TOP 10 NOW: \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\shawty got poll poll poll poll poll poll poll (part II: 2008 ALBUMS)/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

ok, 2, i can't count/format

― whatever, Friday, February 13, 2009 3:54 PM (2 minutes ago)

hah i was wondering if you counted both nick cave AND the bad seeds :p
i agree those two are def the two least likely to place on that list.

ha xposts LJ but tbf what R&B albums have you loved recently?

he sounds like a cody chestnutt fan

wow that mariah remix is fantastic! so much happening, and i never liked the original (and loved the seamus haji remix, heh)

ps louis your idea of great music is english dudes who mistake fugazi for emerson lake and palmer so stfu

pps if u don't like bon iver you can step to the left too, that guy is boss

that is all OK J0rdan, I don't expect you to, we've all picked our poisons

Rev, my terminology is dicey but I know the precise kinda sound I'm trying to describe. It's no more offensive an error than the ones you guys keep inflicting upon art-rock (or should that be, "fringe indie"/"mope-rock")

K3vin, it ain't MUCH my thing, but Rev's thread of experimental R&B threw up some good songs, I'd need to go back and give them another listen

goole, I *HATE* emerson, lake and palmer with almost every fibre of my body

yeah i really liked 'touch my body' but if there was ever a good song that was basically begging to be remixed it's that

xpost

Louis, I think this great Tim F comment is mad pertinent right now.

The problem with music that can fall under the term "striking, original, memorable artistic statements" is that it tends to get hyper-specified in particular genres that it's not possible for everyone to be an expert on, let alone to agree where the striking, original, memorable artistic statements are being made.

Like, I think The-Dream album is one of the most striking, original, memorable artistic statements I've heard in ages (I hope it charts) but I can see why anyone who was not already a massive commercial R&B fan wouldn't get this.

This is a perspective thing that comes with knowledge-of-genre: what strikes the invested listener (close up) as a topography of daring strikes the outsider (standing further away) as undistinguished and insignificant musical wrinkles.

― Tim F, Monday, February 9, 2009 3:08 PM Bookmark

Britishers: Is there an easy and accessible way to keep up with/fall back in love with rnb on the radio? Like the equivilant of what Trevor Nelson's old Saturday chart show was to me when I was 13.

yeah Tim OTM

That Tim F comment was made at me, I remember it well. It is indeed mad pertinent.

the-dream = SO PSYCHEDELIC. dunno if that's the CW, but DAMN. similar to the body-high pure pleasure ooze-vibe nailed by early air (french band) and g. moroder c. here to enternity. "touch my body" rmx! "falsetto"!

now i'm trying to figure out if goole was dissing fugazi or not, and whether or not i should be fake internet mad about it.

pretty sure he was dissing lj

oh hold up, part 2 of the Tim Quote:

xpost - As I've said in different terms previously, listeners tend to think most strongly that ground has been broken when a particular piece of music makes them step closer and they suddenly perceive a mountain range where once they saw relative flatness. It's as much about a movement in the listener as a movement in the music vis a vis its context.

― Tim F, Monday, February 9, 2009 3:10 PM Bookmark

pretty sure he was dissing england - let's move along here

i'm just listening to love/hate now and it doesn't take a genius (nor an experienced r&b listener) to figure out that this guy is doing something at least a little bit different.

lol yeah i could have stopped at 'english dudes'

matt u don't have to get all LOCKHEED LOCKHEED MARTIN MARIETTA on me

^ on some of that stuff, the-dream is to mod R&B as earth is to doom (xpost)

Britishers: Is there an easy and accessible way to keep up with/fall back in love with rnb on the radio? Like the equivilant of what Trevor Nelson's old Saturday chart show was to me when I was 13.

sadly not - the flow of US R&B to the UK has all but dried up for all but the biggest names, i don't think the-dream had any profile at all here last year. either 1xtra or kiss would be your best bets - i mostly just go to US sources (and the ILM R&B thread) though.

Cheers. As soon as I said that I started sniffing around the 1xtra site.

yeah to echo lex the rolling R&B is a great place to find stuff you're behind on

^ on some of that stuff, the-dream is to mod R&B as earth is to doom (xpost)

contendo please expand on this a bit for me.

i assume he means its not really r&b?

posting #15 in a min...it was #1 in one of the big polls...

that mariah remix my the dream is pretty nice, except having big fatass rick ross on a track sort of diminishes it's "wonderful space ballad drifting thru space"-ness IMO.

thank u matty

btw for those who don't know this, the-dream wrote rihanna's 'umbrella'

also single ladies

xps: But The-Dream's whole thing is that he makes no attempt whatsoever to break the boundaries of the R&B genre, he's just as idiosyncratic as possible within them.

<3 him now

yeah i was on the guy's wikipedia he is a machine.

contendo please expand on this a bit for me.

― call all destroyer

no, it IS r&b, but it's been expanded in such an attuned-to-spaces manner that it becomes psychedelic, and it has this three-vicodin-and-a-shot cosmic ooziness that just kills me

i say this is the process of realizing that the earth record is much better than i gave it credit for, and that i totally slepted on the-dream

(caveat: buzz may wear off soon)

omg ok i just watched that ne-yo 'a milli' take and it made me love him even more than i already did. seriously not a single thing about that is not awesome or completely adorable/endearing. also A+ 'ignition (remix)' reference iirc!

btw for those who don't know this, the-dream wrote rihanna's 'umbrella'

― lex pretend, Friday, February 13, 2009 4:20 PM (1 minute ago)

o_0

tvotr next?

how could you not know that

now i'm trying to figure out if goole was dissing fugazi or not, and whether or not i should be fake internet mad about it.

― Yo, I just copped dat brand new Manity Kane cd. (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, February 13, 2009 4:08 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

turns of phrase like "fake internet mad" are the reason He1g is one of my most favorite posters

nah dude you slepted on the dream

posting #15 in a min...it was #1 in one of the big polls...

― lil waynes babymama (musically), Friday, February 13, 2009 4:18 PM (3 minutes ago)

can't decide if i want it to not be fleet foxes and hold out hope it gets snubbed or for it to be them and just get them out of the way early

it kinda sucks overall, like you can't just do a nice trippy remix it's always gotta have a rapper on it.

it's like you just ate mushrooms and wanted to watch planet earth on DVD but instead you have to sit there and listen to an offensive lineman from the jaguars tell you how he got a blowjob from some chick in a convenience store bathroom

Ne-Yo's "A Milli" freestyle is much better than it has any right to be but still isn't that great.

it's like you just ate mushrooms and wanted to watch planet earth on DVD but instead you have to sit there and listen to an offensive lineman from the jaguars tell you how he got a blowjob from some chick in a convenience store bathroom

but that would be awesome for everyone watching you

15 - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
185 points, 14 votes, 2 #1 votes
4 in P&J, 1 in p4k

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4476/61katedbvlss500cq8.jpg

I picked up the album yesterday evening, after hearing them for the first time yesterday morning. It's been a really long time since a band has made me feel like "I need this".

- pgwp

This album sounds prettier and prettier every time I listen to it. (The EP too.)

― Mordy

I have a very strong feeling this album will end up garnishing top slots at the end of the year.

― Moka

lol M@tt posting in character

countdown to cheers, applause...

ay, at least it's out of the way

so yeah that dream album is really great rite guys

Moka

Two #1 votes? Out yourselves!

p4k combined Fleet Foxes and Sun Giant EP, for what it's worth.

this album kills me because every description makes it sound like something i would like--if not a lot, then at least in a solid-add-to-the-rotation way.

but it's just boring.