l0u1s jagg3r's 23 Best Songs Of The Decade!

for those who haven't heard it, this is an 18-minute song, and the first 5 minutes have 'croony' vocals. the remaining 13 minutes have hell on earth.

it's not really "hell on earth" compared to deathspell omega, tbh

well, not as LITERALLY as DSO would have it. and not quite as tortuous, frenzied or plain mentalist. but vast, and suffocating, and crushing. *i* think it's great.

just gave Gemini Becoming The Tripod a listen and yeah it's fabulous, as I remember.

other amazing KD trax: The Manifold Curiosity, The Antique, Blue Lambency Downward, The Awkward Windwheel

i like it too - i just think sometimes you are prone to exaggerate certain qualities when describing songs.

prone to exaggerations in your descriptions - especially in the context of existing music.

perhaps. i had a truly revelatory experience with that track on earphones tho, what can i say? it slayed me dead. my descriptions are based on my very personal reaction to the music and aren't exaggerations from my perspective. i use figures of speech a lot; take them with the intended pinch of salt! ___on limpid form is *a* descent into the inferno, not THE descent into the inferno.

not that that DSO song doesn't need near-equal amounts of love.

well - if it's a descent into the inferno, that inferno is actually not all that infernal - like it isn't all that raging.

'it isn't all that raging'

dude - i have that song in itunes. i just finished listening to it 15 minutes ago!

this is for the benefit of others who might like to hear it themselves before leaping to judgement

look! they do it live too! and my, don't they forget to rage!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=173XU6OE55Q

you need to listen to more metal.

oh believe me i have heard plenty of 'brutal' or 'heavy as shit' music - this song is IMO just about as brutal as any, but what marks it out for me is the pacing of its attack, the brilliant construiction

this song is IMO just about as brutal as any,

Uhh ... I really don't know what to say. Brutality is obviously in the eye of the beholder.

I can see what you mean about liking the pacing.

Brutality truly is in the eye of the beholder. You might think something else is MUCH more brutal. DSO, Meshuggah, countless DM or grindcore bands, Sunn O))), blah blah de blah. Insert your own choice here. This stuff kicks ass.

I'm also trying to politely imply that your hierarchy of brutality might be at odds with that of connoisseurs of brutal music.

OK, you asked for this

(it's in my Bubbling Under and is BRUTAL x50)

louis are you excited?

What do you think will win?

My money is on SFA

i reckon ulrich might take it

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

haha kerr you have GOT to stop doing this

maybe all the votes were for the exhaustive write-up

3 for The Terse Crimp! OMG!

I was almost right

i reflexively voted for it because it was the only track here i'd heard xpost

john justen who did you vote for?

gee i wonder who voted for deathspell omega?

23 best albums (off the top of my head):

1) Ulver - Blood Inside
2) Lapsus Linguae - You Got Me Fraiche
3) Super Furry Animals - Rings Around The World
4) Thighpaulsandra - I, Thighpaulsandra
5) Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
6) Half Man Half Biscuit - Trouble Over Bridgwater
7) Oceansize - Effloresce
8) Volcano! - Beautiful Seizure
9) Thomas White - I Dream Of Black
10) Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
11) Working For A Nuclear Free City - Businessmen & Ghosts
12) Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Yanqui U.X.O.
13) Grandaddy - Sumday
14) Youthmovies - Good Nature
15) Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum
16) Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
17) The Dandy Warhols - Odditorium Or Warlords Of Mars
18) The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
19) Darkspace - Darkspace III
20) Six By Seven - The Closer You Get
21) ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart
22) The Fall - The Unutterable
23) My Computer - No CV

goodnight, and happy new decade

awesome list! i really want to hear this lapsus linguae now but they seem to be pretty impossible to track down in the states. the stuff i already knew + that spotify playlist is all top notch tho

do me a favor though - and please collectively decide whether i'm supposed to be lj's mom or love interest (both is not an option).

I don't know why both can't be an option.

Urgh, so much prog-wank! lol 00's

If I had a bit longer to digest it, the St Vincent album might threaten this list, but precious little else from 2009. Maybe Gyratory System.

