As a vintage shop, you could say that for us seeing the end of the decade coming is for like most of you, a chance to look back and reflect on the times of yesterday. In this spirit VagaBlog will be celebrating the end of the decade with a look back at our favorite music, fashions and things we think we'll be taking with us well into the new era ahead. It's too hard to narrow everything down between the two of us so we've filled out our own questionnaires separately, and had a lot of fun doing so.
Our Top Ten Favorite/Important Albums of the Decade:
NH:
Blacken the Black- Entrance to the Exit
Bjork- Vespertine
Les Georges Leningrad- Sur Les Traces de Black Eskimo
Peaches-
The Teaches of PeachesVive La Fete-
Nuit BlancheM.I.A- Arular
Telepathe- Dance Mother
Clipse-
Hell Hath No FuryLil' Wayne-
Tha Carter, Vol. 3 Jarvis Cocker/Relaxed Muscle- A Heavy Night With
AP:
Lil' Wayne- Tha Carter 2Ghostface- Fishscale
Ghostface- Supreme Clientele
Spoon-
Kill the Moonlight
Kanye- College DropoutKanye- Late Registration
Outkast- Stankonia
Radiohead-
Kid ACam'ron-
Purple HazeLil' Wayne- Tha Carter 3
Best New Acts of the Decade:
NH: Devendra Banhart, Lil'Wayne, Telepathe, Gang Gang Dance(above)
AP: Ludacris, Kanye, Clipse, Lil'Wayne
Latest Sub-Genre we'd like to see end:
So called avant-garde pop-stars like Alison Goldfrapp, Planning To Rock, Lady Gaga, etc. as well as anything emo or worse, twee from bands like The Decemberists.
Most-Inspiring Style:
Alex Kapranos(Franz Ferdinand), Els Pynoo(Vive La Fete), Natasha Khan(Bat for Lashes), Bjork and M.I.A just for being herself.
Just as in Fashion, there were'nt many new ideas within music, what was our least favorite revival/derivation of genres?
Both Agreed: Too Many DJ's were really smart/important but they left behind the messy idea of mash-ups for people, the worst is Rhianna continually sampling 80's pop hits and destroying them. Or that song from this year, "You Spin Me Round."----- mash-ups - Jay Z plus Linkin Park etc.
Also as in fashion, the term "indie" was overused to describe lesser known acts, who do we think deserved a larger audience based on their talents but didn't quite make it?
NH: Interpol
AP: Mf Doom
Favorite "Vintage" acts that never fail to out-shine the younger performers of today in every way, sound/style/attitude?
NH: Bjork
AP: WU TANG forever (GZA, Ghostface, RZA, Method Man, Raekwon).
Best New Trend inspired by music/musicians:
NH: Whatever Natasha Khan(above) & Devendra Banhart(center,below) are doing, they make the mythical hippie thing look a lot more dark and substantial rather then hippie-dippie and sloppy.
Worst New Trend Inspired by Music/Musicians:
NH: Many, the term "guyliner" for one(Pete Wentz). Then there's the Linkin Park bunch in Ed Hardy and all of the 80's glam-gear brought on by a decade of never-ending electro.
AP: Guy Liner, Miley Cyrus style mini moguls. As well as Lady Gaga, Rhianna, Beyonce, and Fergie co-opting therefore ruining the avant-garde work of designers Gareth Pugh, Maison Martin Margiela etc.
Favorite Moment when Music met Fashion:
NH: The marraige of Dita Von Teese and Marilyn Manson
As hard as it was trying to score this F/W 2000 Balenciaga dog print sweater(we've never stopped looking since), an even greater shock comes at the thought of how difficult its going to be 10 years later, now that its been reissued for Pre-Fall 2011. As eternally elusive as this trophy sweater may be, we could in turn use it as a reference point for the decade long block of cool cult status Nicolas Ghesquiere has had us under his spell with.
Balenciaga Fall 2000 advert, above. Pre-Fall 2011, below.
