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on the subject of sounding like the pet shop boys
i quite like the sound of arrows, who mirror their peak work pretty much

big boi really sticks out here, other than that these are all pretty much awesome (i know i listened to the streets once in lolcollege but have no memory of them. don't care tbh)

1 third
2 college dropout
3 kaputt
4 kaleidoscope dream
other 3 i like pretty equally

Tennant is who I hear and who Bejar appears to be drawing much of his influence from on Kaputt IMO. He might not have quite Tennant's range, but I don't think you have to be an expert on vocal-technique to hear it in his inflections. It appears to be a very deliberate aping of Tennant's laryngeal English style. Even that "Sounds, Smash Hits, Melody Maker, NME" line not only sounds like Tennant in terms of tone and accent, but it also parodies the meta-pop tradition that PSB were good at (not to mention Tennant's association with Smash Hits itself). I can't remember if he sang like this on previous records or not?

i would be down for a 2003 poll, amazing year for music. didn't trap muzik come out in 03? that's my number 1

Doing a 2003 poll now would feel wrong, these things need to be contemporary, not just because the voter demographic has changed markedly.

ha, welcome interstate managers <3

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.

make it stop

if there isn't a lot of popular support for this, though, we may as well stop it.

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"

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.

Definitely a strong Al Stewart vibe with Destroyer.

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.

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.

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

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.

the rest is composed and played by the stuffed animals

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, February 1, 2013 3:16 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

don't you mean ~childlike wonderment~, lol

and then they sent it to Pink Floyd

xp not much childlike wonderment with Kaputt FWIW, more enervated disillusion.

Silent Shout changed me.

i preferred you before

Third

In order of preference (top 5 was very, very difficult)

Portishead - Third
The Knife - Silent Shout
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
M.I.A. - Arular
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot
Miguel - Kaleidoscope Dream
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Kanye West - College Dropout
Destroyer - Kaputt
The Streets - Original Pirate Material

only the combined power of the knife and fever ray puts kaputt in third place, but in any other decade...

Dan Bejar sounds too drunk and tired to be filled with childlike wonderment.

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.

only the combined power of the knife and fever ray puts kaputt in third place, but in any other decade...

was counting on your vote :(

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

who are these people who have never heard the college dropout?

I've heard "Jesus Walks."

ive heard he saves

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

Only heard the singles.

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.

kaputt

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

Kaputt by leaps and bounds

I don't get Kaputt at all.

@ 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!

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.

frederick b otm, but i voted for it because its the greatest album of the last 10 years, not to spite anyone

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.

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Went for Sound of Silver because Silent Shout will win anyway.

Not Third?

despite some stuff competition kaputt will *probably* win ultimately...

*thinks*

yes yes, it will be kaputt

I forgot to ever listen to "Kaputt". Voted "Third".