When I saw your list I thought, 'Urgh, so little prog-wank!'

Haha! That was my first post of the decade, thought it might as well be a nice little self-deprecating jab! Albums with prog elements: 1-4, 7-19, 21, 23, hence there are 4 albums here that aren't at all 'prog'. I make that quite a decent ratio!

You'd go mad for Lapsus Linguae fwiw

(and of those 4 albums, all 4 have songs with unorthodox structures that COULD be construed as 'progressive'...)

louis, i think <a href="http://scramblerseequill.bandcamp.com/";>this</a> might be another band we can agree on. slightly dreamy pop with lots of out-of-left-field changes, and all the musicians can play their fucking asses off.

i'm not in love with the singer/songs or anything yet, but the music is really exciting.

oops

ooh didn't see this, Jordan! thanks, will check out! your last recommendation was sound.

my top 50 albums huh

cardiacs - sing to god
vdgg - pwn <3s

fuck

can I just give 2?

an attempt at an UNRANKED remaining 48:

ulver - blood inside
mansun - six
cardiacs - the seaside
spratley's japs - pony
the fall - levitate
the fall - the unutterable
vdgg - still life
autechre - draft 7.30
foetus - hole
the cure - pornography
swirlies - they spent their wild youthful days in the glittering world of the salons
mercury rev - yerself is steam
soft machine - third
lapsus linguae - you got me fraiche
kayo dot - dowsing anemone with copper tongue (new one might join it when I finally get around to buying it)
william d drake - the rising of the lights
thumpermonkey - we bake our bread beneath her holy fire
neurosis - through silver in blood
talk talk - spirit of eden
wire - send
wire - 154
the the - infected
hood - rustic houses, forlorn valleys
mr bungle - disco volante (although their best two songs are on the debut)
deep turtle - there's a vomitsprinkler in my liverriver
magma - mdk
the fiery furnaces - blueberry boat (fuck you)
thomas white - i dream of black
neu - neu
dalek - absence (in your face whiney lol)
cannibal ox - the cold vein (faaaaaace)
duran duran - rio
volcano! - beautiful seizure
oceansize - effloresce
jute gyte - discontinuities
peter hammill - the silent corner & the empty stage
cardiacs - guns
cardiacs - heaven born & ever bright
cardiacs - on land & in the sea
tim smith - extra special oceanlandworld
the fall - hex enduction hour
youthmovies - good nature
to arms etc - to arms etc
thighpaulsandra - i, thighpaulsandra
half man half biscuit - trouble over bridgwater
boredoms - super roots 7
coil - musick to play in the dark

proooooog

List of 10 albums chosed by LJ that are good albums in my subjective estimation, ranked according to an objective sorting algorithm

autechre - draft 7.30
wire - send
wire - 154
boredoms - super roots 7
the fall - hex enduction hour
swirlies - they spent their wild youthful days in the glittering world of the salons
cannibal ox - the cold vein
neu - neu
the fall - levitate
the fall - the unutterable

you're a swirlies fan? figures i guess but i'd have had them as too childish for you

you missed "a little man and a house"!!

their worst album frogbs. sorry but it's true. still great but less so. imo, obv

its probably my 3rd favorite. I dunno, they're all worthy of laudation. What did you think of the Knifeworld album? (if you've heard it?) - it sucks that Tim obviously isn't on it, but IMO it's the next best thing

knifeworld album was cool & had a couple of screamers (unwreckaged, me to the future of you). also their recept eps have been good, maybe even better than the debut album material. monsoon bassoon album was obviously very good

the william d drake album in the list is my favourite non-tim-smith spin-off, but his solo album & spratleys japs are amazing as well

thumpermonkey are also cardiacs-influenced, u shd hear them

yeah it's very solid. "Pissed up on Brake Fluid" sounds like something that would fit on a later day Cardiacs album. that said I feel their second album is going to blow it out of the water.

if you could pick 5 of these for me to hear, what would it be?