l0u1s jagg3r's 23 Best Songs Of The Decade!

wb LJ.

what the christ

tl;sb'd

only joking.

lolololol

hi louis. i've heard three of these. but REALLY? that califone song?

who has this kind of time?

he has had 30 days to come up with this tbf

and i think he's on the dole.

yeah this must have taken MONTHS!

xxp

this took me a) one evening last week to come up with the first half, and b) a train-journey home from Bristol to complete the other

what can I say, I work quickly

I've also written 10,000 words' worth of NaNoWriMo, studied the entire structure of British politics for a test, and gotten a girlfriend this week, so it's not like I've been kicking my heels waiting for ILX to start again

and I fucking adore that Califone song, it's like sunlight from decay or something. deconstruction and then reconstruction of Americana. by far the weakest write-up, granted; I think I kinda rushed that one.

ban l0u1s jagg3r

wb dude.

ugh what is this shit

an opening salvo.

i guess this qualifies as "epic"

God appears.

And his name, as I’ve said, is Thighpaulsandra.

this is my fave part.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MrUHzkuYVbo/ScLIcQWSUSI/AAAAAAAAA7o/ZarZ7ZUza9s/s400/Thighpaulsandra.jpg

that's actually the only song on the list i rate.

ugh what is this shit

i think experts call it 'regression'

guys - he got a girlfriend this weekend - did you see that? I think this really bears repeating.

okcupid works!

really sad there is no option in this poll for "got a girlfriend this weekend"

http://i36.tinypic.com/3308js5.jpg

some1 is jealous

that was really mean

i am very happy for him.

its good he was unbanned so you guys could laugh at him.

lj knows i love him. i just can't read that much about, like, anything

xp - come on, this is the epitome of affectionate teasing!

i'm happy for him, and for us too, this would have been l0u1s jagg3r's 100 best songs of the decade! but for the grace of her.

ysi?

you want someone to send you her grace?

i am very happy for him.

this is exactly what girls say when they are jealous

that is very far from what I said at the various points in time when i was jealous, though.

do me a favor though - and please collectively decide whether i'm supposed to be lj's mom or love interest (both is not an option). this is all very confusing to me. Please let me know when you've reached a decision.

thanks,

i like loujag

does anyone not?

missed u boo

I think you're his mom on M-W-F and his love interest on T-TH-Sat-Sun

that's too confusing, you can only pick one ... or none.

that's exactly what someone who is both his mom and love interest would say, though

look - I'm thinking of the wonderful ilxors who live in Australia & New Zealand here - who are almost always a day ahead - it just is not logistically possible to alternate days like that and have it be functional.

what if we compromised with 'sister who he hooks up w/ once in a while'?

i like Tonyte & Now Woel

xp - what if we dropped the subject and discussed the awesomeness of Deathspell Omega instead?

that thighpaulsandra track is awesome!

:-)

Awesome. Never even heard OF most of these.

Sweet Jesus LJ. Also lol at this entire thread.

this song is IMO just about as brutal as any,

Uhh ... I really don't know what to say. Brutality is obviously in the eye of the beholder.

I can see what you mean about liking the pacing.

Brutality truly is in the eye of the beholder. You might think something else is MUCH more brutal. DSO, Meshuggah, countless DM or grindcore bands, Sunn O))), blah blah de blah. Insert your own choice here. This stuff kicks ass.

I'm also trying to politely imply that your hierarchy of brutality might be at odds with that of connoisseurs of brutal music.

OK, you asked for this

(it's in my Bubbling Under and is BRUTAL x50)

louis are you excited?

What do you think will win?

My money is on SFA

i reckon ulrich might take it

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

haha kerr you have GOT to stop doing this

maybe all the votes were for the exhaustive write-up

3 for The Terse Crimp! OMG!

I was almost right

i reflexively voted for it because it was the only track here i'd heard xpost

john justen who did you vote for?

gee i wonder who voted for deathspell omega?

