futuresex/optometrysounds

I love how you guys actually have the nerve to leave off Juicy. You should do a Neutral Milk Hotel albums list next and have it read this way:

1. On Avery Island
2. In an Aeroplane Over the Sea

Ya know, just to piss everyone off

No Juicy, Unbelievable, Gimme The Loot. I’m sorry Stereogum, but this is one of the worst lists I’ve seen on here.

Meh, Biggie’s just another one of these trendy Brooklyn hipsters, like that twee asshole Walt Whitman.

This lady is just becoming a parody of herself. Notice how each the “beef” here is accompanied by a new single. I say we politely decline.

Well, this is embarrassing.

“A lot of Biggie’s classics, however, like “Juicy” and “Hypnotize,” did not. Both are crucial to his career, but that doesn’t make them the best.”

What a load of silly contrarianism.

“Time = Space = Time,” by PapaDonDonTotty

Time passes by
like birds in tha air
no time in space
endless, like the ‘rhea.

Comments r like moments
We post and they fade
Will I be forgotten?
Or go on, like the ‘rhea.

When my time has come
remember my love
filling your hearts
like a toilet, with ‘rhea.

Fin.

<3

i think someone needs to give david holmes an award for even attempting to make this list

JUICY

“This is, I think, largely because they make music that makes people feel good about themselves and about life in general. ”

I think this is it. I’ve been trying to think of an artist that consistently releases sad/depressing material that is also at the top of the charts. I can’t. Sure, artists might release the token sad song off their album, and it’ll get big, but they need some upbeat stuff too.

I recently, after some introspection, realized I had been listening to a lot of music (and watching movies) for the sole purpose of making me sadder (than I already was). Then I thought about how a lot of people (probably the majority) listen to music because it makes them happy or gives them ‘feel good’ vibes. They might listen to a sad song when they’re feeling down, but they don’t every single day.

I think the difference between people who like stuff in the Top 40 and the people who don’t is that the people who don’t have a greater appreciation for this sad, ‘artfully inclined’ (like this phrase by the way) music. We don’t just listen to music for fun or to be happy. We also like for it to delve into aspects of the human condition, like despair or loneliness. Other people just don’t. Which for me makes it hard to share music with others.

I’ve never listened to Macklemore. His name weirds me out.

My favorite of these Deconstructings so far. Good job.