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QUOTE (spiritofeden @ Jan 2 2009, 02:52 PM)
Album of the year. fuck Fleet Foxes
Bit early for the scotch, eh?
Iam on shrooms.
Full Version: SOMB Top 100 Albums of 2008 - Results Thread
Bit early for the scotch, eh?
Iam on shrooms.
QUOTE (vurt @ Jan 2 2009, 02:00 PM)
Yeah, I've started listening to Cut Copy again after I burned out on it the first go-round. Really good album. Sickpup knows what's up.
apparently not since he didn't hear it until a few weeks ago
QUOTE (Slap Nutz @ Jan 2 2009, 02:56 PM)
where do you think such seminal rap albums as young jeezy, lil wayne, ratatat, and girl talk should place sonicalligator
Jackass. Young Jeezy is horrible. He didn't make my list and I'm glad to see he didn't place. Girl Talk is where it should be. Ratatat didn't place, did it? I didn't expect to see it. Wasn't too happy with their output of LP3. Classics was the shit though. Lil' Wayne placed correctly. Not his best, but still fun. My only wish is that those "seminal rap albums" had such mesmerizing, dazzling lyrics like that of Rivers Cuomo. Then we would have had a classic on our hands.
I need to at least download that CC. Live clips I've heard sound great.
Bright Like Neon Love was a coolass album.
Bright Like Neon Love was a coolass album.
QUOTE (spiritofeden @ Jan 2 2009, 02:00 PM)
QUOTE (Montana @ Jan 2 2009, 02:52 PM)
QUOTE (spiritofeden @ Jan 2 2009, 02:52 PM)
Album of the year. fuck Fleet Foxes
Bit early for the scotch, eh?
Iam on shrooms.
You said you'd be gone for three days. I demand my lost 24 hours.
“What's that background noise, it's all windy and shit and it sounds like the music is blowing my sorry ass around like some magic breeze of balls out indie rock typhoon extravaganza. How do you make recorded music sound like this." - Pavement Ist Rad
#6.
Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
(4356 Points, 64 Votes, Three #1 Votes)
US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
SOMB Says: Deerhunter’s last album, Cryptograms, was an unforgiving blend of ambient chillout, punk rock, and bursts of noise. Deerhunter’s latest album, Microcastle, eschews these more esoteric elements and instead is a surprisingly confident and capable mix of astonishingly clear production, concise songwriting, and catchy melodies. Any active fan of the band could have seen this move coming; lead singer and songwriter Bradford Cox’s solo project betrayed his penchant for ambient and electronic washes cut with an ever-emerging sense of melody and lyricism. But the real surprise here is not its poppiness, nor the fact that the newfound pop sense works; it’s rather that, seemingly overnight, Deerhunter, the band that once swallowed up its admittedly pop songs in impenetrable walls of fuzz, reverb, and delay, have become masters of subtlety and detail. Where the band used to stumble through their own songs, haphazardly switching from one style to another, they now present us with a fantastic album of carefully written, meticulously recorded and perfectly produced 3-minute (on average) songs. These lean pop songs are just as ambitious as any of the band’s previous work, but instead of the songs and their outsized elements spilling all over each other, each song here is fully in its own little universe, with a clear progression, development, and resolution. Initially underwhelming, excruciatingly slow tracks like Little Kids and the title track prove themselves to be wealths of detail, songs that start from almost nothing and end with perfectly natural, thunderous climaxes.
Microcastle never feels predictable or forced, and the band manages to fit decades of ‘indie’ music into single songs. Much has been made of the growing 4AD influence on Cox (culminating in himself and his band actually signing to the label), and it would be difficult to deny this influence here – it’s not hard to imagine Microcastle as a classic 4AD masterpiece next to Head over Heels, Dead Can Dance, Prayers On Fire and Surfer Rosa, and there aren’t many better compliments than that. But what makes it distinct from just another exercise in indie nostalgia is that no 4AD release* ever contained the swaying sexual deviance of Agoraphobia, the achingly slow release of the title track, the ferocious Pixies-as-shoegaze stomp of Never Stops, the simple classicist noir Twilight At Carbon Lake, the creepy, sparse, and sluggish Calvary Scars suite, or the Krautrock motorik juggernaut of the fantastic Nothing Ever Happened, all in one package. Hell, even the woozy, one-minute-long introductory instrumental is one of the most beautiful, memorable tracks of the year. With Microcastle, Deerhunter provides us with a world where there is no genre segregation, where opposing styles and influences clash and collide randomly, yet carefully – and it never feels unnatural – and a world where the little pop songs are meatier than any comparable pretentious, masturbatory excursions. With Microcastle, Deerhunter has achieved perfection in the most insidious, unassuming way possible.
