GAPDY poll

y

4me

I only own one of these, so I voted for it.

I made it all the way through the Phoenix in one listen, so that.

based on a combination of entire listen-throughs, disgusted cameos and bitter supposition, would rank them PAGDY

Gap All Pandas Duh Yeah

gapdy is easier to say, lj

i voted anco

no i mean that's the order in which i'd rank them

That Animal Collective album is the most "emperor's new clothes" album I've heard since The Avalanches.

word

I listen to my favorite songs on Blitz more than anything else, but I'd throw on Wolfgang Amadeus in full before I would the YYYs.

lj, i'm surprised you're not all over dirty projectors. too popular?

anco tom

okay wau

DYAGP

i gave it a listen and it just didn't work for me - seemed to be, ahem, 'wacky' where it could have been sleek and devastating - not enough good ideas - lack of strong melodic or rhythmic or structural sensibilities - that pop single wasn't bad and there were a few good moments but the songs lacked narrative and parts actively annoyed me with their gratuitous look-hither indie kook

gentlemen, prepare your suggest bans

gratuitous look-hither indie kook

GLHIK

if we're ranking

AGPDY

PY.

I'd rather not acknowledge the rest.

Y

(willing to hear P and D, no interest at all in G and A can fuck off about a bazillion times)

YPDGA

DG

haven't heard all of P and Y, not really into A

Y - great album by great band
P - inoffensive noises trundle away in background, i barely notice or care
D - semi-interesting ideas executed really, really irritatingly
G - can't even remember if i've heard them, no interest anyway
A - want to throw knives at them, everything about them is so offensively awful - the qualities they're praised for ("adults pretending to be children" UGHHH) should be reviled in any civilised society

well one of these recorded the song "maps" so them.

also doesn't this need an X? got lots of love for the xx but they've been as ubiquitous at the top of these lists as the others.

phoenix

phoenix

YYYs based on track record, not the specific album in question.

I've never listened to Animal Collective, but I edited a feature on them as a favor to a friend, and it made me want to tear the writer's arm off, set it on fire and use it to torch the homes of the bandmembers and their families.

YADPG

D > Y >>> A > P >> G

D ftw

D. saw them play the Paradise in Boston last fall, and they were incredible. then AGY. i heard P for the first time today, was not very impressed

kept 2 tracks from Y, 1 from D, didn't even make it all the way thru P and deleted it, didn't bother with G, would invoke the geneva convention if someone tried to force me to listen to A

of these, only heard the D and A albums, but both were too wishy-washy to make any kind of impression.

the little I've heard by grizzly bear has been despicable.

have no feelings about or interest in the yeah yeah yeahs.

have never heard anything by phoenix. only heard OF them in these lists.

even though I'm not fond of DP on record, they are somehow totally captivating live. so them.

A>>G>P>D>Y

I was really keen on the Animal Collective album at first, then soured as the year wore on.
I was cold on the Dirty Projectors album at first, then warmed as the year wore on.
I continue to think that Grizzly Bear's album is inferior to its predecessor.
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs album is pretty solid, I guess, but I have trouble getting excited about it.
I think this is probably the most monochromatic album Phoenix has ever made, but there are still some sweet tunes on it.

(In the end, I voted Phoenix, just because that's the one I'd most like to hear right now.)

my equation

P>Y>DP=?>A=G

D - semi-interesting ideas executed really, really irritatingly

lex otm

fwiw this is the proper reaction to animal collective:

I've never listened to Animal Collective, but I edited a feature on them as a favor to a friend, and it made me want to tear the writer's arm off, set it on fire and use it to torch the homes of the bandmembers and their families.

― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:53 PM Bookmark

i hate the dirty projectors for all time for blatantly soliciting critical BJ by way of phony black flag swagga jacking.

fuck dirty projectors.

i hate albums where i feel like they wrote press release before they even recorded a note

phoenix

D - semi-interesting ideas executed really, really irritatingly

lex otm

― freezoni appleby 2010 (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:42 (35 minutes ago) Bookmark

haha i love it when the lex and i agree, it's like planets aligning

yyys - good album
phoenix - good album
dp - good album
anco/gribear - nah mate

i hate the dirty projectors for all time for blatantly soliciting critical BJ by way of phony black flag swagga jacking.

fuck dirty projectors.

― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, January 20, 2010 5:06 PM (41 minutes ago)

aw it was kinda cool tho

nah im with M@tt on this one

It never really was THAT much fun to begin with....While I appreciate the advice, someone needs to call a spade a spade, otherwise we just go around in solipsistic circles circle jerking and commending one another's obscure/simultaneously majorly mainstream music tastes, no?

INDIE=BAD

GAGA/PAISLEY/MAINSTREAM=GOOD

DRONE/METAL/RANDOMNOISE=GOOD

INDIE=I hate that guy I see every morning at the coffee shop, he pisses me off.

Fine. Blow a gasket defending Grizzly Bear if you like. Fight the good fight for poor misunderstood indie bands everywhere.

they are boring as fuck but as long as animals keep on collecting we need to not let ourselves get distracted and fight the real enemy imo

― The Reverend, Tuesday, February 2, 2010 7:55 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Not blowing anything.

