Gaga's biggest problem is that she is entirely incoherent unless she's talking about partying, so it's relatively difficult for her to evoke an emotional response aside from brattiness. (Sometimes, though, that works really well in her favor a la "Telephone".)
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
burial kind of sounds like witch house
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
"witch house" kind of sounds like burial.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
sry, can't bring myself to leave out the scare quotes
ilxors, I present your TOP TEN...
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
10. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM "All My Friends" (2007) [488 points, 19 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXp1TQPf2pY
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Faster.
― _Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
WTF
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck all 19 of you, this song is straight up garbage
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
cmon you knew that was coming
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
next please
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
goddammit if I'd voted, that wouldn't have made the top 10
btw that girls aloud song is an utter fucking snooze, speaking of wtf
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
god, i know. only brits care about GA right?
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't remember even how All My Friends goes, even though I've heard SOS quite a few times. When LCD is good, he's really good - but he's yet to release an album that I'd say is consistent enough for me to want to give it classic status. Closest thing is 45:33.
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
repping for All My Friends. would have been in my top 5 had I voted.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not a brit and I deeply care about GA. All My Friends, however, is anonymity defined.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, just listened to "All My Friends" - it's the boring one from Sound Of Silver isn't it? many better tracks than that on the album.
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm actually happy it's not higher than #10.
― skip, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
the only track off sound of silver i have any time for is "get innocuous", surprised that never makes it into these polls
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
love 45:33, hate hate hate SOS
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost yeah, that track is great. possibly the best one on there, i agree.
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 18:11 (4 minutes ago)
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 18:11 (4 minutes ago)
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I always thought All My Friends was one of the weakest of all James Murphy's singles so far. It's just kind of flat and blech. No emotional pull, no musical accomplishment to it.
It was neck-and-neck with "Someone Great" for a really long time during voting, then it kind of pulled away victorious near the end. I cried inside.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
"Get Innocuous!" is great, but "Someone Great" is the true masterpiece; the ambiguity of whether it's about the end of a relationship or a miscarriage totally makes that song.
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
no emotional pull? really?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
btw i agree get innocuous and someone great are both better but whattre you gonna do
loads of emotional pull in All My Friends. also Someone Great is about his father dying, isn't it?
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
More when John Cale covers it, I guess. In its original form, though, it's James Murphy on autopilot.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
that youtube of GA sounded really poor quality; it may not be ur thing, but a snooze seems a weird reactino
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Someone Great is a real earworm for me. I can never get the tune out my head. I think I prefer it on 45:33 though.
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
ALL MY FRIENDS IS A SHITTY ORBITAL RIP-OFF
NEXT PLZ
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
TOO MUCH LOVE would be a better vote
― moullet, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
There's emotional pull, but it is pulling on emotions I really don't care about.
xp: um, "All My Friends" has a lot of problems but none of them involve Orbital; are you actually deaf and that's why you like Cardiacs so much?
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
This next track was the early #1 I talked about in the voting thread. It held the spot by a pretty large margin early on, until lots of votes began coming in. It's also the only song in the top 10 to have never fallen out of the top 10 through all 100+ ballots. I didn't even expect it to be in the top 20 before voting began, but hey...what the hell do I know?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
like, there are a bunch of New Order touchstones there but nothing Orbital-related unless you are talking about one specific song on Snivilization that sounds nothing like anything else they've done...
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
09. BATTLES "Atlas" (2007) [515.5 points, 22 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdUZDPRQMY
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I am talking about that song xp
Ooh, Atlas! QUALITY
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ gratuitous cardiacs zing
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss okay that makes up for ppl voting for the wrong LCD song
Ninth best song of the decade? Are you people insane?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
YES WE ARE INSANE WITH AWESOME DRUMZ
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
All My Friends is a beery singalong tune and OK on those terms, though the end is a bit like being hectored by a highschool Bono.
― calumerio, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
wow i mean i like battles but that is crazy high and even i would concede atlas might not sound as good as it did in 07
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
would have definitely been in my top 10. i never tire of it.
― orakle-krake (Gukbe), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Atlas! What a tune!
I once mixed it into "Sailing On THe Seven Seas" by OMD for a joke at an outdoor viking-themed rave.
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
(altho there are better songs on the album, particularly "Race-In")
― emo WINNER! (HI DERE), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Atlas was fun at the time in an "ooh novelty munchkin voices" way but it feels way more stuck in its time than almost anything else here.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
it does the whole art-rock-dance build-up/breakdown really sweetly - it's a very good template, a big idea boiled down to its essence
my favourite is Rainbow, also yeah Race-In and TIJ
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
And yeah, to qualify, All My Friends is very New Order as well but it specifically rips off Kein Trink Wasser something rotten AND makes it shitty
― so you want Mark Ronson to cry into your ass (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 6 July 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link