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

Walk to class
In front of ya
Spilled kefir
On your keffiyah

^^they're just goading me now

lex i really don't want to engage you on this point since it's you talking about vampire weekend, but the content of the lyrics are v inessential to enjoying their songs

If I actually paid attention to lyrics most of the time, I'd probably end up hating half of the bands I love.

kind of think it is better to sing about what they know rather than pretend to be some sort of punk band from the street or what have you.

hold on what

was waiting on that one, lex

Oh your collegiate grief has left you dowdy in sweatshirts
Absolute horror!

^^UH

lex that lyric is hilarious actually

hey lex what is boring about hercules and love affair/what do you recommend instead in that vein?

As a sophomore
With reggaeton
And the linens
You're sitting on

^^seriously they treat cultural references like the square pegs and the songs are round holes

cmon dude

xpost- i think there's a lot more going on with them than say faze action, who a lot of people have suggested h&la sorta rip off

Lets move on to the next album please

fwiw lex's trolling right now is way more annoying and detrimental to this thread than what dom got banned for

Hey, I've got an idea! Why not quote every lyric of an album that's already a year old, and paste in the album charts poll!?!?

*actually puts Indo on, zones out*

no, we can't lose louis

serious request:

can someone remember to post the top five every 50 posts from now on, because opening this thread in full is breaking some people's browsers, including my current borrowed one. at this rate, there will be 150 more posts before musically posts #4.

hey lex what is boring about hercules and love affair/what do you recommend instead in that vein?

idk - there's something a touch "period piece" about it but i don't mind that on the killer tracks ('blind', 'you belong') - it's just that most of the album doesn't stick in my head for whatever reason. i'd check out the various aeroplane remixes (they have a thread somewhere) in a similar vein...

lex needs to be here for the rest of this. antivote ban talk!

4 - Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
326.5 points, 25 votes
44 in P&J, 24 in p4k

http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7244/ganggangdancehk2.jpg

This album is pretty amazing. My first exposure to them and I'm absolutely loving it. It's all over the place, but in the best possible way. Outstanding production as well.

― Chris in Belfast

I'm so amazed at how beautiful this album is. It's like driving through a rainforest hard up against a coastline, and every time you turn a corner you come across an amazing new vista. Except that happens every twenty seconds or so.

Right now this is duking it out with The-Dream and Luomo to be my album of the year. I think it might win.

― Tim F

serious request:

can someone remember to post the top five every 50 posts from now on, because opening this thread in full is breaking some people's browsers, including my current borrowed one. at this rate, there will be 150 more posts before musically posts #4.

― sleeve, Monday, February 16, 2009 4:59 PM (3 seconds ago) Bookmark

top ten, that is, up to wherever we are.

xxxpost dammmit

I usually look fwd to the lex take on this shit, but if he quote one more g-d VW lyric its going to be v v hard for me to avoid Suggest Ban.

J0rdan, don't you want to be here for the magic moment in an hour's time when I a) turn 22 and b) admit Erykah's excellence and VW's "well they're OK I guess"-ness?

GGD album, after two plays, is very good, and would've probably gotten into my own top 10 if I'd heard it.

my top 3 prediction:

3: Hercules and Love Affair
2: Lindstrom
1: Portishead

lolz @ lex trolling. i was thinking of listening to the vw album, now i'm glad i didn't.

Finally, release from the Lex snob trolling. And what a release! Glorious album.

it's not trolling when you actually are making reasonable points.

disagreeing=/=trolling

haha louis, im actually anticipating your birthday thread

big up ggd btw

The Gang Gang Dance is absolutely incredible, I voted it #3 but in a different mood it could have been my #1. It just covers an immense amount of ground and does pretty much everything I want my music to do at one point or another.

<3 <3 <3 ggd

but i have to admit that even though i was digging the album before i saw them, it was the live show that put them all together for me. i heard the album differently after that, and things that had seemed a little drifting before suddenly seemed more directed and tantalizing. seriously great live band.