Someone tomorrow will have something even more dismissive to say to "take me down a notch"---ultimately though, how is anything I said any more/less bitchy than 99 percent of the shit posted on this board?

am I villainized for being a bitch? liking grizzly bear? not being a music critic? defending indie? being contrary? or just being "bloodless"....someone tomorrow will surely tell me why I suck and I'm looking forward to it.

people are saying that grizzly bear and animal collective suck, not you

Was talking to bro who called me a "dick", which is sort of the same as "sucking"---do you have a last.fm lex? I'd love to see it

i think that was after you said someone was trying to look cool? which wasn't v nice

http://www.last.fm/user/lexpretend

Here's mine http://www.last.fm/user/Luccaz94

oi...kids these days.

GrizzBear mostly a snoozefest, but 'Two Weeks' is unfuckwithable. Same goes for AnCo's 'My Girls', but the rest of their catalogue is larger and far more annoying, so yes they need to be destroyed first.

one thing i like abt anco is the sprawl of what they've produced and all the ideas picked up toyed with and tossed back on the pile.

just like THE-DREAM

yeah i like things

i just think its a shame that the best parts of their career are being overshadowed by the post strawberry jam stuff

You know, I kind of respect AnCo for doing new things, which I would never accuse the Grizz of, they just happen to do new things that make my blood boil.

this is on 'most read threads' today

Maybe it got linked somewhere? I'm pretty sure that's happened before.

pretty proud that this word got out a little

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrk9m9nRxlY

amazing use of the youtube annotations feature

~~~mind blown~~~

told ya!

2009 called, it wants its festival lineup back pic.twitter.com/zBWCniamzY

— Eric Renner Brown (@ericrennerbrown) February 5, 2019

wow

🎶🎶 three out of five ain’t bad

Good lord, that really is an impressive piece of work. Ra Ra Riot???

She Wants Revenge is still a thing?

If it wasn't for that (Manners 10th Anniversary) thing, I'd have assumed that was a genuine 2009 fest line-up.

The Faint!

one has to go pic.twitter.com/GV0ylHQPR1

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) September 3, 2020

bitte orca more like bye-bye orca

There's hardly anyone kicking out AC in the - I'm guessing mostly American - replies. Phoenix is all time, DP is p good still, never cared for Grizzly Bear.

To me the Dirty Projectors & Grizzly Bear albums are unimpeachable classics. AC is eh and hasn't aged well, never got into Phoenix.

Also DP & GB released their best albums within the last 3 years, still going strong.

phoenix sucks

YYYs are the only one of these acts I was ever a fan of (and mostly the 1st album).

the early singles are the shit. Can you hear it calling?

(Phoenix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWFPZpbKHf4

Merriweather Post Pavilion, Veckatimest, and Bitte Orca are all time greats. If you don't like them then you don't like them. But if you haven't heard them, give them a try. Good for a long road trip.

I will wait for the superbowl halftime show in a few years

I dunno why I just read half this thread, it was hypnotic, like finding some ancient cuneiform tablet from a civilization I've never heard of

2008 albums poll is p good for that (tho maybe less uncannily unfamiljar)

GAPDY's Greatest Hits:

1. Phoenix: 1901 (233,103,471 plays on Spotify)
2. Phoenix: Lisztomania (221,197,960)
3. Grizzly Bear: Two Weeks (188,354,857)
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Heads Will Roll (163,890,937)
5. Phoenix: Lasso (47,094,987)
6. Animal Collective: My Girls (43,832,825)
7. Grizzly Bear: Ready, Able (27,650,183)
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Zero (24,967,278)
9. Phoenix: Fences (21,754,426)
10. Phoenix: Rome (21,381,951)

Dirty Projectors get nowhere near; the most streamed track on Bitte Orca is Stillness Is The Move (7,892,685)

And yet they're the best band out of all of them :)

If this had been the GAPDYX poll then "Intro" would be on top at 464 million

Dirty > Phoenix > AnCo > YYYs > Grizzly

― mike t-diva, Monday, February 1, 2010 11:36 PM (twelve years ago)

I've listened to them all again. Now it's:

YYYs >> Grizzly > Dirty >> AnCo > Phoenix

YYYs is the only one that still gives pleasure. Grizzly starts promisingly, doesn't keep it up, but remains listenable. The vocals on the remaining three annoy me a lot, for broadly similar reasons. AnCo and especially Phoenix were a struggle to get through. (NB I bought four of them on CD at the time, and was sent another as a promo (gratefully received) so there must have been a time when I liked all of them.)

"Heads Will Roll" and "Zero" are by far the best thing to come out of 2009 GAPDY, though as a whole album I do think that Bitte Orca has held up the best.

The albums I listen to with the most regularity from this era are Person Pitch and Tomboy

new songs by both "y" and "p" out this week

the phoenix song is horrible, jesus

I like the YYYs song

Can someone please make a video essay on whatever the hell was going on here pic.twitter.com/LxBSJSPfCO

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