I think you need to listen to more than just "Helicopter" to get a feel for what Deerhunter does. In fact, I'm not sure why that particular track is getting so much attention (outside of it being the "single") because I can think of 4-5 better tracks on the new album. Try "Desire Lines" for a good taste of the band's talent.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 December 2010 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I can see The National growing on me, but not in a "best of the year" way. (Deerhunter does have more potential in that regard even if my first impression of that song was more negative.)
Listening to "The Suburbs" by Arcade Fire and I would likely have more time for them if they had a different singer.
― BO (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
title track of the Foals album is surprisingly enjoyable tho!
― BO (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
lol and of course Four Tet
― BO (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
they're essentially indie rock comfort food― congratulations (n/a), Friday, December 10, 2010 11:57 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, December 10, 2010 11:57 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I'll agree with this sentiment and will add that if you actually need this in your life, recheck your priorities imho.
― in my world of young puppies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I like the Foals album a lot. And Whiney, you are dangerously close to climbing back up on your self-righteous soapbox.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Indie rock comfort food:
"what a day. i wish i could settle into my ikea couch while some boring, bearded people could croon insipid, flavorless pseudo-intellectual pap at me to simultaneously reinforce my feelings of smugness and remind me of my place of white privilege."
― in my world of young puppies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
***holding tongue***
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
flocka flocka bow bow bow
― in my world of young puppies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh for the love of god just shut the fuck up. No one actually cares what you have to say and you have never once been funny.
― Matt DC, Friday, 10 December 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
quiet everyone, the twitter rock critic is going to teach us about "white privilege"
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Is there any way one of the coders can add a feature so that Whiney and Deej can't ever post on the same thread again?
― Matt DC, Friday, 10 December 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
in fairness to deej he had nothing to do with this current iteration of Whiney cluelessness
― BO (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
the content of my 'post' was 'im saying nothing' fyi
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
first time for everything
― in my world of young puppies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link
lol, i'm sorry i'm being such a troll on this thread this morning, i'll stop
the latest turn of this thread is like a morning cup of coffee
i feel like i can start my day now
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway
as much as i love the deadboy remix of "fireworks" the "official girl" remix is pretty dreadful as matt attests
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
it's funny that it seems like everyone agreed in the kanye thread this was a record w/ no singles, and yet here we are & every list is putting "power" or "runaway" (this one is esp rmde to me) in their top 10s
i'll big up fact for "shut it down" tho, that's a jam (altho as is typical w/ a small percentage of r&b nowadays, the leaked version was better than the one that ended up on the album)
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
has that hot chip album made a lot of lists, im too lazy to look. Sort of craptacular that.
― Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
it's their best album!
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i think runaway makes more sense as a single to vote for! its weird in line w/ the rest of the album, and def feels less generic, for all its flaws, than 'pwer'
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
if youre the kind of person who likes the album then 'runaway' is def the kind of song you would be feeling, is what im saying
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ this rings true
― BO (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
remind me of my place of white privilege
i don't really like the nat'l much. but why, exactly, do you say their music "reinforces its audiences' notions about white privilege"?
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 10 December 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i think mainly i dislike it cuz it ain't really my bag.
― Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, sorry, didn't see your "i'm being a troll" post above.
xp to myself, i guess.
i feel like everyone just anointed "runaway" after the vmas but it's really one of the least exciting songs on the CD
w/ "power" i at least grasp the bigness of it, even if i don't think the song is really all that
― gimme schefter (J0rdan S.), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, "Power" feels so much more like a single to me that "Runaway".
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
TIME
Top 10 Albums
* Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy* Arcade Fire, The Suburbs* LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening* The National, High Violet* Drake, Thank Me Later* Sufjan Stevens, Age of Adz* The Black Keys, Brothers* Yeasayer, Odd Blood* Big Boi, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty* Beach House, Teen Dream
― Mitchell Stirling, Friday, 10 December 2010 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
a bold stance
― in my world of young puppies (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I can see why people would be going apeshit for Beach House but really this is not my bag at all.
Basically I would play this if I wanted to psych myself up into a stabbing fury, only I would then run out and stab Beach House.
― BO (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
not going near Sufjan because lol Sufjan, my opinion on him is very clear and unlikely to change unless someone replaces him with, like, Fluke
― BO (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
why do the kings of leon make these lists.
these lists need more Drums.
― Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
wow I hate The Black Keys a lot, too
I thought I sort of liked them...? Or am I thinking of The Black Kids?
oh no, I just played the wrong song, "Tighten Up" is the one I sort of like
― BO (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i agree, but why did you capitalize drums? (xpost)
― some dude, Friday, 10 December 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
those Black bands all look alike to you, huh
okay I feel compelled to adore Yeasayer just for this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO1y1wJduCo
xp: and THAT's how we alley-oop *high-five*
― BO (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
as a long time black keys fan, this album is meh for me. i guess i only like thickfreakness and the big come up.
and i agree with Dan on the Deerhunter....don't get it.
― Let me explore your musky garden. (chrisv2010), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
top 20 tracks list, courtesy of a lolindie friend of mine --
20. Crystal Castles - I Am Made of Chalk19. Drake - Karaoke18. Deerhunter - Desire Lines17. Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill16. Ruby Suns - Closet Astrologer15. Future Islands - In the Fall14. Justin Beiber - U Smile (800% slower)13. Cee-lo Green - No One's Gonna Love You12. The Cults - Go Outside11. Toro y Moi - Blessa10. Best Coast - When I'm With You9. Wavves - Linus Spacehead8. Broken Bells - High Road7. Atlas Sound - Mona Lisa6. Surfer Blood - Swim5. Small Black - Search Party4. Crystal Castles - Empathy3. JJ - My Life2. Beach House - Silver Soul1. Deerhunter - Helicopter
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
It's markers list?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Friday, 10 December 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
14. Justin Beiber - U Smile (800% slower)
OUT
― BO (DJP), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
BeiberBeiberBeiberBeiberBeiberBeiberBeiberBeiberBeiberBeiberBeiber
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
― in my world of young puppies (Whiney G. Weingarten)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3WDCHF1vDE
― omar little, Friday, 10 December 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
bieber > wavves
― prolego, Friday, 10 December 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
the original "u smile" > most everything on that list
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Friday, 10 December 2010 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I definitely would have had Voice Of The Seven Thunders in my end of year lists had I heard it at the time. Starting the depressing business of finding out what else I've missed today.
― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Saturday, 11 December 2010 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Doran, Voice of the Seven Thunders is my number 1 for the year. Amazing record, and having months and months with it only makes it better.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 11 December 2010 12:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, someone played it to me at ATP and sheared the top of my head off.
― Carl Jung Jeezy (Doran), Saturday, 11 December 2010 12:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmmm, checking out "The Burning Mountain" and immediately liking the middle eastern flavored electric guitar.
― bourgeoistech bourgeoisthèque (_Rudipherous_), Saturday, 11 December 2010 12:54 (thirteen years ago) link