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I don't think I've ever met someone who doesn't like music. It's interesting though, because other art forms always have detractors. There are definitely people who just plain don't like looking at visual art. I've even met some people who refuse to read. But I've never met someone who hates music. My best guess is that if you spend enough time with any art form you'll find something you enjoy, and just by being a member of society you are exposed to a lot of music.

I always find this to be a funny example, because the song Kanye "stole" from Daft Punk had already been "stolen" from Edwin Birdsong

So apparently an Oregon cheerleader got knocked out cold by a water bottle thrown by an Arizona fan. Bet this won't get as much attention as Blount's punch though!

Sampling isn't all about stealing, I mean in some cases it is ("Ice Ice Baby" is a popular example), but the people who do it well can take a part of a song and really mutate it into something different and oftentimes improve it. If you're doing it correctly, it's not any different than "stealing" the sound of a piano with a synthesizer.

Nice list, I've got mad love for Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, so nice to see it get a high spot on your list! "Arular" is amazing as well. I love the song "Bucky Done Gun." So awesome. here's a list I made for another site, I started working on it over the summer when I briefly had a desk job. It's my 100 favorite songs from the decade. It's not 100% accurate because I limited it to 1 song per artist (I didn't want this list to be too enormous). Also, I included guilty pleasures up there with the more serious stuff because I figured why not, I would be lying to myself if I said there were a bunch of songs this decade I enjoyed more than the fantastically stupid "I'm Bout Money" by Baby D. There are only a few guilty pleasures though. And I tried to order them but it's not a great order. 1. Animal Collective - Fireworks 2. Daft Punk - One More Time 3. The Thermals - Here's Your Future 4. Jay Z - Izzo (HOVA) 5. Passion Pit - Little Secrets 6. Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?? 7. Wolf Parade - I'll Believe In Anything 8. Clipse - Momma I'm So Sorry 9. Madvillain - America's Most Blunted 10. UGK feat Outkast - Int'l Players Anthem 11. The Knife - Heartbeats 12. M.I.A. - Paper Planes 13. Kanye West - We Don't Care 14. Radiohead - There There 15. Dan Deacon - The Crystal Cat 16. Modest Mouse - Float On 17. Sigur Ros - Svefn G Englar 18. R. Kelly - Ignition (Remix) 19. Broken Social Scene - It's All Gonna Break 20. Of Montreal - Rapture Rapes the Muses 21. Hot Chip - Over and Over 22. Missy Elliott - Work It 23. Usher - Love in This Club 24. Alan Braxe and Fred Falke - Intro 25. Arcade Fire - Wake Up 26. Justice - DVNO 27. Basement Jaxx - Raindrops 28. Outkast - Hey Ya 29. Lil Wayne - A Milli 30. El Guincho - Palmitos Park 31. Death Cab for Cutie - Sound of Settling 32. Deltron 3030 - Positive Contact 33. Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood 34. The Bloody Beetroots - We Are From Venice 35. Panda Bear - Good Girl/Carrots 36. Estelle - American Boy 37. The White Stripes - Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground 38. The Coup - Laugh, Love, ******* 39. Bon Iver - Skinny Love 40. No Age - Eraser 41. Junior Boys - In The Morning 42. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife 43. Boards of Canada - 1969 44. The Dodos - Fools 45. Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama Out 46. TV On the Radio - Wolf Like Me 47. Joanna Newsom - Peach Plum Pear 48. Sondre Lerche - Say It All 49. Cut Copy - Lights and Music 50. Devendra Banhart - Heard Somebody Say 51. Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body 52. Deadmau5 - Ghosts n Stuff 53. Stars - Ageless Beauty 54. The Exploding Hearts - I'm a Pretender 55. Snoop Dogg - Drop It Like It's Hot 56. People Under the Stairs - The LA Song 57. Flying Lotus - Beginner's Falafel 58. Built To Spill - Conventional Wisdom 59. Sugar Ray - When It's Over 60. The Guillemots - Madeup Love Song #43 61. Amerie - 1 Thing 62. Girl Talk - Bounce That 63. Together - I Have So Much Love to Give 64. Glen Hansard - Say It To Me Now 65. Annie - Heartbeat 66. Katy Perry - Hot n Cold 67. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Skin of my Yellow Country Teeth 68. Crystal Castles - Untrust Us 69. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends 70. Cymbals Eat Guitars - And The Hazy Sea 71. Junior Senior - Move Your Feet 72. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Stay Alive 73. Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow 74. Fleet Foxes - Sun It Rises 75. Wilco - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart 76. Ratatat - Seventeen Years 77. The Shins - New Slang 78. Santigold - Creator 79. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights 80. Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton - The Lottery 81. Cam'ron - Hey Ma 82. Dykeritz - Chasing the Wheel Away 83. The Ravishers - Keep You Around 84. Duck Sauce - aNYway 85. Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer 86. Big Boi - Shine Blockas 87. Dirty Projectors - Temecula Sunrise 88. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks 89. Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dancing! 90. Essex Green - This Isn't Farmlife 91. M83 - Kim and Jesse 92. Ryan Adams - To Be Young (Is To Be High) 93. T.I. - Bring Em Out 94. Boyz Noize - & Down 95. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet That You Look Good On The Dance Floor 96. Malajube - Montreal -40 97. Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up Look Sharp 98. Young Jeezy - Who Dat 99. Baby D - I'm Bout Money 100. F*ck Buttons - Sweet Love For Planet Earth

How does sampling factor into the discussion? That specific art form has been around for nearly as long as recorded music has (sampling was invented in the 1930's, maybe earlier, and as far as I know the phonograph was invented in the late 1800's). I'm not really sure what you're trying to say about sampling, but there's really no general statement you can make about it since it has survived multiple generations and has accomplished different things in each generation.

