Liars! Been meaning to get into them for a while. This might be the added push needed to do so.
― Alex in Montreal, Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i think britney had a lot more of a distinct presence, much more character, than either kylie or rachel. especially when she was drunk and drugged up!
Not by the time Blackout came out, considering that its 3 singles feature the most robotic singing of her career.
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i really only ever go back to 3 tracks on that liars album (it fit when i was a kid, drum & the uncomfortable can, the other side of mt heart attack) but they are all SO GOOD that it placed on my ballot
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Wiping my tears as Parallax Error Beheads You looks ever more unlikely :'(
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
PLUS i genuinely find "roses" and "hey mama" quite touching - so much less contrived than anything from his emo-tune phase
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, July 8, 2010 10:11 AM Bookmark
Ahh, ok, I'm with you there. Both slipped my mind. I didn't like "Hey Mama" at the time (I found it too cutesy), but I find it charming now. "Roses" is great until it goes on for two minutes too long.
― otmato (The Reverend), Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
dunno if you are confusing character w/ reading stories about her on oh no they didnt to get a feel for what the album should sound like.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
also lol at the idea of hell hath no fury making it.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
correct punctuation is on the album cover ffs
davek it is ok we voted max tundra and we know we're right
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess dont see why it matters that rachel stevens is a bore or that her album was such a commercial flop. i mean i dont disagree w/ either
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i liked that liars album and i also can't imagine only listening to select tracks from it, it seemed like all one extended piece of music to me
i don't really like anything else by them though
― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
And Kelley Polar makes for my 5th wrong album vote. :(
― otmato (The Reverend), Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
i didnt think hell hath no fury was universally loved by the ilm rap crew, and it seems a rap album has to be in order to make these polls
― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
xposts Human After All is just okay. In a way I'm a bit depressed to listen to it, considering what they've done in the past. It's the classic example of how a perfect aesthetic can sometimes slip so easily into monotony and near self-parody.
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I've grown tired of Liars, although Drum's Not Dead is probably the best of their re-engineered sound.
I love the Tromatic Reflexxions album. MES's 'drunk singing karaoke' vocals are at their recent best here
Rachel Stevens is probably the only thing on this list so far that I've never heard
― Dan S, Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Someone pointed out that fans of Homework wouldn't really be fazed. But the entire album (HAA) basically has no dynamics, which is incredibly frustrating to this fan of Homework. Let alone the huge comedown it is following Discovery, which just might be the hugest party since Thriller.
― untrue pitch, Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
how the hell can you say something with both "Robot Rock" and "Emotion" has "no dynamics"
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
"Steam Machine" (which btw !!!!!!!!!!)
prob my fav track on HAA iirc
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, July 8, 2010 1:31 PM (26 minutes ago)
what i've heard from this album is outrageously annoying
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm a huge electronic/dance music listener - and get annoyed with the complaint that it's too repetitive - but I get bored with the repetition of Robot Rock after the first minute or so. There's no build up, momentum, and hardly any variation on the theme. And that's true of most of the album. The themes are often quite interesting and striking, but they don't develop into living/breathing compositions to me. I kind of took the album as an odd joke on DP's part (especially given the title), taking the piss, or whatever. Take a listen to those HAA tracks on Alive - and you'll hear the difference; they've clearly pumped some blood into them.
― untrue pitch, Thursday, 8 July 2010 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
and, yeah, Robot Rock is a monster of a track on Alive.
― untrue pitch, Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Don't like it on the album of course, but it was a monstrous way to start the Hyde Park show. With those two robot guys up there in the pyramid!! I'd never seen anything like it...
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
karl here is the towering peak of Parallax Error, irritatingly sans last 3 seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpJP7nCY0hs
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
they've clearly pumped some blood into them.
― untrue pitch, Thursday, July 8, 2010 1:59 PM (3 minutes ago)
On Alive 2007 those tracks actually GO somewhere, and like you said they feel revitalized and dynamic. On HAA they flatline. Even the radio edit of Robot Rock is draining, and that's probably the album's most obviously hooky track.
― skip, Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
That final track on Parallax is incredible.
― skip, Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't think i voted for the max tundra but i do love that song and 'which song'
― ciderpress, Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I still maintain that Human After All is one of the '00s best albums and an absolute monstrous beast of insanely great tracks. It's their best album. Homework is the blueprint; Discovery is the fun side project; Human After All is the masterpiece.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know if you got my letter, but everyone thinks you're great :p
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Fact fans: I gave that song quite a lot of points on the tracks ballot. WHERE WERE Y'ALL
yeah 'which song' is awesome too. davek didn't you introduce a load of people to that record with 'will get fooled again'? error.
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
today is off to a better start, i think. i also voted for the wrong polar album.
― exit through the (Tape Store), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I did? All I know is that I feel like I'm planet earth's no 1 Max Tundra street teamer, introduced quite a few people to his music, with much more success than Cardiacs hahha. We Got Fooled is astonishing though...replete with lyrics about the Jewish festival Pesach no less.
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:12 (fourteen years ago) link
it's a good song but the lyrics are gonna put all but the most open-minded of people off
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Too Long / Steam Machine omgz so good
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
when this is all over i may liveblog listening to lj's votes and see where it takes me.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Daft Punk in 2007 was probably the greatest live show that I have ever attended. The album did the show as much justice as a recording of it is going to do.
― gman59, Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
max tundra remains one of the worst things I've ever heard.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Heheh I guess astounding may be a little far, but be warned I get into Lex-gushing-over-Ellen-Allien-mode with Max Tundra.
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
indescribably subtle yet momentous, ineffable
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
― gman59, Thursday, July 8, 2010 1:14 PM (2 minutes ago)
agreed. i saw them in a PLANE HANGAR on that tour. i really don't think there's a better venue for those guys
― ᶠᵧᶸₒᶜᵤᵏ (LOLK), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah thats the one I was at. in Toronto. was amazing. I have to throw that album a vote in all of these polls.
― gman59, Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:24 (fourteen years ago) link
small world
― ♥ ᶫᵧᵒₒᵛᵤᵉ ♥ (LOLK), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Lex-gushing-over-Ellen-Allien-mode
none of Lex's gushing over Orchestra of Bubbles is unwarranted, it really is amazing and deserves any praise and attention it gets.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
listening to the Max Tundra track LJ posted right now, so far it sounds like insane noodling. it is calling to memory these weird videos they distracted us with in preschool with magic tricks and people riding roller coasters and stuff.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago) link
slowing down now, and lyrics now, hehe, funny.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry, ending liveblogging now.
xpost that hyphenated adjective of mine wasn't a knock on Lex, it's just this sense of being so hopelessly in love with an album or artist that your posts look and sound a certain way.
But this idea of being 'warranted', so certain albums are communally accepted as gush-worthy, while another person's enthusiasm for something is somehow bunk?
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
uh, i just meant that i support lex's enthusiasm for that album
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay okay sorry no beef :)
― Davek (davek_00), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I dropped the Rachel Stevens album from my ballot at the last second. Looking at it now I'm wondering why I did. Good to see it here though.
Two of my noms that did make it: Amy and Madonna. The only two pop albums I voted for in the end.
― Born too beguiled (DavidM), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
make sure jjj doesn't notice that post :)
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Thursday, July 8, 2010 5:32 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark
:( It got my vote at least, but if it was gonna appear I would have thought it would've been by now. 'Trill' would be up there with my most played songs of the last 5 years I think.
― Eljero Elia Michele (pandemic), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link