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- --- -- - ｾ T- Ｍ ｾ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ Ｍ B4 ARCADE WWW.THEHULLABALOO.COM MOST IMPORTANT BANDS OF THE DECADE BY ZACH YANOWITZ Stankonia dropped in 2000? "Hey Ya!" was hands down STAFF WRITER I was in 5th grade and our the biggest song of the de- teacher was having trou- cade. When you make Pola- When we look back on the ble with the TV controls so roid themselves issue a press last decade in music, there we accidentally ended up on release against shaking their OUTKAST are a ton of things that stick MTV and watched the vid- pictures, you know you're a out. Boy bands, the rise of eo for "Ms. Jackson:' I had no cultural phenomenon. electro, Soulja Boy, the ad- idea what it meant but im- Since then, the two have vent of hipsterdom, etc. Be- mediately knew it was awe- continued to be prolific. Their ing asked to name the most some. "So Fresh So Clean," joint (and silly) film Idlewild important/influential musi- the jungle-rock anthem and other acting gigs gained· cian of the last 10 years is a "B.O.B; guestspots . from mainstream exposure and hard task. especially in a de- Erykah Badu, Gangsta Boo success. Big Boi's recent re- cade so full of form-breaking and Cee-Lo were all major lease Sir Lucious Left Foot: and general weirdness. Upon facets of Outkast's music. A The Son Of Chico Dusty is, further reflection, however, quadruple-platinum album one of the most critically ac- • there's only one real answer and two Grammy Awards claimed albums of 2010. The (and no, it's not Radiohead, (Best Rap Performance and two have both produced and snobs). Best Rap Album) were the featured on countless songs Outkast was formed in whole shebang. This was only by other artists. Georgia in the early '90s by 10 months into the decade. It's their influence, howev- Andre Benjamin (Andre 3000) In 2003 they released er, that's reaches so far. The and Antwan Patton (Big Boi), Speakerbox:xx/The Love Be- duo, especially Andre 3000, and they almost immedi- low, a double album featuring are instantly recognizable ately began laying the foun- distinct tracks by each mem- cultural figures. Their music dation for musical suprem- ber of the group. Not only did brought Hip Hop to a new acy. From 1994's Southem- it contain "Roses; which be- level of diversity and exper- playalisticadillacmuzik, to came the bane qf girls named imentation, blending mul- 1996's ATLiens and 1998's Caroline everywhere, but An- tiple genres unabashedly Aquemini brought such clas- dre 3000's "Hey Ya!" held the and with aplomb. Attaining sics as "Player's Ball," "ATLi- No. 1 spot on the Billboard both commercial and criti- ens" and "Rosa Parks," and 200 for nine weeks, only to be cal success, Outkast created shot the duo to mainstream finally overpassed by Big Boi's a spaced out, post-conscious success on the eve of the "The Way You Move." Plus, style that will influence mu- millennium. you know, it won the Gram- sicians across the board for Do you remember when my for Album Of The Year. years to come. By JEFF SILBERMAN ther with Discovery and Hu- ARCADE FEATURES EDITOR man After All. These weren't sell outs pumping out easily "I showed Daft Punk to the consumable beep-boop mu-. rock kids," said James Mur- sic for "the rock kids;" these phy, on his first and arguably were transcendental musical best single, "Losing My Edge:' compositions. Before Daft He's not lying - and that ac- Punk and after the death of tion changed the sound of a disco, a lot of people - even decade. The true credit, how- those who tried really hard to ever, belongs to Daft Punk. stay culturally and musically I was six or seven when knowledgeable - thought of all of this was going down, most electronic dance mu- but I can speculate that as sic as gross parodies ofKraft- governments drove the final werk. That is, repetitive com- nails into the coffins of the puter noises with robots re- rave scene in the late '90s any peating weird words like chance of electronic music "gigahertz" or "external hard gaining mainstream appeal drive· over them. Bloghouse died with it. Then Home- came soon after. Justice, work came out and, in the Bloody Beetroots, Croo]\- words of critic Alex Rayner, ers, Steve Aoki, Diplo, Boys "served as a bridge between Noize, Busy P and Major Laz- more established club-styles er would be nothing with- and burgeoning eclecticism out Daft Punk - not to men- of big beat. And it proved to tion the production sound- many club goers that there scape of pop music, which was more to dance mu- has changed from watered sic than pills and keyboard down contemporary R&B to ｰ ｲ ･ ｳ ･ ｴ ｳ ｾ an electro-disco revival. The lines that separated I sit now, in the middle of otay." Punning on solfege 2010, watching as half of Tu- By DERRICK TOUPS the cultish electronic mu- SENIOR STAFF WRITER (do-re-mi) and throwin' sic scene and mainstream lane suits up for Pretty Lights it back to the Lil Rascals culture blurred even fur- - thank you, Daft Pun.