eMusic’s End-of-Decade Yearbook!
As our eMusic Best of the Decade Albums list winds to a close (you’ll have to wait till Monday for the big Top Ten), we wanted to make sure that no one missed the wonderful essays we commissioned for our eMusic Yearbook. Each writer tackles a specific year, and each essay finds a novel and fresh way “in” to the year in question. Michaelangelo Matos’s piece on 2002 is pretty much entirely about DJ mixs and mashups, while Melissa Maerz’s 2001 retrospective takes an affectionate and intelligent eye to the Peter Pan complex that settled into New York City rock in the wake of 9/11. Today’s Yearbook piece, by Matthew Fritch, chronicles the full-scale Canadian invasion that occurred in indie rock this decade (Broken Social Scene, New Pornographers/Dan Bejar/Destroyer, Metric, Stars, The Arcade Fire ad infinitum…)
There are still five more of these, and trust me, they are all essential reads. When we’ve wrapped up our Decade coverage, we’re going to compile all of it — the list, the Yearbook essays, and our individual dozens — into one massive hub, which we’ll make sure to post here too, but for now don’t miss these pieces!
Links:
eMusic Yearbook: 2000 by Hua Hsu
eMusic Yearbook: 2001 by Melissa Maerz
eMusic Yearbook: 2002 by Michaelangelo Matos
eMusic Yearbook: 2003 by Matthew Fritch
eMusic Yearbook: 2004 by Douglas Wolk
eMusic Yearbook: 2005 by Chuck Eddy
So, No. 1.
Will Be: Not sure. If I had to guess, I’d say either OutKast’s Stankonia; The Strokes’ Is This It? (NOOOOOOO); or Arcade Fire’s Funeral (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!).
Should Be: Burial, Untrue.
wares my free music it keeps telling me your having problums with it fix it and give us some lil wayne or t-pan somthing like that
Okay, so obviously not Stankonia. I’m depressingly seeing a Funeral/Is This It showdown.
Say it ain’t so.
I see we are just ignoring the ramblings of the second comment, can’t say I disagree with that
I would never have chosen The Strokes at No. 1. But overall, I like this Top 10. Some interesting — tho not wholly unexpected — choices, e.g., Separation Sunday (over Boys & Girls in America) (and at No. 2!) and The Sunset Tree (at No. 3!).
Hey… on the Canadian list you’ve got Ted Leo in two spots… #48 and #29.
j –
Oops! Thanks for the heads up — I will fix this ASAP.
The 1st year of the first decade of the 21st century was 2001 – the clue is in the number ‘1′.
The 10th and last year of the first decade of the 21st century will be 2010 – the clue is in the number ‘10′.
Your ‘decade’ retrospective is a year early.
Get it right!
Why are there trolls like tessa saying the same thing everywhere.
Tessa, the Fact is what you are saying can be true or cannot it is and always has been disputed mostly people have accepted that it’s 00-09. others say different
but most lists are coming out this year soo. . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decade read it troll
Speaking the truth is not ‘trolling’ Nergal.
Quoting wikipedia to support an untruth as you have done without much thought, a little like a herdable sheep, could be seen as that though. Here is a more developed sequence following on from Tessa’s contribution using a similarly factual format:
1.The 100th year of the 20th Century and last year of the 2nd Millennium was definitely and indisputably 2000.
2.The 1st year of the first decade of the 21st Century and of the 3rd Millennium was definitely and indisputably 2001 – obviously. The clue is in the number ‘1′.
3.The 10th and last year of the first decade of the 21st century will be 2010 – obviously. The clue is in the number ‘10′.
4.The last day of the first decade of the 21st century and 3rd millennium will definitely and indisputably be December 31st 2010.
There is a concerted effort by the BBC and other major media players (…and emusic?) to deny these facts for cynical commercial and branding and packaging purposes.
Clear thinkers will, of course, ignore them and respect and express true and honest chronological facts and conventions.
Rage Against The Machine!
Wow, and I thought I over thought things
G’Night Gracie
here’s my Top 300 Albums of the Decade http://www.ranker.com/list/best-albums-of-the-last-decade/clark-benson