Album Rating: 5.0

"my contention here is that music is about the music and the lyrics are peripheral. good lyrics don't excuse a boring piece of music from being musically bland"

Oh man I disagree. Personally, most of my favorite albums are my favorites due to lyrics. I'm also a big poetry guy, so I think that it basically serves as a different platform for delivering poetry. I actually think that lyrics being bad can be more damaging, as bad lyrics are so jarring and noticeable. I will agree though that good lyrics can't save bad music.

I also think this is really musically interesting, for what it's worth.

Album Rating: 4.5

Music is the most important, but subpar or bad lyrics can ruin a song or album. Good thing Sufjan is fantastic at both.

Album Rating: 5.0

P4k really didn't include a single one of these songs on their best 200 songs of the decade list...

Album Rating: 1.5

p4k cred up i guess

Album Rating: 5.0

...Yikes

Album Rating: 5.0

This album is monumental for folk, to ignore it on any decade list is ludicrous unless you're specifically focusing on one genre and it isn't folk (for example, I'd give a metal website a pass).

it's a really odd list

Album Rating: 5.0

I'm unreasonably irked by it. After all, it's just a list of opinions. I think simply because the site used to be one of my go-to resources for respectable indie/underground music - combined with the fact that they've now totally sold out and also market themselves as "the most trusted voice in music" - is what gets me. They have such a wide influence on listeners/readers, and the stuff they're promoting is very narrow-sighted in terms of possible styles/genres/influences.

Album Rating: 4.5

I agree, apparently there are no genres other than pop, hip-hop and early 2010's indie rock

Album Rating: 5.0

I think like half of the list is solid and half just seems like songs were added because they were so influential to pop culture. Then I see songs like Nicki Minaj's Come On a Cone and have no idea how that made it.

Album Rating: 5.0

People will inevitably bitch about this site's staff decade list, but I promise it will at least be better than that.

Album Rating: 1.5

I will bitch about it if this, Laura Stevenson or Science Fiction make it.

Album Rating: 5.0

(1) this - will almost certainly be on the list, and pretty high I imagine.

(2) Laura Stevenson - not as popular as you'd think even among staff, could see Wheel or Sit Resist squeaking into the top 100 but not the top 50.

(3) Science Fiction - doubt there's a chance of that, I'm the only one who still openly advocates for it being a top decade album. There's a few others who I imagine might have, but the noise around BN has died down a lot post-allegation.

Album Rating: 1.5

Okay, guess it's not hopeless after all. Also, I will fight every dweeb who puts Sunbather as the best black metal album of the year m/

Album Rating: 4.5

This hits just too hard at times.

Album Rating: 5.0

Fourth Of July is outstanding. Friggin gorgeous and astoundingly written lyrics.

Album Rating: 5.0

When is the decade list even happening?

Is there going to be a users' decade list??

Album Rating: 4.5

This album is so one-note and devoid of any sort of variation. I also find all the Jesus-nonsense very off-putting and hard to take seriously.

That being said, some stunningly beautiful tracks on here.

Album Rating: 5.0

Does an album need to variate to be good? I mean I'd argue there is plenty of variation between the tracks.

Album Rating: 2.0

I mean I'd argue there is plenty of variation between the tracks.