More like Faggle Creek

satansfingers

the albums that have seemingly crossed all lists to end up at the top are animal collective, grizzly bear, phoenix, dirty projectors and yeah yeah yeahs

i was a little surprised yyys didn't make it to the top 10 on p4k

Baroque And Roll

Monoxide wrote: »

Baroque And Roll wrote: »

Monoxide wrote: »

can we keep the "why isn't ____ higher" and "where the fuck is ____ it's easily the best album" shit to a minimum this year?

these lists are hardly meant to be objective and are actually a pretty good retrospective if you take them with a grain of salt and use them to look into what you haven't heard.

I'm not hitting on album placement. It listed a lot of albums I found to be really fantastic this year pretty highly. I was really pleased to see The xx as high as they were. While a couple albums could've been higher, I'm not going to complain about it.

I just don't at all think or feel that MWPP was deserving of the number one spot. Plain and simple.

My post wasn't a direct reply to yours, I was just attempting to curb that kind of shit before it starts, since it's what all year end lists lead to, and kills any legitimate discussion

but Merriweather has been the number 1 from more than just Pitchfork this year. Spin magazine listed it as #1 as well, and it's been in the top 5 in most publications.

The album just feels entirely forgettable to me. I listened to it five or six times over a period of two days and the only song I can remember is Summertime Clothes. I just didn't hear or feel anything standout about it.

What album I was pleased to see on their list was Cymbals Eat Guitars' Why There Are Mountains because that album is boss as fuck. Hands down one of my favorites of the year.

Monoxide

This is how it broke down for me:

Albums I liked or really liked wrote:

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
The xx - The xx
Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Raekwon - OB4CL2
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Girls - Album
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
St. Vincent - Actor
Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
Passion Pit - Manners
Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
Bear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
Dan Deacon - Bromst
jj - jj n 2
The Antlers - Hospice

Albums I liked but probably won't hold up too much wrote:

YYY's - It's Blitz
Atlas Sound - Logos
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
DOOM - Born Like This
Mountain Goats - Life of the World to Come
Baroness - Blue Record
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
Royksopp - Junior
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Bon Iver - Blood Bank EP

the rest wrote:

Zomby - Where Were U in 92
Woods - Songs of Shame
Cass McCombs - Catacombs
Major Lazer
Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Bill callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
DJ Quik and Kurupt - BlaQKout
Yo La Tengo
Micachu
Five Years of Hyperdub
Real Estate - Real Estate
POBPAH - POBAH
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Antony and the Johnsons - Crying Light

satansfingers

that micachu album is unreal, i highly recommend it

wild beasts is really good too

Chompskers.

I loved songs of shame so hard.

So hard.

satansfingers

45. The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come (8.4)
44. tUnE-yArDs - BiRd-BrAiNs (6.8)
40. Mos Def - The Ecstatic (8.0)
34. Passion Pit - Manners (8.1)
28. Micachu and the Shapes - Jewellery (7.9)
22. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers (8.4)
13. St. Vincent - Actor (8.5)
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (8.1)
9. Fever Ray - Fever Ray (8.1)
8. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (8.5)
7. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (8.5)
6. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest (9.0)
5. Raekwon - Only Built for Cuban Linx...Pt. II (8.8)
1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion (9.6)

i just copied a list of the top 50 and deleted everything i hadn't heard or didn't really care for. a short list.

e: actually this includes original scores so maybe some of you would be interested in seeing it:

Spoiler:

