when our biological urges come at a price and you happily pay it, tipping with a grin.

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i spent eight hours walking around a high school listening to this album at a debate tournament. mapping that school out in my mind, reliving every moment of that album acting as the day’s clock brings me to tears. don’t even get me started on when the actual music kicks in

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when i said that other albums solidified my self-image, my beautiful dark twisted fantasy is that album above all albums. traversing the full spectrum of human emotions, you truly find where you fall on it. even at the age of 15 when this album came out, i understood its true power: the near-deification of the self through a transvaluation of one’s flaws.

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no other album on this list has actually changed me as a person. others have solidified my self-image, but ys was the first album whose lyrics i obsessively unpacked and whose every movement is assigned to tens of moments in my life. i have no hesitation in saying i would only listen to this album for the rest of my life if the choice was between the rest of all recorded music without ys or ys by itself.

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full disclosure, only the top-10 is in actual decided order. the other 40 albums were conjured up but didn’t fall together in an assembled order. for example, take care would easily hold down 50, but i thought of it first.

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When an artist can take the voice and turn it into an instrument all its own, I rarely find myself disliking the song. The bouncy nature of “revive” paired with the continual revving of the drums behind what sounds like a continually-contorted Selena Gomez vocal sample brings butterflies on listens 1 and 100.

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Drake might be the most prominent metamodern rapper in the game. While artists like Young Thug sing odes to specific social media networks, Drake has continually used technology to supplement his personal interactions and showed how the two are interchangeable. Loving and hating this form of technology isn’t the issue in his music. Loving and hating what the technology symbolizes – relationships replacing the intimate ones that dissipate when you live your life on the road – is what he discusses.

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Another difference is just how wonky an impression of Hillary has to be in comparison with Palin. It’s considerably easier to poke fun at Sarah Palin’s accent and wacky claims than at one of the most calculating political figures of our time.

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Years later, Pitchfork isn’t done trolling DR. Eat Pray Thug received the same 6.3 rating their final album Relax did, the rating that caused David Shapiro’s great Pitchfork Writer Ian Cohen Seems to Have Blocked Me on Gchat”. I mean, this all could be a coincidence. Eat Pray Thug is as much a 6.3 as Relax was. If this is intentional, I applaud Pitchfork, because it’s honestly hilarious. If it’s unintentional, thanks for the laughs, anyway.

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