50 - Boris – Smile
49 - Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me
48 - School Of Seven Bells – Alpinisms
47 - Sébastien Tellier – Sexuality
46 - Fall, The - Imperial Wax Solvent
45 - Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
44 - Jay Reatard - Matador Singles 08
43 - Alex Moulton – Exodus
42 - Stephen Malkmus and Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
41 - Solange - Sol Angel & The Hadley Street Dreams
40 - Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
39 - Hold Steady, The - Stay Positive
38 - D. Lissvik - 7 Trx + Intermission
37 - Gas - Nah und Fern
36 - Glass Candy - B/E/A/T/B/O/X
35 - Half Man Half Biscuit - CSI: Ambleside
34 - Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
33 - Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
32 - Luomo – Convivial
31 - El Guincho – Alegranza
30 - Quiet Village - Silent Movie
29 - Lau Nau – Nukkuu
28 - Fennesz - Black Sea
27 - Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman
26 - Torche – Meanderthal
25 - Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster
24 - Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
23 - Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
22 - Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
21 - Deerhunter - Microcastle
20 - MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
19 - Studio - Yearbook 2
18 - Kelley Polar - I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling
17 - Santogold - Santogold
16 - The-Dream - Love/Hate
15 - Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
14 - Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
13 - M83 - Saturdays=Youth
12 - Young Jeezy - The Recession
11 - Bug, The - London Zoo
10 - TV on the Radio - Dear Science
9 - Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
8 - Air France - No Way Down
7 - Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
6 - Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
5 - Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
4 - Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna

It's perfectly structured as well, just the way it builds to these three massive peaks (First Communion, Princes, Desert Storm) and then subsides, but the stuff between is so compelling as well.

i wasn't trolling! those lyrics sent me into a genuine state of shock.

hurrah GGD, love this album. for ages i didn't think there was much to it beyond the three obvious uptempo bangers ('first communion', 'princes', 'house jam') - the rest of it went past me somewhat - but i actually really love the way it's structured around those three peaks now, how the slower tracks sort of wash around them like tides.

ha xp!

saint dymphma is great but if you wanna hear some of the band's more adventurous stuff try i.u.d. or gavin's solo album

Saint Dymphna was the highest placer without a #1 vote, FYI

no of montreal on this thread. should've voted

(or not, if you hate of montreal which i understand is entirely justified, but i loved that album)

ok 'more adventurous' sounds douchey, consider it further listening i guess

comparison

on my friends and favourites network on rateyourmusic for 2008 albums using the custom chart (150 users plus - and a large sample than ilm 2008 poll)

top 15 consensus as follows

1 Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
2 Portishead - Third
3 Opeth - Watershed
4 Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Continued
5 Meshuggah - obZen
6 M83 - Saturdays = Youth
7 This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
8 Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
9 Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
10 Sun Kil Moon - April
11 Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fordlândia
12 Darkspace - Dark Space III
13 TV on the Radio - Dear Science
14 James Blackshaw - Litany of Echoes
15 No-Man - Schoolyard Ghosts

27: Erykah Badu
New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)

43: Gang Gang Dance
Saint Dymphna

56: Lindstrøm
Where You Go I Go Too

97: Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend

241: Hercules and Love Affair
Hercules and Love Affair

Relieved at no Of Montreal (hopefully)

Lex - House Jam is like Vacuum, it's the final build before they really just bang it out. I also love love love the way the singer's shrieking whooping voice wraps around some of the tracks, especially around Tinchy's flow on Princes.

Wait, Lindstrom in the top 3?!?!?! I haven't been paying enough attention, I guess!

I'm guessing it's in

I think albums like Of Montreal and Hot Chip were only half good. I was shocked how the latter turned up on so many other lists. I should probably give it another listen, as I only heard it about 3 times all the way through.

'house jam' is much more immediate than 'desert storm', what with its 'the way i are' rip nod - it's faster too, right?

is tim dewitt still in ggd or not? i read that he'd left or was "taking a break," but i haven't seen any other drummer's name mentioned anywhere.

Those are maybe the obvious peaks but I do think it above all generates narrative momentum and powers through on its own collective steam. "Inners Pace" and "Afoot" together are mighty, and coming between two 'bigger' tracks they nonetheless create a substantial force of their own. It also seems like the sort of album that'll really grow on me even more. I'll be interested to see how well-beaten by #s 1-3 it was...this is why we need a rolling art-rock thread. ;-)

Vacuum is a really loaded track, it's the coiling of a massive shoegazey/Orbital-y spring, and Princes is, yeah, a banger. Great sequencing. House Jam/Interlude do similar, but I'd also lump the last two tracks together as the album's most psychedelic suite.

Yeah, I like Hot Chip. I even voted for the album. But I can't wholeheartedly endorse it from front to back. xxxp