Arular but I love More Adventurous as well
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 2 March 2015 15:14 (nine years ago) link
i think funeral will be the most listened to one of these in 20 more years if that's what we're voting on
― ciderpress, Monday, 2 March 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
it's probably my favorite here too, let's be real
― ciderpress, Monday, 2 March 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 7 March 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
dizzee
― mattresslessness, Saturday, 7 March 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
where is turn on the bright lights
― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Saturday, 7 March 2015 02:47 (nine years ago) link
i vote no confidence
― five six and (man alive), Saturday, 7 March 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link
coldplay is the one people are still going to be playing in the future tho, sry
― five six and (man alive), Saturday, 7 March 2015 02:55 (nine years ago) link
The Arcade Fires
― nose, Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:04 (nine years ago) link
lol omg this list
i am actually voting for the coldplay album, it is my favorite of theirs by many miles and was in some ways a very important record to me
― dyl, Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:17 (nine years ago) link
Agree that Coldplay will probably be the "stands the test of time" album out of this bunch, with M.I.A. and Arcade Fire being the only ones to really compete.
Franz Ferdinand keeps on existing and I always find that charming and/or surprising. Bless their hearts.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:24 (nine years ago) link
* I am American. I acknowledge that Dizzee will probably endure longer in the UK than it ever will on this side of the ocean. It could also be lumped in with my M.I.A. and Arcade Fire runners-up grouping above.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:28 (nine years ago) link
Coldplay
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:35 (nine years ago) link
Have the people who are knocking this list heard that Rilo Kiley record? If so, fine, but if you haven't, it's fantastic.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:36 (nine years ago) link
Rilo Kiley don't inspire much piss & vinegar out of me anymore, but in the early 00s I was a notorious hater.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:41 (nine years ago) link
Basically, Barsuk records was a one-stop shop for all things terrible.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2015 03:42 (nine years ago) link
Electric Version. First song
― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Saturday, 7 March 2015 04:13 (nine years ago) link
diz and MIA
― brosario nawson (m bison), Saturday, 7 March 2015 04:22 (nine years ago) link
No winehouse no credibility
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 7 March 2015 04:50 (nine years ago) link
Funeral should win in a landslide despite the ILM backlash.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 7 March 2015 05:32 (nine years ago) link
xp Back to Black wasn't out yet when this list was assembled, and don't try to tell me you're talking about Frank.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2015 05:35 (nine years ago) link
Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground might not get any love but i have a story. when i moved from San Francisco back down to SoCal, was still in my walk phase. so i walked around neighborhoods in this vast area called Los Angeles as the CD was over an hour long. they called him the Bob Dylan of this generation and at that time i believed it.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 7 March 2015 05:42 (nine years ago) link
after saying that, it probably has aged horribly.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 7 March 2015 05:44 (nine years ago) link
I think Lifted is a great album. It's a perfect collision of early Oberst 9-minute angst-folk jams and his later, more chilled, more conventional stuff that came into focus on Wide Awake.
In other words: more accessible than the stuff that came before it, but more ragged and pissed than the stuff that came after.
― alpine static, Saturday, 7 March 2015 06:50 (nine years ago) link
Wither Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot?
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 7 March 2015 09:48 (nine years ago) link
The Streets is the only inclusion that's embarrassing; the rest of these have held up pretty well
― Evan R, Saturday, 7 March 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2015 05:35 (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
heh this is what I get for posting while drinking. didn't pay attention to the date.
though I do love Frank
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 7 March 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
coldplay and arcade fire seem like the only ones among these that were even interested in 'standing the test of time'
― een, Saturday, 7 March 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
voted lifted over arular
i mentioned clocks last night and someone (~25) asked what it was and i was like cmon you know clocks, it's the one that goes DA da da DA da da DA da DA da da DA da da for five minutes. she looked blank and apologetic. and that's clocks! if you try to tell me a single human alive w the possible exception of "apple" knows how "green eyes" goes in 2015 i'm gonna buy this place and burn it down.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 7 March 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
my problem with more adventurous is it's really uneven and not remotely as good as the execution of all things
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 March 2015 17:37 (nine years ago) link
i like the fake country song a lot but i think it's "the absence of god" i can't deal with.
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 7 March 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
this is the band Jenny Lewis was in, right
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 March 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
The "test of time" is a stupid, pointless test IMO.
― daavid, Saturday, 7 March 2015 18:40 (nine years ago) link
Time will tell if we pass the test of time.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 March 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
The music goes thru yr typical wear and tear over time. Just gotta take it in for a tuneup
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 7 March 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
extremely confused by all the coldplay love in here
― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Saturday, 7 March 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link
Likewise.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
if you try to tell me a single human alive w the possible exception of "apple" knows how "green eyes" goes in 2015 i'm gonna buy this place and burn it down.
i remember! i loved that record when it came out
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:19 (nine years ago) link
it coincided with the first huge world destroying break up i ever had
imo the great enduring coldplay record is viva la vida tho
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:20 (nine years ago) link
only the Pet Shop Boys version of that song is worth the listen.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link
i prefer Viva La Vida as an album too but Rush O' Blood is definitely their big canonical blockbuster
― some dude, Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:24 (nine years ago) link
― flappy bird (spazzmatazz), Saturday, March 7, 2015 1:56 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
to clarify my mild affection for Coldplay itt is being expressed out of extreme indifference to all the other options
― some dude, Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link
it really is kinda weird to be saying "lol these albums don't stand the test of time!!" when I did think we'd generally agreed that "the test of time" is some rockist horseshit
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:30 (nine years ago) link
the test of time is some rockist horseshit
regardless i listened to lifted on repeat when i was 16 and doubt i could make it through a single listen now
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
I'VE BEEN SENT TO MY ROOM I'VE BEEN SAT IN A CHAIR
― difficult listening hour, Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link
so i guess it didn't survive a shift in my tastes, which makes me feel disenchanted toward it bc most things do
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
such a depressingly narrow and tepid selection. over the same four-year period, we also got:
William Basinski - The Disintegration LoopsClipse - Lord Willin'Orchestra Baobab - Specialist in All StylesSleater-Kinney - One BeatErykah Badu - Worldwide UndergroundJay-Dee - Vol. 2: VintageJay-Z - The Black AlbumSleep - DopesmokerYeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to TellBjörk - MedúllaDeerhoof - Milk ManElectrelane - The Power OutMadvillain - MadvillainyMastodon - LeviathanMoodymann - Black MahoganiJoanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed MenderXiu Xiu - Fabulous MusclesAmadou & Mariam - Dimanche à BamakoAntony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird NowFiona Apple - Extraordinary MachineCommon - BeDJ Quik - TraumaHigh on Fire - Blessed Black WingsBeanie Sigel - The B. ComingSleater Kinney - The WoodsSunn O))) - Black OneKanye West - Late Registration
― Soylent News Service (contenderizer), Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link
read music/speak spanish is a classic tho
xpost with myself
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Saturday, 7 March 2015 19:48 (nine years ago) link
"green eyes" is one of my favorites from that album lol
― dyl, Saturday, 7 March 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link
dude's hype usually revolved around his youth so once that was gone you just had a elvis costello-type making real music for real millenials
― da croupier, Sunday, 8 March 2015 17:20 (nine years ago) link
read music/speak spanish remains his "politically outraged pinkerton fan" testament, beyond that i only need a few tracks
it's funny that both he and john mayer wound up walking around california in a big floppy hat
― da croupier, Sunday, 8 March 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link