And then there’s Weird Era Continued. As if sensing the band’s ever-apparent ‘recession’ into superficially less-challenging material, Cox and his band set out to create an entirely new album to package with Microcastle, part defensive statement, part response to an early leak of the album. Weird Era is like Microcastle’s retarded little brother, completely lacking the focus, clarity, or melody of its poppy counterpart; but it is not simply a laboured retread into Cryptograms territory, as some might think – it is rather a further descent in experimentation that neither feels forced or pretentious. We get short loops of guitar delay, circular and confusing vocal tracks, and a few tracks that sound like the band pressed the wrong button on the mixing board. It doesn’t make sense, and it sounds rushed, but it feels right. The presence of this extra album is certainly welcomed, but also wholly unnecessary; Microcastle is a fine statement on its own. The presence of Weird Era, and its prowess at doing the exact opposite of what the band worked hard to achieve on Microcastle, only cements the status of this band as an impressively dynamic force.
*Although several Birthday Party releases certainly came close. - Heretix
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: “Cryptograms” (#23 of 2007)
Ranked Highest By: Heretix, washing machine, Lewis (#1)
Also Ranked By: Badger, elementus attacks! (#2), Mike N., greekgoat91, killerparties, Plate, undo (#3), Nick, cpl-593h (#4), arkin, Waterloo, liquidheaven, johnny largesax, RustyTrombone, Drinky, UselessRocker (#5)
Amazon Link
#6.
Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
(4356 Points, 64 Votes, Three #1 Votes)
US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
SOMB Says: Deerhunter’s last album, Cryptograms, was an unforgiving blend of ambient chillout, punk rock, and bursts of noise. Deerhunter’s latest album, Microcastle, eschews these more esoteric elements and instead is a surprisingly confident and capable mix of astonishingly clear production, concise songwriting, and catchy melodies. Any active fan of the band could have seen this move coming; lead singer and songwriter Bradford Cox’s solo project betrayed his penchant for ambient and electronic washes cut with an ever-emerging sense of melody and lyricism. But the real surprise here is not its poppiness, nor the fact that the newfound pop sense works; it’s rather that, seemingly overnight, Deerhunter, the band that once swallowed up its admittedly pop songs in impenetrable walls of fuzz, reverb, and delay, have become masters of subtlety and detail. Where the band used to stumble through their own songs, haphazardly switching from one style to another, they now present us with a fantastic album of carefully written, meticulously recorded and perfectly produced 3-minute (on average) songs. These lean pop songs are just as ambitious as any of the band’s previous work, but instead of the songs and their outsized elements spilling all over each other, each song here is fully in its own little universe, with a clear progression, development, and resolution. Initially underwhelming, excruciatingly slow tracks like Little Kids and the title track prove themselves to be wealths of detail, songs that start from almost nothing and end with perfectly natural, thunderous climaxes.
Microcastle never feels predictable or forced, and the band manages to fit decades of ‘indie’ music into single songs. Much has been made of the growing 4AD influence on Cox (culminating in himself and his band actually signing to the label), and it would be difficult to deny this influence here – it’s not hard to imagine Microcastle as a classic 4AD masterpiece next to Head over Heels, Dead Can Dance, Prayers On Fire and Surfer Rosa, and there aren’t many better compliments than that. But what makes it distinct from just another exercise in indie nostalgia is that no 4AD release* ever contained the swaying sexual deviance of Agoraphobia, the achingly slow release of the title track, the ferocious Pixies-as-shoegaze stomp of Never Stops, the simple classicist noir Twilight At Carbon Lake, the creepy, sparse, and sluggish Calvary Scars suite, or the Krautrock motorik juggernaut of the fantastic Nothing Ever Happened, all in one package. Hell, even the woozy, one-minute-long introductory instrumental is one of the most beautiful, memorable tracks of the year. With Microcastle, Deerhunter provides us with a world where there is no genre segregation, where opposing styles and influences clash and collide randomly, yet carefully – and it never feels unnatural – and a world where the little pop songs are meatier than any comparable pretentious, masturbatory excursions. With Microcastle, Deerhunter has achieved perfection in the most insidious, unassuming way possible.
