Paul
Dec 29 2008, 01:57 PM
180 Votes, 1149 albums voted for.
I'm not sure how far we'll go today. Either the first twenty or the first thirty. Top 40 and blurbs will be on Friday.
Go!
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1 Portishead - Third
2 TV On The Radio - Dear Science,
3 M83 - Saturdays = Youth
4 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
5 Sun Kil Moon - April
6 Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
7 Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
8 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
9 British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
10 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
11 Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
12 Blitzen Trapper - Furr
13 Weezer - Weezer (2008)
14 Hold Steady, The - Stay Positive
15 Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
16 Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
17 Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
18 Walkmen – You & Me
19 Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Real Emotional Trash
20 Harvey Milk – Life ... The Best Game In Town
21 Boris - Smile
22 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
23 Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
24 Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
25 Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
26 Spiritualized - Songs In A&E
27 Fennesz- Black Sea
28 Sigur Ros - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
29 Why? - Alopecia
30 Black Dog - Radio Scarecrow
31 Beck - Modern Guilt
32 David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
33 Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
34 Black Mountain - In The Furture
35 Black Keys - Attack & Release
36 My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
37 Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
38 Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
39 Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
40 No Age - Nouns
41 Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
42 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
43 Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
44 Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part 1
45 Drive By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
46 Shearwater - Rook
47 Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
48 Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down In The Light
49 Paul Westerberg – 49:00…Of Your Time/Life
50 Glasvegas - Glasvegas
51 Gaslght Anthem - The '59 Sound
52 R.E.M. - Accelerate
53 She & Him - Volume One
54 Tallest Man On Earth, The - Shallow Graves
55 Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
56 Los Campesinos! - Hold on Youngster
57 Have a Nice Life - Deathconciousness
58 Dr Dog - Fate
59 Parts & Labor - Receivers
60 Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
61 Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull
62 Q-Tip - The Renaissance
63 Evangelista - Hello Voyager
64 Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
65 Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
66 Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
67 Killers, The - Day & Age
68 Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us
69 Shugo Tokumaru - Exit
70 Bug, The - London Zoo
71 Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
72 Genghis Tron - Board Up the House
73 Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
74 Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
75 Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
76 Luomo - Convival
77 Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
78 Titus Andronicus – The Airing of Greviance
79 Torche - Meanderthal
80 Matmos - Supreme Balloon
81 Dodos, The - Visiter
82 Gutter Twins - Saturnala
83 Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
84 Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
85 Lykke Li - Youth Novels
86 Calexico - Carried to Dust
87 Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy
88 Santogold - Santogold
89 Air France - No Way Down -EP
90 Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
91 Beach House - Devotion
92 Melvins - Nude with Boots
93 Bruno Pronsato – Why Can’t We Be Like Us
94 Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
95 Jacaszek - Treny
96 Stereolab - Chemical Chords
97 El Guincho - Alegranza
98 Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs From the Beehive
99 Dungen - 4
100 Fall, The - Imperial Wax Solvent
Pavement Ist Rad
Dec 29 2008, 02:04 PM
FIRST.
Duff.
Dec 29 2008, 02:04 PM
IS.
Pavement Ist Rad
Dec 29 2008, 02:04 PM
Get fucked.
Duff.
Dec 29 2008, 02:06 PM
Pretty much.
Pavement Ist Rad
Dec 29 2008, 02:06 PM
The ellipses were what delayed you.
Imagine how much extra time Rob Gordon is putting in per post.
EDIT: Well, not with that edit. Get fucked, once again.
Paul
Dec 29 2008, 02:06 PM
“Why the fuck haven't more people been talking about Imperial Wax Solvent? WHY? What's going on?” - vamos
#100.
