Music Chit-Chat Thread Track 01: The Rumours of My Virtue They Moved Her Not At All

I dunno, I'd never really heard it before mine.

Although I really do hope you guys detected a minor hint of sarcasm in that statement? Of course that's a silly accusation.

I still have yet to hear a song that trumps my favorite though. I mean, personal preference and whatnot, but nothing's come even close. Really, no song has the effect of this one. Guess that's just me though.

Paste magazine has released their list of the 50 Best Albums of the Decade. Take a look, it is a pretty solid one.

In other news, iTunes won't recognize my iPod for some random reason. I don't feel this is significant enough for a thread in the tech section (plus it'll only generate rants about how iTunes sucks), and it's really messing with my last.fm. It won't scrobble my iPod because iTunes doesn't notice it! GRAIECH!@E

Originally Posted by nolan

Paste magazine has released their list of the 50 Best Albums of the Decade. Take a look, it is a pretty solid one.

Elephant at number 6? It's by far the Stripe's most interesting album, but it's certainly not "Top 50 of the Decade" material, if you ask me.

Originally Posted by Shmeh

Elephant at number 6? It's by far the Stripe's most interesting album, but it's certainly not "Top 50 of the Decade" material, if you ask me.

Well, I like White Blood Cells better than Elephant, and I'd rank that pretty high (I think, we'll have to find out later).

Reading the blurb that goes along with it, I think they maybe just wanted to recognize Jack White's musical contributions and impact on the decade, and maybe that happened to be the editor's favourite album or something.

so my computer broke yesterday, I lost 90% of my music ;_____________;

Originally Posted by Hazzle

so my computer broke yesterday, I lost 90% of my music ;_____________;

Awwww that blows man. My hard drive crashed a few years ago and I just about put a gun in my mouth because I thought I had lost all my music. Then I remembered that I had it all backed up on my mp3 player and I could copy it off of that. So I only lost a few albums I hadn't added yet.

Really sucks, though, I feel for you.

Originally Posted by Hazzle

so my computer broke yesterday, I lost 90% of my music ;_____________;

nnnnnnnooooooooooooo!

tel me what you lost, I may be able to help you recover some. I have a LOT, I mean a LOT of music....

Originally Posted by nolan

Paste magazine has released their list of the 50 Best Albums of the Decade. Take a look, it is a pretty solid one.

Pretty interesting to compare that list to this one, especially given the amount of albums that didn't even make the cut on the long list being ranked so high on the shorter. Also, White Blood Cells is on top here, my second-least favorite of all White Stripes albums, even though I owned it first.

Still, an interesting amount of overlap.

Pitchfork's version also has a lot of overlapping albums in the top 50 (they do a total of 200), with White Blood Cells in at #12.

Where's the love for Icky Thump?

Hyearrrrghh, maybe it's time for me to relisten to White Blood Cells.

Originally Posted by Asci

Where's the love for Icky Thump?

It's Forte's favorite white stripe album =/

GODNEY SPEARS is the most successful/popular artist of any medium of the decade, and yet she's been snubbed by all of the cited lists.

Whatever.

Originally Posted by nolan

Awwww that blows man. My hard drive crashed a few years ago and I just about put a gun in my mouth because I thought I had lost all my music. Then I remembered that I had it all backed up on my mp3 player and I could copy it off of that. So I only lost a few albums I hadn't added yet.

Really sucks, though, I feel for you.

Originally Posted by Margar

nnnnnnnooooooooooooo!

tel me what you lost, I may be able to help you recover some. I have a LOT, I mean a LOT of music....

Thanks, I appreciate the symphathy! Still, there is a bit of silver lining, I think rebuilding my library will give me a chance to listen to all the albums I have that I haven't touched in years (I'm looking at you The Smiths!). I think I'm gonna buy CDs pretty much exclusively from now on as well, I used to only buy them every now and then but I've gained a new appreciation for them : (.

Originally Posted by Francois Dillinger

It's Forte's favorite white stripe album =/

Mine too!

Let's see how far down we can go.

Icky Thump > Elephant > De Stijl > The White Stripes > White Blood Cells > Get Behind Me Satan

I've found myself getting more into Green Day everyday. Basket Case is seriously the ****.

Fun Fact: When I was in grade 8 four of my classmates performed "Brain Stew" at the end of what was passing as the school play that year. One of those people is now in The Diverse Attraction and has done some promo photos for some pretty well-known bands. One of them was on that spin-off of The Hills, The City as one of the main cast member's boyfriend (and apparently is still a musician). One of them is one half of Crystal Castles. The forth isn't doing anything.

Originally Posted by Pikachu

I've found myself getting more into Green Day everyday. Basket Case is seriously the ****.

So is...

Prosthetic Head
Waiting
Warning
Judge's Daughter
Dry Ice
Sixteen
I Wanna Be Alone
Geek Stink Breath
Haushinka
Poprocks and Coke
Dark Side of Night
Stop, Drop, and Roll!!!
Ruby Room
Broadway
Pieces of Truth
Red Tide
Hitchin' a Ride
Scattered
All the Time
Last Ride in
Uptight
JAR
She
Welcome to Paradise
Christie Road
She's a Rebel
Letterbomb
The Pedestrian
Horseshoes and Handgrenades
Last of the American Girls
See the Light
Murder City

God what a restricting list. So many good songs missing, but still so many good songs up there.

So the White Stripes (finally) get three songs in Rock Band, and I'm pretty happy with the ones they chose.

Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, Icky Thump, and probably my favorite song by them ever, Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine.

Originally Posted by Asci

Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, Icky Thump, and probably my favorite song by them ever, Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine.

The 'wooo!' that opens "Medicine" is so so awesome.

But "Dead Leaves" is still my favourite.