50. Woods - Songs of Shame (8.3)
49. Cass McCombs - Catacombs (8.2)
48. DOOM - Born Like This (8.0)
47. Zomby - Where Were U in '92? (8.3)
46. Dan Deacon - Bromst (8.5)
45. The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come (8.4)
44. tUnE-yArDs - BiRd-BrAiNs (6.8)
43. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains (8.3)
42. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar (8.3)
41. Baroness - Blue Record (8.5)
40. Mos Def - The Ecstatic (8.0)
39. Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor (8.3)
38. Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People--Lazers Do (8.1)
37. The Antlers - Hospice (8.5)
36. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm (8.5)
35. jj - jj no 2 (8.6)
34. Passion Pit - Manners (8.1)
33. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue (8.3)
32. Bear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth (8.4)
31. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (8.5)
30. Royksopp - Junior (7.9)
29. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs (7.9)
28. Micachu and the Shapes - Jewellery (7.9)
27. Various Artists - Five Years of Hyperdub (8.2)
26. Bon Iver - Blood Bank EP (7.9)
25. DJ Quik and Kurupt - BlaQKout (8.2)
24. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle (8.1)
23. Memory Tapes - Seek Magic (8.3)
22. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers (8.4)
21. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone (7.9)
20. Real Estate - Real Estate (8.5)
19. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - S/T (8.4)
18. Atlas Sound - Logos (8.2)
17. The Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa (8.6)
16. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light (8.6)
15. Japandroids - Post-Nothing (8.3)
14. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms (8.6)
13. St. Vincent - Actor (8.5)
12. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz! (8.1)
11. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport (9.0)
10. Girls - Album (9.1)
9. Fever Ray - Fever Ray (8.1)
8. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (8.5)
7. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (8.5)
6. Grizzly Bear Veckatimest (9.0)
5. Raekwon - Only Built for Cuban Linx...Pt. II (8.8)
4. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic (9.0)
3. The xx - The xx (8.7)
2. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (9.2)
1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion (9.6)

Monoxide

Micachu I couldn't get into when I first gave it a shot, but I plan on revisiting

the same for Woods and Antony

I can't get past the vocals on the Wild Beasts album.

the rest I just haven't listened to or given enough time to create an opinion on yet

I'm kind of surprised not to see Taken by Trees - East of Eden on the list anywhere

Chompskers.

I am yet to listen to Micachu and the Shapes even though it keeps coming up on my last fm recommendations thingy.

I may get on that.

I'm not even sure what type of music it is.
I suppose we will see.

simo

kind of disappointed (but not surprised) that the blackout beach record didn't make any best of lists

well except said the gramophone's

satansfingers

Monoxide wrote: »

Micachu I couldn't get into when I first gave it a shot, but I plan on revisiting

the same for Woods and Antony

I can't get past the vocals on the Wild Beasts album.

the rest I just haven't listened to or given enough time to create an opinion on yet

I'm kind of surprised not to see Taken by Trees - East of Eden on the list anywhere

i don't see why you would like the falsetto on passion pit and not like it on wild beasts, but diff'rent strokes i guess

Snork

god i just listened to passion pit out of nowhere again today
let your love grow tall and seaweed song are much better wintermusics than i would have thought

and man i don't know what it is but for some reason i just do not find cymbals eat guitars interesting at all

Baroque And Roll

Snork wrote: »

god i just listened to passion pit out of nowhere again today
let your love grow tall and seaweed song are much better wintermusics than i would have thought

and man i don't know what it is but for some reason i just do not find cymbals eat guitars interesting at all

No love for And The Hazy Sea? Too bad. To each his own, though.

Snork

actually i meant to phrase that as 'fuck you animal collective is great and cymbals eat guitars sucks'
i'm actually listening to why there are mountains right now to give it another chance

i'm liking it more this time around, i guess i was just expecting to be a bit more wowed due to the universal praise it got

The Geebs That Is A Pony

I don't know why I read best of lists for albums, since it's extremely rare that I've listened to any of them

satansfingers

man based on her music i had assumed miranda lambert was, like, 40

she's pretty cute

Monoxide

satansfingers wrote: »

Monoxide wrote: »

Micachu I couldn't get into when I first gave it a shot, but I plan on revisiting

the same for Woods and Antony

I can't get past the vocals on the Wild Beasts album.

the rest I just haven't listened to or given enough time to create an opinion on yet

I'm kind of surprised not to see Taken by Trees - East of Eden on the list anywhere

i don't see why you would like the falsetto on passion pit and not like it on wild beasts, but diff'rent strokes i guess

I dunno

I'll give it another shot

Antimatter

Baroque And Roll wrote: »

Yeah well I've got the biggest opinion of them all.

compensating for something?