And then there’s Weird Era Continued. As if sensing the band’s ever-apparent ‘recession’ into superficially less-challenging material, Cox and his band set out to create an entirely new album to package with Microcastle, part defensive statement, part response to an early leak of the album. Weird Era is like Microcastle’s retarded little brother, completely lacking the focus, clarity, or melody of its poppy counterpart; but it is not simply a laboured retread into Cryptograms territory, as some might think – it is rather a further descent in experimentation that neither feels forced or pretentious. We get short loops of guitar delay, circular and confusing vocal tracks, and a few tracks that sound like the band pressed the wrong button on the mixing board. It doesn’t make sense, and it sounds rushed, but it feels right. The presence of this extra album is certainly welcomed, but also wholly unnecessary; Microcastle is a fine statement on its own. The presence of Weird Era, and its prowess at doing the exact opposite of what the band worked hard to achieve on Microcastle, only cements the status of this band as an impressively dynamic force.
*Although several Birthday Party releases certainly came close. - Heretix
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: “Cryptograms” (#23 of 2007)
Ranked Highest By: Heretix, washing machine, Lewis (#1)
Also Ranked By: Badger, elementus attacks! (#2), Mike N., greekgoat91, killerparties, Plate, undo (#3), Nick, cpl-593h (#4), arkin, Waterloo, liquidheaven, johnny largesax, RustyTrombone, Drinky, UselessRocker (#5)
Amazon Link
cut copy wouldve been #1 if paves had not edited my list
I'll bitch about it for the last time here: That Bon Iver album should not be eligible this year, considering the thing came out in the middle of 2007 and there was a SOMB thread about it in August. I know, the rules make it eligible, but fuck that, the rules are flawed.
QUOTE (spiritofeden @ Jan 2 2009, 03:00 PM)
QUOTE (Montana @ Jan 2 2009, 02:52 PM)
QUOTE (spiritofeden @ Jan 2 2009, 02:52 PM)
Album of the year. fuck Fleet Foxes
Bit early for the scotch, eh?
Iam on shrooms.
Tell Iam I said good luck.
QUOTE (cerebralcaustic @ Jan 2 2009, 02:02 PM)
I'll bitch about it for the last time here: That Bon Iver album should not be eligible this year, considering the thing came out in the middle of 2007 and there was a SOMB thread about it in August. I know, the rules make it eligible, but fuck that, the rules are flawed.
i'd tend to agree... and i loved it.
guess sometimes it pays off to be late
Lots of cool people dig Deerhunter, but I don't hear anything more than decent indie rock with a few bells and whistles on that new one.
QUOTE (Pavement Ist Rad @ Jan 2 2009, 02:01 PM)
I need to at least download that CC. Live clips I've heard sound great.
Bright Like Neon Love was a coolass album.
Bright Like Neon Love was a coolass album.
Paves, i'm confused... how can you like that Cut Copy stuff? i thought you were all noise-fuck-drone-bad-90's-throwback-mathrock-elite now?
Ftr, I was talking about "Strange Lights" in that quote.
Microcastle sounds cool, too, though.
Microcastle sounds cool, too, though.
