"Does That Make Me Crazy? Possibly."

i really hate the music on NESN...you know the "new england sports network" even though its main focus 24/7 is on the red sox.

don't get me wrong, that's okay...but not the point. the music they have during the game just doesn't live up the same as YES network. same with our announcers...but again that's outside the realm of this blog.

now that that's out of the way...onto the rave. so i've been researching some of the top "whatevers" of the 00's decade. or the 2000's decade. however you wanna put it. in other words, the decade that JUST finished. i love how they can already come with a top 100 songs and albums list (rollingstone magazine specifically). do you think that list would change in say twenty years or so? i sure do. after that amount of time, our opinion on what good came out of the 00's is going to be more valid than our opinion after six months.

now don't rule out the possibility that these sources may be basing their list off of radio and chart success. that may very well be so.

like in every one of these "nationally opinionated lists", there's stuff you agree with and stuff you don't. sure, give radiohead's "kid-A" the top album of the decade! i'm not being sarcastic at all. they deserve it. i could give a whole shpiel on why i think radiohead is one of the greatest music acts in the past thirty years. BUT again, that's for another post.

so that's one thing positive about rollingstone's list. on the flip-side, i'm not happy that dave didn't make it on EITHER of the lists. i think "big whiskey" is good enough to at least make the top 100! no? then where's green day's "21st century breakdown"? didn't that win rock album of the year? where is it?

what are they basing these lists off of? or better yet, what is the grammy's DEAL?! maybe i rely on them too much. i think i do. i'll start watching the "world music awards" (which happens to be on tonight). i mean, who's ever heard of THAT? i turned it on and all i saw was marc anthony and some random r&b artist i had never seen.

top song on the list is "crazy" by gnarls barkley. well deserved, i believe. hadn't heard it in a long time before it came on the radio two days ago. very modern motown-ish and i dig that.

lady gaga BARELY made it on. thank GOD! i was expecting her big craaaze album "fame" to be in the top 1 based on well it did in the media last year.

and it's also amazing to to find some of the songs that you hadn't heard in YEARS...and even some that you thought were from the 90's! or 80's! this applied for the white stripes' "seven nation army". i could have sworn that was older than 2003. wayyy older.

how did bob dylan make it into the top 15 twice for albums? were "love and theft" and "modern guilt" actually good? don't really care to find out, actually. just not a fan.
stick to victoria's secret commercials, will ya?

u2 had its fair share of the list, as did coldplay. however, coldplay's "x&y" did NOT make it, which i'm sad about. i thought that was great album. one of my favorites.

overall, the list is fairly accurate. it can always use a little switching around and shifting. but what doesn't? nothing's perfect, especially when there's 100 spots to fill. that's hard, and i give rollingstone props for that.

i just can't wait to look back on this decade and THEN make my own conclusion. what's the dominant genre of the era? what artists will be remembered? which will be considered "one-hit-wonders"? <---hmm...that's a good blog idea.

let's see what the '10's bring to the table.

Cheers!



-Johnny