im gonna give this some thought but off the top of my head the list is going to include some fuck buttons, radiohead, arcade fire, lightning bolt, coughs, stereolab and possibly some lcd soundsystem as well..

is this thread for most important albums or for YOUR most important albums....

Popular isn't a synonym for good or bad, it just indicates what a majority of the people like, and on some occasions (rare as they may be) they get it right. (BEATLES, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Lil Wayne, Nirvana, Soundgarden, and many more)

But in regards to the topic..
I can see Year Zero going down in musical history if not for its musical content (excellent) but for its unique promotion.

I wonder what would happen if the adjectives 'classic', 'important', 'ifluential' etc were barred from being used by music geeks. What would you be left with?

less bullplop and more opinions.

Seminal : p

hey porky don't forget seminal and visceral


way to steal my thing. probably read something where i was bitching about that word.

those are all good words. and all opinions anyway, so we shoudl keep them.

Timeless..? Nah too time life infomercialy

you know the ones.

You should be heavily taxed for saying that.

i would say that popularity is a bit of a factor in what is considered classic. because if you cant remember it then it wont be considered classic.
even if its great music.
like with the sun city girls, they have released some masterpeices, but i hardly see any of their albums (except maybe TOM) on some forgotten classics list.
thats why wolf eyes will be considered classic and not burning star core
or whatnot. cause they are the most known noise band

but i could just be speaking out of my ass.
its 19:00
time to start drinking...

false. it's not an opinion if it's been stolen and repeated verbatim from a writer at NME or the equally shit american equivalent, rolling stone.

This peepee contest is poopy.

Yep.

this is ridiculous, there have been a ton of GREAT records in the 00's, more than the 90s anyways.

thee have been great albums by:
lighning bolt
sonic youth
boris
sunn o)))
boredoms
jim o'rourke
fennesz
burning witch
kid606
autechre
john zorn
the hospitals
lasse marhuag
wolf eyes
oren ambarchi
acid mother's temple
the coughs
yellow swans
the rita
prurient
radiohead
kevin drumm
the goslings
orthrelm
numerous weasel walter bands
jack rose
amps for christ
xiu xiu
stars of the lid
autistic daughters

i could go on for days, i rest my case

Did you listen to all the records in the 90's and this decade to make such a claim?

LIL WAYNE? soundgarden?
you've got to be fucking joking.

Nope. Both are in my mind talented artists who make/made legitimately good music.
If you don't agree that's your opinion. You can dispute mine but you aren't going to insult me for it.

Too many to name.