QUOTE (SonicAlligator @ Jan 2 2009, 02:01 PM)
QUOTE (Slap Nutz @ Jan 2 2009, 02:56 PM)
where do you think such seminal rap albums as young jeezy, lil wayne, ratatat, and girl talk should place sonicalligator
Jackass. Young Jeezy is horrible. He didn't make my list and I'm glad to see he didn't place. Girl Talk is where it should be. Ratatat didn't place, did it? I didn't expect to see it. Wasn't too happy with their output of LP3. Classics was the shit though. Lil' Wayne placed correctly. Not his best, but still fun. My only wish is that those "seminal rap albums" had such mesmerizing, dazzling lyrics like that of Rivers Cuomo. Then we would have had a classic on our hands.
yeah, maybe they should spend less time writing lyrics about raping/beating women and getting shitloads of drugs and money vs. the wholesome family fun that weezer is about.
except "cold dark world" a frigid nightfrost anthem.
QUOTE (Paul @ Jan 2 2009, 02:10 PM)
SOMB Says: 808s & Heartbreaks casts Kanye's ego in a whole new light. On Graduation, singing about the good life, Kanye looked larger than life, invulnerable to the world, almost inhumanly so. Now, through the lens of the loss of the two women closest to him, we see him at his weakest, and the ego looks like a contrived spectacle. Using 808s to bare the sutures of his production and the faintest trace of auto-tune to emphasize the artifice of his voice, Kanye seems to be confessing the ruse of his ego, admitting that's it's just another impressive result of his talents as a producer.
But the more robotic Kanye makes himself sound, the more human he appears. In the repeated, sometimes hard to swallow, assertions of glory with which he attempts to hold together his shattered head, we hear a man rediscovering his inner life. The more Kanye stutters and stammers to produce the illusion of invulnerability, the more vulernable he sounds. So if the ego on his earlier albums now seems fake, it doesn't make those albums seem shallow: if anything, it deepens them, since we can now hear in them the real Kanye: not the ego being projected, but the man nervously at work at the projector.
...unless the gesture of vulnerability is just another ruse. - surlacarte
But the more robotic Kanye makes himself sound, the more human he appears. In the repeated, sometimes hard to swallow, assertions of glory with which he attempts to hold together his shattered head, we hear a man rediscovering his inner life. The more Kanye stutters and stammers to produce the illusion of invulnerability, the more vulernable he sounds. So if the ego on his earlier albums now seems fake, it doesn't make those albums seem shallow: if anything, it deepens them, since we can now hear in them the real Kanye: not the ego being projected, but the man nervously at work at the projector.
...unless the gesture of vulnerability is just another ruse. - surlacarte
Nice blurb surlacarte, I have a funny feeling this album might just be my favourite of '08 in about a year's time. For now it's a very solid #3.
i most definitely had deerhunter #2 
I was evidently not all that in tune w/ the SOMB this year. The bottom 40 is sooooo much better than the top.
QUOTE (Easily Fooled @ Jan 2 2009, 02:04 PM)
i most definitely had deerhunter #2
SCANDAL
I still haven't heard 808s and Heartbreak. I should remedy this.
sleazily fooled!
^Indie Rock I can get behind
“the real point of this reply is to state that after one listen, i am now completely head over heels for mark kozelek again.” - Hans Christian Anderson
#5.
Sun Kil Moon - April
(4754 Points, 52 Votes, Eight #1 Votes)
US Chart Position: #127
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
SOMB Says: Some albums you can always rely on to bring it all home. Stalwart in their cathartic power, as if reflections of the ageless self within you. As you mature your viewpoints serve to enrich the desired effect of the music. April makes a new edition to those records of mine. Just a really great fucking album.
Lyrically Mark Kozelek has condensed the album down to one theme: that of escape. The narrator within his songs is never stationary and thus susceptible to numerous heartaches. He moves on from questionable brief loves or finds true love and quickly abandons it. He falls under the spell of countless towns and streets yet never keeps the anchor down for long enough to call any of them home. He sneaks from the lovers bed to the nocturnal streets of Bilbao. In short, the lyrical protagonist floats in and out of peoples lives like a ghost, doomed to manifest in plaintive and piercing observation of beautiful moments. Unfortunately he can never stay long enough to be satisfied, for the road is all he knows. And Kozelek's mournful tone suggests that he yearns to, just for once, find that place to rest for good. To find love and a place to call home.
