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

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!