Rolling Top 100 2005-2009: ALBUMS "I don't get it thread"

Bascically to keep me from becoming an annoying jerkass on the real thread.

You can play too!

yeah dude don't jerk ass.

slow and steady wins the race of ass

ASS PUNK

lol j/k daft punk are good really

72. AMY WINEHOUSE Back to Black (2006) [223 points, 9 votes]

i just

you've got nothing on my reaction if sound of silver wins

hahaha

what is a rachel stevens btw

she is an englishes

also proof that ILX prefers throwaway pop to serious art AMIRITE LETS HAVE A DEBATE

serious art is shitty and no fun

FUCK ART LETS uh pop i guess?

POP POP POP POPPITY POPPAGE

hey now

this is a good thread. a clean thread. a good clean thread.

i will go back and become retroactively confused with the earlier results once todays wind down, but now im LIVEBLOGGIN YALL

i also dont understand why people hate 808's and heartbreak so much, i like it and think that it is fun.

this winehouse thing is kinda right up there with my hall and oates issues of the past week, i really cant comprehend the enjoyment of some things on any level

i mean throw in people repping for "walking on sunshine" and ill just give up and cut my ears off or something

SPOILER ALERT: i dont think that belphegor - bondage goat zombie is going to make the cut at this point.

;_;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Bc5K9LMmk

BUT IT CAN STILL MAKE THE ITR COUNTDOWN

ALONG WITH UL.VER

(WHICH WAS MY #1 OBV)

YEAH THIS IS KICKASS JJ \m/ \m/

ROAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHH ALSO HAIL SATAN

i also dont understand why people hate 808's and heartbreak so much, i like it and think that it is fun.

Because people are too invested in the narrative of Kanye as an unlikable, egomaniacal jackass to get into that album, which has a lot of his best production and some really fantastic to-my-ears intentionally-self-deflating songs (like, anyone listening to "Paranoid" or "Robocop" or "Heartless" with the mindframe that we are supposed to come away from it agreeing with the point of view presented by the songs consumes and processes art in a manner completely foreign to me).

Rachel is/was the hot one from S Club 7

Hannah > Tina > Rachel > Jo.

Also 808 is just 'ooooh poor me, my life of lots of money and attractive women is sooo hard. pity me. i said pity me! btw brb, gonna go do loads of coke and sleep with bald girls, but don't you stop feeling sorry for me while i'm away. also i r above rapping now.'

so basically your argument is "back in the pigeonhole I have created for you, Kanye"

man i think this once again gets back to the whole thing we talked about uh somewhere in another thread about making the basic assumption of characters in songs vs. taking songs as statements of purpose/reality. like really to me (and uh dont get me wrong i am pretty into a good lyric) at the end of the day i cant really work a lot of the actual person into the song persona because that isnt how songs work for me.

however i am pretty sure the dude in belphegor does in fact have a goat zombie that he uses for S&M gratification

THAT SHIT IS JUST TOO REAL FOR YOU SQUARES TO HANDLE

It really isn't. I am not one of these people who got pissy at Andre 3000 for not rapping as much. But Kanye doing it, and then 'returning' as if rap 'needed' him is just eurgh. Like the genre couldn't survive with one dude going off singing and being a dickhole. And again, its really not hard to make an album to get people to sympathise with you and yr personal problems, just don't act like a dick about it ("my friend should me pictures of his kids, and all i could show him was my brand new cribs" being a way to start an album at the biggest time of foreclosures in decades is a p big dick move imo. etc etc etc)

Beats are nice tho.

man i think this once again gets back to the whole thing we talked about uh somewhere in another thread about making the basic assumption of characters in songs vs. taking songs as statements of purpose/reality. like really to me (and uh dont get me wrong i am pretty into a good lyric) at the end of the day i cant really work a lot of the actual person into the song persona because that isnt how songs work for me.

Yeah, that's the thing; maybe I am approaching this differently not because I'm a performer but because of the type of performing I do and the way I write, but even things that could conceivably be linked to me and my life aren't actually me when I am singing about them; like, I wrote a song about how I wanted to kill myself after my brother died, but when I sing that song I am not actually saying "btw I want to kill myself because my brother died". I am telling a story based on some emotions and experiences from my past, but the voice is a character.

