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― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 9 July 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
microsoft sam begs to differ
― ciderpress, Friday, 9 July 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
the only good thing about the WAP cover is that it looks like they're dropping bombs on arizona
― the resulting pussy stubble (J0rdan S.), Friday, 9 July 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i love phx but did not vote for that album
http://www.ad-bazaar.com/uploads/amp/13/220137151052-1.jpg
― call all destroyer, Friday, 9 July 2010 18:42 (fourteen years ago) link
haha I was going to edit the band name to SUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN O))) but figured that would be a dick move
― "Don't forget to bring a juggalo towel!" (HI DERE), Friday, 9 July 2010 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ arizona
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 9 July 2010 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Never knew that about Sunn O))), will file that away in the "quiz knowledge" part of my brain.
― seandalai, Friday, 9 July 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Sunn O))) is pronounced ZZzzzzzz....
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 9 July 2010 18:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Not sure exactly how Phoenix managed to turn themselves into an arena rock band but that album did it. First one I've voted for from today's albums.
― skip, Friday, 9 July 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
53. GIRLS ALOUD Chemistry (2005) [271 votes, 8 points]
http://www.scenepointblank.com/reviews/covers/00667.jpg
― the resulting pussy stubble (J0rdan S.), Friday, 9 July 2010 18:49 (fourteen years ago) link
*crickets*
― skip, Friday, 9 July 2010 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
808s - it's an "interesting" and i guess admirable album that when it works, really works, but a few years on i think the moments when it doesn't work, when it's actually sort of terrible, outweigh the good stuff. it's easily the weakest of his albums, though in its defence it's one of those albums where a purely qualitative judgement feels limited - it's an album that kept me interested in talking/thinking/paying attention to kanye and his career, which is better than falling into the diminishing returns cycle of retreading his usual aesthetic that so many artists do.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, July 9, 2010 11:27 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark
this. well said.
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Friday, 9 July 2010 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
^^opening track [of flaming lips embryonic] and Powerless are awesome, but rest hasn't really grown on me too much - what am I missing? apparently this is one of the great art-pop statements of recent years...
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Thursday, July 8, 2010 5:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
and this. was buried in embryonic for the two weeks or so it took me to explore and sort it out. since then i've rarely wanted to hear it and haven't enjoyed it much when i do. kind of a bummer, though i would't call it a bad album by any means.
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Friday, 9 July 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link
j0rdan doesn't like sunnO)))) iirc :(
― Attention all Whiney fans! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 9 July 2010 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
The only thing that's really AWFUL on 808s is "Pinocchio Story" and fortunately that's the last song on the album and easily skipped
― "Don't forget to bring a juggalo towel!" (HI DERE), Friday, 9 July 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
poor arthur, 10 people love him and 1 person REALLY loves him, but no one's talking about him. I never listened to this, or else I'd say something.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, July 9, 2010 10:51 AM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark
love is overtaking me was my #1. not sure i can defend that choice, as i don't think it's anywhere near as consistent or sui generis brilliant as world of echo & calling out of context, but i find it incredibly moving. i relate to it more like a friend than a work of art. and it reminds me of my dad.
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Friday, 9 July 2010 18:57 (fourteen years ago) link
glad to see the arthur russell make it, such a lovely folk record
and yay for sunn
― peel ya frap back (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 July 2010 18:58 (fourteen years ago) link
― "Don't forget to bring a juggalo towel!" (HI DERE), Friday, July 9, 2010 11:57 AM (35 seconds ago) Bookmark
robocop
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Friday, 9 July 2010 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
52. HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR Hercules and Love Affair (2008) [272.5 points, 14 votes]
http://graveyardshiftshane.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/hercules-love-affair.jpg
― the resulting pussy stubble (J0rdan S.), Friday, 9 July 2010 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
nah "robocop" is one of the best joints on there
not sure about the backend of H&LA but the first half is brill
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the back end has some really great stuff on it
― the resulting pussy stubble (J0rdan S.), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
when i think of "robocop", which i think sucks anyway, all i can think of is brainwasher saying on the '08 EOY thread that if anyone were to call you a robocop as you were breaking up with them, it'd be the clincher. "street lights", "bad news" and "paranoid" also suck.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
didn't vote for sunnO))), but should have. wonder how much actual metal (or not-actual metal) will place? had HoF, baroness, slough feg, 2 harvey milk recs, nachtmystium, etc. on my ballot. tears in the rain...
