looooooooool jordan
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
80. LOW Drums and Guns (2007) [209.5 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote]http://betterpropaganda.com/images/artwork/Drums_and_Guns-Low_480.jpg
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
get low, get low
― ksh, Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
And lo there was Low
― Cooper Temple Paws (NickB), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
too LOW
― ᶠᵧᶸₒᶜᵤᵏ (LOLK), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I kept meaning to check that one out and never got round to it. I basically like almost everything they've done so I should probably give this one a spin.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
if i'd have voted that would've been my #1
― ᶠᵧᶸₒᶜᵤᵏ (LOLK), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 <3 <3
Love you Low, come back soon.
― Simon H., Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
if i'd have voted ranked my ballot that would've been my #1
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Drums & Guns is one (1) decent mastering away from being perfect.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
That was my #1. And yeah, way too low for Low. I love other things they've done but this one is just transcendental.
― emil.y, Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Another ok-ish album I haven't gone back to much. It was an improvement on The Great Destroyer though.
― Gavin in Leeds, Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Low is the bomb.
Seriously, this thread got really horrible, ppl need to stop acting like such colossal pussies every time some dumb record they don't like makes the SUPER IMPORTANT ilm albums poll list.
I think lex's point is that he likes musicians who act their age. Hip-hop, misogynist or not, is basically guys being guys; teenpop works because it's teenagers being teenagers; whereas twee/hippie stuff can be repulsive because it often consists of grown adults acting like toddlers w/r/t cutesy aesthetic themes, lyrics, sounds, unhealthy obsession with childhood reminiscing and whatnot.
also, hip hip is like the poster child genre for arrested development! i mean, jesus it's full of like 40 year old dudes trying to act 30 and 35 year old dudes trying to act 25!
like i love hip hop and love tons of really ignorant shit just because it is rad as fuck, but c'mon trying to take some kinda weird moral high ground over twee shit as if it's "unhealthy" or some cod psychology bullshit is reeeeeeeallly fucking reaching.
lex you are a smart guy but you basically become like the glam version of alex in NYC when you talk about any kind of rock music.
― the reverend dr. william wiggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I still haven't heard this album!
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
can we just talk about the albums instead of each other for a change
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
listen to it then louis.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
OK FINE
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
"glam version of alex in NYC"
such a vision...
― scott seward, Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
For me all of Low's albums seem to blend together into a muddle of 3-star competence. I do pull out the Christmas EP every year though.
― skip, Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
can we just talk about the albums instead of each other for a change― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Thursday, July 8, 2010 11:43 AM (34 seconds ago)
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Thursday, July 8, 2010 11:43 AM (34 seconds ago)
^^
― ksh, Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
if only dom could see us now
79. WOLF PARADE Apologies to the Queen Mary (2005) [210.5 points, 10 votes]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/87/ApologiestotheQueenMary.jpg
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
ok now sell me Wolf Parade
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
that got my last place vote -- i loved it in 05 but haven't listened to it in fooooorever -- kinda scared tbh
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Apologies to the Queen Mary people who voted for this album.
They'll believe in anything, amirite?
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
amazon.co.uk will sell you that wolf parade album for £6.97 louis
― ILX trolls and "autistic" use of the N-word (crüt), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
the production on drums and guns is just really bizarre and i think the album would collapse under it if the songs themselves weren't strong, but they are so it ends up sounding really neat
― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I love Drums and Guns so much. What a great band. This is the only Low that I voted for in this poll. (although Great Destroyer is phenomenal as well) Beautiful album. Helped put me to sleep many nights. I mean that in a really good way.
― gman59, Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, the hard panning on the mix makes it ...strange to listen to on headfones
through speakers in open air it sounds very nice
― ᶠᵧᶸₒᶜᵤᵏ (LOLK), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah the production is good on D&G to be fair, I don't think all the songs are that strong though. I guess most of them are at least pleasant, bar 'Bury The Hatchet' with its terrible chorus.
― Gavin in Leeds, Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
ok this one coming up is a tie
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i loved that wolf parade album in '05, not sure what it would sound like today. it may be textbook 00s indie rock, but it's just loaded with hooks
― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
78. FUTURE OF THE LEFT Travels With Myself and Another (2009) [211 points, 8 votes]
http://17seconds.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/futureof-the-left-travels-with-myself-400x400.jpg
78. MADONNA Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) [211 points, 8 votes]
http://www.mad.tv/special/cd2005/covers/Madonna%20-%20Confessions%20On%20A%20Dance%20Floor.jpg
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
never paid much attention to Wolf Parade, but I remember hearing that album a few times and thinking it was excellent, and then never really bothering to listen to again. Not a diss on the quality, just one of those things.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
don't you mean 77
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Neat that the intersecting circles appear on both sleeves!
― Cooper Temple Paws (NickB), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
JORDAN S IN 77-SPURNING SHOCKER
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
no i'm skipping 77 -- find it fitting in a way
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm sure fans of both those albums will agree they're pretty much as good as each other.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
it's like how hotels don't have a 13th floor
LOL I never noticed how photoshopped that Madonna cover is--look at her left arm, or the digital approximation of it.
Voted for the album--listened to it over and over again at the time and it still works. It wasn't just "Hung Up" and a bunch of filler.
― skip, Thursday, 8 July 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha xp
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
76. ELLEN ALLIEN & APPARAT Orchestra of Bubbles (2006) [212 points, 12 votes]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/eb/Ellen-Allien-and-Apparat-Orchestra-of-Bubbles.jpg
― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 July 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
haha what an appropriate tie
i think there's mileage to the argument that confessions is a bunch of barely-sketched songs and sorta-annoying lyrics rescued by incredible beats, but 5 years on the production still feels mammoth - not even that dated. and even at her laziest madonna still knows her way around an anthemic hook and punch-the-air moment ("JUST! WATCH! ME! BURN!" on "let it will be", soooo good). though it always annoyed me that she called one of the songs "forbidden love", like she'd forgotten that she already did a song called "forbidden love" a decade earlier on bedtime stories (and it's the 1995 song that's the better one).
this remix of "sorry" - jacques lu cont under another pseudonym iirc - absolutely bangs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr4QO_hw72c
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 8 July 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
u suggesting they had to remove a bingo wing, skip?
― iSleighBellsTellem (zvookster), Thursday, 8 July 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh cool! I had Orchestra Of Bubbles in my ballot somewhere, glad to see it in. So gorgeously produced.
― Gavin in Leeds, Thursday, 8 July 2010 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
xps YES!!! i didn't know whether orchestra of bubbles would make it, soooo happy it did - best dance album of the entire 00s for me, soundtracked so much of 2006 for me. i remember djing w/my friend anna-marie when it first came out, we played "turbo dreams" and just looked at each other and went "the textures, how can human beings make sound this beautiful??"
"way out" - still sad this failed to make the trax top 100 but it's, like, one of the best songs ever, just absolutely epic and evocative. DRY LAKES~~~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxeQ85PYChc
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 8 July 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link