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fleet foxes best song

Oxymoron.

I liked the album a lot at first but like after 2 weeks I don't really feel any particular way about it. I still play "Amazing," "Coldest Winter," "Love Lockdown" & "Heartless"... thats about it.

Foxymoron

got the dream on spotify now. a million miles more engaging than ne-yo. love his voice.

Kanye ought to show up in the next five albums or so. Pretty confident on that.

Well the OBVIOUS 808s standout is "Love Lockdown" but everyone had heard that before the album came out. Other immediate highlights for me were "Say You Will", "Welcome To Heartbreak" and "Street Lights".

i think kanye will def make it, TVOTR will not. TVOTR is like, mind-bogglingly bland now

like the santogold cover. not the glitter, but the reflected arms looking like legs, an hourglass thing.

I don't get Street Lights, it sounds like Death Cab For Cutie or something

also, i am fairly certain nick cave won't make it

hi dere's summary of 808 standouts OTM

and Welcome To Heartbreak... thats the one with the really awful lyrics about being late to a wedding or some shit right? That sucks.

there was a marcello inspired backlash(because it was in everybodys lists) against the nick cave album so just maybe that wont make it

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by everybody you mean like other publications/web sites right? cuz i dont really recall anyone talking about the album here

yes

Listening to "Mykonos" basically cements my reaction to their SNL performance; they are very good at what they do but what they do is something I really don't want anything to do with.

I would much much much rather listen to/watch Death Cab For Cutie.

xp: lololololol

"welcome to heartbreak" has great momentum... maybe the best build on the whole album. got a great stomp to it too

The whole 808s album is a fucking standout, tbh.

I would much much much rather listen to/watch Death Cab For Cutie.

Now let's not go THAT far...

*shudder*

1 paranoid
2 love lockdown
3 say you will
4 robocop (despite the terrible lyrics)
5 amaznig

rest range from v good to good

actually the more I think about it the more that album sucks besides the four songs I mentioned. I don't like "Paranoid" either which seems to be the big track to everyone else.

is everyone sleeping on Paranoid as a standout?

and i'm starting to think that a big issue with the F. Foxes is that they're great singers but pretty lousy musicians.

that tvotr clip wasnt bad, not what i expected, but didnt really make me want to investigate further

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I still like early dcfc

TVOTR's entire first EP is brilliant

like robocop conjures this crazy cog. dissonance in me like i hardly ever experience--the lyrics are just so bad and clumsy but i just love the song, esp the bridge

fleet foxes hate i assume is the fact theyre so hyped when theres so many better acts making that kind of music

yes especially "Satellites"

daresay its too overproduced and poppy for people who would normally like it

The SONG "Young Liars" is for me their apex, although there are a few contenders on Cookie Mountain as well

the whole album is awesome front to back. the only one i skip is "bad news". in the past month i've been really stuck on "paranoid"->"robocop"->"streetlights"

i originally thought that the paranoid -> robocop transition was a weird point in the album but i love it now, how blindingly bright paranoid is transitioning straight into the drums of robocop which sound like something from a construction zone. then the robocop violins set a great mood for streetlights

i had 808s #3 on my ballot i think

"welcome to heartbreak" has great momentum... maybe the best build on the whole album. got a great stomp to it too

Also, as per usual Kanye's delivery (in this case the bitter almost-snarl) transcends the triteness of what he's actually saying (srsly I think dude saved up all of his actual cleverness for "Gold Digger" and then blew his entire wad on the second verse).

(re: Fleet Foxes, had the entirety of "Mykonos" been like the last 2 minutes, I would have liked it a lot lot more.)

as someone who bitched about teh "misogyny" of 808s a while back, i would like to apologize to the world and say that the fuckheaded frankenstein good/badness is a big part of the appeal, and though i don't listen to it often, the good parts hold up real well.

oh that was you

TVOTR's entire first EP is brilliant

Yes, cannot be overstated. It is flawless. Best EP of the decade, no contest.

awww i have fond memories of posting in that misogyny argument on like christmas morning.

I still like early dcfc

If "Movie Script Ending" counts as early, then I guess I do too. Basically, DCFC to me are that one song and then a bunch of other stuff that ranges from pleasant to OMGTURNITOFFIWANTTODIE.

Also, the only reason I didn't list "Paranoid" and "Robocop" as standouts is because they have some structural problems ("Paranoid" has clunky verses and "Robocop" has a wholly useless chorus).

xp: Yeah contenderizer, I think that's what the non-haters/hadn't-heard-yetters were trying to say!

kanye being kind of a dumbshit always threatened to make me dislike 808s but it kept making it more and more compelling to me. it's an addicting album more than a likeable one.

(lol at the "I'm afraid Kanye won't place so let's talk about it now" talk)

the robocop lyrics are great

Checking everything like I'm on parole
Up late night, like she on patrol
I told her it's some things she don't need to know
She never let it go, oh

Okay, okay, okay okay, you will never stop it now
You never stop it now
Okay, okay, okay, you will never stop it now
We need to drop it now, DROP IT DROP IT

Cause I don't want no ROBOCOP
You movin' like a ROBOCOP
When did you become a ROBOCOP
No, I don't need a ROBOCOP

the robocop part is just a great catchphrase for what ends up being a breaking point in most relationships - the stream of consciousness repetition of "you never stop it now/ okay okay okay you will never stop it now" really gets across the feeling of suffocation and angst probably better than anything on the rest of the album

embedding disabled but 'ditch that...' is amazing

― lex pretend,

never thought i'd agree with you, but i'm converted thus far

I don't think it's a great catchphrase at all. If someone called me a Robocop as we were on the verge of breaking up that would be the dealbreaker

haha right? xpost to dan

"you must be joking
that was a good one
your forst good one in a while"

xp to j0

we have the facts and we're voting yes is a solid album.

Re: Death Cab, I will never ever buy their music because of their stupid name, but I really really love "I Will Possess Your Heart" to an unhealthy degree.

xp: Brainwasher that's like the central point of the entire album!

If someone called me a Robocop as we were on the verge of breaking up that would be the dealbreaker

LOL!

like i love the song but the lyrics are just really clumsy and irredeemable. like i said it's the cognitive dissonance that intrigues me, like, i'm listening and thinking 'i have every reason in the world to hate this song" and i cant bring myself to it. pretty powerful thing imo

I hope there's some surprise albums to come that noone expected like what happened with 50-21

And I dont mean Britney :)

for one i doubt kanye actually called alexis a robocop irl, but idk i think as an inflammatory comparison - and obviously "robocop" is the most acidic song on the album - it's a pretty good one. like if a bf compared me to a robot only intent on suffocating his life i'd be pretty taken aback by it, also it's kanye so obv it borders on "really dumb" and "really awesome", so i guess i think it falls on the latter's side

Is there anything on the album that deals with this relationship that shows Kanye behaving in a manner that would allow any hope of salvaging it? "Robocop" is more explicit in its careening back and forth between an aching description of a bewildered reaction to shitty behavior and the laughable reflection of said behavior on the person complaining about it.

Then, there's that dismissive coda which manages to make "you're spoiled" seem to be a million times more menacing a statement than it actually is.

cuz i dont really recall anyone talking about the album here

It's possible I'm confusing the Chicago thread (Kenan, n/a, Eazy) with ILM, which is what made me think it might place. (And the high placements elsewhere.)