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf "Street Lights" and "Paranoid" do not suck at all
"Bad News" isn't great but it isn't terrible
― "Don't forget to bring a juggalo towel!" (HI DERE), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
lex continuing to be otm
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, 808s haters throwing out some major challops
― exit through the (Tape Store), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Yay for H&LA! Some great tracks on there - Time Will, Hercules Theme, This is my Love - as well as Blind obv.
― seandalai, Friday, 9 July 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
808s is his best album imo
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
in 808s' defence i still really like "welcome to heartbreak", "love lockdown" and "say you will", and jeezy is good on "amazing"
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
All of HL&A is good, except maybe True/False Fake/Real. Can't stand Antony's solo work but for whatever reason his voice is so effective here.
― skip, Friday, 9 July 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
"Iris" on H&LA is top notch
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I can understand ppl not digging tracks like "Heartless" and "Amazing" (the latter took like 20 listens before the beat clicked) but "Paranoid"? that has the best chorus on the album!
― "Don't forget to bring a juggalo towel!" (HI DERE), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
loved at least half of the trax list finalists, but very few of the finishers here. tunes unite, albums divide.
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, paranoid's great. no argument.
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
"Paranoid" is Kanye's best song, not just on this album; & my #3 in tracks voting.
― Euler, Friday, 9 July 2010 19:07 (fourteen years ago) link
wrote this on the jukebox when "paranoid" was a single -
The song sits uneasily between its ambition towards jaunty disco bounce and its need to cohere with the rest of 808s & Heartbreak; the flat Autotuned vocals and rudimentary production which serve the album so well in its better moments are simply inadequate for any track with dance aspirations.[4]
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I was just thinking the opposite! Even the albums I don't rate, I see why people like them. Much of the track poll just baffled me.
― seandalai, Friday, 9 July 2010 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Fuckin' STOKED Chemistry made it.
― abcfsk, Friday, 9 July 2010 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
51. PANTHA DU PRINCE This Bliss (2007) [280 points, 13 votes]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Thisbliss1.jpg
― the resulting pussy stubble (J0rdan S.), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
yay pantha du p, another of my votes - so relaxing and inviting, have gone to sleep with this on many a time.
this should've made the trax list imo, such a beautiful track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYY4AGPJJBo
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I think I tried once to listen to this, but then got distracted by clipping my fingernails.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 9 July 2010 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Probably should have voted for this one
― skip, Friday, 9 July 2010 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Okay Lex, but the problem with that statement is that it's completely, totally wrong. The flat-affect autotuned vocals throw more of a sociopath vibe on the lyrics and the contrast against the jauntiness of the beat seems to be an entirely conscious artistic choice to amplify that vibe.
It really seems more like your issue boils down more to "Kanye is good on this album when his vocals are animated and he is bad when they are not" as, aside from "Bad News" (which I think is underdone but okay enough that I don't mind its existence on the album), that is how your likes and dislikes break down.
― "Don't forget to bring a juggalo towel!" (HI DERE), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
when i've complained about the field receiving undue critical love in the past, it's albums like this bliss and orchestra of bubbles that i'm negatively comparing it to
xp i haven't really listened to "paranoid" since but i think it just has a neither-fish-nor-fowl awkwardness to it which, fair enough if he meant that, but it doesn't make it any more listenable to me
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
This year's Pantha du Prince was the first I'd ever heard, perhaps I need to go back and give that one a chance.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Is it wrong that I've reached an age where I feel like it's impossible for me to take a band named "Fuck Buttons" seriously?
My insurmountable Animal-Collective-Grizzly Bear-Deerhoof-Xiu-Xiu probem.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:18 (fourteen years ago) link
let's all just lol at this for a second
when i've complained about the field receiving undue critical love in the past, it's albums like this bliss and orchestra of bubbles that i'm negatively comparing it top
― the resulting pussy stubble (J0rdan S.), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought this year's pantha du p album was a bit of a letdown, haven't got into it at all (or at least, i think it comes off as unnecessary compared to this bliss)
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 9 July 2010 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link