Musically the album is a stunning achievement as well. Kozelek's guitar work is breathtakingly ornate. From dedicated classically derived fingerpicking to raggedy Neil Young inspired romps, the band owns the music in spades. Just the right amount of reverb poured upon the instruments lends to a shimmering polished steel sound. The songs themselves develop slowly and bask in their own hypnotic power. The lengths are well suited on their own merits and don't burn out. Most are mid tempo and barely above a whisper. However, just when you are lulled by the plentiful comfort, "Tonight The Sky" takes off like a rocket, Crazy Horse style. The jagged ten minute groove grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go.
Great fucking album. - avec
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: n/a
Ranked Highest By: avec, Dark Heat, Huckle, Paper Tiger, Bhickman, Hans Christian Anderson, flinchy17, Ramona (#1)
Also Ranked By: Vivian Darkbloom, August West, +marios+, ____________________________, Pookie (#2), Ringo Is My Name, solace, Ben Thayer, Pavment Ist Rad, dicorice (#3), surlacarte, Plate, souviaki (#4), w. josh, washing machine (#5)
Amazon Link
#5.
Sun Kil Moon - April
(4754 Points, 52 Votes, Eight #1 Votes)
US Chart Position: #127
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
SOMB Says: Some albums you can always rely on to bring it all home. Stalwart in their cathartic power, as if reflections of the ageless self within you. As you mature your viewpoints serve to enrich the desired effect of the music. April makes a new edition to those records of mine. Just a really great fucking album.
Lyrically Mark Kozelek has condensed the album down to one theme: that of escape. The narrator within his songs is never stationary and thus susceptible to numerous heartaches. He moves on from questionable brief loves or finds true love and quickly abandons it. He falls under the spell of countless towns and streets yet never keeps the anchor down for long enough to call any of them home. He sneaks from the lovers bed to the nocturnal streets of Bilbao. In short, the lyrical protagonist floats in and out of peoples lives like a ghost, doomed to manifest in plaintive and piercing observation of beautiful moments. Unfortunately he can never stay long enough to be satisfied, for the road is all he knows. And Kozelek's mournful tone suggests that he yearns to, just for once, find that place to rest for good. To find love and a place to call home.
Musically the album is a stunning achievement as well. Kozelek's guitar work is breathtakingly ornate. From dedicated classically derived fingerpicking to raggedy Neil Young inspired romps, the band owns the music in spades. Just the right amount of reverb poured upon the instruments lends to a shimmering polished steel sound. The songs themselves develop slowly and bask in their own hypnotic power. The lengths are well suited on their own merits and don't burn out. Most are mid tempo and barely above a whisper. However, just when you are lulled by the plentiful comfort, "Tonight The Sky" takes off like a rocket, Crazy Horse style. The jagged ten minute groove grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go.
Great fucking album. - avec
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: n/a
Ranked Highest By: avec, Dark Heat, Huckle, Paper Tiger, Bhickman, Hans Christian Anderson, flinchy17, Ramona (#1)
Also Ranked By: Vivian Darkbloom, August West, +marios+, ____________________________, Pookie (#2), Ringo Is My Name, solace, Ben Thayer, Pavment Ist Rad, dicorice (#3), surlacarte, Plate, souviaki (#4), w. josh, washing machine (#5)
Amazon Link
QUOTE (Slap Nutz @ Jan 2 2009, 03:03 PM)
QUOTE (SonicAlligator @ Jan 2 2009, 02:01 PM)
QUOTE (Slap Nutz @ Jan 2 2009, 02:56 PM)
where do you think such seminal rap albums as young jeezy, lil wayne, ratatat, and girl talk should place sonicalligator
Jackass. Young Jeezy is horrible. He didn't make my list and I'm glad to see he didn't place. Girl Talk is where it should be. Ratatat didn't place, did it? I didn't expect to see it. Wasn't too happy with their output of LP3. Classics was the shit though. Lil' Wayne placed correctly. Not his best, but still fun. My only wish is that those "seminal rap albums" had such mesmerizing, dazzling lyrics like that of Rivers Cuomo. Then we would have had a classic on our hands.
yeah, maybe they should spend less time writing lyrics about raping/beating women and getting shitloads of drugs and money vs. the wholesome family fun that weezer is about.
except "cold dark world" a frigid nightfrost anthem.
