np: "since the beginning" - the flaming sideburns
why the flaming sideburns? why not? actually, i've begun my task this week of going over some of the albums from 2003 that might not have gotten many listens in order to complete my best of list for the year. this particular one probably won't be gracing the upper ranks of my list, though it's a decent little rock record. but for the record, dude has probably one of the worst "i'm going balls to the wall" primal screams ever heard in a rock song. shudder. i'll be posting short capsules of the albums i'm going through, along with my rating in a 0.0 to 10.0 range. i like it.
but for today allow me to partake in a little Pitchfork bashing for a minute or two. so now that it favorable for the hipsters to admit liking hip-hop from the beginning, they've decided to do a little creative editing of history by re-writing their Top 100 album of the '90s list. now i'm all for people's changing muscial tates, i'm sure many of my older lists would be quite different now. but this one smells of re-establishing street cred or some shit. the original list had, if i remember correctly - i haven't combed through the old list lately, ONE hip-hop record - Beasties Boys' Check Your Head. so far, of the eighty albums posted on the new list, there have been no fever than FIFTEEN hip-hop albums. as The Hurrican might say, "what up wit dat?" back in 1999 these albums made little impact on the 'Forkers, but all of the sudden 4 mere years later they've become imporant enough to crack the top 100? shiiiit. i'm all for more people respecting the impact hip-hop has made over the years, but this just reeks of a bunch of johnny come latelys shouting "look! we like the hippity-hop too!" that and the sudden reviewing of Jigga's, Fiddy's, and Obie's albums on the site. four years ago you wouldn't have seen a mainstream hip-hop album getting reviewed on the site unless it was part of an April Fools' joke. end rant.
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