23 best albums (off the top of my head):

1) Ulver - Blood Inside
2) Lapsus Linguae - You Got Me Fraiche
3) Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World
4) Thighpaulsandra - I, Thighpaulsandra
5) Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
6) Half Man Half Biscuit - Trouble Over Bridgwater
7) Oceansize - Effloresce
8) Volcano! - Beautiful Seizure
9) Thomas White - I Dream Of Black
10) Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
11) Working For A Nuclear Free City - Businessmen & Ghosts
12) Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
13) Grandaddy - Sumday
14) Youthmovies - Good Nature
15) Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
16) Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
17) The Dandy Warhols - Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars
18) The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
19) Darkspace - Darkspace III
20) Six By Seven - The Closer You Get
21) ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart
22) The Fall - The Unutterable
23) My Computer - No CV

goodnight, and happy new decade

awesome list! i really want to hear this lapsus linguae now but they seem to be pretty impossible to track down in the states. the stuff i already knew + that spotify playlist is all top notch tho

do me a favor though - and please collectively decide whether i'm supposed to be lj's mom or love interest (both is not an option).

I don't know why both can't be an option.

Urgh, so much prog-wank! lol 00's

If I had a bit longer to digest it, the St Vincent album might threaten this list, but precious little else from 2009. Maybe Gyratory System.

When I saw your list I thought, 'Urgh, so little prog-wank!'

Haha! That was my first post of the decade, thought it might as well be a nice little self-deprecating jab! Albums with prog elements: 1-4, 7-19, 21, 23, hence there are 4 albums here that aren't at all 'prog'. I make that quite a decent ratio!

You'd go mad for Lapsus Linguae fwiw

(and of those 4 albums, all 4 have songs with unorthodox structures that COULD be construed as 'progressive'...)

louis, i think <a href="http://scramblerseequill.bandcamp.com/";>this</a> might be another band we can agree on. slightly dreamy pop with lots of out-of-left-field changes, and all the musicians can play their fucking asses off.

i'm not in love with the singer/songs or anything yet, but the music is really exciting.

oops

ooh didn't see this, Jordan! thanks, will check out! your last recommendation was sound.

my top 50 albums huh

cardiacs - sing to god
vdgg - pwn <3s

fuck

can I just give 2?

an attempt at an UNRANKED remaining 48:

ulver - blood inside
mansun - six
cardiacs - the seaside
spratley's japs - pony
the fall - levitate
the fall - the unutterable
vdgg - still life
autechre - draft 7.30
foetus - hole
the cure - pornography
swirlies - they spent their wild youthful days in the glittering world of the salons
mercury rev - yerself is steam
soft machine - third
lapsus linguae - you got me fraiche
kayo dot - dowsing anemone with copper tongue (new one might join it when I finally get around to buying it)
william d drake - the rising of the lights
thumpermonkey - we bake our bread beneath her holy fire
neurosis - through silver in blood
talk talk - spirit of eden
wire - send
wire - 154
the the - infected
hood - rustic houses, forlorn valleys
mr bungle - disco volante (although their best two songs are on the debut)
deep turtle - there's a vomitsprinkler in my liverriver
magma - mdk
the fiery furnaces - blueberry boat (fuck you)
thomas white - i dream of black
neu - neu
dalek - absence (in your face whiney lol)
cannibal ox - the cold vein (faaaaaace)
duran duran - rio
volcano! - beautiful seizure
oceansize - effloresce
jute gyte - discontinuities
peter hammill - the silent corner & the empty stage
cardiacs - guns
cardiacs - heaven born & ever bright
cardiacs - on land & in the sea
tim smith - extra special oceanlandworld
the fall - hex enduction hour
youthmovies - good nature
to arms etc - to arms etc
thighpaulsandra - i, thighpaulsandra
half man half biscuit - trouble over bridgwater
boredoms - super roots 7
coil - musick to play in the dark

proooooog

List of 10 albums chosed by LJ that are good albums in my subjective estimation, ranked according to an objective sorting algorithm

autechre - draft 7.30
wire - send
wire - 154
boredoms - super roots 7
the fall - hex enduction hour
swirlies - they spent their wild youthful days in the glittering world of the salons
cannibal ox - the cold vein
neu - neu
the fall - levitate
the fall - the unutterable

you're a swirlies fan? figures i guess but i'd have had them as too childish for you

you missed "a little man and a house"!!

