http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1402Nice little look back. Can't believe it's already been ten years since
Blueberry Boat,
The College Dropout,
Funeral, and
Get Away From Me. Also, Stylus was a cool alternative to Pitchfork when the latter seemed to be almost irretrievably up their own ass. Now they just give everything an 8.5 so they don't alienate potential fest acts.
I'd probably slot
Funeral in at #1 for that year, with
Get Away From Me at #2 and
When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog at #3.
Blueberry Boat hasn't aged well for me at all; it's in a stratum of albums from my late teens/early twenties that have become just really, really hard for me to dig back up again. Shame about Nellie McKay sort of calling it a career. I thought she had just as much potential as Regina Spektor, who did capitalize on hers.
I accidentally downloaded that Embrace album because I was trying to explore, you know, that
other Embrace. "Ashes" was a good vanilla-alt song. Surprised they never went on to do much more.
EDIT: no, no, no, a bunch of the songs I thought were on
When I Said I Wanted to Be Your Dog are actually on
Oh You're So Silent Jens. It's not better than Nellie's debut. Inverted 2 and 3. I think "The most lovable thing since fucking Eminem" was my sig here for a year or two.
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