love all of the last three
"will the night" is great in both versions, the dead pilot version is proto-grouper & the secret name version makes the most of strings out of any of their tracks
"white horses" is my favourite from hey what, those guitar textures are incredible
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:05 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Jsn50Td.png29. Shots & LaddersReleased on Trust (2002)352 points, 14 voters2 points for "Shots & Ladders 2" (from the "Canada" single & A Lifetime of Temporary Relief)Trust versionShots & Ladders 2
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:15 (two years ago) link
a lot of the ones I voted for are now showing up. The Lamb is the first track so far that is top 10 for me
― Dan S, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:20 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/qwaodUD.png28. BreakerReleased on Drums and Guns (2007)370 points, 13 voters20 points for "Breaker (Dub Plate)"Music videoLive at L'Omnibus 2007Retribution Gospel Choir versionBreaker (Dub Plate) (yes, it's mislabeled)
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:31 (two years ago) link
while the live version would have been great on a great destroyer 2, the sparseness of the studio version's arrangement has a real power to it
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:41 (two years ago) link
my hand just kills and killsthere’s gotta be an end to that
D&G stuff got a big bump for me thanks to DN and HW- and the “Breaker” video is top tier
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:44 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MaRXqke.png27. ShameReleased on Long Division (1995)394 points, 13 votersMusic video
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:45 (two years ago) link
I voted for the Breaker (Dub Plate), and earlier for Venus (Time Stereo Dub Mix). After the first few records I get most excited about Low when their template gets distressed or abstracted.
― Freeze Instr., Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:48 (two years ago) link
the time stereo dub mix of "venus" is great yeah
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:49 (two years ago) link
i'm not huge on long division but "shame" is one of the real gems from it
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:52 (two years ago) link
I never knew they had all these alternative rock-era music videos for their Vernon Yard records!
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:53 (two years ago) link
I love Long Division as a limit-case of their early form, but I get how it can be kind of a tough hang.
― Freeze Instr., Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:57 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbCF2OqZOfEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AESrPcQRgc0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_3q0_m7JCY
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:58 (two years ago) link
didn’t specify this version on my ballot but the IG live performance of “breaker” literally brought me to tears
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 22:59 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/YKedsTm.png26. In The DrugsReleased on Trust (2002)397 points, 14 votersStudio version
last one for today
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
i think “shame” was my sole long division vote
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
Looks like 120 Minutes played "Shame" once, as the final video on July 9, 1995
And "Over the Ocean" once, also as the final video, on December 15, 1996
― licorice in the front, pizza in the rear (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 23:02 (two years ago) link
secret name had a lot of videos, "weight of water", "don't understand", "home" and "immune" all got videos but they're not officially uploaded on youtube & some of them aren't there at all
& i was kinda amazed that the songs for a dead pilot "will the night" got a video
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 23:03 (two years ago) link
I’m not generally big on lyrics but those of In The Drugs completely get to me.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
Same here - I first came to it via the video on the DVD that came with the box set (I haven't seen any of those clips in a long time though).
Weight of Water is one I'd overlooked until I went through the albums again. Shots and Ladders another great track - probably my favourite album closer of theirs?
― Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 23:20 (two years ago) link
“Shame” was the only Long Division track to make the ballot for me as well, though “Violence” came close.
― Tim F, Thursday, 25 November 2021 01:03 (two years ago) link
I included 4 from Long Division in my top 30, but none in the top 10.
My ballot favored early Low.
― Freeze Instr., Thursday, 25 November 2021 01:40 (two years ago) link
y’all need to get right with your opinions about “stay” and “below & above”
long division > i could live in hope (sorry)
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 November 2021 01:47 (two years ago) link
I ranked Long Division third on my albums list, it's awesome.
― Freeze Instr., Thursday, 25 November 2021 01:53 (two years ago) link
I keep saying this but it blows my mind that anyone could rank a song like "Broadway" over a song like "Whitetail."
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Thursday, 25 November 2021 01:58 (two years ago) link
I wouldn't even out "Broadway" in my top 80 or 100
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Thursday, 25 November 2021 01:59 (two years ago) link
I swear if the top ten are all from post-Trust albums I will absolutely lose it.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Thursday, 25 November 2021 02:00 (two years ago) link
yeah "Shame" is in my Low top 5 trax
― weekend at brony's (rip van wanko), Thursday, 25 November 2021 02:08 (two years ago) link
there's a r/indieheads low poll i can point you to that has most of its top 10 from ones and sixes
― ufo, Thursday, 25 November 2021 02:15 (two years ago) link
xp
I love Broadway
― Dan S, Thursday, 25 November 2021 02:40 (two years ago) link
i also love broadway and almost suggested BROADWAY….SO MANY PEO-POLL as the name for this thread
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 25 November 2021 02:47 (two years ago) link
Great album poll results, I think the only one I had that didn’t place was “In the Fishtank.” I’d be very curious about how the Burton produced albums are rated in ten years or so. They have this Berlin-era Bowie vibe for me right.Unsurprisingly, I find “Double Negative” to be their “Low”!― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, November 22, 2021 10:33 PM
Unsurprisingly, I find “Double Negative” to be their “Low”!
