GAPDY poll

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

— jack fernandez news and updates (@jackanfer) May 23, 2023

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.

Ian Cohen should have given ILX a shout out or even just Whiney.

I now see mookieproof did post this already, I found out by the article that posted today, sorry.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51xnSwWmLZL.jpg