Blogcritics: Comments on Magnet Magazine's Top 10 Most Influential Albums from 1993-2003

Comment by David

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:05:02 EDT

Yeah, we're all holding our breath waiting for your list, mickspace. That'll be a doozy!

Comment by mickspace

Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:14:26 EDT

This list could have been better, who cares about the breeders any more? Where are they now? Magnet missed some great artist on this list, whom produced better albums than the list shows. I will do my own list...... who needs their opinion any way.

Comment by Sabo

Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:56:53 EDT

After reading some of the comments, I re-read the Magnet piece: I mistakenly wrote "most INFLUENTIAL" albums, when the piece actually dealt with "BEST" albums of the last decade. I apologize for the error (and for getting you avid music fans riled up). The Magnet issue *does* have a section on the 10 most INFLUENTIAL artists.

Comment by Jim Carruthers

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:25:42 EDT

She likes things on 4.A.D. He likes things on SST I like things I get in the mail for free.

Comment by andy

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:41:04 EDT

oh no! hahaha hahahahaha hahahahahaha!

Comment by Tim Hall

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:37:48 EDT

I can't see any list of "10 most influential albums" can ignore Rhapsody; without them, operatic Dungeons and Dragons pomp metal as we know it today would not exist ;)

Comment by Steve Rhodes

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:53:53 EDT

Neutral Milk Hotel was part of the Elephant 6 collective which includes Apples in Stereo, Beulah, and Olivia Tremor Control (which like NMH broke up after becoming critics darlings). These and other bands have been featured at the Terrastock festivals.

Comment by Tom Johnson

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 13:01:34 EDT

Eric, you really need to get yourself a copy of In An Aeroplane Over The Sea. I just found this in the past year, but It's such a wonderful change of pace from everything else out there. Brick's comments sum it all up perfectly. Neutral Milk Hotel, Radiohead, Yo La Tengo, Tortoise, Guided By Voices - I agree with all these choices, and I'll even throw in Nirvana even though I personally really can't stand them. I *get* these bands influences on the music world, but I'm sorry to say I just don't with the rest. I mean, The Breeders? Really? Or The Verve? I never even cared about them. The list is skewed to indie-pop, for the most part, and that's okay because indie's always been so culturally inverted and introspective. I see this list as representative of what influenced today's indie-rock/pop, but, as Steve points out, it ignores every other type of music. Indie's importance in the past decade cannot be ignored, but neither can the rest of the genres out there. To say these and only these albums influenced everything that's out there is ridiculous. Damn these stupid lists. They get me so worked up.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:47:57 EDT

Well ... I've heard of other stuff, and I have a big truck.

Comment by The Theory

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:13:45 EDT

eric, you are the only one who has not heard of NMH. Granted, I have only heard of them and not checked out the music... but still.

Comment by Rodney Welch

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:08:23 EDT

Eric, I've heard of Neutral Milk hotel, but only because a guy on another forum sings their praises constantly. Anyway, my question is, am I the only one who gives a shit about Lotion? I mean, besides Thomas Pynchon, whom I admit turned me on to the band in the first place?

Comment by Sabo

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:52:13 EDT

BRICKLAYER couldn't have said it any better, Eric. You really should check it out. Go here to download a song of the Merge website. As for BRICKLAYER's mention of the Archers of Loaf -- I agree that Icky Mettle is one of the best 10 albums of the 1990s, but it falls outside the ten-year parameter of Magnet's list. All the Nation's Airports is another brilliant album, as is Vee Vee with their best album song, "Harnessed in Slums". I probably wouldn't put either of those in the Top 10 of the last 10 years though. As for Christian's comment, In Utero really is the only studio album that was released in the last 10 years -- compilations don't count.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:14:05 EDT

I refuse to believe I am the only one who has not 1) heard the record, 2) even heard OF Neutral Milk Hotel

Comment by BRICKLAYER

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 10:10:51 EDT

"The Aeroplane over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel is a downright incredible, life affirming, spititual, heart warming, smile inducing, perfect record. They nailed it with this choice. However, something from the Archers of Loaf should have made the top ten, dangit!

Comment by Christian Hauschild

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:46:40 EDT

I must say, The Verve never did it for me either. Neither did In Utero..Something by Nirvana - yes - but anything other than In Utero would do. Otherwise a good list.

Comment by Mark Saleski

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:27:04 EDT

love that Tortoise record...it's sometimes fun to listen to stuff that makes you think your cd player is on the fritz

Comment by Eric Olsen

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:01:54 EDT

Interesting list, very heavy on the Matador, which is a great label but... I have never even heard of Neutral Milk Hotel, don't much like "In Utero," dislike the Verve, like other Yo la Tengo better, love "Canonball" but the rest of Last Splash is fairly weak, agree with you about "Slanted and Enchanted." Will have to think about this more.