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anyway musically can you post #13 now

― let's get high off our own supply (The Brainwasher)

i would but i don't feel that we have discussed 808s and heartbreak enough

it's okay, we'll keep talking about it regardless of what you post

I'M AMAZING
YEAH IM ALL THAT
IF I AINT ON THE GRIND
THEN WHAT YOU CALL THAT

shit doesn't even have anything to do w/ the album but it's still so poignant imo

okay j0rdan I don't mean to antagonize you butttttt..... how is that 'poignant'? it's just a generic jeezy rhyme

exactly

lol

EYES SO LOW YEAH I LOOK LIKE AN ASIAN

woops wrong "Amazing" but still so poignant

^i don't endorse this as a hot jeezy rhyme fwiw

btw maybe he is @ 13...

just getting my complaining out of the way now and we don't have to discuss it further, i'm really surprised of montreal did not place; i checked the other thread and counted 51.5 points on people prematurely posting their ballots alone, and seeing as the #50 album had only 80 points, i thought it would poke into the bottom fifth somewhere for sure

of montreal is #13

anyway
they don't know you like I do
they'll never know you

The emotional manipulation in this song is breathtaking. More than half of this album is like a laundry list of reasons for no one to ever fuck Kanye again!

lord fuckin willin', but i can't see it
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I gave OM like 6 or 7 points, maybe that'll make the difference

i'm really surprised of montreal did not place

― k3vin k

why u said this? i would put god money on skeletal lamping placing, maybe placing v. high. if i had money, i mean

I'm happy to have been quoted re. 808s, I love it now more than I did a few months ago. It's indie-friendly electrodribble!

and it is

hmm, my indifference to fleet foxes strikes an almost perfect balance with my indifference to kanye. ok, not quite. at least kanye's on my ipod. until i need the space. i know this is a boring thing to say, but my interest in kanye has declined about 20 percent with every album. (still listen to college dropout some.)

It's indie-friendly electrodribble!

maybe this is part of the reason I don't like it that much? The beat on "Paranoid" is very clunky to me for some reason/

conversely, I like Kanye more with each subsequent album (tho if pressed I'd probably agree that Late Registration is his best)

lol i don't know, reactions were totally mixed. i gave it twenty points at least
of the two albums i positively loved and lived last year--OM and erykah--OM offered so many chances to be drawn in. i can see people liking it for an enormous amount of different reasons, which means they could have gotten a lot of 2-5 point votes. badu, on the other hand, i can't see having a point-per-vote of less than 14 or 15. it's one of those records where if you liked it, i can't imagine how you didnt totally immerse yourself in it and have it as one of your top three

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so is no 13 more rap more r&b or more electrodribble?

13. http://musicology.typepad.com/dialm/2008/04/you-want-postmo.html

(also poor "Pinocchio Story", what a load of balls)
(although there was a moment where I thought it was on the verge of greatness until I realized he'd said "there is no GUCCI I could buy")

i never listened to it, thought it was okay on snl tho

what's weird about 808 is that's the technopop/electro/nuwave vibe is not uncommon in rap, but this sounds WAY more like straight indie electrodribble than any other rap/R&B record i've ever heard. which is, i think, what he was shooting for

so is 'indie electrodribble' in the ilx canon to the point where i'm gonna have to read that thread?

no

you'll only hate yourself if you do

13 - M83 - Saturdays=Youth
207 points, 21 votes, 1 #1 vote
28 in P&J, 8 in p4k

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/8097/200805m83st6.gif

Full album streaming: http://www.last.fm/music/M83/Saturdays+%3D+Youth

First spin through, I'm hearing a lot of New Order, OMD and Cocteau Twins references. All very good stuff, and track 3 in particular with the girl's vocals is *killer*, that drum part, WOW. Love this album so far.

― stephen

one of the best albums of 08

thought id throw that down because it seems to be getting no love in the best of 08 threads. no album has captured the spirit and feel of the 80's like this in a long time.

― gman

Every time I think I'm totally over this album, I go back and put it on again and it's fucking awesome.

― ilxor

^^^indie-friendly electrodribble...done WELL

First spin through, I'm hearing a lot of New Order, OMD and Cocteau Twins references. All very good stuff, and track 3 in particular with the girl's vocals is *killer*, that drum part, WOW. Love this album so far.

― stephen

Every time I think I'm totally over this album, I go back and put it on again and it's fucking awesome.

― ilxor

Both my comments, yo.

TS: indie-friendly electodribble thread vs 808s and Heartbreak

did not vote for this but certainly am down w/it

This is starting out promising but that album cover is begging me to punch it in the throat.

I tried listening to that M83 album but it sounded really 80s in a bad way

i need to go back to that one. there was a song io really liked like a year ago that i can't remember now

Some really nice tracks on this. Not as good as the previous one, IMO

it sounded nothing like the other stuff of theirs I'm familiar with like the first single from their last album and "Run Into Flowers" or whatever that song is called

Dan, the album's a lot better than its cover may suggest.

this is a great record, except whenever i listen to it, i don't like it much

didn't vote for it but support it - "we own the night" is my jam

I guess I am a hopeless obscurantist because I haven't heard a lot of these higher placing ones, I think I would like Santogold and hate Fleet Foxes. The Dream sounds too glossy for me, M83 never did much but maybe I shoudl reinvestigate.

Can't check out the videos b/c I am on a ridiculous slow 3rd world computer right now.

"Kim and Jessie"

"Graveyard Girl"

Loved 'Kim & Jessie', the rest I could take or leave, but mostly leave. Will have to revisit it to see if it clicks this time.

kim and jessie, you really can't fuck w/ that song

2008: The Year Indie-Friendly Electodribble Broke (On ILM)

my trolldometer is so broken

first banana republic, then the world

"Kim & Jessie" is kind of a jam, huh?