yes we get it your ballot is huge and great etc
ours are pretty great too
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Acoleuthic....Pattern is Movement - All Together NOW!!! http://open.spotify.com/album/5gr8qqRHg1Np9KQFL80Knn
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
never ever heard of that
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
but will listen
What I said on the 05-09 noms thread.
'Two former math rock dudes recreate English Settlement with drums, bells and loops.'
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Dom Leone is a big fan.
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
ok that sounds scientifically engineered to pleasure me
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Also a bit of...this implacable vibe of vintage american pop songwriting...somewhere between The Free Design, Van Dyke Parks and Leonard Bernstein.
If you don't like it it's okay! Will just place high on my ballot along with Parallax error.
Also do you like Godspeed:http://open.spotify.com/album/0o7Khm6Y1jwSXyZZtENzeV
^that album along with Movietone is my genuine favourite new discovery of the year. Maybe it will hit the same sweet spot that Boredoms do.
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I have Soundtracks For The Blind. It's pretty good.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
d'oh
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Not sure how high Parallax Error will be on my albums ballot (it MAY figure) but I'm definitely up for putting Until We Die on my tracks ballot
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
My face during the climax of Helpless Child: * * O
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
GAH that didn't work, more like sand flowing into my bedroom from all the cracks in my door. Horror film catharsis.
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Who did you vote for by the way. This was my first UK gen election. I was born in the states so I wrangled an absentee ballot for the US one just after I turned 18 that august.
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Helpless Child is completely amazing, best track on that album. Suffocating sound, goth nightmare collapse
What, in the general election? I voted Lib Dem and regretted it a little, although my vote helped push the Tories into 3rd in my constituency, one of only a tiny number of constituencies where they lost ground.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
'Two former math rock dudes recreate English Settlement with drums, bells and loops.' <- sold!
― xylyl syzygy (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Hah that's so funny. I voted Labour in mine (Hendon) as it was one of the most likely swings to tory. Andrew Dismore (one of the worst offenders in the expenses scandal) had the seat since 1997, but he lost this time by 100 votes. My parents both voted Tory, which pains me a little. My mother even lied for a bit that she voted labour just to appease me!
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost pattern is movement streatteamin'
My first sessional exam is on Wednesday...so ideally that it was I should be working at the moment. Gotta memorise original old English and translations for The Wanderer and The Dream of the Rood. Yeah! I have enjoyed all the medieval stuff we've done this year.
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Medieval wasn't my strong point, but I wrote a couple of good essays. I forget what about. Think one of them might have been that 'Pearl' thingy.
If I had my vote again I'd vote Green
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
My Spotify keeps freezing but PIM is pretty good so far, very compelling and distinct
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
If you like Pattern Is Movement, I rather suspect you'd like Stars In Battledress. Like, a lot. Imagine something halfway between this and the Sea Nymphs album...
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Wicked, looks like its part of the 'cardiacs family'. Will keep my eye on it.
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll try to link you something (and yes, very much part of the family. Have you seen my 'cardiacsy' thread?)
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
What are people's final thoughts on this freeform format? Would it have worked better with any changes?
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
It would have worked better with about 20 to 30 more ballots. Other than that I think it worked a dream!
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
MAYBE capping every single-vote album would have worked as well, provided no secret coalitions.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
it was only really the top 2 that made a mockery of it
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmmm I was 80% in favour of it...the formalist in me balks at what a (brilliant) clusterfuck it is. It seems more like a rolling list of albums people on ILM are really passionate about; it lacks a sense of 'finality', a genuine testament to a period of music for ILM posters the way other polls and even the alt 70s one do. On the flipside, I am delighted to see Cardiacs and Boredoms so high, and perhaps the list's greatest legacy will be the start of 50 musical love affairs.
xpost I have seen the Cardiacs thread, although I found this huge swath of bands I 'must' hear a little inaccessible. As much as I love them, I like to move my way through their catalogue at a more measured pace, really falling in love with what I have before I move on. PM me something if you like and I will keep it aside.
Also, the Space Jam OST is overdue another listen. It's been a long time, old friend. I wonder if I still have my old cassette tape downstairs. If anything it shows the roots of my 'Ignition - Remix' obsession.
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
pfunkboy the #2 made a triumph of it tbh
I didn't intend it to be anything other than a massively unpredictable trawl through semi-obscure 90's awesomeness, of which there is plenty. The aim is discovery, not finality!
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I was aware (and I admired) your intention. This was a completely great project. The 20% is just some me-bullshit heh.
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
#2 was a perfect pick tbh. So nineties, so adored by rap and r&b fans of a certain age, so needed just 1 person to remind everyone how much they love it.
Don't know about #1 but seeing it made me smile. Shocked nothing got 200+ points though, I assumed a 200 pointer would make like top 10 but not win the whole thing.
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
*aware OF
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost I like rap and r+b a whole lot, but for me personally it prefigured my love for this totally upbeat sampledelic unclassifiable stuff, see The Avalanches, Paul's Boutique, The KLF, Public Enemy.
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
For um...socialogical reasons I would love to actually rewatch Space Jam again and see what I make of it. Maybe if I have children some day.
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
davek- try cuban linx! rza's beats are a haven for the sampledelic.
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
guess not 'upbeat' tho.
It seems more like a rolling list of albums people on ILM are really passionate about; it lacks a sense of 'finality', a genuine testament to a period of music for ILM posters...― Davek (davek_00)
― Davek (davek_00)
love the personal/passionate, have no use for taste by committee. therefore, love the format. wish all open-ended polls were so open-ended.
― contenderizer, Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^this is kinda how I roll
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:50 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost love Cuban Linx, way ahead of ya. That record's appeal for me comes from the words + head-nod beats rather than 'dropping samples' like in Sounds of Science and Close to You. I talked a bit in the Paul's Abbey thread about this. Off topic, but why the hell was Weingarten banned permanently, I really liked him. ILM is all about colourful, opinionated personalities, unless there was something I missed that he said. I personally wasn't that miffed by the 'ba-na-na' talk.
Oh well outnumbered on the personal vs committee. I just really dig how something like Discovery for the 00s can be rallied around as this great consensus pick. (Underside is continued lionisation of things like Kid A over and over and over again).
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:55 (fourteen years ago) link
if there was a total 00's poll right now, Kid A would not finish in the top 10
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe not even top 20
whiney got 102d? daaaamn.
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
if there was a total 00's poll right now, Kid A would not finish in the top 10― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 17:56 (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 17:56 (26 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
would you like to bet on that?
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't really enjoy Radiohead these days, but Kid A is a perfectly passable album and I get why people are really into it. Just can't bear it being kept off top spots by the 00s real champion: Discovery!
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
no. sometimes i say things. xp
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
(Max Tundra's MBGATE is maybe my 00s no 1 but it just makes me delighted that Discovery (top five for me?) is regarded as one of the best albums of the 00s)
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 17:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd have even odds on Discovery winning the poll
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Saturday, 8 May 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
No comments on Whiney, people? Or is that a no-go area. Just curious is all.
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't really enjoy Radiohead these days, but Kid A is a perfectly passable album and I get why people are really into it. Just can't bear it being kept off top spots by the 00s real champion: Discovery!The Wraith: Shangri-La!
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 8 May 2010 17:58 (39 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― tart w/ a heart (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 8 May 2010 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
davek- i assume we all cacked out on talking about sb and will welcome whiney back in time for amazon to hopefully have sent me his nations of millions book already.