The Bridesmaids Poll: Acclaimed Music 2nd and 3rd most votes from the 2000s Album polls

this poll is usually more exciting than the championship round.

27 choices this time around

De-Loused in the Comatorium, easily.

Animal Collective can fuck off, as usual.

why do you need to take things so personal? people like different things than you do, get over it.

Arular

badu easily

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Hmm. It's interesting that you should say that because in fact it's actually the opposite. If anything, people need to "get over" the fact that, occasionally, people will not like their favourite artist/album and express that opinion. If they should take it personally or get upset about it, that's not really my problem - they should be secure enough in their tastes that whatever anyone else says shouldn't matter anyway, particularly the opinion of some guy on the internet.

Y'see, over the last couple of years or so, I've actually come to realise that the only opinion I care about when it comes to music is my own. While other people's opinions on a specific artist or song can be interesting, not once does anyone else's opinion on anything musical, positive or negative, threaten to override my own.

In an age where I can stream any album I like upon release and form an opinion on it fairly quickly, I've accepted that music criticism/writing via printed/web publications is actually no longer useful to me or even needed. By the same token, if people are really secure in their tastes, they shouldn't really give much of a shit about what I have to say about their favourite band, artist or album. I'd honestly be quite shocked if they did. Ultimately, the only opinion that matters is your own - which is why music criticism ultimately doesn't work, and is completely unnecessary to anyone with a list of new releases and Spotify.

Yes, people will continue to laboriously make lists, rank albums, get obsessed about canons and an artists place in culture or history etc., or want the Blue Peter badge for having the most obscure music taste, desire to be seen as some kind of "authority" on musical matters, or top up that last.fm playcount that literally nobody else aside from the user gives a fuck about, because that's what geeks do, as increasingly silly as it looks once you get past the age of, say, 35 - because, let's face it, it's only music and it's a fucking ridiculous thing to get obsessed with.

Ultimately though, the only opinion that matters is ones own.

my comment also came after also reading the Trouble Will Find Me thread. you go on and on about it at times. you have said the same thing about Animal Collective about five times now, we get you don't like them.

Yeah, they are shit, aren't they?

otherwise i'm totally on board with your opinions on here. not sure why you pick on today's rock so much? it's getting attacked by every direction, so for someone to like it like you do, well it's a bit baffling. but i also get it, there is a lot of crap out there.

Y'see, over the last couple of years or so, I've actually come to realise that the only opinion I care about when it comes to music is my own. While other people's opinions on a specific artist or song can be interesting, not once does anyone else's opinion on anything musical, positive or negative, threaten to override my own.

might I suggest getting a blog

lol

vespertine just over badu

might I suggest getting a blog

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, September 8, 2016 1:55 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Brad, I'm not interested in what music writers have to say at the best of times, why on Earth would I become a music writer?

OutKast or Erykah

Turrican, I've seen you doing the same thing on threads related to Super Furry Animals, Radiohead, Chairlift and The 1975 too. Nobody is saying you're not entitled to an opinion. Obviously, that's why we're all here but the need to get so angry and repeat these opinions over and over. You know you're winding people up and you seem to thrive on that for some reason. I get that you're passionate about the bands you once loved (SFA, Radiohead) but what do you expect to achieve by visiting threads for bands you hate? Do you really think you can convince all the people that love The 1975 that they're wrong? That just isn't going to happen. I don't rate Animal Collective or The National one bit so it's not about "people needing to "get over" the fact that, occasionally, people will not like their favourite artist/album and express that opinion". It's about the constant trolling and how for people who post on here a lot, it's getting tiresome and it seems to be unavoidable now.

Tough call between The Avalanches and Erykah Badu for me.

Brad, I'm not interested in what music writers have to say at the best of times, why on Earth would I become a music writer?

― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Thursday, September 8, 2016 3:02 AM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't really understand this - surely you are writing about music every time you post to ilm?

Brad, I'm not interested in what music writers have to say at the best of times, why on Earth would I become a music writer?

idk think of it as a space where you can say "[x band]: classic! amazing drumming!" or "[x band]: sucks! fuck em forever" and at least someone (you) will find it interesting

Turrican, I've seen you doing the same thing on threads related to Super Furry Animals, Radiohead, Chairlift and The 1975 too. Nobody is saying you're not entitled to an opinion. Obviously, that's why we're all here but the need to get so angry and repeat these opinions over and over. You know you're winding people up and you seem to thrive on that for some reason. I get that you're passionate about the bands you once loved (SFA, Radiohead) but what do you expect to achieve by visiting threads for bands you hate?