Hahaha, yes. That's spot on.
TV on the Radio, Portishead, Fleet Foxes. Who else should we see to finish it off?
zzz
QUOTE (simakos @ Jan 2 2009, 02:03 PM)
QUOTE (Pavement Ist Rad @ Jan 2 2009, 02:01 PM)
I need to at least download that CC. Live clips I've heard sound great.
Bright Like Neon Love was a coolass album.
Bright Like Neon Love was a coolass album.
Paves, i'm confused... how can you like that Cut Copy stuff? i thought you were all noise-fuck-drone-bad-90's-throwback-mathrock-elite now?
I like lots of dance music. Human League and New Order have been two of my favorite bands for years. Heavily influence of both those bands on Cut Copy. They're good at what they do.
QUOTE (Paul @ Jan 2 2009, 02:05 PM)
#5.
holy shit.
QUOTE (SonicAlligator @ Jan 2 2009, 02:05 PM)
QUOTE (Slap Nutz @ Jan 2 2009, 03:03 PM)
QUOTE (SonicAlligator @ Jan 2 2009, 02:01 PM)
QUOTE (Slap Nutz @ Jan 2 2009, 02:56 PM)
where do you think such seminal rap albums as young jeezy, lil wayne, ratatat, and girl talk should place sonicalligator
Jackass. Young Jeezy is horrible. He didn't make my list and I'm glad to see he didn't place. Girl Talk is where it should be. Ratatat didn't place, did it? I didn't expect to see it. Wasn't too happy with their output of LP3. Classics was the shit though. Lil' Wayne placed correctly. Not his best, but still fun. My only wish is that those "seminal rap albums" had such mesmerizing, dazzling lyrics like that of Rivers Cuomo. Then we would have had a classic on our hands.
yeah, maybe they should spend less time writing lyrics about raping/beating women and getting shitloads of drugs and money vs. the wholesome family fun that weezer is about.
except "cold dark world" a frigid nightfrost anthem.
Hahaha, yes. That's spot on.
TV on the Radio, Portishead, Fleet Foxes. Who else should we see to finish it off?
would you like me to finish you off with my hands, mouth, or ass?
QUOTE (cerebralcaustic @ Jan 2 2009, 04:02 PM)
I'll bitch about it for the last time here: That Bon Iver album should not be eligible this year, considering the thing came out in the middle of 2007 and there was a SOMB thread about it in August. I know, the rules make it eligible, but fuck that, the rules are flawed.
i understand yr frustration.
as much as i enjoy vampire weekend, their self titled is practically the blue cd-r which i couldnt imagine being eligible
oh well
I listened to April last night. I love that album so much. Just timeless music. I hope Ryan Adams and Jeff Tweedy took their own lives after listening to it.
QUOTE (SonicAlligator @ Jan 2 2009, 02:05 PM)
TV on the Radio, Portishead, Fleet Foxes. Who else should we see to finish it off?
probably m83.
QUOTE (Easily Fooled @ Jan 2 2009, 02:04 PM)
i most definitely had deerhunter #2
It's tabbed, but if I missed it when putting together the post it is because the only way to find those is to scoll through my spreadsheets and look for the point values.
april is so fucking good.
QUOTE (SonicAlligator @ Jan 2 2009, 03:05 PM)
TV on the Radio, Portishead, Fleet Foxes. Who else should we see to finish it off?
m83?
more like slimeless music
as in listening to it doesnt even give me half a chubby
as in listening to it doesnt even give me half a chubby
Start with the hands and end with the ass. Too many dirty things come out of your mouth, wouldn't want anything going inside of it.
QUOTE (Easily Fooled @ Jan 2 2009, 02:07 PM)
QUOTE (SonicAlligator @ Jan 2 2009, 03:05 PM)
TV on the Radio, Portishead, Fleet Foxes. Who else should we see to finish it off?
m83?
cyhsy
the national
QUOTE (Pavement Ist Rad @ Jan 2 2009, 10:38 AM)
Fucking punishing album.