Now, there are certain things that come through when you adopt certain characters that may come across as repellent, which may be your intent but may not be, which is why the whole n-word thread happened; there are certain topics that you need to be sure that your communication is on point otherwise all you will do is piss people off and brand yourself an asshole. (Arguably EVERY topic you write about should have this same attention to communication, if only to make sure that you interrogate your work from several angles and are okay with the differing responses it may evoke; "careful communication" does not equal "this song means this and this only and I will spell it out in unambiguous detail".)

xp: well Kanye's "return to rap" is the real point where his ego steps in; I see it less in his actual work and more in what projects he decides to do next and how he promotes himself. Also, to run off of that example, I don't think the timing of the financial collapse was really his fault or undermines the point made by that line, which is that Kanye-the-character is upset that he sacrificed making time for personal relationship and starting a family for acquiring wealth and that he feels empty inside in a manner that, to his eyes, his friend with a family does not.

ok yeah i get that. maybe i should add '+ half the lyrics are super embarrassing and he needs to go back to getting ghostwriters to help him.'

tried clicking on a random song and got HOW COULD YALL BE SO DR EVIL proving my point.

Kanye has been the king of embarrassing lyrics for his entire career with perhaps the sole exceptions of "Gold Digger" and "Love Lockdown" so I'm not overly mad at him for that.

oh and "Diamonds From Sierra Leone" too

yeah but... aw hell i am just losing this here. I dunno, I guess his stupid lyrics used to have some charm that he started losing on Graduation for me (see stronger or drunk & hot girls or the chris martin one or the one about wanting to bum jay z or whatever) and mix in his whiny singing and i just stopped caring.

feel free to carry on w/this discussion, but i am going to post my lists of:

THINGS I HAVE NEVER HEARD FROM ENTRIES 100-68

98. CAMERA OBSCURA Let's Get Out of This Country (2006) [183 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote]
97. RHYTHM & SOUND See Mi Yah (2005) [185 points, 9 votes]
96. CARIBOU Andorra (2007) [187.5 points, 9 votes]
93. NE-YO Year of the Gentleman (2008) [195.5 points, 10 votes]
91. LOS CAMPESINOS! Hold On Now, Youngster... (2008) [197 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
89. VITALIC OK Cowboy (2005) [200 points, 10 votes]
88. ART BRUT Bang Bang Rock & Roll (2005) [200.5 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote]
84. FUCK BUTTONS Tarot Sport (2009) [206 points, 12 votes]
81. DJ SPRINKLES Midtown 120 Blues (2009) [208.5 points, 10 points]
79. WOLF PARADE Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005) [210.5 points, 10 votes]
76. ELLEN ALLIEN & APPARAT Orchestra of Bubbles (2006) [212 points, 12 votes]
73. VON SUDENFELD Tromatic Reflexxions (2007) [220.5 points, 9 votes]
71. RACHEL STEVENS Come and Get It (2005) [223 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]
69. KELLEY POLAR Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens (2005) [225.5 points, 11 votes]

THINGS I ACTIVELY DISLIKE IN PLACES 100-68
78. MADONNA Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) [211 points, 8 votes]
72. AMY WINEHOUSE Back to Black (2006) [223 points, 9 votes]

this is why polls on ILM make me normally feel like a moron

dude okay I don't know if you will dig them but SRSLY CHECK OUT VITALIC AND ELLEN ALLIEN/APPARAT

also Ne-Yo is like about the only current pop r&b dude worth a damn IMO

toss me some track names and i will throw them in the old youtube wayback machine

might as well not link to them here because lol iphone doesnt recognize youtube links on ILX

lol this thread! i'm not even gonna check that ilm thread anymore

hahahaha ok i lied about vitalic, if someone had said "you know, the video with slow motion dogs and lasers" i would have known the error of my ways.

"Poney no 1 (slomo dogs and lasers remix)" is ok i guess, this "la rock 01" song is way weirder and more appealing to me, i feel like it could have crawled out of some weird pocket of the early 90s TC industrial rave scene, that wheedly high pitched wiggle thing is awesome. "My friend Dario" is fucking unmitigated electroclash garbage tho, gross.

actually musically the song is ok, but somebody needs to shut that singing lady the fuck up.

ellen allien & apparat - listening to "Way Out" and uh. a little bored. not really down with floaty mushy vocals over the top of my techno i guess? def way more interested in vitalic based on what ive heard so far.

ok in the home stretch of "way out" and now ive moved on to hating the singer (not as much as that vitalic thing, but still. a lot.)

ok way more into "Leave Me Alone", some really odd interesting things going on here, it sounds all lurching and broken, dude singing also works much better for me, like a creaky new order vocal thing going on. i really like this a lot actually.

Hannah > Tina > Rachel > Jo

This has always been the correct order, well done.

