l0u1s jagg3r's 23 Best Songs Of The Decade!

To repost (hope these haven't expired!):

SANCTUARY: http://www.sendspace.com/file/a6sozt

THE TERSE CRIMP: http://www.sendspace.com/file/80p6ar

not afaik sarahel

wait, i was thinking of cousin chris, chris michaels is pretty good too tho

cousin chris has some epic drums too

xp - maybe i just referred to it - your kayo dot pick would not be my kayo dot pick.

agreed with plax

louis did you ever listen to the first FF album?

i listened to the first FF album and it was good but i prefer blueberry boat, the ep, bitter tea and widow city...diff strokes obv

sarahel, there are several worthy KD choices, but that one is the one that rinses my mind clean and awes me into a quivering wreck

they never really topped their first single 4 me

^agree

also terse crimp is my least favourite lapsus track

(woulda gone for parade or olestra)

haha esoj but we are at ODDS when it comes to schizo warped proggy fuckabouts...those two tracks are really good too mind, if not quite as brilliantly demented imho

i would have gone with the first one - Gemini becoming the tripod.

that song is my 2nd-fave song on the album and maybe my 3rd-fave KD song - it begins dramatically, builds deliciously, and then in the last 2 minutes becomes this towering, out-of-control tidal wave of crazy music...beautiful

but it isn't the primal force of holy mother of god that is ___olf

see that's where we have our disagreements - the vocals are just so smooth and croony - it's hard for me to see something with smooth, croony vocals as "the primal force of holy mother of god" - I don't hate smooth, croony vocals - they just feel too mannered for me for a song with them to have that kind of power that you're describing.

haha he is smooth and croony in the first bit, but in the climactic second section i *think* you can hear him screaming his lungs out. well, it might be a guitar. whatever it is, something is hollering, and it ain't happy. the 'mannered' vocals are nothing more than ominous but then they don't need to be.

for those who haven't heard it, this is an 18-minute song, and the first 5 minutes have 'croony' vocals. the remaining 13 minutes have hell on earth.

it's not really "hell on earth" compared to deathspell omega, tbh

well, not as LITERALLY as DSO would have it. and not quite as tortuous, frenzied or plain mentalist. but vast, and suffocating, and crushing. *i* think it's great.

just gave Gemini Becoming The Tripod a listen and yeah it's fabulous, as I remember.

other amazing KD trax: The Manifold Curiosity, The Antique, Blue Lambency Downward, The Awkward Windwheel

i like it too - i just think sometimes you are prone to exaggerate certain qualities when describing songs.

prone to exaggerations in your descriptions - especially in the context of existing music.

perhaps. i had a truly revelatory experience with that track on earphones tho, what can i say? it slayed me dead. my descriptions are based on my very personal reaction to the music and aren't exaggerations from my perspective. i use figures of speech a lot; take them with the intended pinch of salt! ___on limpid form is *a* descent into the inferno, not THE descent into the inferno.

not that that DSO song doesn't need near-equal amounts of love.

well - if it's a descent into the inferno, that inferno is actually not all that infernal - like it isn't all that raging.

'it isn't all that raging'

dude - i have that song in itunes. i just finished listening to it 15 minutes ago!

this is for the benefit of others who might like to hear it themselves before leaping to judgement

look! they do it live too! and my, don't they forget to rage!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=173XU6OE55Q

you need to listen to more metal.

oh believe me i have heard plenty of 'brutal' or 'heavy as shit' music - this song is IMO just about as brutal as any, but what marks it out for me is the pacing of its attack, the brilliant construiction

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