Fucking sedate, more like it. Two really great songs on it though.
April is one of those albums I spin every so often to see what the fuss is about. I don't think I've ever made it through a full listen. I do like the cover though.
Also, re: "noise-fuck-drone-bad-90's-throwback-mathrock-elite"
Weezer and Sun Kil Moon were in my top five.
Weezer and Sun Kil Moon were in my top five.
velocity, i know you have worthless taste in music but you should've gotten behind harvey milk, torche, and black elk this year
Of Montreal was my #1. Did I miss it or is it still to come?
“Almost sounds like an album that My Morning Jacket would make if all of the band members went to church on Sunday.” - radiocure
#4.
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
(5043 Points, 65 Votes, Three #1 Votes)
US Chart Position: #67
UK Chart Position: #11
Charting Singles: n/a
SOMB Says: Things Fleet Foxes sound like:
Pine cones. Log cabins. Mushrooms but not the magic kind, they don't sound much like that. The way Waffle House tastes. The way it smells when you drive to North Carolina and you pass the first barbecue place. Sand dollars and oceans and water and stuff like that. When you go down in an old person's basement and there's a lot of old musty books. When you're at a campfire and your front half is really hot but your back half is really cold. Sex in tents. Those pictures of really cool looking small churches that are hidden in the woods you seen in architecture magazines and you think to yourself you'd go to church if they all looked like that. Gingersnaps. Spooning. The way you would feel if Morgan Freeman could tell you a nice story before you went to bed. When you're making canned biscuits and you get to bang the tube on the counter to get them to pop open. Really good salty ham. - thresholdofrevelation
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: n/a
Ranked Highest By: frankie say relax, TSLOW, BigUps (#1)
Also Ranked By: phlowtron, farawaysoclose, greekgoat91, JeffTweedysFatStomach (#2), no magnets, birdistheword, RustyTrombone, hornpout, petras (#3), solace, Whiskey!, elementus attacks!, Tito the Builder, tager, Bobzilla (#4), Montana, August West, 54cermak, simakos, without_opinion, Music Saves, Insane (#5)
Amazon Link
#4.
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
(5043 Points, 65 Votes, Three #1 Votes)
US Chart Position: #67
UK Chart Position: #11
Charting Singles: n/a
SOMB Says: Things Fleet Foxes sound like:
Pine cones. Log cabins. Mushrooms but not the magic kind, they don't sound much like that. The way Waffle House tastes. The way it smells when you drive to North Carolina and you pass the first barbecue place. Sand dollars and oceans and water and stuff like that. When you go down in an old person's basement and there's a lot of old musty books. When you're at a campfire and your front half is really hot but your back half is really cold. Sex in tents. Those pictures of really cool looking small churches that are hidden in the woods you seen in architecture magazines and you think to yourself you'd go to church if they all looked like that. Gingersnaps. Spooning. The way you would feel if Morgan Freeman could tell you a nice story before you went to bed. When you're making canned biscuits and you get to bang the tube on the counter to get them to pop open. Really good salty ham. - thresholdofrevelation
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: n/a
Ranked Highest By: frankie say relax, TSLOW, BigUps (#1)
Also Ranked By: phlowtron, farawaysoclose, greekgoat91, JeffTweedysFatStomach (#2), no magnets, birdistheword, RustyTrombone, hornpout, petras (#3), solace, Whiskey!, elementus attacks!, Tito the Builder, tager, Bobzilla (#4), Montana, August West, 54cermak, simakos, without_opinion, Music Saves, Insane (#5)
Amazon Link
thank god that albums out.
1. portishead
fleet foxes more like "worst band ever"
QUOTE (Gbro @ Jan 2 2009, 04:09 PM)
Of Montreal was my #1. Did I miss it or is it still to come?
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Really dull music.
TV on the Radio, M83, and Portishead?
QUOTE (Gbro @ Jan 2 2009, 03:09 PM)
Of Montreal was my #1. Did I miss it or is it still to come?
It was #1 in Special Land. These are just the runners up.
QUOTE (Madrox @ Jan 2 2009, 02:10 PM)
1. portishead
2. tvotr
3. cyhsy
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