The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent(683 Points, 13 Votes)US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: #35
Charting Singles: n/a
Pitchfork Review: "While Imperial Wax Solvent has all the buzzy, crunchy sonic hallmarks of great Fall, it also doesn't quite rank with their highest highs, an admittedly tall order when that includes albums recorded twenty-five years ago by a completely different set of musicians. There are basically three quality tiers in the band's discography: classic Fall, good Fall and lost-the-plot-for-a-minute Fall, and this lands neatly in the second category, with none of the instant classic, teeth-cracking tracks that cover their best sides, but plenty of inspired ranting and rhythmic dexterity nonetheless. If nothing else, it makes clear that Smith is determined to keep charging into the new century at the helm of the Fall, and that can only be a good thing. I look forward to hearing "70 Year Old Man"." (7.5)
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: "The Real New Fall LP: Formerly Country on the Click" (#61 of 2004)
Ranked Highest By: Sid Hartha (#3)
Also Ranked By: Badger (#5)
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Pavement Ist Rad
Dec 29 2008, 02:07 PM
So there's already no way the top 50 is going to be as great as the bottom 50.
spiritofeden
Dec 29 2008, 02:10 PM
#100 is likely miles better then whatever # 1 will be.
Paul
Dec 29 2008, 02:11 PM
“play it loud” - Sid Hartha
#99.
Dungen - 4(683 Points, 12 Votes, One #1 Vote)US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
Pitchfork Review: "The resulting lineup has come up with a tighter, more focused, and more compact record than Tio Bitar (10 songs, 38 minutes, no songs over five minutes) that still finds a way to touch on all of Dungen's sonic tendencies in lively, unpredictable fashion. Moments of mournfully wailing acid-rock beauty (the violin-tinged opener "Sätt Att Se") give way to gentler strains of classically influenced pop ("Målerås Finest"). The loose-fingered, high-speed freakout of "Samtidigt 1" is joined in progress right after the fluttering pastoralism of "Det Tar Tid"; its partner "Samtidigt 2"-- culled from the same full-band jam session-- soars into some kind of Deadhead exosphere only to dissipate into the soft piano/chime/flute melodies of "Bandhagen" (and its not-so-soft drumbeat-- like every other Dungen record, 4 is a percussive monster). And sometimes the contrasts build over the course of a single song, like when the jaunty Zombies/Kinks march-beat of "Finns Det Någon Möjlighet" eventually shifts from lighthearted, piano-driven frolic to a feedback-drenched trudge through creeping dread." (7.8)
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: "Tta det lugnt" (#59 of 2005), "Tio Bitar" (#100 of 2007)
Ranked Highest By: Sid Hartha (#1)
Also Ranked By: Midnite_Vulture(#4)
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Montana
Dec 29 2008, 02:13 PM
QUOTE (spiritofeden @ Dec 29 2008, 03:10 PM)
#100 is likely miles better then whatever # 1 will be.
You need to wear a mask when you use that paint, Spirit.
arkin
Dec 29 2008, 02:15 PM
so that Dungen album's good, eh?
spiritofeden
Dec 29 2008, 02:16 PM
QUOTE (Montana @ Dec 29 2008, 02:13 PM)
QUOTE (spiritofeden @ Dec 29 2008, 03:10 PM)
#100 is likely miles better then whatever # 1 will be.
You need to wear a mask when you use that paint, Spirit.
unless # 1 is M83 i will stand by this comment.
Paul
Dec 29 2008, 02:17 PM
“The Move D is a very subtle rave of the mind thing more or less.” - avec
#98.
Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs From The Beehive(689 Points, 10 Votes)US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
PopMatters Review: "Songs From the Beehive‘s nearly 80-minute running time is split into measured, warm house tracks that don’t climb into Earth-rattling climaxes of any kind. Not unlike Mike Shannon’s deeply affecting but nonchalant Possible Conclusions to Stories That Never End, this restraint is precise and deliberate. German producers Move D & Benjamin Brunn casually augment their efforts with little more than miniature flickers of sound—breathy surges dance around the complicated percussive throb of “Velvet Paws”, “Honey” grows fat with rubbery grooves, and “Mothercorn”, with its comparatively pronounced synths, is rife with echoes and wobbly far-corner countermelodies. An appreciation for this subtlety may only develop after a second or third careful listen, particularly if you like your electronic music to be more immediate, or more overtly decorative. Sure, “Come In” is a serving of atmospheric magnificence—all knocks and polished, mechanic fluttering—but most of Songs From the Beehive‘s elegance is just under its surface, and discovering it usually takes a little patience." (6/10)
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: n/a
Ranked Highest By: Badger, Cinnamon Pooter (#3)
Also Ranked By: Bruegel (#4)
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Soundscape
Dec 29 2008, 02:18 PM
my only experience with
"The Fall" = the album "Bend Sinister" has absolutely nothing to do with
the indie-prog rock band I love from Vancouver
Mitchell
Dec 29 2008, 02:19 PM
Good to see this underway, good start too.
