Wednesday, December 09, 2009

two recent critpolls confirming what i detected in the pitchfork top 10 o' decade:

Rolling Stone

1 | Radiohead: Kid A (2000)
2 | The Strokes: Is This It (2001)
3 | Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
4 | Jay-Z: The Blueprint (2001)
5 | The White Stripes: Elephant (2003)
6 | Arcade Fire: Funeral (2004)
7 | Eminem: The Marshal Mathers LP (2000)
8 | Bob Dylan: Modern Times (2006)
9 | M.I.A.: Kala (2007)
10 | Kanye West: The College Dropout (2004)

The Onion's A.V. Club
1. The White Stripes, White Blood Cells (2001)
2. Kanye West, The College Dropout (2004)
3. Radiohead, Kid A (2000)
4. OutKast, Stankonia (2000)
5. Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
6. The Hold Steady, Separation Sunday (2005)
7. Modest Mouse, The Moon & Antarctica (2000)
8. Arcade Fire, Funeral (2004)
9. Jay-Z, The Blueprint (2001)
10. The National, Alligator (2005)

a preponderance of consensus/canonical in the first three to four years of the noughties ... and hardly anything from after 2005

i don't buy the "takes time for the dust to settle" argument, okay it might serve to slight 2009,maybe 2008 stuff in the tally.... but you could equally make the argument that more recently released stuff is fresher in the memory (after all, that seems to happen with end-of-year polls, stuff from early in the year fades a bit and suffers for it)