\c. Lil Wayne calls himself demonstrates Lil Wayne's the "greatest rapper alive" endless lyrical flexibility in "New Orleans Magic: and inventiveness. And he's right. Great lyrics aside, the The New Orleans native 27-year-old rapper's ca- has got more puns and reer has exploded faster LCD SOUNDSYSTEM metaphors than a Shake- than he does on his "fe- spearian comedy, and his male dogs and garden tools" during his favorite ing, meta, self-deprecating poser. His themes resonate flow is smoother than By SAM PRIMEAUX nothing before DFA. chilled Patron. His rhymes nude activities. In the past ARCADE REVIEWS EDITOR The general shift towards and self-aware in a way that across generations: friends, are so good they flow in five years, he's released a electronic sounds and the Internet taught us all to jobs, the messes we tend to through your ears and out trilogy of best-selling Tha The Clash were never danceable beats that we saw be. The song is pornography make out of our lives. ｴ ｨ ｲ ｯ ｵ ｾ your dropped jaw. Carter albums, a num- •the only band that mat- in the '00s is due in no small for record nerds. Every time He was there. Probably Theres no way you can lis- ber of mixtapes and even ters: No band ever is. That part to this New York City- I listen to it, there's a new the best part of it all is the ten to his young, raspy a rock album. Moreover, said, it is totally, unequivo- base<l label. But beyond line that makes me laugh: live experience, Murphy and voice without appreciat- Wayne has been featured cally clear that the most im- those extracurriculars. LCD "You wanna make a Yaz re- Co. recreate these dense- ing how clever, smart and on more singles than the portant band of the 2000s Soundsystem released three cord; ·1 hear that everybody ly textured songs without original his lyrics can be. word "Kraft." You can bet was LCD Soundsystem. of the best records of the that you know is more rele- the aid of sampling. The live In "The Rapper Eater," on a ballin. album within James Murphy and DFA - decade - including Sound vant than everybody that I show, the records, the la- Wayne spits, "I'm butter months of his release from the label he co-founded - of Silver, arguably the single know," "I woke up naked on bel, the famous friends, the on a bread like Parkay, and prison. have had more of an impact greatest album of the past the beach'in Ibiza in 1988." foresight, the New York-re- I'm all about me like do He is the most impor- on the general sowid of mu- ten years. The defining song His songs are funny and in- vivalism, all adds up to the re. I'm in the hood, in the tant rapper of the decade sic than anyone would likely of the '00s was "Losing My sightful; Murphy is easily as most important band of the hood like dope·yay. Nap- and no doubt one of the admit. Dance-punk meant Edge." It was name-check- talented a writer as com- last decade. py ass hair like buckwheat all-time best. By IAH CARLSON hers or the malaise of grow- releases is frankly astonish- STAFF WRITER ing up in the suburbs and ing. With one good album, how to deal with the siln- one surprisingly solid .EP, a The sometimes-septet from plicity of everyday life ele- truly great album. and one Montreal released their first vate Arcade Fire above oth- classic, the still young band music in 2003 and has been er bands. Most bands try to has been consistent and consistently producing say something important, sometimes brilliant. Their quality ever since. Arcade but few attempt exploration most recent album, The ' Fire is the most important of the concepts that form Suburbs. made it to No. l on band of the decade for nu- our most pedestrian inter- the Billboard charts. That merous reasons and many nal struggles. an "indie" band could make hard-to-define qualities, No band can escape its it to the top of the charts in though the Arcade Fire's influences.

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