ha, welcome interstate managers <3
― nathey, Friday, 1 February 2013 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
Lets do the 10th anniversary of 2003 poll!
Can we, uh, give it a month or so, though? I think a bunch of us will wanna relisten to a bunch of things, plus I think a good number of us (just me? ok.) might be suffering from a bit of poll exhaustion. Either way, participation may be greater if there's some time to get it together.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Friday, 1 February 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
make it stop
― Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Friday, 1 February 2013 14:59 (eleven years ago) link
if there isn't a lot of popular support for this, though, we may as well stop it.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Friday, 1 February 2013 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
Bejar has more bass in his voice than Tennant and phonates more, but there is a strong latter-era-PSB flavor to the way he is singing on "Chinatown"
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Friday, 1 February 2013 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like I should vote for Kaputt just because it gets dumped on so much. I listened to "Blue Eyes" on the way home from work yesterday and it's still great!
Probably the album I've listened to the most on here is Arular.
― Moodles, Friday, 1 February 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
Definitely a strong Al Stewart vibe with Destroyer.
― Moodles, Friday, 1 February 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
Arular, but that's really a placeholder for the obviously-robbed Kala. In any case, it's the only one of the 10 that I really love. Like/respect many of the others.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 1 February 2013 15:06 (eleven years ago) link
xp Ok, maybe it's 50% Tennant and 50% something else that I can't stand. I think I resent this record exactly because it was pitched to me as PSBs + Avalon Roxy, which sounded fantastic, and then it wasn't that at all. But I'll stop dumping on it now.
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 1 February 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know what it is about the album that evokes this imagery but listening to Kaputt makes me think dude is singing to an audience of his stuffed animals
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Friday, 1 February 2013 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
Kaputt makes me think dude is singing to an audience of his stuffed animals
This accounts for a lot of North American indie post-1998 or so anyway.
― Matt DC, Friday, 1 February 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
the rest is composed and played by the stuffed animals
― Hermann Hesher (Noodle Vague), Friday, 1 February 2013 15:20 (eleven years ago) link
― Matt DC, Friday, February 1, 2013 3:16 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
don't you mean ~childlike wonderment~, lol
― lex pretend, Friday, 1 February 2013 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
and then they sent it to Pink Floyd
― Mark G, Friday, 1 February 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
xp not much childlike wonderment with Kaputt FWIW, more enervated disillusion.
― Neil S, Friday, 1 February 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
Silent Shout changed me.
― with perhaps the exception of r-r-r-r-rhythm (Sanpaku), Friday, 1 February 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
i preferred you before
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
Third
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
In order of preference (top 5 was very, very difficult)
Portishead - ThirdThe Knife - Silent ShoutFever Ray - Fever RayM.I.A. - ArularBig Boi - Sir Lucious Left FootMiguel - Kaleidoscope DreamLCD Soundsystem - Sound of SilverKanye West - College DropoutDestroyer - KaputtThe Streets - Original Pirate Material
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
only the combined power of the knife and fever ray puts kaputt in third place, but in any other decade...
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 1 February 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
Dan Bejar sounds too drunk and tired to be filled with childlike wonderment.
― MarkoP, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
The 'childlike wonderment' thing comes from a recent Stool Pigeon article about music journo cliches to mean 'sounds like animal collective'. Destroyer doesn't sound like Animal Collective. Neither does he sound drunk, apart from in a slightly uncomfortable avuncular way perhaps.
― dog latin, Friday, 1 February 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
was counting on your vote :(
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 1 February 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
love: silent shout, third, fever ray, kaleidoscope dream
really like: sir lucious left foot, original pirate material (not that i've listened to it since like 2004)
'sok: sound of silver, arular (strongly prefer kala)
hate: kaputt ('let england shake' wuz robbed)
still have never heard: college dropout
― steaklife (donna rouge), Friday, 1 February 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
who are these people who have never heard the college dropout?
― The Reverend, Friday, 1 February 2013 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
I've heard "Jesus Walks."
― :C (crüt), Friday, 1 February 2013 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
ive heard he saves
― johnny crunch, Friday, 1 February 2013 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
I wish everyone could really ~hear~ Streethawk, Rubies, Your Blues et al., I mean, I know those people are in multitudes, those records are widely beloved, but when I read "ennh he sounds drunk" or something something I hate indie something something-- or even "Kaputt is the best album by the band Destroyer" for that matter-- it makes me feel like people are missing out on something so enriching and important, like you were born without a sense of smell or something but w/e. Anyway this is a great list of records
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 1 February 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
Only heard the singles.
― a tidy profit in Russia (Eazy), Friday, 1 February 2013 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
I have heard all those Destroyers, and the songs Dan does with New Pornographers, and I still find his talent/style/whatever to not be to my liking. Often, it's actively offensive.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 1 February 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
kaputt
― ☕ (diamonddave85), Friday, 1 February 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
Miguel is the only one I want to listen to right now, or at any point in the past year.
Sound Of Silver, ya can't be srs
― billstevejim, Friday, 1 February 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
Kaputt by leaps and bounds
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 1 February 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
I don't get Kaputt at all.
― billstevejim, Friday, 1 February 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
@ Johnny Fever I meant "~hear~" as in "enjoyed them as I and others do", not "have listened"and it sucks that he offends you! I mean, that sucks!
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 1 February 2013 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
Kaputt will win this in a landslide. Surely I'm not the only one who saw the options, went 'hm, tough one', read the thread and voted for Destroyer out of spite.
― Frederik B, Friday, 1 February 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
frederick b otm, but i voted for it because its the greatest album of the last 10 years, not to spite anyone
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 1 February 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
you know something, i feel like fever ray and the knife will vote-split, and kaputt on some days is my favorite album since the dawn of the new century. so i've changed my vote.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 1 February 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
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― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 1 February 2013 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
Went for Sound of Silver because Silent Shout will win anyway.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 1 February 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
Not Third?
― Mark G, Friday, 1 February 2013 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
despite some stuff competition kaputt will *probably* win ultimately...
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 1 February 2013 23:37 (eleven years ago) link
*thinks*
yes yes, it will be kaputt
I forgot to ever listen to "Kaputt". Voted "Third".
― Mule, Saturday, 2 February 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
I like Kaputt better than Let England Shake and I love PJ Harvey. Going with Fever Ray here though. I couldn't get enough of that album and I never got tired of it. The videos were great too.
― LeRooLeRoo, Saturday, 2 February 2013 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
wonder what gradeski will vote for
― manti 乒乓 (k3vin k.), Saturday, 2 February 2013 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
voting Kaputt
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, 2 February 2013 01:56 (eleven years ago) link
THE KNIFE
― rocky dennis horror show (Pillbox), Saturday, 2 February 2013 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
Fever Ray is definitely my favorite of these. And I'm also a fan of PJ Harvey who liked Kaputt better than Let England Shake.
― Dan S, Saturday, 2 February 2013 06:02 (eleven years ago) link