Hello! I know you're busy wrapping things up and all, so I'll keep this brief. I feel like I need to ask you a question before you're totally history and stuff, so here goes. Why do I feel so underwhelmed by you? Pretty much everybody in the whole wide world has put together exhaustive "best of the decade" lists and each and every one I've seen leaves me underwhelmed and anxious. And yet, when I look back at the 1990's, there's stuff like this:
Maybe it's just me, you know? But there's nothing from the 2000's that makes me feel like that. So, with all due respect, please don't feel bad that I have no plans to roll out some decade music retrospective. There's enough of those, and they all kind of feel like the time Whoopi Goldberg hosted the Academy Awards. But she's on The View now discussing the difference between "rape" and "rape-rape" and stuff, so things can still turn around for you Music of the 2000's. Maybe you just need more time. Maybe I just need more time. It's been real.
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Weird. I'll take the music of the 2000s over the music of the 90's, no contest. But that's just me and I've been told many times I don't know anything about anything.
It's something I didn't even realize until I started to look through all those retrospectives that every music site and publication is releasing. With a few exceptions, there just are not that many records on those lists that really stick for me. A lot of them make me think, "Oh yeah - I really liked that record at the time, but I'm tired of it." For somebody who's fairly list obsessed, this was a disappointing revelation.
It's not like NMH is the only record from the 90's that makes me feel that way - I just happened to see that video while I was thinking about the music of the 00's and it made me think.
I'm not a Radiohead fan. I don't hate them, but aside from OK Computer, I can't listen to any of their albums all the way through. So while their transformation may be some 00's musical miracle for some, for me it's just them moving away from the only album I ever liked of theirs.
Not to say I don't appreciate your thoughts here - I do. In fact, your closing point makes a lot of sense to me. And I think part of the problem for me is that for how invested I am in music, I WANT to feel what other people are feeling about this past decade and kind of feel left out that I can't/don't.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to go back to listening to Silkworm and the Jesus Lizard... ;)
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