LISTED: 30 Best Albums of the Last Decade (2000 - 2009)
*As the year 2010 is about to draw its curtain close, it is the time of the year (of any year) for many music sites and blogs to come up with a top list of albums of the year. Yes indeed the year 2010 has seen many interesting releases worthy of at least a top 20 list. But here at The Genuine Mind Zine we decided to do things a bit different and take a look at some of the best (of the best) releases throughout the last decade. This may not be the most comprehensive list around, lack of hip hop records for one, but all the albums listed here are indeed the most precious of last decade's precious gems.
15. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes (2002)
Later towards the end of the year I would like to come up with an award called "The Honorary Genuine Mind Zine's Moment of Brain Meltdown's Band With Ridiculously Long Name Award" and this Texan destroyer would be in the running for it. In fact, I can't think of any other band with such ridiculously long name that I think... oh wait, yeah we have Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso Underground Freak Out. Well, we shall wait until the usual end-of-year feature made it on this blog. But joking about the band's name aside, we have a serious business here, because AYWKUBTTOD (damn...) is serious business.
Making their shift from the small-time indie label Merge to the major player Interscope I suspect must have its effect on the band. In the years building up to the release of this landmark record in 2002, the band has been steadily making name in the indie circle as a furiously destructive act during live shows. It is this kind of raw and brash energy that depicts best Trail of Dead's music - they are highly volatile, aggressive, and intimately complex. Sounds shit but because their music is built upon foundations of intricate guitar layers, the complexity only surfaces when you listen closely to it.
However, despite the sheer raucous showcase that they put out on this album, Source Tags & Codes surprisingly sounds well-mannered and literate. It doesn't jump out onto you and tear off your face; it doesn't attack you like a vicious animal, despite the explosive opener "It Was There That I See You". This album is more like a distant uncle that you knew who lives in the forest and works as hunter and a grave digger and has a strange hobby of decorating the walls of his house with the skeletons of animals that he has killed before. And every time you meet him you'll be engorged in this feeling of shit-in-your-pants fear and respect towards him. You will think of him as either an absolute badass, or an absolutely kickass amazing badass.
This album then is one of the most badass record that humanity have heard of in the last decade; but not as badass as this certain record which will make an appearance higher up the list. Be rest assured though that you won't shit in your pants when you give this album a spin. Because what you'll hear instead is 46 minutes of how awesomeness sounds like.
*As the year 2010 is about to draw its curtain close, it is the time of the year (of any year) for many music sites and blogs to come up with a top list of albums of the year. Yes indeed the year 2010 has seen many interesting releases worthy of at least a top 20 list. But here at The Genuine Mind Zine we decided to do things a bit different and take a look at some of the best (of the best) releases throughout the last decade. This may not be the most comprehensive list around, lack of hip hop records for one, but all the albums listed here are indeed the most precious of last decade's precious gems.
15. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags & Codes (2002)
Later towards the end of the year I would like to come up with an award called "The Honorary Genuine Mind Zine's Moment of Brain Meltdown's Band With Ridiculously Long Name Award" and this Texan destroyer would be in the running for it. In fact, I can't think of any other band with such ridiculously long name that I think... oh wait, yeah we have Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso Underground Freak Out. Well, we shall wait until the usual end-of-year feature made it on this blog. But joking about the band's name aside, we have a serious business here, because AYWKUBTTOD (damn...) is serious business.
Making their shift from the small-time indie label Merge to the major player Interscope I suspect must have its effect on the band. In the years building up to the release of this landmark record in 2002, the band has been steadily making name in the indie circle as a furiously destructive act during live shows. It is this kind of raw and brash energy that depicts best Trail of Dead's music - they are highly volatile, aggressive, and intimately complex. Sounds shit but because their music is built upon foundations of intricate guitar layers, the complexity only surfaces when you listen closely to it.
However, despite the sheer raucous showcase that they put out on this album, Source Tags & Codes surprisingly sounds well-mannered and literate. It doesn't jump out onto you and tear off your face; it doesn't attack you like a vicious animal, despite the explosive opener "It Was There That I See You". This album is more like a distant uncle that you knew who lives in the forest and works as hunter and a grave digger and has a strange hobby of decorating the walls of his house with the skeletons of animals that he has killed before. And every time you meet him you'll be engorged in this feeling of shit-in-your-pants fear and respect towards him. You will think of him as either an absolute badass, or an absolutely kickass amazing badass.
This album then is one of the most badass record that humanity have heard of in the last decade; but not as badass as this certain record which will make an appearance higher up the list. Be rest assured though that you won't shit in your pants when you give this album a spin. Because what you'll hear instead is 46 minutes of how awesomeness sounds like.
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