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i think the portishead album is a really impressive piece of work but i never got as into it as i expected ... i admire it from afar rather than loving it, so i didn't vote for it.

otm. (in some ways i think the gang gang dance album does for me what portishead does for other people. even though they're obv. very different.)

I had no idea Eryka Badu released an album this year

I would be really, really, really fucking happy if GGD went top five.

The Gang Gang Dance album is good enough an album but no way should it be a top 10 record. Obviously it is going to be though on ILM. Good chance it will still be better than most in the top 20 mind you.

^ this

i was surprised at how much i liked saint dymphna, given that i'd thought other stuff of theirs was just sort of interesting. i really like the ebbs and flows of the album, and it has all this stuff in it -- bits and pieces of sound and rhythm that still surprise me. and i like how it acknowledges a lot of different forms (rock, grime, dubstep, trance, whatever) but doesn't feel bound or defined by them.

plus they were the best live act i saw last year. really good.

(and like i said, i love the drumming. nice to hear a band really thinking about and expanding the possibilities of rhythm in song structures.)

I was supposed to be at a GGD show in Brussels now, but it (and the rest of the tour) has been cancelled after the storage room containing their equipment burned down yesterday in Holland.

?!? :(((((((

whoa that sucks. i hope they had insurance.

and that they were not sonic youth

Oh shit, poor GGD! Was due to see them later this month, everyone's pretty hyped for this tour too.

this happens a lot w/kanye! though not with 'robocop' for me, that shit sucks. i mean seriously, ROBOCOP? how the hell did that simile make it past the editing process? and the "spoilt little LA girl" chant is definitely the nadir of something or other

yeah i agree that basically the whole song is super retarded and clumsy, but idunno for me the 'spoiled little LA girl' part really redeems it for me! it's a fantastic hook/bridge imo

also i like 'see you in my nightmares' a lot, may as well admit that in the middle of this long-ass paragraph where no one will see

not anymore :-p

for me...for me

I suppose while we wait for monday to come along, you could always investigate the Metal poll. Hopefully Musically wont mind me listing the rundown of it here since I doubt most of you would want to click a link to a metal poll ;)

Metal Poll top 50

Rank - Points - Votes - #1s - Artist - Album

1 - 479 - 25 - 2 - Torche - Meanderthal
2 - 357 - 19 - 3 - Harvey Milk - Life...the Best Game in Town
3 - 276 - 19 - 0 - Earth - The Bees Made Honey...
4 - 227 - 16 - 0 - Boris - Smile
5 - 212 - 13 - 1 - Opeth - Watershed
6 - 203 - 11 - 1 - Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1
7 - 183 - 10 - 2 - Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
8 - 179 - 12 - 0 - 5ive - Hesperus
9 - 165 - 10 - 2 - Made Out of Babies - The Ruiner
10 - 163 - 10 - 0 - Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
11 - 158 - 11 - 1 - The Goslings - Occasion
12 - 155 - 10 - 0 - Meshuggah - obZen
13 - 145 - 9 - 0 - Enslaved - Vertebrae
14 - 141 - 10 - 0 - Melvins - Nude With Boots
15 - 140 - 8 - 0 - Caina - Temporary Antennae
16 - 137 - 8 - 0 - Krallice - Krallice
17 - 128 - 8 - 0 - Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
18 - 126 - 8 - 1 - Asva - What You Don't Know Is Frontier
18 - 126 - 8 - 0 - Cynic - Traced in Air
20 - 123 - 8 - 0 - Sunn 0))) - Domkirke
21 - 118 - 7 - 2 - Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
22 - 111 - 8 - 0 - Coffins - Buried Death
23 - 109 - 8 - 0 - Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
24 - 100 - 6 - 0 - Ocean - Pantheon of the Lesser
25 - 98 - 5 - 1 - The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
26 - 89 - 6 - 0 - Moss - Sub Templum
26 - 89 - 5 - 0 - Wetnurse - Invisible City
28 - 88 - 7 - 0 - Earthless - Live at Roadburn
28 - 88 - 8 - 0 - UFOmammut - Idolum
30 - 83 - 6 - 0 - The Gates of Slumber - Conqueror
31 - 81 - 6 - 0 - Moonspell - Night Eternal
32 - 78 - 6 - 0 - Jesu - Why Are We Not Perfect
33 - 72 - 6 - 0 - Ascend - Ample Fire Within
34 - 71 - 3 - 1 - Hammers of Misfortune - Fields/Church of Broken Glass
35 - 70 - 5 - 0 - Witch - Paralyzed
36 - 68 - 6 - 0 - Genghis Tron - Board Up the House
37 - 66 - 5 - 0 - Jex Thoth - Jex Thoth
38 - 63 - 6 - 0 - Intronaut - Prehistoricisms
39 - 62 - 5 - 0 - Darkspace - III
40 - 61 - 4 - 0 - Marnie Stern - This Is It And I Am It And You Are It
41 - 60 - 4 - 1 - Disfear - Live the Storm
42 - 59 - 4 - 1 - Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony
43 - 55 - 4 - 0 - Metallica - Death Magnetic
43 - 55 - 6 - 0 - Unearthly Trance - Electrocution
45 - 54 - 4 - 0 - Nadja - Desire In Uneasiness
45 - 54 - 4 - 0 - Withered - Folie Circulaire
47 - 52 - 5 - 0 - Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth
48 - 50 - 4 - 0 - Blue Sabbath Black Cheer - Untitled
48 - 50 - 3 - 0 - Gnaw Their Tongues - An Epiphanic Vomiting of Blood
50 - 48 - 3 - 1 - Zebulon Pike - Intranscience
50 - 48 - 3 - 0 - Racebannon - Acid or Blood

Full 187 albums that got voted can be found here

And now Kanye talk can resume. Thank you...

