yeah, that sounds reasonable.
― I Want to Edit My Profile... (Ioannis), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 11:52 (fifteen years ago) link
My guess on 'omg that didn't make it?' album is tv on the radio. it took forever to get nominated and the love for it doesn't seem anywhere close to what it was like for the last album.
― kafka is poking about into the deepest (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i feel like too much of ilx was dismissive of it in the indie-backlash sort of way. it was top-5 for me. weezy f baby was 1 btw
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 12:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i might vote for Weezy this year lol
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 12:46 (fifteen years ago) link
don't do that stevem.
doubt it'll be that high - the ringtone crew were lukewarm* and would've voted for it low if they voted for it at all, so it doesn't have the support of its key constituency, but otoh it's one of those albums that pretty much everyone heard so it'll make up for it w/floating voters in a way that young jeezy or nappy roots wouldn't.
*i wouldn't say this was indie-backlash, everyone pretty much liked it - it's a vg album - but more not wanting to see it become the default token hip-hop pick. personally i don't even think it was that inconsistent, there are only a couple of songs i really dislike on it, but it's all so senselessly arranged that it winds up less than the sum of its parts, like the janet jackson and lil' mama albums. and obv it's somewhat in the shadow of tha carter ii. (i still voted for it.)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link
hey Alex Moulton was my #1.....didn't my ballot get included? :(((
that would prob explain why like none of my tracks showed up in the other poll too right? :(((
― unaustralian (jabba hands)
actually, it got 2 #1 votes, I have been missing distinguishing #1 votes because I haven't been highlighting them in excel. i'll have the mods add it. i started after yesterdays's batch so everything following should be accurate.
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
40 - Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista88.5 points, 8 votes731 in P&J
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/584/69070126cs6.jpg
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
i will be in meetings tomorrow so i am afraid that i won't be able to post during the day. i was thinking about skipping tomorrow completely and doing the top 10 on monday?
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
That's cool. We can wait.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
i like paavoharju but it's hard for me to say how much because my attention always drifts after a while. i think i've listened to this all the way through, but i honestly couldn't swear to it.
xpost: awesome, a full weekend of speculation.
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah i like tha idea too musically xxpost
― jammed hymen (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
for the people who have no idea what that record is, anyone want to sell it?
― kafka is poking about into the deepest (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
also, yeah, musically - i think everyone is just incredibly happy that you've done it and are cool with you doing it on your own time.
― kafka is poking about into the deepest (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
It's Finnish folk-psych or something, right? I've learned to be scared of things that come from Finland.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Paavoharjusundae.jpg
― LVL 12 rigorous chaotic normalcy cleric (jjjusten), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Awesome!
finnish psych-folk rules
― Boring Sign In Name (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I'd be kind of dissapointed if TVotR didn't place. I didn't vote for them, but I like the more upbeat half of the album a lot, much more than the sludge they've pedaled in the past.
― The Reverend (rev), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm banging the fuck outta "Red Dress" right now haha.
― The Reverend (rev), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
"Shout Me Out" is the secret jam on that TVotR album. No one seems to talk about it besides me.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Awesome album! It's like Gang Gang Dance's hippie parent
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Paavoharju that is
i always have this issue with "shout me out" in that the second half kind of sounds like a jig to me.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:36 (17 minutes ago) Bookmark
I have said numerous times that this and Halfway Home are the only two songs on the album I genuinely like
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
39 - Hold Steady, The - Stay Positive89.5 points, 9 votes13 in P&J, 29 in p4k
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/6472/15779482co7.jpg
Full album streaming: http://www.last.fm/music/The+Hold+Steady/Stay+Positive
Stay Positive holds up to the expectations. it's a more "mature" record, songs with somewhat lower tempos than Boys and Girls, more serious and contemplative, and the production is richer.
love it.
― Zeno
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:11 (fifteen years ago) link
wow! how low can you go?
― I Want to Edit My Profile... (Ioannis), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Disappointed that isn't higher.
― Boring Sign In Name (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:15 (fifteen years ago) link
it's good but... it's a 4th hold steady album.
― nascar jesus (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
i am cool with a fourth hold steady album, and look forward to the fifth. i recently listened to franz nicolay's (debut?) record, and it was really awful, i couldn't even get through it. it's like the hold steady stripped of everything that makes them interesting: craig finn. it really goes to show you how important personality (and duh, songwriting) is
― jammed hymen (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
although i think they do some good, interesting things on Stay Positive, the Hold Steady is certainly not a band that gets by on their music.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i iike the first 2 hold steady records, bought the third and barely listened to it, never bothered with this one. dont think they did anything wrong, i just dont need any more of it.
― From Rax to Rich's (jjjusten), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
There is no way that the fucking Hold Steady should be higher than Paavoharju. And it is all my fault that they are, too. Someone kick me in the face.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
It's just by 1 point. That's really close to a tie.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
does the mister like them too?x-post
― Boring Sign In Name (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
paavoharju are on spotify and i intend to try them out when i've finished rinsing beyoncé
i intend to go nowhere near the hold steady :/
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, my vote would probably have bumped them up at least three places. The mister does like them but he *chose* not to vote (not sure why, possibly because he only really lurks here, posts even less than I do), whereas I didn't vote because the deadline day was a complete write-off for me.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay where have I heard the tinkly opening to that first track on the Paavoharju album before? Is it a sample from a film or TV programme or something?
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I hate myself for not having ordered my ballot and put Paavoharju at the top spot where it belongs.
― Snowballing, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
This is sounding really nice but is it supposed to sound this muddy or is it a poor Spotify stream? Production aside I think you'd like it btw Lex, the second track is sort of... Finnish Kate Bush gone electronic.
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
(Haha okay maybe not, this probably qualifies under 'pastoral overload'. I like it though)
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.last.fm/music/Paavoharju
― Boring Sign In Name (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
38 - D. Lissvik - 7 Trx + Intermission93 points, 7 votes
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/5908/41qcgb8dpflss500ix3.jpg
the whole album is so fantastic. sounds like a peyote-fueled jam session with himself
-psychgawsple
― lil waynes babymama (musically), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Another one I need to finish listening to.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay, I have no idea at all what that is. Looks intriguing though.
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
That's one of the dudes from Studio - keep meaning to check it out.
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
wow i wonder if yearbook 2 is going to show up. i think i voted for that one instead, actually
― all-seeing eye of horus (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
7 trx + intermission is still a fantastic record though
― all-seeing eye of horus (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i really like the Lissvik but it's fairly unremarkable just v pleasant ambient grooves
― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
What's the Intermission bit all about?
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
especially bcz the album is 9 trx
― Gukbe, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
on the trax poll, i'd heard most, and was aware of all of the top 50. here, there are at least two artists i'd never heard of before.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link