With the exception of The 1975, I actually like (or have liked) all of those bands/artists. I still like SFA's stuff 1994-2004 and I'm still continuing to follow Radiohead even though I find their last album mostly dull. The Chairlift record was so shockingly awful that I couldn't believe that Brad was praising it, and as for The 1975...

Do you really think you can convince all the people that love The 1975 that they're wrong? That just isn't going to happen.

No, I don't, but I do I think that history will.

I don't think I'm "trolling" at all, to be quite honest with you. All of my opinions could not be any more sincere.

idk think of it as a space where you can say "[x band]: classic! amazing drumming!" or "[x band]: sucks! fuck em forever"

I don't need to do this though, Brad, I already know what I think. This isn't one of your brightest ideas, it's fair to say.

and at least someone (you) will find it interesting

Exactly like your writing, then?

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. To me one of those formative records that hasn't grown old since I got it 2005.

three animal collective related albums!! but which to choose??

Turrican, your posting wouldn't be so bad if two things:

1) You didn't give such a stock lame retort such as "It's my opinion you don't have to like it!" This is a discussion board. If you sincerely feel this way, you actually have no business posting.

2) You didn't defend such unutterably shite music. You dump on the National and Radiohead, only to defend Rush and the Mars Volta? Seriously, gtfo.

Voted for Untrue because I immediately had remorse not voting for it the first time around. Though Geogaddi, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Hail to the Thief and Medulla are all very enticing choices.

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Animal Collective can fuck off, as usual.

i don't know what turrican's been doing on other threads and the subsequent posts here were not top quality, but this statement is neither controversial nor particularly harsh for ilm. polling/ranking every musical unit in existence is probably going to include many things ppl dislike

anyway yeah the correct response is to laugh at the mars volta (never rush, tho, cause they ~rule~)

You dump on the National and Radiohead, only to defend Rush

This seems utterly reasonable to me. Radiohead has some great albums and some not so great ones, The National is duller than dull. Rush, otoh, has many stone cold classics spanning 40 years.

And the best album on this list is Arular.

Boy In Da Corner. Animal Collective can do one

Avalanches vs. Badu vs. Wilco for me.

I loved Speakerboxxx/The Love Below when it came out, need to revisit it

Voting for XX in this poll.

Voted Geogaddi cos I was listening to it this morning and it never gets old.

This seems utterly reasonable to me. Radiohead has some great albums and some not so great ones, The National is duller than dull. Rush, otoh, has many stone cold classics spanning 40 years.

Quality over quantity.

i don't like Rush at all. i know they are talented but i feel you have to invest way too much time into them to really get them.

maybe, but this song bangs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UU62UcP_BA

as soon as i heard the vocals i turned it off.

Bee OTM.

Badu

Y'see, over the last couple of years or so, I've actually come to realise that the only opinion I care about when it comes to music is my own. While other people's opinions on a specific artist or song can be interesting, not once does anyone else's opinion on anything musical, positive or negative, threaten to override my own.

might I suggest getting a blog

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson)

i think "youtube comment section" is better suited to these sorts of remarks

I guess it's too long for a new board description

sounds like the aesthetics of a philosophy freshman encountering the notion of subjectivism or solipsism for the first time

thing is (and sorry for stating the obvious here), arguing for solipsism on anything but an abstract/analytical level is, punnily enough, self-defeating - who are you talking to? why? what is communication?

also, I think whoever made the point was very otm in observing that religious extremists paradoxically seem to lack faith - true believers are at peace with their beliefs - and the same goes for Turrican's tirades: The louder you shout, the less convinced you come across, the style of those posts seem to express doubt in their content

^^perhaps I'm projecting slightly, but lord knows your post read as class A projecting

also, just because it's not unusual to see ilm opinions expressed in offensive/antagonistic style doesn't make it a superb idea

anyway, I'm voting Burial

oh can't we just drop it already the guy is just irritable because he's trying to quit smoking and animal collective is not helping, turrican has plenty of worthwhile things to say on plenty of other threads

besides we're supposed to be talking about arcade fire

arcade fire can die in a fire!

just kidding I quite like Funeral. I like animal collective and rush too. I also like country, and rap

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

because of these results. i'm going to play Since I Left You for the first time tomorrow. looking forward to it.