Coming up: Carl Wilson
carl
I truly
was not expecting end of the decade lists until next year, but it seems many a
media outlet got going quick. I’ve seen lists about people who have had a bad
decade – ouch! To what you favourite movie of the oughts so-far says about you.
But the one list I spent a lot of time on was the The Decades 50 Most Important
Recordings from NPR.
The idea behind the list is to
compile not so much the best or favourite recordings, but a list of albums that
“are the
game-changers: records that signaled some sort of shift in the way music is
made or sounds, or ones that were especially influential or historically
significant."
On
today’s show we’ll be looking back at these past 10 years in music and seeing
if we can’t find some of these historically significant musical moments
together.
I’ll
be joined by Globe and Mail music critic, writer and blogger Carl Wilson… and of course –
you.
Have
a look at the NPR list, and tell us where you think they got it right and/or wrong.
For
one thing, where’s TPain and the Auto Tune; and comedy albums like Flight of
the Concords or drone metal from Sunn? That’s just three omissions from me, and
what’s Amy Winehouse doing on this list? She’s always been more of an example
of the train wreck that could sing…much like Britney who also made the list.
Wade
in and we’ll chat.
