my 2010 list
The orders here are really rough, and I may have forgotten some things, and I may even take some things out, but here goes:
This was my first Roots album, and hearing it made me wonder "Why is this my first Roots album?"
I really didn't like this at first, but given some time and space it turns out I really did.
I haven't listened to this enough times to be really sure of it, but I love what these kids are doing, and this is the strongest of the ones I've heard, so I'm putting it in. I also think the reviewers I've read who seem shocked by some of the violence on here don't really remember what it's like to be 17.
If you asked me when this first came out, I'd have said not really, but now I gave it some space and it's growing on me.
Also rans:
These are not quite there for me yet, but with time and more listens, they may make it:
This was my first Roots album, and hearing it made me wonder "Why is this my first Roots album?"
I really didn't like this at first, but given some time and space it turns out I really did.
I haven't listened to this enough times to be really sure of it, but I love what these kids are doing, and this is the strongest of the ones I've heard, so I'm putting it in. I also think the reviewers I've read who seem shocked by some of the violence on here don't really remember what it's like to be 17.
If you asked me when this first came out, I'd have said not really, but now I gave it some space and it's growing on me.
Also rans:
These are not quite there for me yet, but with time and more listens, they may make it:
Comments
Told you the blogs got Sleigh Bells right.
As for Tyler, the Creator, I think it goes beyond forgetting what it was like to be 17. It's simply history repeating itself as folks are attacking the same things they were attacking when N.W.A. et al. first came on the scene. That said, I don't think this crop is any where near as talented as the earlier one, but they still have time to grow.
Craig
What's up with the Mary Havlorson Quarter? Never heard of that one.
And that's a good point about Tyler, although really that whole game keeps going back and back, I guess to about when the first churchlady heard somebody playing blues.
Of course the reason the blues became generally acceptable is because generally acceptable white boys started playing it.
Craig
@Craig, acceptable white boy M&M's got one of the number one selling albums this year, 50Cent moved from actual gangster to household name and Ice Cube does kid's movies - I think it's pretty well assimilated.
Craig
Craig