yeah really some top timing from l0u1s jagg3r
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
re:Broadcast -- "Black Cat" was in the tracks top 100 for a long, long time, only to get shoved out of contention during the last few days.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
wow i didn't know people still rated broadcast
i've never heard it, finally another thing to check out
― ciderpress, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
their best album, imo
― hobbes, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Tender Buttons is fun :D Dunno if it is 36th best but I'm glad I bought it on a whim. I Found The F puts a gigantic robotic smile on my face when I hear it.
― fuque santa cruz (a hoy hoy), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Never really got Broadcast - there always seemed to be something missing - or at least, the songs were delicate but largely substanceless, reaching for profundity through understating tweeness
mind you, Tender Buttons might be way better than Ha Ha Sound so I won't judge it...yet
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
do ppl think this is better than tilt btw?
no way - i admire the drift a lot but rarely in the sense of actually wanting to listen to it (unlike tilt, which is gorgeous)
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
tho i'm pleased to see it place and will prob relisten to it soon!
agree with lj on broadcast, always seemed so slight
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
in a way, having the mp3 of Clara sent to me (in 2006) independently of the album kinda killed The Drift for me - it's so monolithic and wondrous that I find it hard imagining the rest of the album to be as good, although I ought to give it all a go at some point
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Sometimes I think I prefer The Drift actually. It's just so dark. It makes Tilt seem like a bubblegum record.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i only really like the drift lyrically, i think it sounds really self-important. but tilt is deranged andrew lloyd webber fed through bataille's typewriter or something. Then again, I heard tilt at a time when i was way more receptive to scott walker than i was when i heard the drift.
― plax (ico), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:40 (thirteen years ago) link
iirc when i listened to the drift it felt like i was listening to a soundtrack, not an album, ie i felt like there was a piece missing somewhere. did he do videos for any of the songs?
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
this is basically how i felt about them b4 tender buttons. i love the noisy blown-speaker sound of it all. and that massive rip roaring guitar on "america's boy", etc.
― hobbes, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
35. JOANNA NEWSOM Ys (2006) [332.5 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/ys.jpg
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
(I was also sent Cue, which is very good if not fully great...it's like, OK I've heard the long songs and they rock...why can't all of The Drift be 12-minute expositions on love, hate, Mussolini, freedom, fascism and mercy)
Tilt I have listened through to - and goddamn is that record terrifying (and brilliant) - close call as to which is darker
OH LOL
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
ok I am SBing myself now
okay ppl
― MOATY I'M HERE (HI DERE), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
'jesse' had one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYyOkQUyJZM
― "slapsie" (donna rouge), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I knew some of you assholes would vote for Ys. KEEP THAT TO YOURSELVES.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Another two for me with Scott Walker and Broadcast, ha ha. It seems I have more in common with ilx hivemind than I thought.
While I have much love for Tilt I have grown to think The Drift is its equal.
And although I voted for Tender Buttons my favourite Broadcast record is still far and away Work and Non-Work.
― emil.y, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
lol so is fleet foxes gonna show up or
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Ys = a very good album by a very good artist that I have come around to having written offFleet Foxes = get to fucking fuck you fucks
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf how did only 13 people vote for YS!
― exit through the (Tape Store), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
The last three records is where I divide from the indie hivemind...never could bring myself to listen to any of them all the way through.
― skip, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
ys is another of those records that i guess i admire but never ever listen to. i can't really seem to muster up either love or hate for j newsom.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
also 'Jesse' is rly good, I need to own The Drift! :D
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
lol are you going to make me describe Joanna Newsom's singing voice on this album again
― MOATY I'M HERE (HI DERE), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I gave it 40 ANTIvotes.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
something about geese being fed thru a woodchipper iirc
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:49 (thirteen years ago) link
(with my mind.) xp
woodpoppage
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't really seem to muster up either love or hate for j newsom.
This is OTM for me, too. Though I have seen her be brilliant live.
― emil.y, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
srsly I am feeling so embarrassed about my posts earlier in light of what has happened since DJQ&K
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Never really got Broadcast - there always seemed to be something missing
This is almost entirely the point of (at least a good portion of) Broadcast. Sparse, fragile, haunting, spare, delicate to the point of nearly disintegrating at any second. Like a snowflake landing on a blade of grass.
Maybe not on Tender Buttons, but listen to "Echo's Answer" and tell me you don't agree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7-gk_RsIL0
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
the 1 or 2 times i heard ys was "well there's something going on here but it's not worth the pain"
― hobbes, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:51 (thirteen years ago) link
xp i haven't listened to that in years, sound so good right now :D
― hobbes, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i was flipping radio stations the other night in my car and i landed on the opening verse of "Emily" and was a bit startled
i listened to the whole song though and i think it's held up fine...not sure about the rest of Ys though, "Emily" was my favorite track by far even when i was digging on it
― ciderpress, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link
34. GANG GANG DANCE SAINT Dymphna (2008) [333 points, 15 votes]
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/12324-saint-dymphna.jpg
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^sick
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
ok I'm SBing myself AGAIN
(I actually voted for this one too!)
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh shit, Gang Gang!
― emil.y, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
man that's an amazing record
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I kind of want to hate Gang Gang Dance, but this is pretty good. Didn't make my list, though.
― emil.y, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
awesome. they put on a hell of a live show too
― gman59, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Ys is just great. Perfect, even.
― abcfsk, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Very good album, Saint Dymphna. And yeah, I kinda wanted to hate them too but it really is good!
That Broadcast song was nice, although if anything it was too busy to be spare, too minimal to be intricate...it was nice but there were a few too many compromises going on. Maybe I need to listen to them more to get the hang of it! Maybe I need to think of it as pop music for insomniacs. Whatever it is, I'll listen to Tender Buttons.
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
will never forgive ILM for making me listen to Gang Gang Dance. terrible album.
much love for Tender Buttons tho.
― gordon lishification (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
― emil.y, Monday, July 12, 2010 7:54 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
YES. love this album a great deal, voted for it.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i actually really liked that broadcast song
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 July 2010 19:57 (thirteen years ago) link