, Gooner. My first reaction is that I only own 10 of the fifty. Either the album is dead as a format or I have some serious work to do to catch up in the next month!

More later....

9:13 PM  
Blogger The Blue Devil said...

I do appreciate that NPR is one of the only organization that is willing to acknowledge that it's been a disastrous decade for hip hop. A decade that started with Outkast's "Stankonia," a disc that makes the Top 50, has degenerated into the Autotuned piffle largely coming out of Atlanta. Time for the Boogie-Down Bronx to take back the mantel of hip hop, methinks.

3:32 PM  
Blogger gooner71 said...

Hip-hop will continue to struggle because the MC's coming up only have rap playing in their homes when they were kids.

Q-Tip, Chuck-D, KRS-1, Andre 3000, all those guys were listening to their parents O-Jays records when they were catching the music bug.

Biggie's and Tupac's flow is what struck a chord with today's generation. Autotune is just an annoying fad. I watched an episode of GLEE and all of those tossers were using it.

Nurse, note the time. Autotune is dead.

12:08 PM  

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