Mike Schank
Dec 29 2008, 02:21 PM
Wow, what an awful start. At least things cant get worse.
Paul
Dec 29 2008, 02:21 PM
“Listened to this for 10 seconds and knew it would become an obsession.” - Chronodiggity
#97.
El Guincho - Alegranza(689 Points, 14 Votes, One #1 Vote)US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
Pitchfork Review: "There's something childlike, too, in the way El Guincho's chants and harmonies seem to shift between (relative) tension and release with delighted and purposeless ease, shuttling between the registers of high and higher for the simple thrill of confounding expectations, as if reaching a peak and staying there would be a cop-out. The madly hopping "Kalise", at first ridiculously and hypnotically repetitive, is ultimately exposed as a giant tease for an astonishing, panoramic chorus, whose multi-tracked "ah ah ah!" might be the most utopian moment in music you'll hear this year. There's little subtlety here: "Fata Morgana" may begin with ambient washes of sound, disconcerting looped string riffs, and abstracted wails in the background, but again it's a trap: the song soon morphs into a triumphant anthem, zooming across the stereo mix as if on a trapeze. " (8.3)
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: n/a
Ranked Highest By: insert_name_here (#1)
Also Ranked By: killerparties (#4)
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badger5000
Dec 29 2008, 02:21 PM
Everything should be higher imo
Alright Still
Dec 29 2008, 02:23 PM
Never heard of any of these...
arkin
Dec 29 2008, 02:23 PM
Glad to see El Guincho, would have liked to see it higher.
Is it just me, or did everyone forget that album on their year end lists?
Meldrick Lewis
Dec 29 2008, 02:24 PM
QUOTE (Mike Schank @ Dec 29 2008, 02:21 PM)
Wow, what an awful start. At least things cant get worse.
Imperial Wax Solvent is better than any ten of the much-hyped new things out there
Ned Nederlander
Dec 29 2008, 02:24 PM
Great start. Three excellent albums.
Edit: have not heard songs from the beehive. And ^^real talk right there from Meldrick Lewis.
solace
Dec 29 2008, 02:25 PM
only heard one of these so far, interesting
Paul
Dec 29 2008, 02:26 PM
“I thought about skipping the movie that night and going to see Stereolab. But I realized pretty quickly that I would never do that.” - Pavement Ist Rad
#96.
Stereolab - Chemical Chords(691 Points, 14 Votes)US Chart Position: #170
UK Chart Position: #102
Charting Singles: n/a
Pitchfork Review: "To mention it more than once is to overstate the degree to which Chemical Chords actually does sound like Motown, but another part of the fun of following Stereolab is listening in for subtleties of inflection. With a sound so omnivorous and open to influences that span decades and styles (not to mention planets), the Stereolab discography has become a series of churning extrapolations on a steadfast set of ideas. And Chemical Chords counts among the best of those extrapolations, no matter how familiar that original set of ideas has grown in time.
"Neon Beanbag" opens on a jaunty note, with organs on harpsichord settings and Laetitia Sadier doing her scat-minded best to summon the spirit of doo-wop. The Motown influence is hearable in the way the guitar slides around from chord to chord, in swing-time and not embarrassed to fall a bit behind the beat if it means racking up style points. "Three Women" follows with a little extra wiggle and the kind of bulbous two-note bass-line that might have come out of Detroit in the days before funk changed things." (8.1)
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: "Margerine Eclipse" (#86 of 2004)
Ranked Highest By: Ramona (#2)
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Pavement Ist Rad
Dec 29 2008, 02:27 PM
Awful quote.
