The last 5 years of music

jsh · **Posted:** Fri Jan 14, 2005 7:07 pm

I'm answering some super-generic interview questions on behalf of my boss for a magazine article. The last question posed is this - A Young person's guide to the past 5 years in music would include....??? - and I can't answer it. I'm still young, but fuck. Why is the interviewer such a narf.

What do you say?

Chuck D · **Posted:** Fri Jan 14, 2005 7:10 pm

proper response:

"That's a terribly simplistic question."

Evil Dr. K · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:51 am **Posts:** 6327

obnerst Wrote:

Young person's guide to the past 5 years in music would include....???

Where's that Radcliffe when you need him?

Borg166 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:05 pm

Is he asking for 5 mainstream albums or something?

jsh · **Posted:** Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:11 pm

Exactly and only what I wrote.

I gave him these:
Iron and Wine
Animal Collective
Lightning Bolt
Six Organs of Admittance
The Books

All that came to mind.

Prince of Darkness · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am **Posts:** 11048

obnerst Wrote:

I'm answering some super-generic interview questions on behalf of my boss for a magazine article. The last question posed is this - A Young person's guide to the past 5 years in music would include....??? - and I can't answer it. I'm still young, but fuck. Why is the interviewer such a narf.

What do you say?

Now! This is Music! Vol. 14-18

HaqDiesel · **Posted:** Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:21 pm

epa Wrote:

obnerst Wrote:

I'm answering some super-generic interview questions on behalf of my boss for a magazine article. The last question posed is this - A Young person's guide to the past 5 years in music would include....??? - and I can't answer it. I'm still young, but fuck. Why is the interviewer such a narf.

What do you say?

Now! This is Music! Vol. 14-18

Hahaha.

I would have put Kid A on the list. I'm sure Radcliffe would have as well.

Prince of Darkness · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am **Posts:** 11048

Pretty sure he'd say Meadowlands.

Borg166 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:24 pm

Here is one from each year.

Radiohead - Kid A
Bjork - Vespertine
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
Kanye West - College Dropout

Prince of Darkness · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am **Posts:** 11048

Borg166 Wrote:

Here is one from each year.

Radiohead - Kid A
Bjork - Vespertine
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
Kanye West - College Dropout

Ditch Fever to Tell for Gabriel's 'up'

Maybe swap out YHF for summerteeth.

Odds Bodkins · **Posted:** Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:32 pm

Unfortunately, I bet he's looking for Britney, Good Charlotte, Avril and the rest of those commies.

Borg166 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 14, 2005 8:48 pm

epa Wrote:

Ditch Fever to Tell for Gabriel's 'up'

Holy crap, how could I forget Peter Gabriel's Up, which was #1 on my 2002 Listmania! You are absolutely correct, Gabriel wins this one.

Prince of Darkness · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:41 am **Posts:** 11048

Borg166 Wrote:

epa Wrote:

Ditch Fever to Tell for Gabriel's 'up'

Holy crap, how could I forget Peter Gabriel's Up, which was #1 on my Listmania that year! You are absolutely correct, Gabriel wins this one.

I know, we're like two people who enjoy that damn album.

Thee Incident · **Posted:** Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:06 pm

Little group called The White Stripes... I bet he's heard of them.

Also:
OutKast, John Mayer, NERD/Neptunes, Radiohead, Jay-Z, the Britney/Xtina/Pink/Avril axis, the Matrix, American Idols

That's such an open-ended question, but these are the ones that have made the biggest splashes in the mainstream. Which is kinda sad when you think about it.

KPH · **Posted:** Fri Jan 14, 2005 9:17 pm

i'd include:

Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I
Death Cab - Photo Album, etc.
YYYs
Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
Kid A
Missy Elliott's 2K-2K2 stuff or Timbaland productions
Neptunes
Clipse
The Rapture - Out of the Races
Interpol - Turn On
the Strokes - Modern Age ep
White Stripes - 1 or 2 songs
Blood Brothers, Converge, Lightning Bolt
Ladytron and the whole electro thing
etc.

i mean, these are things i think have some resonance with kids into mostly non-mainstream stuff.

KPH

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Fri Jan 14, 2005 10:37 pm

konstantinl Wrote:

obnerst Wrote:

Young person's guide to the past 5 years in music would include....???

Where's that Radcliffe when you need him?

I don't even understand the question.

posthumus · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:17 am **Posts:** 589

Sufjan Stevens, EVERYONE can like him though he doesn't try to be liked

like how Elliot Smith ruled the nineties

Sketch · **Posted:** Sat Jan 15, 2005 6:53 am

Another angle could be to recommend artists who have broke in the last five years but cite albums before they broke even if they were pre-'99:

Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
White Stripes - De Stijl
Death Cab For Cutie - The Photo Album
Black Eyed Peas - Bridging The Gap
OutKast - Aquemini
Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antartica
Chevelle - Point #1

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