cat power, villalobos, or the strokes
― brimstead, Friday, 8 July 2016 03:39 (seven years ago) link
American indie rock from this period is so fucking dreary. I just skim listened a bit of My Morning Jacket, Wrens and Calexico to see if I was missing anything. I wasn't.
― chap, Friday, 8 July 2016 11:14 (seven years ago) link
Listened a lot to2 282 OutKast - Speakerboxxx / The Love Below3 298 Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner8 608 Jay-Z - The Black Album9 794 Four Tet - Rounds19 1377 My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves
Bought6 512 Radiohead - Hail to the Thief13 884 Blur - Think Tank
Think Tank is a perfect album if you remove "Crazy Beat" and "We've Got a File on You".
Voting Rounds, still amazing.
― niels, Friday, 8 July 2016 15:13 (seven years ago) link
oh, christ, i don't know. caribou? man, almost all of this stuff is so, so dire.
― the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Friday, 8 July 2016 16:00 (seven years ago) link
In 2003 I would have voted De Loused. I honestly can't see a reason to switch that given the competition. Overall, a bunch of really good records, but nothing huge sticks out to me.
― octobeard, Friday, 8 July 2016 21:56 (seven years ago) link
I think the Villalobos is only one I've heard all the way through. Sometimes hard to believe I wrote at pfork.
― Dominique, Friday, 8 July 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
you did the good bit tbf
― imago, Friday, 8 July 2016 22:08 (seven years ago) link
Alcachofa is just a really fun album to listen to. Mysterious vibes, sounds everywhere, a good deep adventure.
― brimstead, Friday, 8 July 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
Voting for Hail to the Thief just over Dear Catastrophe Waitress.
― the future is now, Saturday, 9 July 2016 03:28 (seven years ago) link
People still pretending they're too cool for TMV eh? Better than all that barely passable indie in any case
― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 9 July 2016 13:35 (seven years ago) link
I might vote for it still
― imago, Saturday, 9 July 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
Lol Austin's post. I'm starting to notice a pattern in these reviews...
You may be pleased to hear that a few of those albums have been censured by the Chilcot enquiry.
― sbahnhof, Saturday, 9 July 2016 22:15 (seven years ago) link
the meadowlands is probably my favourite indie rock album of the 00s. my other 2003 favourites are probably guitar romantic and kish kash which don't show up here unfortunately
― ufo, Sunday, 10 July 2016 12:34 (seven years ago) link
Chutes Too Narrow
― billstevejim, Sunday, 10 July 2016 17:08 (seven years ago) link
Young Liars EP tops all of these.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 10 July 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link
well, yeah, so do "Hurt" and "Crazy In Love" but they weren't albums.
Love, love, love bits of the Villalobos lp ("Dexter" is fucking magnificent) but this has to be Yeah Yeah Yeahs for me. Despite the moaning about indie rock in the thread, with this album YYY made one of the most exciting guitar albums of the decade.
― kraudive, Sunday, 10 July 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
Dear Catastrophe Waitress and SB/TLB are the all-time classics out of this lot. Given the choice I'd have to give the nod to B&S. I know they get no love around here but I absolutely love every last song on there.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 10 July 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link
― ultras ultros-ghali, Saturday, July 9, 2016 9:35 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K38qtuXM4gE
― flappy bird, Sunday, 10 July 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 11 July 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
Abysmal.
― Austin, Monday, 11 July 2016 00:50 (seven years ago) link
Going to vote for the White Stripes here for how I felt about it at the time.
― Bee OK, Monday, 11 July 2016 16:13 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
never heard of it
can't be as good as trap muzik
― brimstead, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 00:06 (seven years ago) link
Damn, had I known that Lucinda was gonna grab 2 other votes I woulda thrown one towards Postal Service.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 00:20 (seven years ago) link
Holy fuck a guitar album won alert the press
― Darin, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 01:07 (seven years ago) link
for the six others just cool enough for TMV, just read a thing with Omar saying he'd eventually like to reunite with Cedric, Jon Theodore and Eva Gardner(!), too bad Ikey is gone but maybe they can track down Linda Good?
― it's sort of a layered stunt (sheesh), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 01:22 (seven years ago) link
I don't know why they would ever reunite with Linda Good - Omar told Nardwuar a pretty funny story about why she was fired:
6:22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brdpQN3ACY8
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 01:29 (seven years ago) link
aw poor linda good! thrown under the bus for taking notes! I could have sworn that Omar had some unkind things to say about Theodore too, but here we are. seems Omar has maybe mellowed a bit, or at least has grown more gracious about his collaborators in recent years, fwiw I quite liked what little I've seen/heard from the couple months Good was in the band
― it's sort of a layered stunt (sheesh), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 01:52 (seven years ago) link
Jay-Z - The Black Album 0
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 02:07 (seven years ago) link
― moistest hoist (Spottie), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 03:22 (seven years ago) link
not complaining, just surprised
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 03:25 (seven years ago) link
Forgot to vote, but would have split the Radiohead/TMV tie either way so it's cool
― imago, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 09:29 (seven years ago) link
Best album from this year was Send, btw
that's a good one. my pick is "i trawl the megahertz".
― the event dynamics of power asynchrony (rushomancy), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 12:00 (seven years ago) link
Whoops, missed this one but would have voted for Welcome Interstate Managers which is one of my favorite albums ever.
― skip, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 12:34 (seven years ago) link
Yes! I love Welcome Interstate Managers. It's a classic.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 12:52 (seven years ago) link
I'm one of the two people who voted for it. It's my favourite Fountains of Wayne album.
― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
― brimstead, Monday, July 11, 2016 5:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 23:00 (seven years ago) link
true
― moistest hoist (Spottie), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 23:08 (seven years ago) link
American indie rock from this period is so fucking dreary
Even if you disqualify Electric Version (Canadians), any year that featured Pig Lib, Gallowsbirds' Bark, and Ghosts of the Great Highway couldn't have been that bad for Amerindie.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 01:57 (seven years ago) link
Got about 7 minutes into the Wrens album. It sounds very much of its time.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 07:48 (seven years ago) link
The first four songs after the intro (Happy, She Sends Kisses, This Boy is Exhausted, especially Hopeless) on the Meadowlands are pretty flawless. The vocals take a bit to get used to, but the songs are worth it.
Thirteen Grand, Ex-Girl Collection, Everyone Choose Sides--there's only like two non-intro/outro songs that are less than 9/10
― poolboy skew (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 13:12 (seven years ago) link
Acclaimed Music Top 30 Albums from 2004 poll
― Bee OK, Thursday, 14 July 2016 00:56 (seven years ago) link
Would have voted for The Mars Volta.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Monday, 18 July 2016 23:49 (seven years ago) link