Duff.
Dec 29 2008, 02:31 PM
QUOTE (Pavement Ist Rad @ Dec 29 2008, 01:06 PM)
The ellipses were what delayed you.
Imagine how much extra time Rob Gordon is putting in per post.
EDIT: Well, not with that edit. Get fucked, once again.
I also delayed because I didn't know if I wanted to be that guy.
You do not hesitate, and therefore are the superiour boarder.
Anyway, intriguing start.
Pavement Ist Rad
Dec 29 2008, 02:31 PM
Thanks, Duff.
Paul
Dec 29 2008, 02:32 PM
“At points it reminds me of what The Disintegration Tapes might have been like when they were young and healthy and decay was only nibbling at the edges.” - Vurt
#95.
Jacaszek - Treny(694 Points, 9 Votes, One #1 Vote)US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
cokemachineglow Review: "Clips and adumbrated noise make the minor chord classical and choral arrangements even more sinister, like a shadow sister to Efterklang’s similarly combinatory but more effervescent formula; yet melancholy unsettled by the glitch in the pit of its own stomach is only one of the reasons this album is a lasting and revelatory listen. Jacaszek also lend themselves easily enough to meta-conditions, music-about-music statements on the possibilities afforded by electronic tools—enough so that I couldn’t help but think throughout my many, many listens that the album approaches a new watershed for how indistinguishable electronic and organic instrumentation can be in talented enough hands. For a long time I wondered if electronic music was a dead-end alleyway, an obvious way to either put fresh gloss on traditional songwriting or to clumsily blow it up; that is, unless one was crafting yet another slavish, dull-witted album at the altar of IDM or was jettisoning that craft into a vacuum of distancing technicality. Treny, on the other hand, should do for electronic and indie-classical music what Pan’s Labyrinth did for mainstream folkloric retellings; the style draws you in, but it’s the breadth of technology’s reach that leaves one with the feeling that they’ve witnessed some small node in a broader redefinition." (89%)
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: n/a
Ranked Highest By: Rez (#1)
Also Ranked By: vurt (#2), helmet52 (#4)
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Duff.
Dec 29 2008, 02:32 PM
Man, flood control.
spiritofeden
Dec 29 2008, 02:33 PM
so who's gonna start up the Top 100 Fish thread?
Pavement Ist Rad
Dec 29 2008, 02:35 PM
Google.
Soulseek.
It's all there. Waiting. For you.
arkin
Dec 29 2008, 02:35 PM
QUOTE (spiritofeden @ Dec 29 2008, 03:33 PM)
so who's gonna start up the Top 100 Fish thread?
good call, I'm seeing entries I've never heard...definitely a few I've never even heard of.
James D
Dec 29 2008, 02:36 PM
Nice start. That Move D is pretty brilliant.
Seeing Vurt and Helmet place something in their top 5 means that I need to check out that Jacaszek release.
Ned Nederlander
Dec 29 2008, 02:37 PM
Wow, that was a pretty fantastic quote there by Vurt. Pretty much sells me on checking this out, even though I've never even heard of the band.
Mitchell
Dec 29 2008, 02:38 PM
We don't need anymore fish threads. Google the album name, add .rar or the words sendspace, mediafire, rapidshare and so on and you'll find pretty much any album.
spiritofeden
Dec 29 2008, 02:38 PM
QUOTE (arkin @ Dec 29 2008, 02:35 PM)
QUOTE (spiritofeden @ Dec 29 2008, 03:33 PM)
so who's gonna start up the Top 100 Fish thread?
good call, I'm seeing entries I've never heard...definitely a few I've never even heard of.
Paul
Dec 29 2008, 02:39 PM
“Screw it, I totally love this album. It's all I want to listen to right now.” - The Luscious Phil
#94.