"Ooh La La" is one of my favorite songs of all time

As usual, MT's got the words of wisdom!

The Duck/Wildcat game last night was one of the most exciting I've ever seen. Even if you don't care about either team, I highly reccomend all college football enthusiasts watch the University of Oregon vs. Oregon State civil war game on December 3rd. The huge rivalry usually always results in a good game, but this one's going to be great because the winner represents the Pac-10 in the Rose Bowl.

The only Beatles covers I like more than the originals are Earth Wind & Fire's "Got To Get You Into My Life" and Stevie Wonder's "We Can Work It Out"

I don't know anything about boxing but just looking at those stats it seems like George Foreman should be higher.

even most of my favorite "non-mainstream" rap was from the beginning of the decade. Here's a question...who was the best hip hop producer of the decade? I think the general consensus is that it's either Dre, Timbaland, or the Neptunes, but who's the best out of them? I'd go with the Neptunes personally.

my dad's nickname for this player is "god" he is a big 49ers fan

and I agree with your pro-Jack White stance

I totally agree. I don't see the shame in being a singles artist. If a musician can say in 3 minutes what it takes other musicians 40 minutes to do, I think it's a positive reflection on their abilities, not a sign that they don't have what it takes to create a full, flowing album. MP3s allow good singles artists to fully focus on creating great singles rather than waste their time with album filler. It's also a good strategy to get noticed. Crystal Castles didn't become famous for putting out a really good album (although it is pretty good), they got famous for putting out some REALLY REALLY awesome singles. They just put all their effort into "Untrust Us" and "Vanished," blew up, and then worked on making a full album.

I don't think anyone will remember Wolfmother, they just do what Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath did 40 years ago, except they don't do it as well.

That's actually really interesting. I think Eli Roth is a genius, but that's only based off "Cabin Fever" and "Thanksgiving." I have a feeling I'd hate "Hostel."

I agree that everything about the film was very interesting, and honestly I enjoyed it up until the parallel between the Nazi audience and us as an audience. It still was a very interesting point, but a point that for me kind of ruined the movie, and really a lot of action movies in general.

Yeah one of my friends recently made a note on facebook where everyone lists their top 10 albums of the decade, and I was struck by how similar all our lists were. I'm not sure if there was more than one without a Radiohead appearance of some kind.

Here's a top 50 albums list I made for another site. I made no attempt to be objective, this is just a list of my 50 favorite albums from the decade. Pretty much in order but the further from #1 the less I thought about its placement. 1. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam 2. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary 3. Animal Collective - Sung Tongs 4. Madvillain - Madvillainy 5. Radiohead - Kid A 6. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 7. Daft Punk - Discovery 8. The Thermals - The Body The Blood The Machine 9. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury 10. Animal Collective - Feels 11. The Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics 12. Passion Pit - Manners 13. Alan Braxe - The Upper Cuts 14. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief 15. Broken Social SCene - Broken Social Scene 16. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion 17. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? 18. The Avalanches - Since I Left You 19. Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 20. The White Stripes - Elephant 21. Arcade Fire - Funeral 22. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi 23. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People 24. Panda Bear - Person Pitch 25. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals 26. Girl Talk - Night Ripper 27. Jay Z - The Blueprint 28. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles 29. El Guincho - Alegranza! 30. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place 31. Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica 32. Sigur Ros - ( ) 33. Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain 34. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 35. Radiohead - Amnesiac 36. Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic 37. Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye 38. The Thermals - Fuckin A 39. Gorillaz - Gorillaz 40. Radiohead - In Rainbows 41. Madlib - Shades of Blue 42. Stars - Set Yourself on Fire 43. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum 44. Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism 45. The Exploding Hearts - Guitar Romantic 46. Quasimoto - The Unseen 47. Menomena - Friend and Foe 48. Devendra Barnhart - Cripple Crow 49. Hot Chip - The Warning 50. No Age - Nouns

Gucci Mane is no Andre 3000, but Big Boi is Big Boi, and an awesome song is an awesome song!

Oh yeah this is looking like it's going to be a really great civil war game

I'd say the biggest theme of this decade was the merging of the mainstream and underground (and this process has not been completed, I believe the trend will continue into the next decade). I mean, freaking Grizzly Bear is on the Twilight soundtrack. MIA performed at the Grammys. Animal Collective's latest album made it into the Billboard top 10. Creed tickets for their tour this summer literally sold for as low as 75 cents. It's an exciting time to be a pop music lover.

I'm currently putting together a list of my top 100 songs from this decade for another site (one per artist) and I'm almost done (I've been spending 5 minutes at a time on it every once in a while since the summer). The ordering after #25 really vague but still. When I'm done with it I'll post it here.

Yeah that could be a major part of it. Some actors are able to break out of it though. Leonardo DiCapprio is a really good actor in my opinion, even though he got famous by being good looking. My main problem with Pitt is that he plays roughly the same character in so many movies, and I'm tired of the character.