I'd offer to guide peeps through the zone with stuff i dig from the list so far, but as i mentioned upthread i am apparently a moron that doesnt hear as much music as he thinks he does, so unless somebody needs a hard sell on Future Of The Left or the liars album, i got nothing for you prob unless you live in a darker cave than me and haven't heard "My President"

xpost wait huh what

oh i see. sigh. i am old and feeble and confused

lol got distracted by work but you already picked up the Vitalic/Ellen Allien & Apparat tracks I would have recommended

"La Rock 01" would have been very high on my track ballot assuming I remembered to nominate it

if you promise me that there is nothing else like "My Friend Dario" in the vitalic catalog i will prob seek it out once i get home (uh and finish recovering files from my dead hard drive)

also is the female vocal on the ellen allien a regular thing, because that will be a problem.

hahaha i rescind my liars offer, that is the album i hate, never mind

Vitalic's Flashmob album is great, too

btw if you dig the music but are annoyed with the vocalist on EA&A, check out Moderat, specifically "A New Error", "Rusty Nails", "Sick with It" and "Porc #1"

EA&A switch back and forth between her and the dude from Apparat

also lol @ u because u hate gurls

97. RHYTHM & SOUND See Mi Yah (2005) [185 points, 9 votes]

depends on how into reggae you are, as a sound, but this kicks ass

hmmm reggae can be a problem

actually it might not, since i'm not the biggest reggae fan in the world and i like that album a lot. heavy as fuck.

lol xp

ok so now that weve established that i hate women and jamaicans where do we go from here

hxtp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QEi4FRWMwQ

also, since I'm already recommending everything else on this record label, this is Modeselektor at a live set doing a fucking great track off of their Happy Birthday! album

Hey im bored, so i am going to defend listening to Liars in the modern day with a song from their new album, which is not the one that made the countdown, because that one sucks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baq3EjdZ7vw

NOTE: dont get all weird on me and stop listening halfway through, its a slow build and then big payoffs from there you fuckers.

Start sounds exactly like a Drums Not Dead song so I don't get yr point?

bump for my feelings as described in thread title about "dear science" TVOTR

basically oh look a new tv on the radio album lets NAP

oh and re: Liars ick, drums not dead just left me completely cold, maybe the whole annoying 2 character thing and the fact that i couldnt tell the song titles apart and the fact that it was mostly kinda boring i guess? earlier shit was just so unhinged album to album that drums just felt like a rut to me.

goddamn, talk of early liars, you are bringing back memories from 2003 or some such wackity crack year of my life.

phoenix barf

also HI DERE u should school me on how to not dislike the yeah yeah yeahs i have been so far incapable of doing so

Phoenix seems like a band designed to be used in commercials (ie, their songs are fine for like 15 seconds, but around second 16 you're like "wait this is horrifically annoying, fuck off")

re: YYYs, what have you heard? All I've really heard are "Maps", "Y Control" and It's Blitz!; I think the video for "Y Control" is way better than the actual song, "Maps" is just gorgeous in how the music is arranged and the way she sings it, and IB! pretty much front-to-back is fantastic, especially if you listen to it as a series of EPs rather than an entire album (meaning I usually take "Zero", "Heads Will Roll", "Soft Shock" and "Skeletons" as a unit, then "Dull Life", "Blame and Fortune" and "Runaway" as a unit, and "Dragon Queen", "Hysteric" and "Little Shadow" as a unit).

For me, the album hits its stride around "Dull Life"; however, you are never going to like them because yet again it's a band fronted by a woman with a yelpy laserish voice and by now it is pretty well documented that you hate that type of thing.

yeah that might be the big issue tbh

also they are the band where the guitar player released a book of photos of their tour and them being AWESOME and doing ROCK AND ROLLING things and pimped it like some art triumph when in fact it was kind of like jerking off into a baggie and trying to get your friends to frame it and hang it on their wall.

I am kind of surprised you wouldn't fuck with "Maps" or "Y Control" though considering she's not at all yelpy or laserish on either of those

hxtp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIIxlgcuQRU

xp: but if the book had featured pictures of them jerking off into a baggie that would have been kind of funny; also the guitar player is a massive nerd and should be ignored whenever he's not playing

all i can think of when i hear roison murphy is how much i prefer moloko. its the beth gibbons rustin man to molokos portishead imo.

i also injoy writing sentences that are completely impenetrable unless youve listened to the same albums as me apparently.

Eh, I dig both equally, mostly because her voice in fuckwithable and "Ramalama (Bang Bang) is fucking immense

I don't know Overpowered tho

prob going to break down and get overpowered because ilm has been telling me about it for like 4 years

ilm has also been telling me about taylor swift for years so yknow proceed w/caution

^^^this

i prefer the weirdo i am not a doctor era moloko stuff so the solo junk sounds kinda safe and bland to me. from what ive heard obv.

the one that hooked me for sure was "party weirdo" tho, love that fucking song and its big robot bass

er, including Ruby Blue?