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs(696 Points, 18 Votes)US Chart Position: #1
UK Chart Position: #24
Charting Singles: "I Will Possess Your Heart" (#70 Hot 100, #6 Modern Rock), "Cath..." (#10 Modern Rock)
Pitchfork Review: "Narrow Stairs, Death Cab's second album for Atlantic and sixth proper LP overall, is one of the darkest and most muscular in the band's discography, but they're still aiming for the same place: your heart. It's an album about growing and changing and becoming resigned to the fact that you'll never be truly content-- not even if you quit that day job, achieve your rock'n'roll dreams, and find yourself in a loving marriage. At times, the maturation feels forced; the more adventurous moments here are experimental only for such a high-profile group, and they don't play to Gibbard's sentimental, word-weighing strengths. Still, even the disappointingly sleepy Plans had ear-catching singles, and when Death Cab go with their pop instincts on Narrow Stairs, they bang out songs focused and evocative enough to win over maybe a few of this loved-and-hated group's longtime skeptics. " (6.0)
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: n/a
Ranked Highest By: BigUps (#7)
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caley
Dec 29 2008, 02:41 PM
QUOTE
03:19 PM' post='791877']
Good to see this underway, good start too.
QUOTE
03:21 PM' post='791879']
Wow, what an awful start. At least things cant get worse.
Ah, the SOMB.
caley
Dec 29 2008, 02:44 PM
QUOTE (Paul @ Dec 29 2008, 03:39 PM)
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
I will go to my emo pussy grave raving that 'Transatlanticism' is one of the best albums of this decade, but 'Narrow Stairs' did absolutely nothing for me. It was really DCFC-by-numbers, in fact, upon first listen of the album, I had the feeling that maybe I'd downloaded a fake, but then I realized it really couldn't be anyone else...and not in a good way.
Paul
Dec 29 2008, 02:45 PM
“Use that Bruno Pronsato album to lubricate your list-making mechanism” - Bruegel
#93.
Bruno Pronsato - Why Can't We Be Like Us(696 Points, 9 Votes, One #1 Vote)US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
residentadvisor.net Review: "Comparisons with a few other superficially analogous producers might draw out the distinctions. The first few tracks ‘(Slowly Gravely’ and ‘What they Wish’) sound not unlike some of the VST horrorshow mnml on Onur Özer’s recent album Kashmir. Like Özer, Pronsato’s compositions are full of ‘personality’—you don’t have to second-guess yourself and ask, ‘Is this the new Özer/Pronsato, or the new M_nus record?’ But unlike Özer, who sometimes sounds like he was doodling with the presets on his softsynth until he found the ‘spooky’ horn noises he was looking for, Pronsato’s unease is drawn through carefully constructed complications of baroque complexity, not the emotional tonality of an unsubtle but effective sound effect symphony. Pronsato’s works are also (again, unlike Özer) emphatically compositions—they’re dynamic, they move, evolve, and unfold, telling a story in the process, through layers upon layers of sounds over time, where each is allowed its voice. They don’t just ‘sound cool’, they speak, they say something. And to me at least, this makes all the difference." (5/5)
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: n/a
Ranked Highest By: Bruegel (#1)
Also Ranked By: Rez (#2), vurt (#5)
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Raj (Noble Con)
Dec 29 2008, 02:45 PM
QUOTE (James D @ Dec 29 2008, 01:36 PM)
Nice start. That Move D is pretty brilliant.
Seeing Vurt and Helmet place something in their top 5 means that I need to check out that Jacaszek release.
Yeah, that's an excellent album, very glad to see it squeak into the top 100. Wouldn't have expected it to make the cut.
Paul
Dec 29 2008, 02:50 PM
“You're quite the sellout, Mark. I mean... what would the Melvins say?” - Juno MacGuff, star of the Academy Award winning documentary, Juno the Last Dinosaur
#92.
