GAPDY poll

the phoenix album tries to do a bit of baba o'reilly-ish symphonic rock but its the breakfast club shuffle of lisztomania that works best.

― Michael B, Friday, January 22, 2010 9:46 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

i literally laughed at "breakfast club shuffle"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc5Sm4iRtxs

the xx are really aesthetically different from the others, if you don't get that idk what to tell u

they're all pretty aesthetically different from each other

dave's voice

this is the #1 reason why bitte orca sux

it's love it or hate it i guess, it's one of my favorite voices in indie

it's not in the acronym because when everyones top 5 was all GAPDYGAPDYGAPDYGAPDYGAPDYGAPDYGAPDYGAPDYGAPDYGAPDYGAPDY the xx were like down in the 8s and 9s, as pazz would attest

fuckin Neko had to go an ruin my perfect joke

i'm gonna lol if the ilx results are the same as pazz

would bet ANYTHING that anco win

gapdy have not received the jagger vote, sunn o))) have, go figure

B2W:
1.Phoenix - Twitchy, polished imitations of urgency that managed to become my second favorite record of the year. May one day investigate if its pleasures (and/or lyrics) signify anything at all beyond the standard ennui-anthem mode of "Girlfriend".
2.YYY - Sags in the middle, but the bookends make up for any muddle. The fact that Karen O.'s voice used to irritate, but breaks my heart on "Soft Shock" and maybe elsewhere warrants further consideration.
3.Dirty Projectors - Interesting ideas, interesting craft, but lacks...I don't know - insight, genius, exuberant stupidity, charisma, vulgarity, humor, purpose...
4.Animal Collective - Pretty. Interesting even. Just not that interesting, and not even that pretty.
5.Grizzly Bear - There are three kinds of albums: those I like, and I care about because pleasure will make a man do that; those I don't like, but I care about because someone's taste and intelligence convinces me maybe I should; and those I don't like and don't care about. Guess which one this is?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Dirty > Phoenix > AnCo > YYYs > Grizzly

YYYs = Anco > Phoenix > Dirty > all other music ever made > Grizzly.

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

Ah just when I thought ILM had given up on one of the decade's best bands.

dog latin

Seriously, they're getting way too much flack these days. I'm bored of hearing about how much people hate them.

AnCo? they get flack coz they're shit.

except My Girls. that's pretty great.

Poor GrizBear.

The results are Bush v. Gore.

The grizzbear h8 is bordering on stupid. They've got some great songs.

yeah i cant say i get the ilx grizz hate

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

tbh Grizzly Bear is as crazy as early Zappa when compared to shit like Iron & Wine or Jose Gonzalez

yeah but they're the only ones on the pedestal

grizz is the first indie band in a while that is really loved that i literally do not like at all -- just such bloodless music. i've never found anything they write catchy.

Bloodless music? I'm not even sure what you mean by that....

it's as if statues were playing music, and not in a good way like the xx -- it strikes me 'expansive' music that's completely hollow -- i understand why the aesthetic appeals to people but i don't understand how people sit through the songs

I guess we feel exactly the opposite because your statues statement is how I feel about the XX. The dullest, most insincere music I've ever heard. Whereas I get a lot of emotion out of Grizzly Bear---particularly songs like Reprise and Foreground. Guess I just have different taste that you and most of ILX, although I did enjoy the Fever Ray album I don't think she merits 3 of the top 50 tracks....

well about the last word i would use for the xx would be 'insecure', but i understand how people could feel the opposite way of me in terms of the statue thing -- i enjoyed fever ray too and don't think she merits three of the fifty tracks

I didn't say insecure. I think they have fairly large egos actually. I just said insincere. Seems like a total put on. (talking about the xx)

oh my bad. ok.

I've seen them live and wasn't impressed. Lots of similar note plucking. Zero energy. Not that GB have much to offer in that department on stage, however I will say their musicianship , particularly the drummer and Daniel Rossen, left me completely impressed. Maybe I need to see the XX again, but when I saw them they seemed a bit smug, bored and droll

if it makes you guys feel better i dislike both

That makes me feel like you are really cool.

my taste has never been a pose, but ok

into you either way. Like how you aren't into both bands. Makes me want to get to know you more

Oh schmindie troll, don't you think we've encountered your kind long before now?

am I schmindie? :D THANX!!!

Mr. Fever, who's the collective "we", the embittered washed up music critics that haunt this site day in and day out? Or is this just a case of the "royal we", in which case you are fully forgiven sir

Handy tip: try not being a dick to everybody else on the site and then maybe they won't be dicks to you.

Yours, on behalf of all the embittered washed up music critics

I didn't star the "I hate them both" comment above. Having a convo with someone else and someone chimed in with a useful "guess what? I think they both suck" comment....

Well don't rise to it, and don't lash out at the entire site. If you start quarrelling with everyone who makes a comment you don't like, this isn't going to be much fun.

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.