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People talked Portishead to death months ago.

Which is okay because in some ways they work better as heartless, brain-munching zombies.

and kanye and erykah werent talked to death last year?

why are you singling them out over Gang Gang Dance and Vampire Weekend who have been talked about on this thread just as much?

Who cares???

kanye got way more talk before it came on the list. when it appeared. After it appeared.
What quite are you trying to imply blueski?

Portishead don't have an easily-accessible persona, ergo this board isn't going to spend all that much time rehashing them.

I mean seriously, which things are the ppl on this board more likely to talk about:

a) megalomaniacal superstar spends an entire album whining about his ex
b) megalomaniacal crazy woman hippie-vomits one of the most bizarrely-compelling albums of the decade
c) repressed band makes chilly, emotionally severe album that is a celebration of music production and song arrangement

sounds real good tho

Absolutely! But considering that music discussion here is driven by narrative rather than analysis, there's only so much ppl are going to say about Third, whereas you can talk about 808s... and New Amerykah... forever.

I'm most likely to talk about c) tbh, but then I'm certified insane

i'll talk about them all because i love them all

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ok everyone lol @ me etc, but i slept on that portishead record all year, and it's fucking me up something fierce right now

silly kevin

*points finger, lols*

*points finger, lols*

I would like it if the people who hadn't heard many of the "obscure" picks of 50-21 would check them out.
I'd like to hear that Alex Moulton. Every link I find online has expired/been taken down.

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maybe buy it?

lol u old

srsly

u can buy mp3s u goofs

e.g. emusic: http://www.emusic.com/album/Alex-Moulton-Exodus-MP3-Download/11202674.html

amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Exodus/dp/B001BVTAKI/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1235016881&sr=8-2

sorry for double-lol

ya it made me double :(

:((

it's a doublole surely

i linked to the last.fm streaming link for Exodus in the original post

I'm most likely to talk about c) tbh, but then I'm certified insane

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maybe buy it?

Unfair target, maybe: HGN probably shells out the cash for more music than a lot of ILX0rs (see posts passim) and I get the impression he's a try-before-you-buy kind of dude ... as indeed am I, unless a recommendation is spectacularly glowing, and comes from someone I'd trust with my life/first-born/etc.

THAT SAID ...

i linked to the last.fm streaming link for Exodus in the original post

:)

Grimly is right. I check out stuff I don't know on mp3 then buy if I really like it. In this case I do and I will when I can afford it.

boy did i sleep on gang gang dance. would've made my top 5 for sure had i heard it in time.

are their earlier stuff any cop?

The earlier stuff is more straight-up experimental rock, less influence from hip-hop, dance/house, etc.

I'd check out God's Money, their previous album, and delve deeper if you enjoy that one.

will do, thanks.

If I had heard this album in time, I would have nominated it:

e.s.t. (Esbjorn Svensson Trio): Leucocyte

re: purchases vs nicks, my search for d.lissvik via a 'studio' search brought wolfgang voigt's studio 1 comp which relates i believe to the gas entry on the list. haven't heard gas but this studio 1 is bringing a great deal back home right now.

should have added i bought the voigt.

I'd check out God's Money, their previous album, and delve deeper if you enjoy that one the parts that are much harder to enjoy

pleased to see gang gang dance polled so high. deserves many further listens.

boy did i sleep on gang gang dance. would've made my top 5 for sure had i heard it in time

Co-fucking-sign. This is fantastic. How in fuck's name did I miss it?

You were too busy listening to Keane

Yeeees. That'll have been it.

He's not even lying.

Gang Gang Dance really could've challenged Portishead on this evidence

But that's the joy of these things, isn't it? There are three records on this list -- GGD, School of Seven Bells and Grouper -- that I'm pretty sure would have made my list had I heard them. Hey ho.

school of seven bells sounds pretty good. they're playing glasgow on the 24th so i might pop in if it isn't sold out. Grouper would have definitely been top 10 if I had heard it in time.

Yeh, I'm working the night of the 24th which is a massive, massive, massive pain in the bollocks. I could try haring down straight from work but I doubt I'll make it in time :(

grimly look at the metal poll thread

Heard the other day that School of Seven Bells are also supporting Bat For Lashes on her UK tour in April.

i might pop in if it isn't sold out.

Nice Wet Wet Wet reference there BTW.