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 (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
boy in da corner has some really dated sounding stuff but much more really prescient sounding stuff, imo
― soyrev, Saturday, 7 March 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 8 March 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
wow @ breadth
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 8 March 2015 00:06 (nine years ago) link
b but does it stand the test of space??
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Sunday, 8 March 2015 00:32 (nine years ago) link
can i suggest ban anyone who voted for death cab for cutie
also i understand the value of the streets as a punchline even if i don't agree with it but can we just ban outright ppl who want to tar the first dizzee record with the same brush
that was the last good DCFC
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Sunday, 8 March 2015 00:48 (nine years ago) link
i liked transatlanticism a bunch in high school but the best thing i ever read about it or death cab breakup songs in general was an early-pitchfork thing that said something like "the thing about glove compartments: what you get out of them depends on what you put into them"
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 8 March 2015 01:32 (nine years ago) link
Musically the Mia record aged terribly imo
Garbage
― deej loaf (D-40), Sunday, 8 March 2015 03:59 (nine years ago) link
rong
― mh, Sunday, 8 March 2015 04:09 (nine years ago) link
I mean, I don't really like the 2015 version of that sound, but Diplo is still working the same formula he lifted from working with MIA and apparently has some level of success
― mh, Sunday, 8 March 2015 04:10 (nine years ago) link
Spin won't stand the test time.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 8 March 2015 06:41 (nine years ago) link
Sick burn.
This thread reminded me of peak love for Bright Eyes (2002-2005?) and while I never followed the sensation, I keep wondering what happened to him, he was such a media darling. Everyone loved the dude.
Not unlike Justin Vernon today.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 8 March 2015 06:46 (nine years ago) link
He got boring.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Sunday, 8 March 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
got
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 8 March 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
goat
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Sunday, 8 March 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
I was on board with him up until about his first solo record, and I still think that I'm Wide Awake It's Morning is a masterpiece. Since then, though, he's become far too comfortable to play to the NPR/Paste crowd. I was unable to get all the way through his most recent solo disc; he sounds positively middle-aged on it.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Sunday, 8 March 2015 17:14 (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