Melvins - Nude With Boots(713 Points, 15 Votes)US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
Pitchfork Review: "Nude With Boots opens with "The Kicking Machine", the latest in a long tradition of album-opening Melvins tracks that sound a lot like Led Zeppelin songs (pretty much "Good Times Bad Times" without the fey chorus), particularly all of Lysol, whose entire triggered drum sound was lifted off of Houses of the Holy. "Billy Fish" revives (A) Senile Animal's big-guy-with-pigtails vocal harmonies; "The Smiling Cobra" is more Crover bass drum worship. It's unclear how there hasn't been a Melvins track named "Dies Iraea" before; its twangy drone and cymbal taps are a lot like what Earth started sounding like after they stopped sounding like the Melvins. The doubleshot of "The Stupid Creep" (deadpan sneering) and "The Savage Hippy" (drum machine type brutality) could be a Big Black nod, but maybe I think that just because of the Racer-X-like songtitles." (7.0)
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: "(A) Senile Animal" (#70 of 2006)
Ranked Highest By: Ted Falconi (#2)
Also Ranked By: mouthbreather (#5)
Amazon Link
Duff.
Dec 29 2008, 02:51 PM
QUOTE (arkin @ Dec 29 2008, 01:35 PM)
QUOTE (spiritofeden @ Dec 29 2008, 03:33 PM)
so who's gonna start up the Top 100 Fish thread?
good call, I'm seeing entries I've never heard...definitely a few I've never even heard of.
You all wish you hadn't chased away Chingram
now, don't you?
Some Brilliant Bullsh*t
Dec 29 2008, 02:53 PM
QUOTE (Mike Schank @ Dec 29 2008, 01:21 PM)
Wow, what an awful start. At least things cant get worse.
Nothing I admire more than naive optimism.
Well, fake tits maybe.
solace
Dec 29 2008, 02:56 PM
QUOTE (caley @ Dec 29 2008, 01:44 PM)
QUOTE (Paul @ Dec 29 2008, 03:39 PM)
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
I will go to my emo pussy grave raving that 'Transatlanticism' is one of the best albums of this decade, but 'Narrow Stairs' did absolutely nothing for me. It was really DCFC-by-numbers, in fact, upon first listen of the album, I had the feeling that maybe I'd downloaded a fake, but then I realized it really couldn't be anyone else...and not in a good way.
ditto.
sadly i think i prefer Narrow Stairs to Plans still, but neither do a lot for me. between the 2 i could probably come up with a pretty solid DCFC record, but still wouldn't touch Photo Album or Trans
good to see it this low on SOMB
Paul
Dec 29 2008, 02:59 PM
“Check out the cool riffage. Check how she gets her nico on with certain vocal inflections. Check the awesome verse, chorus, and coda. They got more where that came from. Check them out if you havn't imo.” - maxexactly
#91.
Beach House - Devotion(714 Points, 16 Votes)US Chart Position: #195
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
Pitchfork Review: "Even though it's tidier and more streamlined, the music surrenders none of its autumnal charm, and there's still a sense of eavesdropping on a private, ongoing dialogue between Legrand and a ghost. Of course, we only get to hear her side of the story. As on the first album, which began with the words "Love you all the time, even though you're not mine," she favors second-person assertions that speak of self-effacement, dependence, and sinister dream-world conversations. "Your wish is my command," she intones on "Wedding Bell", becoming a genie in a puff of smoke. And on "Gila", she sings in a world-weary wheeze, "Man, you've got a lot of jokes to tell." But instead of the punch line, we get the sort of jarring shift that characterizes dreams: "So you throw your baby's banners down the well."" (8.5)
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: n/a
Ranked Highest By: jellyfish (#5)
Amazon Link
caley
Dec 29 2008, 02:59 PM
QUOTE (solace @ Dec 29 2008, 03:56 PM)
between the 2 i could probably come up with a pretty solid DCFC record, but still wouldn't touch Photo Album or Trans
That's right on the money.
arkin
Dec 29 2008, 03:01 PM
QUOTE (Paul @ Dec 29 2008, 03:59 PM)
#91.
Beach House - Devotion
(714 Points, 16 Votes)
oh, shit, this is way too low
JeffTweedysFatStomach
Dec 29 2008, 03:02 PM
Wow, can't believe Beach House is this low.
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