What is going to be top 10?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
17. VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend (2008) [476.5 points, 21 votes]
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/VampireWeekendCD2.jpg
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I just got that VW album 2 weeks ago and it's kind of a downer when compared to Contra. It's still good but it would never have made my ballot.
― Fee Fie Fo, FUNFNFUINFLFF! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Not Vampire Weekend, apparently.
xxp
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
"A-Punk" is a ton of fun tho
preemptive http://www.shacknews.com/extras/faylor/haters-gonna-hate.gif
― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
VW >>> Contra
― Dan S, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
contra was so disappointing compared to the debut
― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
they're both good but i like the more spare sound of the debut
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
they are better minimalists than maximalists
― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the final three songs on 'contra' is my fav stretch of VW songs, because it's actually an instance of a band building on an already great songwriting template and still feeling organic and not like a frustrated reach
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
the s/t is def better tho
contra the song does indeed kick ass.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah I'm really not with y'all on this; maybe because I had no preconceived notions or really any idea of what a VW album should sound like because I'd only heard snippets of "A-Punk" in commercials before deciding to pick up Contra and "Horchata" took me completely by surprise.
― Fee Fie Fo, FUNFNFUINFLFF! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh
― skip, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
The first six or seven Contra tracks: victory lap.The last three = here's where we stretch and tease our audience with what we're doing next.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd take "Cousins" over every song on s/t and that's not even my favorite off of Contra
― Fee Fie Fo, FUNFNFUINFLFF! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
"horchata" is amazing as is "cousins" but only a few contra songs have stuck with me at all
― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh just realised those twats will have TWO albums clogging up the top 20
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
16. JUNIOR BOYS So This is Goodbye (2006) [478.5 points, 25 votes]
http://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/covers/so-this-is-goodbye.jpg
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
You just said yourself you've only had it for 2 weeks. Give it some time. There are plenty of outstanding songs on the s/t. xxxp
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
nah lex, their other album is 2010
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
My #1 album of 2006 back in the day. Great, great album. Haven't listened to it in quite a while, though.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
love so this is goodbye - it gets negatively compared to the debut a lot but i think they're about on a par. "fm" and "the equalizer" are so gorgeous.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
sure but my point was that Contra was an immediate hit for me; s/t was a pleasant listen that I wasn't particularly into
― Fee Fie Fo, FUNFNFUINFLFF! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, STIG is so of its time. I'd walk into someone's apartment and it'd be on.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
there's nothing as quite as taking as any of the first 4 tracks on vw tho, maybe "cousins" one-ups "a-punk" by doing the same rushed, upbeat style but with more sheer density, but that's about it
― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
the only junior boys i've is their latest album, which i'm falling asleep just thinking about
― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
huh never given the junior boys any thought. I like the sleeve art tho
― gordon lishification (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
nah "a punk" is way better -- "cousins" is kind of annoying and "a punk" has that awesome keyboard riff right before the chorus
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
junior boys was my #3 or 4 i think, so here come all my top picks i guess..?
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I gave "Horchata" a failing grade last November, which I retracted when I heard how sparkling it sounded in sequence. Also: "Giving up the Gun" knocked me out faster than anything on the s/t.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I am 100% behind "Holiday", "Run" and "Taxi Cab"
― Fee Fie Fo, FUNFNFUINFLFF! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
"the equalizer" - the chorus is total heart-in-mouth moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-ZWHjZvDYQ
some great remixes emerged from this album too, thinking of tensnake's "fm" remix and carl craig's "like a child" remix
the third junior boys album is a total bore, so flat and DULL :(
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i like some tracks on the third album, esp. "the animator"
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I keep meaning to check out Junior Boys but I had the same reaction to Begone Dull Care as I had to Vampire Weekend, namely it's pleasant enough but I don't actually want to listen to it.
― Fee Fie Fo, FUNFNFUINFLFF! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
"giving up the gun" is a decent song (or at least a decent chorus in search of a decent song) but its polished chintz kinda negates everything that was interesting about them in the first place
― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread is hard to post on
― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
if you started out with 'begone dull care' then you fucked up, the first 2 albums are both classix
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
it's pleasant enough but I don't actually want to listen to it.
this is exactly how i feel about contra
― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Contra is all about juxtaposition to me; it's them doing messy and orchestrated and glossy and raw and thick and thin in a really well-sequenced ebb and flow. S/T sounds like a bunch of cleaned-up demos that don't really have much to do with each other.
― Fee Fie Fo, FUNFNFUINFLFF! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
15. J DILLA Donuts (2006) [492 points, 22 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://www.kelvingumbs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/donuts.jpg
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Yay Dilla!!
― he's always been a bit of an anti-climb Max (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Although I didn't vote for it, huge regret.
BOOOOOM
― gman59, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck the haterz, i love that album
― hobbes, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
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― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
are there many donuts haterz?
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
well then
donuts is a cool listen, no idea how it made it this high tbh altho it makes sense since this list leans a bit beat heavy
― hoos gossage (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 July 2010 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link