LS i think. hard decision.
― shite new answers (cutty), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:29 (fourteen years ago) link
the cowbell is awesome!
Nick, that means you lose attention for one track, and that track is BEAUTY ITSELF set to tape with the greatest fadeout in the history of fadeouts
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
also the verse of Desire has my favourite chord-sequence
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:33 (fourteen years ago) link
My first hundred listens of Spirit were on cassette so I didn't have that fatigue problem. Basically treated it as two EPs.
― Chatbot LeFonque (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Likewise I'm so worn out by the start of New Grass that I float through that track (my favourite) and have pretty much no idea what happens afterwards. Luckily Runei is conducive to this.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Have any of you dudes heard Laughing Stock the song, by Love?
Laughing Stock the song, by Grandaddy, is good
Nick ffs Runeii is fucking astonishing and as I keep saying its air of finality is absolute - it's one of the most certain pieces of music I've heard
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
But it's so uncertain! So hesitant, and tempting.
― No, YOU'RE a disgusting savage (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
it repeats the very, very simple and beautiful structure it has, and redoubles the final piano motif - doesn't get more comprehensive than that - zen-like iirc
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
there is literally nothing left to say - not many bands have even approached this point let alone reached it
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Voted Laughing Stock. It's the one I heard first.
^
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I’ll pretty much buy any album going if someone tells me it sounds like ‘Laughing Stock’.
― AnotherDeadHero, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 12:30 (3 hours ago) Bookmark
Can you give some examples of these?
― bham, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Spirit of Eden?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
bark psychosis amirite
also hood - rustic houses, forlorn valleys and the occasional catherine wheel song
neither are that close, though. nobody's close.
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Autistic Daughters - Jealousy and Diamond
― Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Farting in Space (NickB), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Voted for Spirit of Eden, but Runeii is one of the most perfect things ever.
― Marco Damiani, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
My SoE/LS songs poll from a couple years back: The Spirit of Eden/Laughing Stock Individual Songs Poll
Also, a previous SoE vs. LS poll: Talk Talk: 'Spirit of Eden' vs. 'Laughing Stock'
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 16:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I voted for Laughing Stock but they are both in my top 30 albums of all time.
For me Talk Talk are one of the few artists I can think of that got better with each album.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 18:26 (fourteen years ago) link
not enough love for "the colour of spring"
― shite new answers (cutty), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i prefer Laughing Stock but just barely.
― akm, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
This is my personal fav. Talk Talk album.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Splits the difference between '80s new-wave/synth pop and eventually stripping the medium to its essential elements. ;-)
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, you mean post rock?
― shite new answers (cutty), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(...yes?)
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
you're wrong anyway. "the colour of spring" is a lost balearic classic. ;)
― shite new answers (cutty), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
I got both of these at the same time & they sort of bleed into one monumental mega-album for me, so this is pretty much a coin toss.
These will always be their canonical albums, but it is worth mentioning that, as "transitional" albums go, The Colour of Spring is one of the best.
― Man or Austro-Hungarian? (Pillbox), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 22:08 (fourteen years ago) link
lol xp
listened to these back to back today and it's laughing stock by a good distance for me i'm surprised to say.
― DJ Get Up Kids (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
really love the drumming on both of these records. fantastic stuff.
― shite new answers (cutty), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^yes
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
whenever i want to imagine a really resonant, thick drum sound, such as when an oil can is struck, i imagine these records
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Laughing Stock for me, they're both incredible although I agree that the cowbell in 'Desire' is off-putting.
― Gavin in Leeds, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 23:00 (fourteen years ago) link
guys what the fuck, that drum solo in 'desire' is transcendent
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
i hate the drum solo in desire. not just the cowbell. but mainly the cowbell.
― DJ Get Up Kids (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
-_-
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
def transcendant
― shite new answers (cutty), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 23:06 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmaikgBQBBQ
^ dunno why you would want this but it's a version of 'Desire' w/o the drums
― Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Farting in Space (NickB), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
when the harmonica does a kinda donkey-bray feedback oscillation thing in the final run-through of the chorus and then reverses its pattern and then the organ comes back in, it is like music has been won
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 23:10 (fourteen years ago) link
that's a failed experiment IMO but the same dude has tried to turn After The Flood into a 4-minute pop single! :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8SRsWbv0tA&feature=related
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link
...nah
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 23:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, not sure what's up w/ that.
― Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Farting in Space (NickB), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Voting Spirit of Eden because it's the one where they made the break, and therefore more astonishing even if Laughing Stock is arguably an improvement on it in internal terms. Easily one of my favorite albums in the universe, too.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 01:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Laughing Stock gets the nod for me because it's got this great flow to it, where throughout the first half of the album the tension gets bigger and biger and the noisy sax in during "After the Flood" and it comes to a head in "Taphead" and then the problems get resolved during "New Grass" and the protagonist finds peace with "Runeii." Probably totally unintentional, of course, but I still like to interpret it that way. So anyway, no you can't change any of the song orders on Laughing Stock, but you could on Eden. And yes I am a total rockist bastard.
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, "Laughing Stock" by Love is great.
― Egg Foo Yung Joc, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 02:43 (fourteen years ago) link
"oh fred in bed.."
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Spirit Of Eden. I heard it first, and it changed my view of what music could be. Laughing Stock is an album where I appreciate the craftmanship, but it doesn't really move me. I listen to it for admiration, not enjoyment. SOE is inspiring and enjoyable.
― basskitten, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 23:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Laughing Stock
― jed_, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
voted for Laughing Stock bcz of Arthur Lee...
― failboat fucking captain (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 18 March 2010 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i see.
i also love how on this most holy albums of subtlety, the big drums on "Desire" include a big, conkin' cowbell. CONK CONK CONK CONK!
lol
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