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Monday, November 22, 2021 10:33 PM
I thought of this post tonight, and was thinking about a similar analogy with Eno's work with Talking Heads, where their first record together has more of a "traditional" producer/band dynamic, and then goes on to become more of a collaboration over the next few records, eventually down to similar setups where the band lays down tracks, leaves, and the producer does their thing.
― cwkiii, Thursday, 25 November 2021 03:20 (two years ago) link
"Shame" made my ballot and "Violence" would have if we could extend it a few more places. Long Division is not one of my favorites, but still a solid listen with those highs
― Vinnie, Thursday, 25 November 2021 04:58 (two years ago) link
I just realized that Pissing (on GD) has the same chord progression (I think) as John Prine and sees them taking that exercise to the opposite extreme
Yeah, I think "Majesty/Magic" also uses the same progression (and just sounds like a lesser version of John Prine in general). "Pissing" always sounded like their take on Slowdive's "Avalyn" to me.
― toneburst country, Thursday, 25 November 2021 05:39 (two years ago) link
"Broadway" clicked for me when someone in another thread here said it sounded like the answer to the yearning posed in "Lullaby."
― toneburst country, Thursday, 25 November 2021 05:49 (two years ago) link
The Lamb (only seven voters !), Shame, White Horses, Weight of Water, No Comprende and Shots & Ladder were on my ballot from yesterday. I can hardly complain about the songs that are not my idea of Low because I doubt my votes were perfectly coherent. I sound like a broken record already, but for me it's a testimony of their consistency. I'd have a hard time singling out a song that does not belong in the results.
Drums and Guns was one album where I only voted for one song, but Breaker with its minimal wave and claps is totally lovely.
― Nabozo, Thursday, 25 November 2021 07:18 (two years ago) link
"Violent Past" was my #1. The studio recording is a beast, cathartic noise over a churning, insistent, inevitable beat. Like a Nine Inch Nails experiment mixed with Zeppelin's "Kashmir". The lyrics are simple but horrifyingly grim. On the announcement thread somebody wrote that In Silence/Murderer/Violent Past is one of their best three song runs, which is completely OTM. It's their best closing stretch for sure, even if D&G as a whole isn't in their top tier of albums.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 25 November 2021 10:14 (two years ago) link
yeah, well put. the organ + its embrace of that sort of carthatic distortion are also obvious predecessors for double negative
i'd agree it's their best closer unless you ignore "dark" in favour of "do you know how to waltz"
― ufo, Thursday, 25 November 2021 10:18 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq--nrquHIA
this is terrible quality but lmao
― ufo, Thursday, 25 November 2021 10:27 (two years ago) link
yeah, well put. the organ + its embrace of that sort of carthatic distortion are also obvious predecessors for double negativei'd agree it's their best closer unless you ignore "dark" in favour of "do you know how to waltz"― ufo, Thursday, November 25, 2021 11:18 AM (forty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
For what it's worth, I'd take In Metal, Shots & Ladders, DJ and The Price you Pay over both. At the risk of sounding blasphemous, the 14 minutes of DYKHTW sound very cinematographic, quite like a GYBE track, but leave me cold emotionally.
― Nabozo, Thursday, 25 November 2021 11:16 (two years ago) link
i'd easily take "do you know how to waltz" over anything in gy!be's catalogue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t_RcCOvhF0
there is this bootleg of them performing it together once though
― ufo, Thursday, 25 November 2021 11:33 (two years ago) link
several XP - I’d do one better and say “Take Your Time” through “Violent Past” is their best album run.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 25 November 2021 13:09 (two years ago) link
lol y'all are fucking insane
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Thursday, 25 November 2021 14:05 (two years ago) link
I mean at least I know now whose tastes I can trust, I guess.
― I'm a sovereign jizz citizen (the table is the table), Thursday, 25 November 2021 14:06 (two years ago) link
I voted for ten pre-Trust songs, I think my ballot was fairly varied. I voted for five songs from "Things We Lost In The Fire", the most of any album. However, my two favourite albums are Double Negative and The Great Destroyer, which are about as different as it gets from the pre-Trust style.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 25 November 2021 14:50 (two years ago) link
My two favs are Ones and Sixes and Long Division, the latter of which seems to mark me as an outlier even among people who hold the early stuff in high regard. (s/o to Brad though!)
― Jimmy Iovine Eat World (bernard snowy), Thursday, 25 November 2021 15:07 (two years ago) link
I put two songs from Long Division in my top 10, one of them at #1.
― toby, Thursday, 25 November 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
I'm impressed there's so little "I like the early stuff" bias in all these results, even if few of the tracks thus far were in my list (and probably most in my list won't place).
I've been a fan for 25 years, and loved "the early stuff". But I also loved the next phase thereafter, and the most recent phase. Seems like a shame to close the door after the first three records, just because those captured a certain crystaline sound and approach. The breadth and itch for experimentation was always there, even from the beginning. If they'd kept on retreading that ground faithfully, would we even be talking about them in the present tense?
― Soundslike, Thursday, 25 November 2021 15:39 (two years ago) link
Agree with that statement but I’m sure there will be more early stuff as go further in the poll.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 25 November 2021 16:04 (two years ago) link