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blackbootz · 3671 days ago · link · · parent · post: It's December, time to get the conversation started: Rolling Stone's 50 albums of 2014
These are not artistic categories. And if they are, they're auxiliary to things such as composition, melody, production, etc... and yet it wins album of the year. Bill Gates could release an hour long record of him imitating a screamo band and upload it to every Windows phone, and since it would be the most surprising, controversial, and generous thing (hell, he could still do it in December and come-from-behind win 2014), it could win along the same guidelines, no?There was no bigger album of 2014 – in terms of surprise, generosity and controversy.