What’s The Best Best of the Decade List?
- Posted by: Patrick James
- on November 12, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Aughts! We hardly knew ye! Alas, we’ll soon leave you behind. For the next six weeks, however, anyone with an audience will be chronicling and evaluating the living hell out of you. Exhibit A: Newsweek’s attempt to condense all your happenings into seven minutes of video. Watch:
It’s a compelling homage, if not a list per se, and it lacks the depth of something like the strangely fun retrospective You Aught to Remember.
As far as evaluations go, Times Online’s boldly erratic 100 Best Films of the Decade makes for some great—if bizarrely ranked—reading. Pitchfork’s annoyingly well assembled best of the decade material is also worth poring over, though over at LargeHeartedBoy, there’s a ridiculously comprehensive compilation of best music of the decade lists.
What other 2000s retrospectives and lists should we be reading?
DISCUSSION: 3 Comments
I’m biased (I was on the panel that helped pick the list) but The Millions’ best of the decade (we called it the Millennium, for laughs) got a lot of discussion among the bookish set. I still think it’s a great list of the best novels & story collections of the decade.
I like this list:http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-best-tv-series-of-the-00s,35256/1/It makes me want to rent a bunch of tv on dvd box sets.
In the meanwhile nothing really noteworthy happens in Russia, China, Japan, Europe, Africa, Southamerica or Australia. A terrorist attack happens in Spain, but that is about it, right?