really thought blaqkout would've been higher - was actually rooting for some kind of blaqkout/blackout tie, somewhere in the top 10
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 12 July 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
ha
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 July 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
it would also be awesome, though less likely, if taylor swift's fearless and jazmine sullivan's fearless tied
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 12 July 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
blaqkout = a lot of votes but not a high average... there isn't an album with 17 votes or more until #30
spoiler alert but sufjan stevens and justin timberlake actually tied with their 'futersex/lovesounds' albums
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 July 2010 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
man a yearly Justin album based on the lives of the four other members of N'Sync would be awesome.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 July 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
the Chris Kirkpatrick album will be a snooze and a half
― MOATY I'M HERE (HI DERE), Monday, 12 July 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
39. THE MOUNTAIN GOATS The Sunset Tree (2005) [314.5 points, 13 votes]
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/5456-the-sunset-tree.jpg
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
au contraire, dude was livin it up:
In 2000, Kirkpatrick was in the music video "A.M. Radio" by Everclear.
xpost
― goth (crüt), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
xp: local boy done good IMO
― MOATY I'M HERE (HI DERE), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
haha I only voted for the latest one (which is rad and whose songs work exceedingly well in concert) - need to give TST a good listen at some point too
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
it's rad
(newest one is super rad too, tho)
― MOATY I'M HERE (HI DERE), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I like The Sunset Tree but I've no idea why it's the consensus Mountain Goats pick. Get Lonely is leaps and bounds better. So's the one with the big gray mushroom cloud on the cover, whatever it's called.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i think i like heretic pride better most days but apparently i liked sunset tree better the day i voted for this
― ciderpress, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Prefer Tallahassee and We Shall All Be Healed; the first one you hear is generally the one you like best.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i find j0hn's music to be ridic. consistent though, i like or love all of his albums since 2000ish and it's really hard for me to pick a favorite
― ciderpress, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
38. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Feels (2005) [317 points, 14 votes]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/Feels_Cover.jpg
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I had a hard time picking which Mountain Goats album to vote for. Chose this one probably because its been with me the longest. Love for all those mentioned though.
― sofatruck, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.lolblog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/facepalm.jpg
― MOATY I'M HERE (HI DERE), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
well, at least early animal collective is less annoying than late animal collective.
― skip, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
yes
― goth (crüt), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
truthbomb to the max; I'm not even really an indie singer/songwriter type and pretty much all of the MG albums slay not only me but my pop-entrenched opera-singing wife
― MOATY I'M HERE (HI DERE), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
early stuff was really good
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
feels is actually the next 37 albums, it got so many votes that i had to spread them out over the top 38 spots
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
think The Sunset Tree would've been my top Goats choice too, but ya ridiculously consistent.
out of place non-negative Animal Collective comment: Feels is ten times the album that Merriweather Post Pavilion is, ya bawbags.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
So where are the AnCo lovers hiding??? I mean, they keep popping up in all these polls but all the comments seem to be overwhelmingly filled with hate. I voted for two of their albums.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
that may be true, but MPP is so terrible that I will never intentionally find out
― MOATY I'M HERE (HI DERE), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
dude totally sold out when he stopped recording on boomboxes imo
(j/k)
― mookieproof, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
feels IS late ac
― plax (ico), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah probably my biggest beef w/ this list is that when it DOES throw in an indie/rock/art record, it's freakin' Animal Collective or Dirty Projectors :|
but Feels...what I've heard from it isn't totally offensive, I guess. I have the album, never listened to it straight through
my final word on The Mountain Goats: in concert last autumn, our fella managed to seamlessly blend 20 years of recording into one 2-hour set without anything seeming out of place or sub-par
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i always think feels is more beautiful more interesting and more accessible than MPP
― plax (ico), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
tiarnan isn't Sung Tongs the one you say is partic. good? that one at least has an airiness and a strangeness to it
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
why is your screen name "rest in peace, orgasms"
― MOATY I'M HERE (HI DERE), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
feels was the template that ac have been working from ever since
― ciderpress, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah sung tongs is the one people should listen to but hollindagain is my favourite
― plax (ico), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
i liked sung tongs except for that 10+ minutes of tuneless strumming in the middle
― ciderpress, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Quik & Kurupt is a smiley fun time summer album everyone should rock.
Feels gets kinda dull halfway thru.
J0hn makes killer music but Heretic Pride is his best 05-09 imo. San Bernadino slays me dead dead dead.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
AmCo's harmonies are like ten thousand sugar crystals shoved into my ears.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
by my count roughly half of the 60 albums so far are indie/rock/art records by any reasonable definition of those terms.
― some dude, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
37. SCOTT WALKER The Drift (2006) [320 points, 12 votes, 2 first place votes]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Scott_Walker_-_The_Drift.jpg
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
continuing the stretch of indie/rock/art records...
well I got 2 albums in after all.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, July 12, 2010 3:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
when all you needed was a q tip?
do ppl think this is better than tilt btw?
― plax (ico), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
well this is a good 1 - 2 punch
― gman59, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I looked at the ballot I forgot to send in (oops) and Heretic Pride was my highest-rated MG album; The Life of the World To Come was #2 and The Sunset Tree was #3
― MOATY I'M HERE (HI DERE), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Minority opinion, I think, but
David Bowie >>>>>>>>>>>> Scott Walker
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Shit, I should listen to The Drift again. Even though Tilt was awesome in every respect, I just couldn't crack The Drift at all.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
aw I was hoping for higher with The Drift, but then it is pretty definitively Not For Everyone.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link