(note, I haven't heard I Am A Doctor)

oh dude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJTZoRxpbLE

i always liked how moloko could be pretty and totally fucking creepy at the same time.

joanna newsom can fuck STRAIGHT OFF btw

interesting opposite reaction - i liked goldfrapp the most when it was pretty, less so when she got creepy and weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOqAIuPDexw&feature=related

"The Flipside" is on the hits compilation, it's a bomb-ass track

^song no one else cares about that seems like it might have been custom designed to make me go O_O :D :D :D xpost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg45mBTbtDg&NR=1

sometimes I think my favorite Moloko track is "Familiar Feeling" or "Indigo"

or "Killa Bunnies"

how people can still rate the hold steady albums after the first 2 is just so ficking baffling to me. by the time i heard the third one it was so clear that "BEEN THERE DONE THAT GOIN HERE AND DOIN IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN" was the modus operandi for that fucking band jesus christ

and i really like the first 2!

haha i heard the third one first so

actually that's a lie i had written off separation sunday but the third one seemed to have tighter songs. though the last time i listened to s.s. it was a monster, no doubt.

moloko is in my personal "i don't get it" pile

I think the secret to getting Moloko is digging the first album, then discovering that she can sing like that live and is also like amazing beautiful

ha even that part is "idgi" and i like redheads :/

they just sounded kind of fakey to me, like someone's textbook example of 'experimental literate pop' come to life

but this is not my thread!

well they definitely started out super theatrical and put on, there's no question about that; you can't do a song like "Fun For Me" or "Where Is the What If the What Is in Why?" and claim 100% earnestness

by the time you get to stuff like "Sing It Back", "Familiar Feeling" and "Forever More" though, the theatricality is less dadaist and more grounded in realistic narrative, and then you have face-meltinginly beautiful things like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gXoBvR9pA8

At one point I thought "I Am Not A Doctor" was the finest album ever recorded and those youtubes are making me think I may just have been right

that wobbling bass noise on "Knee Deepen" is a work of art

not sure I ever actually heard all of Things To Make And Do as I felt kinda betrayed by hit Boris Dlugosch remix etc, but Indigo is a pretty rad song, so I probably should get over decade-old kneejerking

"Pure Pleasure Seeker" is also rad

posting here to prevent sufjan stevens related suggest ban

please can someone explain to me....why

I doubt anyone here will be able to help you out

here, use this to cleanse Sufjan from your brain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuX_zwX3jPg

will be on that after Britney has done with me

it's a TI single from the album right before the one that just charted, which is why I didn't post it on the thread but srsly it's my favorite thing by TI of all time

this has got crazy bounce

but this is not my thread!

― goole, Monday, July 12, 2010 8:25 PM (1 hour ago)

this is a thread for everyone!

i had a negative reaction to things to make and do when i first got it but i just listened to it again on my way back to the shop and it would seem that i was dumb and wrong. way stranger than i recall.

so good. goole some time we will booze up and i have a moloko vs. that weird young lady you were talking about a few weeks ago listening party.

hahaha wow i just looked over the results list and i could pretty much go ahead and post my "so not going to happen" ballot right here on this thread without spoiling anything, but i suppose i'll wait and be good about it.

it is a shining example of non-tactical voting. which also only got me 2 albums on the countdown so

ha sounds good :) xps

jj i am finding we have weirdly un-aligned tastes!

a; grumh aside

lol

A; Grumph brings ppl together

i'll be fucked, there's a lot of the grumh on youtube!!

THROUGH GUESSTIMATING I HAVE DEDUCED JJ'S TOP TWO

APPARENTLY SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM ALBUM IS BETTER THAN BLOOD INSIDE

I still need to hear it + the others :(

You win!

please post the whole thing now!

ALBUMS (RANKED)

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - in Glorious Times - 40 points
Ulver - Blood Inside - 39 points
Future Of The Left - Travels With Myself And Another - 38 points
Sparks - Hello Young Lovers - 37 points
MSTRKRFT - the looks - 36 points
Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick - 35 points
Presets - Beams - 34 points
Future of the Left - Curses - 33 points
Supersystem - Always Never Again - 32 points
Man Man - Six Demon Bag - 31 points
Slough Feg - Ape Uprising! - 30 points
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun - 29 points
The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree - 28 points
System Of A Down - Mezmerize - 27 points
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum - 26 points
torche - meanderthal - 25 points
Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie - 24 points
Devin Townsend Project - Addicted - 23 points
Dethklok - the Dethalbum - 22 points
Flat Earth Society - Psychoscout - 21 points
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-La-La Band - 13 Blues
for Thirteen Moons - 20 points
The Decemberists - Picaresque - 19 points
The Books - Lost and Safe - 18 points
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline - 17 points
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms - 16 points
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela - 15 points
Paleo - Misery, Missouri - 14 points
Mastodon - Crack the Skye - 13 points
Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster - 12 points
harvey milk - life...the best game in town - 11 points
Foetus - Love - 10 points
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull - 9 points
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You - 8 points
Pink - Funhouse - 7 points
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain - 6 points
Baroness - Red Album - 5 points
Bohren & der Club of Gore - Geisterfaust - 4 points
Craig Wedren - Lapland - 3 points
Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky - 2 points
Krallice - Krallice - 1 point

