lmao @ whiney insisting spoon are part of the canon (and that the canon matters)
since this thread ended we have:
mama's gun (2000)worldwide underground (2003)new amerykah part one: 4th world war (2008)new amerykah part two: return of the ankh (2010)
(yes i know you have to squint a bit to include 2000 and 2010 as part of the same decade but really it's a very arbitrary thing to demand in the first place)(man i wish circus wasn't as mediocre as it is otherwise britney would walk this)
― lex pretend, Thursday, 7 November 2013 07:41 (ten years ago) link
i vote for erykah too (though part two was pretty patchy) though kanye is the first one that came to mind.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 7 November 2013 10:38 (ten years ago) link
Gravity (2001)Cinemascope (2001)Momentum (2003)Polygon Cities (2005)
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 7 November 2013 11:01 (ten years ago) link
there ain't no insisting about it, spoon are part of the canon
happens when all you do is release classic records
― j., Thursday, 7 November 2013 12:51 (ten years ago) link
I was listening to "The Complete Recollection" just the other day and thinking that this:
If It Was You (2002)So Jealous (2004)The Con (2007)Sainthood (2009)
and then Heartthrob (2013)
Is a pretty amazing run. They're all great, and they also progress pretty logically towards the commercial breakout. It's like a throwback to the way artists used to develop.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 7 November 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link
I second Converge. A run of greatness that's still ongoing.
― jmm, Thursday, 7 November 2013 14:27 (ten years ago) link
Think of all the ways Whiney would call somebody a Brony if they started this exact thread today
― some dude, Thursday, 7 November 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
Trouble Over BridgwaterCammell Pairs Social ClubAchtung BonoCSI: Ambleside
― durianlychee (imago), Thursday, 7 November 2013 16:21 (ten years ago) link
*Laird, fucken autocorrect
Hardly anyone outside American indie fans gives a shit about Spoon, but as they're pretty much the only people who care about canon these days they might as well let anyone in no matter how insignificant in the wider world.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 7 November 2013 16:24 (ten years ago) link
Autechre a good shout too tho I need to get into Quaristice
― durianlychee (imago), Thursday, 7 November 2013 16:26 (ten years ago) link
This is actually really hard because hardly anyone releases four albums in a row without one of them being underwhelming at best - ie I would have thought the YYYs were nailed on for this but then Mosquito happened.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 7 November 2013 16:32 (ten years ago) link
Like it's really annoying that Paper Tigers exists because Vocalcity -> The Present Lover -> something better than Paper Tigers -> Convivial would equal pretty much any artist of the 00s.
― Matt DC, Friday, 8 November 2013 13:05 (ten years ago) link
Porcupine Tree:
In AbsentiaDeadwingFear of a Blank PlanetThe Incident
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Friday, 8 November 2013 13:15 (ten years ago) link
really? The Incident was post-2009 anyway
― durianlychee (imago), Friday, 8 November 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link
I tell a lie. But still.
― durianlychee (imago), Friday, 8 November 2013 13:31 (ten years ago) link
― some dude
lol at first i thought it was a joke thread and stevie meant 'steve hyden'
― balls, Friday, 8 November 2013 14:07 (ten years ago) link
to help prove that Spoon is the best band from this last decade:
Our top overall artist of the decade: Spoon
http://www.metacritic.com/feature/best-music-of-the-decade
― Bee OK, Saturday, 9 November 2013 03:36 (ten years ago) link
settled
lock thread
― mookieproof, Saturday, 9 November 2013 03:38 (ten years ago) link
lol, not saying that but some people is this thread are dismissing them. i wanted the counter argument and hey i was able to back it up.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 9 November 2013 03:40 (ten years ago) link
spoon are classic, fuiud
― old homophobic boom bap rap traditionalist (The Reverend), Saturday, 9 November 2013 04:45 (ten years ago) link
DJ Quik
Balance & Options (2000)Under tha Influence (2002)Trauma (2005)BlaQKout (2009)
― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, 9 November 2013 04:47 (ten years ago) link
oh shit
― old homophobic boom bap rap traditionalist (The Reverend), Saturday, 9 November 2013 04:48 (ten years ago) link
Influence is kind of the weak link but still
yeah obv but still awesome
― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, 9 November 2013 04:48 (ten years ago) link
This kind of cheating but I'd like to add The Go-Betweens.
The Friends of Rachel Worth (2000)Bright Yellow Bright Orange (2003)Oceans Apart (2005)The Evangelist (2008)
The last one was obviously a Robert Forster solo album but it did feature contributions from Grant and was a tribute to him so I'm counting it. Really great set of albums that are not far off the quality of the run they had in the 80s.
― Kitchen Person, Saturday, 9 November 2013 05:12 (ten years ago) link
I guess i need to hear Convivial.
― brimstead, Saturday, 9 November 2013 06:11 (ten years ago) link
certainly
paper tigers is unaccountably disfavored, too
― j., Saturday, 9 November 2013 06:34 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I never got why paper tigers was so bad and hated
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Saturday, 9 November 2013 07:09 (ten years ago) link
one touch (2000)angel with dirty faces (2002)three (2003)taller in more ways (2005)
― prolego, Saturday, 9 November 2013 07:32 (ten years ago) link
sung tongsfeels strawberry jammerriweather post pavilion
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Saturday, 9 November 2013 08:21 (ten years ago) link
Wussy deserve some mention here even though the last one came out in 2011.
Funeral Dress 2005Left for Dead 2007Wussy 2009Strawberry 2011
If you add the last two Ass Ponys albums from 2000 and 2001 Chuck Cleaver has a Stevie and a half going.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 9 November 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
lambchop
Is a womanAw cmon/No you cmonDamagedOhioMr. M
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Saturday, 9 November 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
i still think EPs (or mini-albums or whatever you wanna call them) should count for this especially if they are considered among the artist's strongest output (like "Young Liars" for example) and especially if the EP was crafted by the artist as a self-contained sequence of music (as opposed to b-sides collections like "Airbag/How Am I Driving" or remix albums like "Further Down The Spiral"). within certain contexts, i think this exception makes perfect sense.
my reasoning is that the initial stevie wonder 4-in-a-row that inspired this idea was built from 4 consecutive releases without EPs or shorter releases scattered in between. and plus they were all released within a 4-year span as opposed to getting spread across all 10 years of the 70s like many of the 2000s artists mentioned in this thread. (stevie had 8 albums throughout the 70s.)
― billstevejim, Saturday, 9 November 2013 22:13 (ten years ago) link
Would be interested in a 90s version of this.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 9 November 2013 23:40 (ten years ago) link