yuichi said:#31 > few detractors.
The fact that so many have voted this in as an important record to them "personally" speaks volumes. It's not your thing anymore. We get it. It was never your thing. Why are you replying to the thread in the first place? It's shameful to use this as an entry point to getting into hip-hop and crate-digging 101. We get it it. You're cool.
Be easy, dude.
Well-thought-out explanations of why someone doesn't like something ultimately say just as much as why they do, and considering that enthusiam is often generic where criticisms tend to be specific, critique sometimes says more. You'll always get more from a homemade dis than from a store-bought compliment.
There's that old saying about how "influence is measured by what has to go around it," and it says a fair amount that Endtroducing is a record that even people who don't like it feel like they somehow have to contend with it. While I don't have much use for unconstructive [post]"Fuck DJ Shadow!"[/post] type shit, and while generally I'm less interested in people's social/cultural reasons for disliking it (because it's always pretty much the same reason), I consider Endtroducing a really personal record and so I am interested to hear people's personal reasons for disliking it.
The dumb shit is the dumb shit, but the rest of this is all just part of talking about music, you know? As long as people are really talking, it's nothing to be mad at.
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In a side note: While inclusion (or non-) on this list might mean something and thus be worth talking about, the rankings do not (didn't Raj say that there's only like three votes' difference between the #20 record and the #50 record or something?) and thus are not, and I feel like the conversation would get better sooner if people cooled their jets on that shit.