TRACKS (UNRANKED)

Against Me! - Thrash Unreal
Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend
Bat for Lashes - What's a Girl to Do?
Battles - Atlas
chamillionaire ft. krayzie bone - ridin dirty
Daft Punk - Robot Rock
Depeche Mode - Wrong
DJ Khaled f/ Akon, T.I., Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Birdman and Lil Wayne -
We Taking Over
Future of the Left - Arming Eritrea
Hot Chip - Over And Over
Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
Kanye West - Stronger
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
Lady Gaga - Paparazzi
Lily Allen - The Fear
Liars - The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack
Lil Wayne - A Milli
Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On
Of Montreal - The Party's Crashing Us
Pink - Funhouse
Rihanna - Umbrella (ft. Jay-Z)
Sparks - Dick Around
The Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother
The Killers - When You Were Young
the presets - if i know you
The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt
The Raconteurs - Steady, As She Goes
Three 6 Mafia ft. Project Pat - Poppin My Collar
Veronicas - Hook Me Up
Young Jeezy - My President
Zombi - Spirit Animal

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie

despite being one of like 3 Devin Townsend fans on ILM I haven't heard OF that one let alone heard it! also yes, I need to hear Gay Witch Abortion, as has been discussed. FOTL are great and I've seen them live and they were great live too and really funny between songs!

I've heard and liked Psychoscout too, would you believe. I put it on a few times during my stint at that classical and jazz store because the cover looked promising. Sold a few copies! One of the better nu-jazz acts - need to relisten.

That is devin townsends pop masterpiece and no, I am not being at all tongue in cheek

I can well believe he made a pop masterpiece! Dude was in The Wildhearts after all. Plus he's one of the great modern producers.

Oh, and he wrote 'Hide Nowhere' which is nothing if not a mile-wide slab of pure fucking pop genius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGvi6GeXnLg&feature=youtube_gdata

holy shit

^_______________________________________________^

I didn't think it'd be THIS pop!! awesome x20

Yeah that's prob my favorite track, but here is something to appeal to the blood inside voter in you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUtMdDSUFM8&feature=youtube_gdata

Be sure to lock in for the full 9 minutes, things will get good and weird

I just listened to the opening track and yeah this is good shit - about to bed in with yr suggested dementia tho

when that dance-beat takes over I am like O_O

this whole album is massively dope

yeah i know! now of course there are 2 of us who give a shit about it, but man i really wish it had gotten more of a foothold. lady who is singing was in "The Gathering" who i never gave a shit about, but man she works well on here, and the vocal harmonies are just O_O. Really well written, prob too pop pretty for the metal dudes, and too metal for the mainstream so obscurity here we come.

thinking i should maybe resurrect the blog w/a youtube laden countdown of stuff i voted for (although some of it will prob not be anywhere, they only pressed 1000 of that Paleo album iirc).

btw just to derail and talk some more about Ellen Allien/Apparat/Modeselektor, this is Apparat's "Arcadia" off of Walls which I think is really awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3bkmD-70e4

thought of doing the countdown here and then realized "hey how many threads can i start about me and my fascinating opinions before i become king douche" was a valid question. xpost

Bend It Like Bender! is currently rocking my sweet world like a giant male/female duetted popsharktopus

Really well written, prob too pop pretty for the metal dudes, and too metal for the mainstream so obscurity here we come.

well, speaking of which, have YOU heard...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK_trE9qdfY

I've been going mental for the record that's on for the past week. Very different production-wise to Devin's work (or anything else ever made), but equally kickass.

hmmmmmm. thats going to have to grow on me i think, first listen didnt catch me (despite shouty childrens choir bits, which seem to be in that "sounds i like" category most of the time.)

idk, lead vocal has that post ministry pixelated thing going on thats tough for me to deal with anymore so

fair notice: stuck listening to it on the internal iphone speakers so theres i am sure much going on that i am not hearing.

ha at first I thought you were talking about the Apparat track and I was all "...waht"

it's one of the most wilfully distorted, fucked-up recordings in the history of pop-metal, I'll give it that - maybe you'd prefer their cleaner recordings! endless, nameless was very much a 'fuck-you' experiment - I just happen to love it in all its abrasive glory

slightly low quality but what can ya do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPs02a1bie0

If that fails, I'll get back to praising Devin Townsend, and not a word more of this shall e'er be spoken

LJ, did you ever hear Black Moth Super Rainbow? Their Dandelion Gum album kind of comes across as Boards of Canada on ecstacy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYQMs_zXF9k

also they are willing to go much creepier than anything I've seen from BoC (whom you know I love):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC6aAs4kkbY&feature=related

Lollipopsichord starts off sounding like every band Pitchfork has 'broken' for the past 5 years, finds a flute and some meaty synths, doesn't come from anything remotely like the same fragile pastoral-hip-hop sound-world of BoC, has some mysterious vocals, ends. Nonetheless, I refuse to discount them.

