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
hahaha turns out I DIDN'T vote for Saint Dymphna...would have been in the next 2 or 3 places
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I probably should have voted for Gang Gang instead of some of the stuff on the lower reaches of my ballot, actually. It's just the trendy hipster thing that puts me off.
― emil.y, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
holy shit Louis how did you do this. Being a corny fuxxor I like most of these albums a lot, but I'm SBing you for crimes against diversity anyway.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
dymphna is an album w/ a really weird mixture of fans
― plax (ico), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
It's just the trendy hipster thing that puts me off.
it's the "not being able to maintain a steady rhythm" thing that puts me off, personally.
― gordon lishification (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
like if yr making dance music the one thing you need is a constant tempo, none of this sloppily dropping the beat every 15 bars or whatever. hate this band.
re: hipster thing, I think that may have been what subconsciously swayed me towards Opeth for my 40th slot :/ either that or the fact that Watershed is p good and SD has a coupla weaker moments (more than made up for by, say, Princes, House Jam, the last two tracks etc)
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
man, just listening to saint dymphna, it's such an unstoppable force of an album - feels like it could soundtrack a mini action movie. to make the art-rock comparison that some did at the time, animal collective just sound so puny and weak and cheap in comparison to GGD's total mastery of everything they try.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
you can totally dance to house jam
― plax (ico), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:03 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah calling saint dymphna a dance record is kinda missing the point
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
The reason I thought I voted SD was that I'd voted House Jam in the trax poll - great tune
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
All this Animal Collective hatred makes me so sad, you know. ;_;
― emil.y, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
33. THE HOLD STEADY Boys and Girls in America (2006) [344.5 points, 15 votes]
http://dmhamby2.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/holdsteadyalbumcover.jpg
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
*dies*
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Especially when there are bands like the Hold Steady about. Ugh.
― emil.y, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
rip louis
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
wait sep sunday already placed, right?
to me it sounds like a bunch of people who can't play their instruments trying to make a dance album. DANCEFAIL
― gordon lishification (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
that's such a banger of an album
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah sean
barf
― plax r (some dude), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
waht to hold steady
― SAIL HATIN' (jjjusten), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
sloppy is absolutely the last word i'd apply to GGD, their rhythms or otherwise - when they chop and change the rhythm it's deliberate and effective, and it's never really at the expense of the danciness (and only a few of the songs are meant to be anywhere near trad "dance tracks" in any case) (i can and have danced w/ease to "first communion" and "princes")
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
and this is from a dude that kinda stanned for the first 2 albums, but how the fuck could the third one get this high, who gives a fuck anymore really
ok never mind i will go back to my thread and stop cluttering
― SAIL HATIN' (jjjusten), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow - Hold Steady apart, this is a great run tonight. Voted for GGD, Mountain Goats and Scott Walker, which was my no. 1. I got completely obsessed with The Drift for a while, it's so perfectly realised. Only just got the Quik & Kurupt record, too early to say whether it would've made my ballot.
― Gavin in Leeds, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
That is by far the worst Hold Steady record too.
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Stay Positive had some really nice moments - like, some really good songs. I haven't heard any other Hold Steady album. I didn't vote for them, or start the fire.
― RIP la petite mort (acoleuthic), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
thought everyone agreed the hold steadys are laughable wannabes at this point
― abcfsk, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
its important to note that saint dymphna has an awesome cover
― plax (ico), Monday, 12 July 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
that hold steady album was a serious jam, was pretty obvious that it was gonna blow up even before the 9.x pfork review et al
this stretch has had so many albums that would have made my ballot a couple years ago but haven't held up as 'best of year' for me, only as 'enjoyable'
― ciderpress, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Yep, that's my favourite on there too. It's a really difficult album to pin down but it flows really nicely I find - it could so easily sound like a jumbled mess in lesser hands.
― Gavin in Leeds, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the first 4 hold steady albs are all really good. haven't really listened to the new one.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 July 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link