Baroque And Roll

Antimatter wrote: »

Baroque And Roll wrote: »

Yeah well I've got the biggest opinion of them all.

compensating for something?

My secret shame.

Clint Eastwood

I love Wayne Coyne.

No matter who you are, you'll run into somebody who'll be like, "Jesus, you gotta see this video!" and there'll be some woman squirting eels out of her ass or something. In some ways I think it's funny. We live in good times; we can watch something like that and get on with our day. I mean, I don't want to have a woman squirting eels out of her butt while I'm there, but I'll watch it on video for 20 seconds.

Vann Diras

guys listen to The Woes

I love them dearly

here is a video for you to digest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRBM6SAEUlw

Snork

every time wayne coyne says anything i just get more and more astonished that he does not and has not used drugs recreationally, at least according to an interview in high times

The Geebs That Is A Pony

maybe he uses drugs professionally

Dr.Funkenstein

no thats lil' wayne

satansfingers

los campesinos is such a good band

Monoxide

satansfingers wrote: »

los campesinos is such a good band

Romance is Boring?

Richard M. Nixon

I don't think I'm in pitchfork's target demographic. I had heard of 8 of the artists in the top 100 tracks. Is Lady Gaga in there ironically or something?

Also iTunes "genius" keeps putting Radiohead and Killers songs into this "indie" playlist.

edit: though it does keep throwing up white rabbits, so it's not all misguided

satansfingers

Monoxide wrote: »

satansfingers wrote: »

los campesinos is such a good band

Romance is Boring?

you might say that

Monoxide

Richard M. Nixon wrote: »

I don't think I'm in pitchfork's target demographic. I had heard of 8 of the artists in the top 100 tracks. Is Lady Gaga in there ironically or something?

Also iTunes "genius" keeps putting Radiohead and Killers songs into this "indie" playlist.

edit: though it does keep throwing up white rabbits, so it's not all misguided

well, the year end lists are mostly very current. if you're not keeping up with indie released in the last year or so, it's not going to be very familiar. especially since the indie blogosphere culture means that anyone who isn't constantly putting out music is entirely forgotten and may as well have never existed.

there's a bunch of good tracks on that list though, it's worth going through it and seeing what you like

satansfingers

yeah i definitely found some good stuff via those lala links

satansfingers

this song cousins by vampire weekend sounds a lot different from their other stuff. i like it a lot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e0u11rgd9Q

The Black Hunter

That's old

Spoiler:

but so so wonderful

satansfingers

man i dunno i just heard it for the first time on the tv

Baroque And Roll

http://flavorwire.com/57909/stereotyping-people-by-their-favorite-indie-bands

This made me laugh.

Fabricate

Steve Aoki
Alts who don’t “get” Hipster Runoff.

lmao.

Koshian

but I like patrick wolf and tegan and sara?

I feel so conflicted

Dr.Funkenstein

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Gy_0H-ka8

Snork

i only really thought a few of those were funny

Woods
Indie dudes who wear beanies and you can see the front of their hair pulled back beneath it.

i loved that one though

the rest seem to rely too heavily on 'lol indie people' and split the clichés up however they felt like it
like to me the xx is not keffiyeh music
vampire weekend is TOTAL keffiyeh music

i also laughed at the joanna newsom 'befriending a squirrel' one though because that is totally true

Tweaked_Bat_

Ratatat
Boys who think Ocarina of Time is the greatest game ever made.

Haha, this one made me drop my shit... it's kinda true.




Ok, pretty true.

Bedlam

MAJORAS MASK WAS BETTER!

Tweaked_Bat_

Ehhhhhh.