Sun Lips is much better - like, MUCH better, while still being a bit garishly this-must-belong-to-some-wave-right. I like the video, even if it is a bit silly. The flute works really well this time. Even less BoCesque. Got a sorta psych-folk vibe, just done with synths. I bet they read their blogs.

Still, I may give their stuff a proper go...

i have started this countdown thing www.jjjusten.blogspot.com

was gonna say Resolve! is my new fave track but tbh there isn't a song that's any less than balling on Addicted and that is glorious truth

just wanted to post and thank JJJJusten for "Bondage Goat Zombie" - because this is why i don't vote in polls like that one, because the likes of Bondage Goat Zombie has no chance of winning

i live to make the lives of others better in some small way

btw JJ the 'big reveal' was gonna be that Devin Townsend is an ex-member of The Wildhearts and the two are mutually enamoured of each other in a big sorta way - 'Resolve!' is a Wildhearts tribute, in fact

I have absolutely no doubt you'll go ape for quite a lot of Wildhearts material (if not necessarily the distortion-bomb blow-out) so take it as a VERY strong recommendation

joanna newsom just placed in the 2010 so i thought id better bump this to avoid being a shitheel on the main thread

the list, so i dont have to load the whole thread again:

77. HARVEY MILK — A Small Turn of Human Kindness (240 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
76. QUADRON — Quadron (240 points, 12 votes)
75. RIHANNA — Loud (244 points, 9 votes)
74. ZOLA JESUS — Stridulum II (244 points, 10 votes)
73. THIRD EYE FOUNDATION — The Dark (246 points, 8 votes, 2 first place votes)
(TIE) 71. THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH — The Wild Hunt (250 points, 8 votes)
(TIE) 71. KYLIE MINOGUE — Aphrodite (250 points, 8 votes)
70. WARPAINT — The Fool (250 points, 9 votes)
69. SUN ARAW — On Patrol (252 points, 8 votes)
68. NO AGE — Everything in Between (256 points, 11 votes)
67. GAYNGS — Relayted (258 points, 10 votes)
66. GUCCI MANE — Mr. Zone 6 (260 points, 9 votes)
65. SUN CITY GIRLS — Funeral Mariachi (260 points, 9 votes, 2 first place votes)
64. THE RADIO DEPT. — Clinging to a Scheme (266 points, 11 votes)
63. THE KNIFE — Tomorrow, In a Year (270 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
62. THE NATIONAL — High Violet (270 points, 9 votes)
61. ENSLAVED — Axioma Ethica Odini (272 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)

60. KELIS — Flesh Tone (272 points, 11 votes)
59. CURREN$Y — Pilot Talk II (272 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote)
58. IKONIKA — Contact, Love, Want, Have (276 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote)
57. R. KELLY — Love Letter (284 points, 12 votes)
56. THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS — Further (286 points, 10 votes)
(TIE) 54. NEIL YOUNG — Le Noise (290 points, 11 votes)
(TIE) 54. THE FALL — Your Future Our Clutter (290 points, 11 votes)
53. RANGDA — False Flag (306 points, 9 votes)
52. JAVIERA MENA - Mena (310 points, 8 votes, 2 first place votes)
51. CRYSTAL CASTLES — Crystal Castles (312 points, 13 votes)
50. GORILLAZ — Plastic Beach (316 points, 12 votes)
49. MARINA & THE DIAMONDS — The Family Jewels (320 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote)
48. DEERHUNTER — Halcyon Digest (320 points, 13 votes)
47. ELECTRIC WIZARD — Black Masses (334 points, 10 votes)
46. BIG K.R.I.T. — K.R.I.T. Wuz Here (344 points, 11 votes)
45. PANTHA DU PRINCE — Black Noise (348 points, 15 votes)
44. TYLER, THE CREATOR — Bastard (352 points, 14 votes)
43. SPOON — Transference (374 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote)
42. RICK ROSS — Teflon Don (380 points, 12 votes)
41. YEASAYER — Odd Blood (380 points, 13 votes)

