Thursday, November 19, 2009

Best Of (Part 2)

And here's Part 2!

To catch up, I'm joining the "Best Of the Decade" parade and wanted to hear from you first. A bit about my rubric:

1) When I say "Best Of," I'm completely letting each voter define that for themselves. I will say, however, that my only constant rubric would be something that you would call of the decade. It--whatever IT is--has to characterize for you what it meant to be an American in the last ten years.

2) As always, but it's worth repeating: this blog discusses pop music. These lists only involve artists that have impacted "pop culture" at large, enough that they could be definitive of the decade. As much as I love Lucero, or Black Star, or Cory Branan, or a million other great artists from this decade, you won't find them here.

Part 1 on Tuesday focused on music: albums, artists, singles, in different pop genres. Today I'm putting TV and film up for debate. Also, Part 1's are all listed here, too.

Alright, let's get voting! Here's what you do:
1) Find the questions below.
2) Vote in the comments.
3) Vote in the comments because I couldn't find one poll gadget that actually works. So we'll just have a discussion in the comments.

Holler!

Best TV Drama
The Wire
The Sopranos
Mad Men
Lost
24
***Other

Best TV Comedy
The Office
Arrested Development
Family Guy
South Park
Entourage
***Other

Best Film (Drama)
Any Lord of the Rings
Any Harry Potter
The Departed
Lost In Translation

Million Dollar Baby
Sideways
Crash
Good Night, and Good Luck
Garden State
No Country for Old Men
Slumdog Millionaire
***Other

Best Film (Comedy)
Royal Tenenbaums
Almost Famous
Napoleon Dynamite
Little Miss Sunshine
Anchorman
Old School
Superbad
Knocked Up
***Other

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Best Rock Album
Green Day - American Idiot
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
Weezer - Make Believe
The Strokes - Is This It
White Stripes - Elephant
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
U2 - How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
Radiohead - Kid A/Amnesiac
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Coldplay - Parachutes
Coldplay - Viva la Vida
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Foo Fighters - In Your Honor
Counting Crows - Hard Candy
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
***Other

Best Singer/Songwriter Album
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Ryan Adams - Gold
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales
Jason Mraz - Mr. A-Z
Conor Oberst - I'm Wide Awake/Digital Ash
John Mayer - Room for Squares
John Mayer - Heavier Things
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Imogen Heap - Speak for Yourself
Pete Yorn - musicforthemorningafter
Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
***Other

Best Hip Hop Album
Jay-Z - Black Album
Outkast - Speakerboxx/Love Below
Ludacris - Word of Mouf
Kanye West - College Dropout
Kanye West - Late Registration
Eminem - The Eminem Show
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
The Roots - Phrenology
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin'
***Other

Best Pop/R&B Album
Justin Timberlake - Justified
Justin Timberlake - Futuresex/Lovesounds
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Alicia Keys - Songs in A Minor
Usher - Confessions
***Other

Best Single (Rock & Singer/Songwriter)
The Strokes - "Last Night"
White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army"
U2 - "Beautiful Day"
Pearl Jam - "World Wide Suicide"
Green Day - "American Idiot"
Green Day - "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
Bruce Springsteen - "The Rising"
Ryan Adams - "New York, New York"
Queens of the Stone Age - "No One Knows"
Weezer - "Beverly Hills"
My Morning Jacket - "One Big Holiday"
Coldplay - "Clocks"
Maroon 5 - "Harder to Breathe"
The Killers - "Mr. Brightside"
Kings of Leon - "Use Somebody"
Fall Out Boy - "Sugar, We're Going Down Swinging"
The Fray - "Over My Head"
***Other

Best Single (Pop & Hip Hop)
Outkast - "The Way You Move"
Outkast - "Hey Ya"
Outkast - "The Whole World"
Jay-Z - "99 Problems"
Jay-Z - "Dirt Off Your Shoulder"
Eminem - "Lose Yourself"
Eminem - "I Am"
Justin Timberlake - "Sexyback"
Usher - "Yeah"
Alicia Keys - "Fallin'"
Amy Winehouse - "Rehab"
Kanye West - "All Falls Down"
Kanye West - "Gold Digger"
Gnarls Barkley - "Crazy"
50 Cent - "In Da Club"
Ludacris - "Southern Hospitality"
Ludacris - "Move Bitch"
Lil Wayne - "Lollipop"
***Other

Jump in the comments and tell me what you think!

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