Magnet's top 60 albums 1993-2003

[johansen smith]

this has to be the most bizarre top list yet:
http://magnetmagazine.com/archives/top1.html

points are awarded for including Joe Pernice. points are subtracted for no artist being represented more than once, which doesn't make any sense.

[Paul]

Originally posted by johansen smith
points are subtracted for no artist being represented more than once, which doesn't make any sense. FINALLY! Even though it barely mirrors my own list, I'm glad to see they made this rule. I'm so goddamn tired of seeing 4 Beatles albums and 2 Beach Boys albums in the top 10 of everything.

[flo's garage]

1 Neutral Milk Hotel
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

i've never really heard anything by these guys - is this album really that good?

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by flo's garage
1 Neutral Milk Hotel
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

i've never really heard anything by these guys - is this album really that good?
it's very good, but number one of the last ten years? questionable.

[Futureman]

A fun list. I'll be buying a few from it this weekend.

[Patrick]

Interesting list.

But the Dandy Warhols?

Patrick

[earl grey]

definitely an interesting list. i like their choice of 'mutations', always my favorite beck album. and seeing 'deserter's songs' over 'the soft bulletin' is nice too. i always go back and forth between the two but usually it's 'TSB' that gets all the love with these lists.

[Salman]

I own 31 of the albums on that list.
Nice to see the Grifters and Polvo on the list.
It's sort of odd that Last Splash is so high. That album is pretty mediocre.

[tinobeat]

I own 28 of the 60...

I dunno about the list. I mean Meadowlands had barely come out when the list was published (its an old old list, from last January's issue), and some of the choices just seemed had this "um, I guess we need somethign from this year, right?"

In any case, yes, that Neutral Milk Hotel album, while maybe not the best album of the last 10 years, is pretty freakin phenomenal. I remember freaking out when I put it on my turntable and having no idea what to do with this band... like music I'd heard all my life but I'd never heard anything like it.

[miss understood]

No love for Jawbreaker?

Agreed about the Wrens. Incredible live show but the record has never done it for me, outside of a few songs..

Having Summerteeth over Yankee Hotel Foxtrot or Being There (especially) seemed a little off to me.

I'd have picked OK Computer as the best record of the past ten years but Aeroplane is certainly right up there...

[vesper]

you guys have to be kidding me! in the aeroplane over the sea is great, yes, but it's not even the best elephant-6 album!!

[earl grey]

Originally posted by vesper
you guys have to be kidding me! in the aeroplane over the sea is great, yes, but it's not even the best elephant-6 album!!

i prefer NMH, but are you thinking of dusk at cubist castle? or black foliage?

[otto midnight]

i agree 100% with nmh being on top of that list. still sounds as good today as it did then. lyrically, musically that fucker is solid.

[vesper]

Originally posted by earl grey
i prefer NMH, but are you thinking of dusk at cubist castle? or black foliage?

black foliage. it's like everything i love about music encapsulated in 75 minutes. there's not a single place between the opening theremins and the closing oohs and aahs that falters-- shit, even that 12 minute sound collage is great!

[tinobeat]

see, I guess I prefer Aeroplane... to Black Foliage because of the "75 minute" factor. The noise collage is a bit gratuitous, to me at least, and I sort of wish it were a bit less sprawling. That said, its not far behind the NMH record.

Also, IMO, The Circulatory System has already eclipsed OTC for me... can't wait to hear the 2nd album...

[earl grey]

yeah my attention usually wanders a bit with 'black foliage' while 'in the aeroplane' grabs me with the first chords and doesn't let go ... and the sequencing on it is perfect really. i like 'black foliage' but i probably prefer 'dusk at cubist castle'.

[vesper]

i really wanted to think that the circulatory system album was the greatest thing in the world, but i got bored with it pretty quickly. a couple songs are hart in peak form (hello "inside blasts!") but i think the lack of cut up tapes and field recordings makes it less interesting = less varied = less to explore. half the fun of an otc record is thinking, "i'm done with this twiddling," just before one of their many crystalline songs kicks in.

that said, i'll probably buy the next circulatory system record the day it comes out.

[Squall91]

hey I could have posted this list months ago

[johansen smith]

Originally posted by Squall91
hey I could have posted this list months ago
you snooze you lose.

[Squall91]

Originally posted by johansen smith
you snooze you lose. I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS IN DEMAND FUCK YOU :mad::o

[Miss Tasty Princess]

Well, it's nothing if not extremely "indie rock"-centric. I own a massive nine of those albums and two I used to own but sold.

[b55]

I don't know... where is superchunk, or archers of loaf, or crooked fingers, or modest mouse? I'd say lones crowded west and this is a long drive is easily better than 70% of that list!

[LARM]

Originally posted by b55
I'd say lones crowded west and this is a long drive is easily better than 70% of that list!

And you wouldn't be wrong.

[tinobeat]

Originally posted by b55
I don't know... where is superchunk, or archers of loaf, or crooked fingers, or modest mouse? I'd say lones crowded west and this is a long drive is easily better than 70% of that list!

The key to your post being Archers of Loaf... where's Vee Vee? Its easily 70% better than Long Drive, which by your estimation, make it some 490% better than anything on the list...

well, its not that much better, but either that or Icky Mettle certainly deserve a spot over Meadowlands.

[richie-dadofegg]

Alien Lanes should be NUMBER 1

overlooked:

b e n h u r

we shall unite in refusing to let Bitch M die...LONG LIVE SOO YOUNG PARK