60.00% - The argument about which album best encapsulates the 90s is worth having — getting it right means identifying what the decade actually was, not just what was popular.
40.00% - The best art reflects something true about the conditions that produced it — understanding those conditions is part of understanding the art.
The album of a decade is the one that best soundtracks its most defining moments.
20.00% - Music does something no other art form does — every culture across every era has relied on it to enrich the soul, and that's not a cliché.
20.00% - Some albums capture the feeling of a generation so completely that hearing them later transports you — that connection between music and memory is real and worth taking seriously.
20.00% - The argument about which album best encapsulates the 90s is worth having — getting it right means identifying what the decade actually was, not just what was popular.
20.00% - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is the album of the aughts — two completely different masterpieces on one release, Big Boi's tight funk alongside Andre 3000's genre-defying avant-pop.
20.00% - The best art reflects something true about the conditions that produced it — understanding those conditions is part of understanding the art.
50.00% - The album of a decade is the one that best soundtracks its most defining moments.
50.00% - The album of the decade is that which serves as a suitable soundtrack to the most poignant moments of that decade.
50.00% - A Star Is Born (2018 soundtrack)