TOP 10 NOW: \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\shawty got poll poll poll poll poll poll poll (part II: 2008 ALBUMS)/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

there's not any chance Gaslight Anthem is gonna place on this, is there

That was my #6 album here. Doubt it'll make the top 50 though. As a New Jersey resident, I tend to get irritated by bands who package themselves as a bunch of "regular blue collar guys from Jersey," (Smithereens, etc) But they write good songs and despite the corniness, they manage to pull it off.

The band they remind me of the most is Against Me, responsible for one of the best records of 2007. Yet another band ignored by ILM, who instead lavishes praise on pretentious #$@ like Stars On The Lid.

A seance with disco ghosts sort of sums it up.

I'd take any newer Chromatics or Glass Candy record over their older ones (though I like Chrome Rats a lot in its own way).

Stars Of The Lid are boring but I don't care for Against Me either.

^^^

Stars of the Lid are boring but gr8

On paper they tick all the right boxes for me, but in actual listening I was bored by them.

I voted for BEATBOX last year.

35 - Half Man Half Biscuit - CSI: Ambleside
97 points, 6 votes

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/3971/amblesidefrontte3.jpg

^^^ had the highest average vote (Boris - Smile had the lowest)

i have never knowingly heard half man half biscuit. it's one of those english things, i guess.

i would like to distance myself from england, english things, and specifically those 6 english voters, please. UK indie is EVEN WORSE than US indie.

big lou

ugh even the name "half man half biscuit" makes me feel like i'm suffering an allergic reaction

Lex, this is that incompatible taste thing I was going on about. Live and let live :)

This was only my #6 anyhow ;)

UK indie is EVEN WORSE than US indie.

Lex surprisingly OTM on the topic of indie.

if we mean Pitchfork>>>NME then yes

Lex knows his indie.

HMHB bear absolutely no relation to a) NME "indie", b) landfill "indie", or c) crap toss guitar "indie". They are, as Dom keeps saying, a folk band. With indie instrumentation. ;)

They're fundamentally English, and understand this country, its foibles and follies, better than anyone else out there.

i'm pretty certain no-one who reads/writes the NME know who hmhb are. xpost

YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

Tiarnan did you vote for the Growing album? If HMHB can make it then maybe some other unexpected stuff can make it (unless there's an HMHB bloc vote from somewhere)

I forgot to vote, but I would have. My album vote would have been very different from my track vote which was dancepop all the way. With the exception of Kelley Polar (probably my #1) I woulda put Growing pretty high though. Also Carlos Giffoni (can't rep for adult life enuff btw).

I suppose Exclusive (Forever Edition) would have been eligible.

btw i've been listening to the paavoharju album and i'm definitely feeling it...this is gorgeous stuff. i love it when her voice weaves abstractedly in and out of it all. she sounds bizarrely like some sort of bollywood singer lost in the finnish forest.

lhasa springs to mind.

have you listened to Fursaxa then?

I like this stuff a lot more in theory than in practice where it seems a bit... toothless?

Damn you T, there goes any hope then.

Yeah Lex check out Fursaxa. And Grouper!

it is toothless, you'd only play it when you didn't want teeth. can't imagine obsessing over it, but can def see myself returning abstractedly to it late at night or when hungover, and it being perfect for those situations.

It sounds great driving at night

I think everything sounds great driving at night though.

Even Slipknot?

probably!

Driving at night is the only time I'd ever consider Slipknot.

listening now, surprised at how wussy this sounds.

Didn't realise they were so nu-metal

on youtube obv

34 - Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
97.5 points, 8 votes, 1 #1 vote
142 in P&J, 27 in p4k

http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/3135/108en80vx5.jpg

The perfect pop of "The Entertainment", the manic chopping on "Orphaned", the heavy bends on "Number Our Days", the overall Buggles-worthy gloss on the vocal lines, the clever but ouch-worthy personal risk of the lyrics vs. the clean room OCD production, I could go on but the whole thing is jawdropping.

― Neotropical pygmy squirrel

this coulda been higher, really great album. I think the poppier opening stuff is better though.

I heard Max Tundra years ago and hated it. Has it changed much since then?

yeah what's dude like (feel like a douche but can't listen right now?) like is it... kelly polar style?

like mental polyphonic ringtones

nothing like kelley polar. Tighter claustrophobic artificial thick, very XTC Scritti Politti vein of British hyper-pop

mental polyphonic ringtones sounds pretty dope

Mastered By Guy at the Exchange is probably a better entryway, its a bit more varied.

I could see you totally liking this btw Jordan

perfect pop

Can I put in that there's probably no phrase that so greatly turns me off of wanting to hear something as this one?

Haha, mental polyphonic ringtones is a gr8 (and accurate) description.