[kj] Top 10 and the "throwback" era

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

For my part, I mentioned World Burns to Death in my top 10, whose latest 
album (_Totalitarian Sodomy_) came out in November, 2006, and whose 
debut LP was from 2002. Great stuff.

I also like the current New York hardcore band Deathcycle a lot -- 
http://www.myspace.com/deathcycleny -- but like a lot of recent bands, 
propelling them into one's Top 10 immediately, without the 20/20 of 
hindsight and legacy and influence, etc., can be dodgy.

I happen to agree with some writers who've mentioned we're in the 
"throwback era" of bands: many bands are popular critically or even 
commercially nowadays mainly in terms of what they're a "throwback" to. 
(Yes, some exceptions, as always.) I hate that kind of pitiful 
nostalgia, but I can recognize it is true. Still, there is great music 
being made today. If this were 1981 I might've said TSOL were in my Top 
10. In 1987 I wouldn't have put TSOL in my Top 1000. Now I would put hem 
in my Top 20 or 30, etc.

-Oliver


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>     On Mar 30, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Mik Raven wrote:

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>>     Much as I love a lot of the bands on most of the top ten lists

>>     from you all, I do get the feeling that most of the stuff is 80?s

>>     music. What about today?s bands?

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