I agree with kev3in k that the "spoiled little LA girl" part of Robocop redeems the song. I think it's one of the standout moments on the entire album. It's cynical, but melodically it's one of the few sweet moments on an otherwise very depressing record. I love the glockenspiels on that song, too.

k3vin k, sorry about the spelling

It was weird to see Sex/Vid further down on the metal poll. does not compute.

you guys are so proud of your metal albums poll, so cute. : )

I think Kanye is going to have more chat about him than whoever is no1.

well if it's erykah it's just going to (rightfully) be a circlejerk, and there's been plenty of discussion of portishead already so yeah you might be right

THELEX:

...though not with 'robocop' for me, that shit sucks. i mean seriously, ROBOCOP? how the hell did that simile make it past the editing process? and the "spoilt little LA girl" chant is definitely the nadir of something or other ... i get that i'm not supposed to sympathise w/kanye, that the bitterness is part and parcel of his whole experience, and i'm down with that on most of the songs, but the problem with the 'robocop' lyric isn't so much that dude is being a dick as dude is being retarded and using 12-year-old schoolboy similes.

OTMOTMOTM. although i've gotten over my "that's misogyinst!" knee-jerk reaction to kanye's persona(s) on 808s, "robocop" is still a borderline dealbreaker. not necessarily for the attitude, mostly just cuz the central "joke" is so retarded. that people were like, "come on, it's funny!" in defense just boggles. plus, yeah: the "spoiled little LA girl" chant. yikes. the fact that it IS so catchy & celebratory only makes it worse. were it just another throwaway moment, it wouldn't bug me half so much

^ realize that i said nothing lex didn't already say better

cant disagree with any of that, it's just a perfect hook. cant stop wont stop loving it

Yeah, the "spoiled little LA girl" part is the only bit I like aside from the cartoon factory noises. The fact that it's such a direct personal attack when most of Kanye's sniping has been pretty oblique up to that point (either more serious gripes that could be about anybody ("don't say you will unless you will", "why are you so paranoid?") or goofy ad homs ("how could you be so Dr. Evil?", "you movin' like a Robocop"), such a specific, targeted attack on her is like "WHOA, where did THAT come from?"

Kinda surprised Grace Jones isn't gonna chart now I think of it.

Hurricane was my number vote, but I guess there just wasn't enough buzz around it, despite Bimble's and mine best efforts. I'm glad to see "Williams' Blood" made it in the singles poll, though it was a bit sad that more than half of the votes were given to that Airplane remix. It's not a bad remix at all, but the original tune is one of the most fabulously melodramatic tunes I've heard in ages, and the remix takes a lot of the drama away and leaves the song kinda flat.

the Grace Jones song I heard from the singles poll sounds like....... Seal

Is that a good thing or a bad thing? (For me it would be good.)

not sure tbh

Here's a couple more great tunes from Hurricane:

(Neither sounds like Seal, I think.)

LOL is there seriously a metal band called 5ive???

Rather unfortunate name choice... Though maybe they existed before the boyband 5ive?

I thought there was a lot more buzz on that album than just Tuomas and Bimble. I also think that this is the only Aeroplane remix I would not listen to over the original, and I'm including God only Knows in that.

Also, listening to the recession, and re: Kanye in Put On, the end of that song really promises another verse and chorus right? or is it just me, it fades out during what could be a really great bridge. I'd love another two minutes so that Kanye had a whole half of the track.

Uh, there already is a great bridge.

kanye would be overkill if it was more than one verse (cf "go hard")

tru

just listen to the last thirty seconds and tell me it doesn't feel like it could lift off from there.

it would be emotional overkill i think - the three verses alone are pretty epic

Guys that M83 album is close to perfect

it would have been my #1, had i voted

Rather unfortunate name choice... Though maybe they existed before the boyband 5ive?

Or the post-rock band 5ive Style?

The "metal" 5ive are spacerock as much as anything. They have had some really experimental eps to as well as remixes by Kid 606.

The newest album had shorter more accessible songs. The 1st s/t album is heir true masterpiece.

. . . or the Jackson 5ive

Whew: caught up with this at last. Fuck me, that was ... intense.

Thoughts, a propos of nothing much:

It's (M83) so eighties I can see why Grimly likes it so much. Not for me though

I'm really not such a fan of this album, though. I mean, I voted for it, and it deserves a high placing, but if you go back and have a look at my hyperbolic gushing about Before The Dawn Heals Us in the 2005 thread, you'll realise "I voted for it, and it deserves a high placing" sounds like some seriously faint praise.

I did think I would be ploughing a lonely furrow with a lot of my choices, and I've been proved right ('cos there's no fucking way they're going to be top 10). Given that this thread has introduced me to one thing of utter awesomeness (School of Seven Bells) and another which I've downloaded and am eagerly anticipating getting to listen to (Grouper), I'm going to try to reciprocate by making a strong case for the hidden gems in mine (or just posting them in bold or something, and putting YOU SHOULD BUY THIS, DUDES after them) when we all come to share our lists at the end of the results next week.

Oh, and the 5ive album is fucking great.

I am really, really loving the Grouper record by the way. In terms of mood it reminds me of White Chalk a bit, that feeling of intimacy but with a creepy, uneasy melodic undercurrent.