their worst album frogbs. sorry but it's true. still great but less so. imo, obv

its probably my 3rd favorite. I dunno, they're all worthy of laudation. What did you think of the Knifeworld album? (if you've heard it?) - it sucks that Tim obviously isn't on it, but IMO it's the next best thing

knifeworld album was cool & had a couple of screamers (unwreckaged, me to the future of you). also their recept eps have been good, maybe even better than the debut album material. monsoon bassoon album was obviously very good

the william d drake album in the list is my favourite non-tim-smith spin-off, but his solo album & spratleys japs are amazing as well

thumpermonkey are also cardiacs-influenced, u shd hear them

yeah it's very solid. "Pissed up on Brake Fluid" sounds like something that would fit on a later day Cardiacs album. that said I feel their second album is going to blow it out of the water.

if you could pick 5 of these for me to hear, what would it be?

v difficult question that depends on what you've already heard. given what i know already

ulver - blood inside
mansun - six
kayo dot - dowsing anemone with copper tongue
william d drake - the rising of the lights
thumpermonkey - we bake our bread beneath her holy fire

^^^if you leave this with mind unblown you can have your money back idk. they're mostly available on youtube or bandcamp

but the foetus, lapsus linguae and neurosis are also exceptionally important

voted Talk Talk...kinda boring choice, sorry!

I'd like to hear frogbs take on the Lapsus record.

Your description of The Terse Crimp is bang on LJ, I love that song.

I'm sure I've said this before, don't sleep on the Sea Nymphs records and also the Shrubbies record which was produced by Tim.

http://shrubbies.bandcamp.com/

Ah this is cool. Forgot to say that North Sea Radio Orchestra's last album (I A Moon) is really superb and not far from any Top 50 list I could make (it's also dedicated to Tim Smith, albeit a little folkier and mellower than Cardiacs usually are). Similar personnel to Shrubbies iirc.

ah yes, the 'nice little songs then monster title-track wig-out' trick. tends to obscure the littler songs a bit

good album tho

last two tracks bringing the epic as well tbf

I've heard the other two NSRO albums, both of them are pretty good. They sound a lot like Penguin Cafe Orchestra but I like NSRO better. You may like Birds a lot if you haven't heard it.

Just heard the Ulver album, metal isn't really in my wheelhouse (yet) but this is much different than that, very interesting and definitely not something I can really discern on one listen. I decided to listen to an earlier Ulver album too and it's very interesting, I can see why you like them.

Now listening to Mansun - Six...reminds me a bit of Mars Volta but not quite as over-the-top or obnoxious. Very good stuff so far.

lj what do you think of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6GUq__yp24

deeply melancholy, effective synth build, simple melodic themes; basically a 3-minute mogwai song without guitars

v pretty but without the complexity or subtlety of narrative that really sets me off

some solo eno does appeal to me; my favourite stuff is on 'here come the warm jets', especially the cataclysmic descent into misanthropy that is 'driving me backwards'

my favourite stuff is on 'here come the warm jets'

my man!

jets is the most lj friendly of the 70s song lps for sure

do you know on land? probably the most lj friendly of the ambient serie

Not at all. May investigate. I'd like to get into electronic music more, but artists like NWW, Current 93 etc have punishingly enormous discographies, dissuading me from the whole enterprise. Even The Fall took a long time to click.