40. WE LOVE — We Love (380 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote)
39. JAZMINE SULLIVAN — Love Me Back (404 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote)
38. TITUS ANDRONICUS — The Monitor (410 points, 15 votes, 4 first place votes)
37. THESE NEW PURITANS — Hidden (414 points, 13 votes)
36. AGALLOCH — Marrow of the Spirit (420 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote)
35. CIARA — Basic Instinct (438 points, 14 votes, 3 first place votes)
34. FLYING LOTUS — Cosmogramma (462 points, 17 votes)
33. EARL SWEATSHIRT — Earl (474 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote)
32. ARCADE FIRE — The Suburbs (478 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote)
31. GUIDO — Anidea (480 points, 17 votes)
30. E-40 — Revenue Retrievin' (484 points, 16 votes, 1 first place vote)
29. HOT CHIP — One Life Stand (490 points, 17 votes, 2 first place votes)
28. LAURA MARLING — I Speak Because I Can (516 points, 15 votes, 2 first place votes)
27. OWEN PALLETT — Heartland (544 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)
26. GIL SCOTT-HERON — I'm New Here (544 points, 20 votes)
25. SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS — Disconnect From Desire (550 points, 20 votes, 2 first place votes)
24. WAKA FLOCKA FLAME — Flockaveli (558 points, 20 votes, 1 first place vote)
23. M.I.A. — /\/\ /\ Y /\ (560 points, 18 votes, 1 first place vote)
22. GLASSER — Ring (570 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)
21. JOANNA NEWSOM — Have One on Me (636 points, 17 votes, 2 first place votes)

this has started with bad portents since my iphone keeps trying to autocorrect quadron as "quadroon" o_o

which judging from far cry is totally booooooring. moving on.

harvey milk is already in my comfort zone, although this album doesnt really measure up to the early stuff imo

ha the new HM was supposed to be the return to their early style after the more produced/catchy/amazing "Life ... the Best Game in Town"

it took this hm album for me to realize that aprt of the appeal there is that theres a weird touchstone between hm singer and the power bellowing that foetus used to do a lot of the time, esp in clint ruin/wiseblood mode. in retrospect shoulda voted this somewhat higher

rihanna i heard and found woefully disappointing from somebody that was so good so recently

xpost yeah see thats the prob w/chasing your past is that when you try to do it, it never seems to actually work tho

first impression of zola jesus was that the world doesnt need yet another fucking siouxsie copycat but theres something kind of interesting going on musically that gets me in a way that makes up for finding her voice reallll boring. this night song which i guess must be the single maybe? is pretty bland, but the song that youtube says is named stridulum is kind afantastic at the end so - idk, peeps that dig this should lead me through the zone here.

3EF was one of my top votes, so i dont really need to dig in there.

tallest man on earth - wow there are not a lot of names worse than this, but i havent heard a note yet, so ill reserve judgement. uh ok so people are way overselling the guitar work on this, not that its bad, but its kinda standard decent acoustic picking stuff, vocals dont bug me as much as they seem to for others - kinda a more cautious version of paleo. in fact people who are into this should just go ahead and go check out some Paleo, its kinda this dude done better. this is ok i guess.

hey jj have you seen mother of fire locally? not a souixsie copycat but really cool band that might appeal to a fan of early bashees stuff, witchy female vox + electric violin + dub bass + post punk drumz

i dont really need to hear any more kylie minogue, i just dont get it and i never will and thats fine

this warpaint thing (undertow) seems to be a bunch of fiddly nonsense, messy oververbed and look at me! lazy cant be bothered attitude, dont like stuff like this at all really. second song now (majesty) and actually thats too soft, i really fucking hate this.

sun araw - started with ma holo and man i am tired of endless loopy nonsense as a thing i guess idk if its just not getting high anymore or what but i am done w/this stuff. beat cop now and unless this goes somewhere soon before we all die, i just dont have any idea what this is supposed to do for me, it just sounds like unfun dub with half the ideas and several decades late.

xpost: sorry was out selling stuff - have not seen mother of fire, but could see totally digging them from that description, will investigate

i know im coming over as all crotchety old man on this thread, but i actually really enjoy these end of year things because i kinda live in a cave outside of my weirdo things im way too into musically these days so like 90% of these lists are full of things ive never ever heard. and despite being a little bitch about most of it so far, no offense intended to peeps that dig this stuff, my ears are as wrong as anybody elses imo.

bump to just express my bafflement about taylor swift making the top twenty when she is absolutely unredeemable in every way and completely talentless and awful.

