ILM's Top 77 Albums of 2012

Album makes me want to look for a Norwegian restaurant and eat a dish that comes from the best track on it.

Is there an explanation of the track titles anywhere? I'm hoping that one of them translates as "blood sausage".

i remember the lindstrom album sounded kind of samey when i first listened to it, just because the energy level is so uniformly high. but then... it just kind of took off. the tracks are shorter so it's less of a "developed epic". each song starts very high, gets even more intense, then pops and fades away from center like a different-colored firework? lol

also what's the name of the musical sequence he likes to use?

always forget just how much ilx loves this guy

this is really the first time I've paid attention to him, I can understand the love affair

i'm kind of happy this placed above terje

or at least this is the first time I remember paying attention, lol

For 2012 output, I prefer Terje.

love scott and farrah showing up next to each other

Has there been a Lindstrom-related album place in the top 20 every year? It feels like it's obligatory. I swear one day I'll actually get round to listening to more of his stuff properly, but somehow (and I REALLY don't know why) I never did outside of a handful of tracks. He just seems so prolific. I'd love it if someone could do a POX tracks or a primer.

god do your own homework

what's wrong with listening to the album that placed here and seeing if you like it?

it might not be the best one?

Is this a concept album about 'Little Hans', the Freud case study? I hope so.

would listen

for me it's just this record and Where You Go I Go Too that are great, i haven't been repping him every year

xposts and what better way to discover more about an act than by asking fans about them?

it might not be the best one?

I don't see how this matters in the slightest.

I dig 'Real Life Is No Cool' a lot.

xpost what's wrong with asking for a primer? IDGI

this is really the first time I've paid attention to him, I can understand the love affair

I am so jealous of you for getting to hear like his entire back catalogue for the first time.

My favourite moment on Smalhans is on the final track when he reprises the main theme from I Feel Space and you realise he's doing a victory lap and how much fun it must have been to make this album. Especially given Six Cups of Rebel's reputedly torturous gestation.

thanks ciderpress and pandemic

if you don't want to listen to this one maybe listen to another of the albums that's placed over the years?

xp he might not like it, then we would all hear every year about how he tried Lindstrom once and didn't like it. It's for our own good.

This album is like 35mins long and, if not his best, contains most of the elements that make people fall in love with him.

cool, i'll give it a go.

number one lindstrøm starting point has to be "i feel space" obv

Lindstrom - the cool thing about this album is that he is limiting himself to a fairly narrow range of sounds and feelings and then going all out with them and just make them hit as hard as possible. I like it when an artist explores within a fairly bounded set of restrictions. Still, Real Life is No Cool remains my favorite from him.

i'd say listen to Where You Go I Go Too instead, this one isn't as charming, it doesn't have as much space in it.

Raakost - raw vegetables
Lammelaar - dried salted lamb meat
Eggedosis - what you get when you mix eggs and sugar with a blender
Vossakorv - a sheep-sausage made in Voss
Faarikaal - lamb with cabbag
Vafler - waffles

xpost to self: instead of Smallhans, that is.

real life is no cool is def my fav lindstrøm album too

there is a synth sound on "Vos-sako-rv" that is very reminiscent of "Robot Rock" that is making me grin a lot

xp: lol that this is the track that comes closest to being named "blood sausage"

Six Cups of Rebel is kind of the opposite approach where he's just throwing in everything and the kitchen sink and going for complete over-the-top maximalism. It's pretty much a prog-rock album.

Eggedosis - what you get when you mix eggs and sugar with a blender

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Basically:

It's A Feedelity Thing - Early singles, patchy but often amazing
Where You Go I Go Too - Epic in scope and gorgeous melodically, my favourite
Real Life Is No Cool - Straight-up disco with sassy female vocals
Six Cups Of Rebel - Nonsense
Smalhans - Bouncy and friendly mini-Autobot Lindstrom

Six Cups was my #1. Smalhans was my #25. I've decided I'd now much rather hear Lindstrom indulge his inner Todd.

Fixed

Real Life Is No Cool - Straight-up disco with sassy stoned female vocals

The whole album is mixed by Todd Terje, by the way.

i still love six cups, but i love smalhans more

okay sorry dl, 'where you go i go too' is my fav, followed by this album. i might avoid 'six cups of rebel' for a first listen but everything else is great, you just gotta jump in. xp

Basically:

It's A Feedelity Thing - Early singles, patchy but often amazing
Where You Go I Go Too - Epic in scope and gorgeous melodically, my favourite
Real Life Is No Cool - Straight-up disco with sassy female vocals
Six Cups Of Rebel - Nonsense
Smalhans - Bouncy and friendly mini-Autobot Lindstrom

― Matt DC, Thursday, 31 January 2013 16:34 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Great, thanks Matt DC

dl try 'where you go i go too'

listen to WYGIGT on a train journey

preferably while looking out the window

yes

eat a pot brownie beforehand

have a thermos full of good coffee

listen to WYGIGT on a train journey

― ☕ (diamonddave85), Thursday, 31 January 2013 16:38 (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

preferably while looking out the window

― ☕ (diamonddave85), Thursday, 31 January 2013 16:38 (14 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sold. I seem to spend my life doing this :-) I like brownies of that variety, maybe not before work though.

co-sign (on the train thing, not the brownie)

haha you guys!