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

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

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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.