I'm not even sure my ballot was counted. There's literally SO MUCH on here I don't even know, but I thought I'd voted for fairly obvious stuff. Oh well.

mother of fire, you say? sounds like something i should check out

so no age - this is like time traveling back to 5 years ago at a load records showcase at big vs bar, but scrape off all the sweat and turn things down to a nice manageable level and for gods sake lets tune those guitars and shout less. in other words this sounds like la bowlderizing a providence time capsule for the kids. barf.

gayngs - this has some promise maybe, glitcho stuff at the beginning but now theres smooth jazz saxophone and breathy singing and fucking hell is this the year of reverb or what? and now thanks to wikipedia i realize that these dudes are from minneapolis, and some of them are friends of mine. sorry. and this cover of godley and creme fucking blows and makes me irrationally angry.

Hello JJ. I would like to concur with you on a few things.

guys i am srsly very very sorry about gayngs. knocing some folks off the christmas card list for making that bullshit.

*burns doomtree shirt in protest*

hahaha

i am really happy that sade didnt make the list

if only her supporters had all done a get out the vote campaign with their elderly aunts this could have all turned out so differently

I don't really get warpaint either. I've seen 'em live too. they've got poise, but music is eh.

I want to like these new puritans too but something is preventing me.

that's an excellent no age summation

mother of fire, you say? sounds like something i should check out

― goole, Thursday, February 3, 2011 11:14 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you should!

i will! next week!

wait where when now

I love looking at threads like these because I feel like I totally enter into foreign territory. Like, how bad is it that I almost never recognize any of the artist names, either. I'm going to try to blame nursing school, but seriously only recognizing, like, 4 names at all? (And one of them is Kylie Minogue?! UH)

going to need this again i think

this selena gomez thing is ok in a "didnt madonna already do that "Music" album a while ago" way. actually i like it less and less the more i hear. her voice is boring to me, altho proficient i guess.

does anything ever actually happen in this gang gang dance song

ok it isnt bad per se but it is about 8 minutes too long

haha yeah, from what ppl said on the thread it basically functions as a prelude on the album?

i already said what i had to say about this pistol annies nonsense on the main thread

i am shocked to discover that i think i actually like this tune-yards thingy, the arpeggiated vocal stuff is interesting - this sounds like somebody that listened to a lot of the right peter gabriel records but maybe took some of the vocal tricks a little too much to heart.

oh hey we're back

anyway I sent you a tune-yards song I like via Spotify; overall I definitely ADMIRE her stuff more than I actually LIKE it

i'd trash the tune-yards song here but flopson summed it up pretty well on the results thread

sooooo lana del rey

i can only assume that the voters for that have never heard the other million singers throughout time that have done that sort of thing better and the other 10 million songs that have better lyrics huh

"so imagine that theres this edith piaf song, but she cant sing and doesnt seem to care very much about being there, but wait also the lyrics were written by an idiot."

haha OTM

personally I blame the decline of music education

literally the only appealing thing about "Video Games" is changing the lyrics to the opening verse

I am still super fond of:

Ass
Titties
Ass and titties
Video gaaaames

i would like to play this game but i would have to listen to the song a second time

no, you just need to know the cadence:

1 e and a 2 and
1 e and a 2 and a
video games

anything you can bend around that rhythm works

Dancin' on the dance floor
Girl, it's you that i adore
video gaaaaames

Rip your head off
Shit down your neck
Video gaaaaames

Laugh like a motherfucker
Laugh like a motherfucker
Video gaaaaames

thank god i'm not the only one

wait am i doing the rhythm wrong then

ha no, I am taking liberties

Easily I approach
the microphone because I
video gaaaaames

yessssssssssss

You drag me across
Your open wounds
Video gaaaaames

i have a hot chick
waiting for me in my bed
video gaaaaaames

Swing low, sweet chariot
coming for to carry my
video gaaaaaaaaaaames

maura had a great one, too:

Sittin' in the back seat
Kickin' in the front seat
Video gaaaaaaames

I don't mind stealing bread
from the mouths of decaaaadence
video gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaames

Bosses do what they want
Suckas do what they can
AHH-UHH-AHH-UHH-UAHHH!
Video Games...

why do people, people i like and enjoy and respect even, continue to want to listen to john maus

it is so baffling to me, i cant even come up with pithy slanderous things to say, the closest i have come is calling him a third rate xiu xiu without the catchy tunes which is sonically wrong but feels right somehow

there are some similarities between maus and xiu xiu -- you are not crazy

also dan in case you missed it plz note how proud i am of realizing that death grips - takyon sounds like the main dude is chuck mosely from faith no more

haha I did see that, it was actually the first thing that made me want to hear Death Grips

the first thing that made me want to hear Death Grips was the fact that Zach Hill was involved.

btw just fair warning, I will be putting anyone who talks shit about Shabazz Palaces on blast

fyi