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"Shout Me Out" is the secret jam on that TVotR album. No one seems to talk about it besides me.

Awesome album! It's like Gang Gang Dance's hippie parent

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.

"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 (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

39 - Hold Steady, The - Stay Positive
89.5 points, 9 votes
13 in P&J, 29 in p4k

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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

wow! how low can you go?

Disappointed that isn't higher.

it's good but... it's a 4th hold steady album.

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

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.

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.

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.

It's just by 1 point. That's really close to a tie.

does the mister like them too?
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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 :/

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.

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?

I hate myself for not having ordered my ballot and put Paavoharju at the top spot where it belongs.

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.

(Haha okay maybe not, this probably qualifies under 'pastoral overload'. I like it though)

http://www.last.fm/music/Paavoharju

38 - D. Lissvik - 7 Trx + Intermission
93 points, 7 votes

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the whole album is so fantastic. sounds like a peyote-fueled jam session with himself

-psychgawsple

Another one I need to finish listening to.

Okay, I have no idea at all what that is. Looks intriguing though.

That's one of the dudes from Studio - keep meaning to check it out.

wow i wonder if yearbook 2 is going to show up. i think i voted for that one instead, actually

7 trx + intermission is still a fantastic record though

i really like the Lissvik but it's fairly unremarkable just v pleasant ambient grooves

What's the Intermission bit all about?

especially bcz the album is 9 trx

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.

surely you know of studio though, right?

oh yeah, didn't see the post saying it was one of them. which one? not the singer, i hope.

no vocals on this one at all actually

:D

i shall track it down! it may be my dream studio album

i am liking this poll a lot - so much to check out already

weird, just realised that solange's album placed but her singles didn't. and beyoncé's singles placed, but tbh i don't expect her album to. that seems oddly...backwards to how it should be.

lex you're the only person i can recall that's really ridden hard for the beyonce album

kevin too, i think? yeah i know, which seems weird cuz i still can't stop listening to it. i just don't think this is how beyoncé would have planned it.

How about SASHA FIERCE?

yeah you're probably right - tho i am surprised that "sandcastle disco" didn't place

sasha fierce plans nothing. sasha fierce has people plan for her. i don't think she'd be happy either though.

i wonder if paper trail will place. didn't vote for it but it's really grown on me of late.

re: Paavoharju

for the people who have no idea what that record is, anyone want to sell it?

I don't know if this helps, but it really reminds me of the Legendary Pink Dots' stranger moments. For me that is an automatic A++, but if that's also unfamiliar I could compare it to a strange, dreamy radio broadcast that keeps changing and doing unpredictable things. Doesn't rock at all, no beats to speak of, but it gets under your skin in this half-awake twilight fashion. Especially after a few listens.

Fonal, their label, has put out some of my favorite stuff this decade.

Fonal Records

it had better.

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i dont even know what rap's going to place... jeezy and wayne for sure, but after that i really don't know. i don't think t.i. will, and i dont think ringtone will be able to push a.b.n or something thru. was wale even nominated in this poll?

lol who would vote for wale.

am guessing the combined efforts of rev, whiney and myself will not be enough to get nappy roots a showing - the failure of hood headlinaz to place in the trax poll was probably evidence that ringtone crew repping alone is not enough :(

Kanye will make it for sure (does that count as rap?). T.I., too.

808s isnt rap nah

doesn't matter, it's still great.