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― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
lj, i'm surprised you're not all over dirty projectors. too popular?
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:03 (fourteen years ago) link
anco tom
― fleetwood (s1ocki), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
okay wau
― Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
DYAGP
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― your favorite toy dinosaur ruined my asshole (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
gratuitous look-hither indie kook
GLHIK
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
if we're ranking
AGPDY
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
PY.
I'd rather not acknowledge the rest.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Y
― Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
(willing to hear P and D, no interest at all in G and A can fuck off about a bazillion times)
― Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
YPDGA
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
DG
haven't heard all of P and Y, not really into A
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Y - great album by great bandP - inoffensive noises trundle away in background, i barely notice or careD - semi-interesting ideas executed really, really irritatinglyG - can't even remember if i've heard them, no interest anywayA - 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
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
well one of these recorded the song "maps" so them.
― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
phoenix
― max, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
YADPG
― black betty white (donna rouge), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
D > Y >>> A > P >> G
― ethan PADGY (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:06 (fourteen years ago) link
D ftw
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― kshighway (ksh), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― m the g, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
A>>G>P>D>Y
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
(In the end, I voted Phoenix, just because that's the one I'd most like to hear right now.)
― Hoisin Murphy (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
my equation
P>Y>DP=?>A=G
― bnw, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
D - semi-interesting ideas executed really, really irritatingly
lex otm
― freezoni appleby 2010 (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago) link
fwiw this is the proper reaction to animal collective:
― neither good nor bad, just a kid like you (unperson), Wednesday, January 20, 2010 12:53 PM Bookmark
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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, 20 January 2010 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i hate albums where i feel like they wrote press release before they even recorded a note
― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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
― your favorite toy dinosaur ruined my asshole (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
yyys - good albumphoenix - good albumdp - good albumanco/gribear - nah mate
― I think ur a probotector (cozen), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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
― ethan PADGY (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
nah im with M@tt on this one
― DANGER: DO NOT EAT SHAMELESS DONG (jjjusten), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
the only one of these i came close to hearing is ANCO when grady spent a good hour on chat one day desperately trying to get me to download the rick-roll leak. i listened to it like 2 weeks later and was like "lol" and then deleted the folder.
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I never heard Animal Collective but liek, I totally hate them already.
― dog latin, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I HATE EVERYTHING THAT PEOPLE LIKE ME LIKE
― smothered in country gravy (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I'M SO ANGRY THAT PEOPLE LOVE AN ALBUM I ONLY REALLY LIKE THAT I'M GOING TO START THOUSANDS OF THREDS ABOUT THEM
― smothered in country gravy (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
grizz - veck -never heard but they r boringanco - merri pavvi - anco r a gr8 band but this is only okphoenix - wolf - girlfriend is an alltime classic, but this is their worst, best thing here by a mile stilldirty pro - bitte - stillness is the move>useful chamber>>>>>everything elseyyy - blitz - never heard. i like a couple songs by them ok
― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
xp: TELL EM WHY YOU MAD!
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
dp's are on some next level shit, and i feel like even though their music is press-release friendly, their style feels natural (and not especially contrived) to me.
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
dp are way less than the sum of what are pretty mindblowing parts
― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I thought phoenix - wolf was Wolfmother's Phoenix BTW
― freezoni appleby 2010 (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 21 January 2010 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
oh the album is called cosmic egg never mind
― freezoni appleby 2010 (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 21 January 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
AY AY AY
― mdskltr (blueski), Thursday, 21 January 2010 00:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
this is on 'most read threads' today
― lilwayne.quizrewards4u.com (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe it got linked somewhere? I'm pretty sure that's happened before.
― smanging pumpkins (The Reverend), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
pretty proud that this word got out a little
― Jacka Laroo and Tyler Too (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrk9m9nRxlY
amazing use of the youtube annotations feature
― markers, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 04:37 (thirteen years ago) link
~~~mind blown~~~
― the new mordant & zingy ilxor persona (ilxor), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 05:53 (thirteen years ago) link
told ya!
― markers, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 05:55 (thirteen years ago) link
2009 called, it wants its festival lineup back pic.twitter.com/zBWCniamzY— Eric Renner Brown (@ericrennerbrown) February 5, 2019
wow
― maura, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
🎶🎶 three out of five ain’t bad
Good lord, that really is an impressive piece of work. Ra Ra Riot???
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 20:11 (five years ago) link
The Faint!
― omar little, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
one has to go pic.twitter.com/GV0ylHQPR1— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) September 3, 2020
― jaymc, Thursday, 3 September 2020 14:37 (three years ago) link
bitte orca more like bye-bye orca
― whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Thursday, 3 September 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
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.
― Monte Scampino (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 3 September 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
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.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 3 September 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
phoenix sucks
― flappy bird, Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
YYYs are the only one of these acts I was ever a fan of (and mostly the 1st album).
― “Pizza House!” (morrisp), Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
the early singles are the shit. Can you hear it calling?
― brimstead, Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:03 (three years ago) link
(Phoenix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWFPZpbKHf4
― brimstead, Thursday, 3 September 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
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.
― ershe, Sunday, 20 February 2022 05:11 (two years ago) link
I will wait for the superbowl halftime show in a few years
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 20 February 2022 07:07 (two years ago) link
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
― I have a voulez-vous? with death (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 20 February 2022 09:21 (two years ago) link
2008 albums poll is p good for that (tho maybe less uncannily unfamiljar)
― signe anderson (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 21 February 2022 12:08 (two years ago) link
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)
― mike t-diva, Monday, 21 February 2022 19:14 (two years ago) link
And yet they're the best band out of all of them :)
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 21 February 2022 19:18 (two years ago) link
If this had been the GAPDYX poll then "Intro" would be on top at 464 million
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 21 February 2022 20:44 (two years ago) link
Dirty > Phoenix > AnCo > YYYs > Grizzly― mike t-diva, Monday, February 1, 2010 11:36 PM (twelve years ago)
― 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.)
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 12:42 (two years ago) link
"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.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 14:56 (two years ago) link
The albums I listen to with the most regularity from this era are Person Pitch and Tomboy
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 15:06 (two years ago) link
new songs by both "y" and "p" out this week
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:40 (one year ago) link
the phoenix song is horrible, jesus
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 2 June 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
I like the YYYs song
― subject matter expert (morrisp), Thursday, 2 June 2022 02:10 (one year ago) link
Can someone please make a video essay on whatever the hell was going on here pic.twitter.com/LxBSJSPfCO— jack fernandez news and updates (@jackanfer) May 23, 2023
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 May 2023 18:49 (eleven months ago) link
https://uproxx.com/indie/blog-rock-best-albums-all-time-list/
“Can someone please make a video essay on whatever the hell was going on here”
The Twitter user @jackanfer, who is presumably under the age of 30, posed this question atop a list of seven critically acclaimed albums from 2009. The first five – Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca, Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, Phoenix’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ It’s Blitz!, and Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest – were such common fixtures in year-end top-tens that they inspired an acronym of “GADPY” as a deeply online shorthand for indie rock hegemony. This post soon became the main character on Twitter for the next few days because people chose not to take the original question as rhetorical.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:00 (eight months ago) link
Ian Cohen should have given ILX a shout out or even just Whiney.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:07 (eight months ago) link
I now see mookieproof did post this already, I found out by the article that posted today, sorry.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:28 (eight months ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51xnSwWmLZL.jpg
― jaymc, Thursday, 17 August 2023 02:41 (eight months ago) link