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
lol, i'm sorry i'm being such a troll on this thread this morning, i'll stop
― 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
try "Kommune"
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 11 December 2010 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm going to try the whole album. That song was the only one on their myspace.
― bourgeoistech bourgeoisthèque (_Rudipherous_), Saturday, 11 December 2010 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link
It's all on youtube.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 11 December 2010 13:09 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/music/What-Your-Favorite-Albums-Say-About-You.html
Kinda stupid but whatever.
― President Keyes, Saturday, 11 December 2010 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Very stupid.
― bourgeoistech bourgeoisthèque (_Rudipherous_), Saturday, 11 December 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i laughed. well, maybe not LAUGHED...
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 December 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
do you miss the philadelphia weekly, rockist?
what's joey sweeney up to?
i still kinda can't get over robert downey jr. playing my old pal steve lopez in a movie. too bad i will never ever watch that movie. but i have lots of love for steve.
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 December 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
No. Don't tell me you do.
I miss having a CVS on every corner though.
― bourgeoistech bourgeoisthèque (_Rudipherous_), Saturday, 11 December 2010 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i miss wawa.
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 December 2010 15:46 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, and my friends.
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 December 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
i haven't been back since i moved. so that's like...almost 8 years? my whole life was there. it wasn't much of a life, but it was there.
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 December 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
there was some other piece exactly like that this year that was actually kind of otm iirc?
― mercy mercy me, that beanfield milagro (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 11 December 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
if i were 20 that whole thing would be otm. which is why i still find it kinda funny. cuz a part of me will always be 20. the dumb part.
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 December 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't really miss Wawa or The Welcomat. (Is there even still a Welcomat?)
Anyway, I can see how a piece like that might be potentially funny, if it had punchlines. Thing is, I did not realize Hold Steady (hey, there's a band conspicuously missing from all the year-end lists, right? deservedly, but still) were considered a frat-house band. Is that really what their audience is now? When did that happen? Or did that guy just make that up? I assumed their audience was still mostly considered "rock critics."
Pretty sure Xgau said the Roots album is his favorite of the year, fwiw. And he's not even from Philly!
― xhuxk, Saturday, 11 December 2010 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i think welcomat got changed to the weekly.
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 December 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't really miss philly that much. i did consider it my home though. i moved there when i was 19 and when i left i was in my 30s and married with a kid. i mostly just remember working a lot and drinking too much. and i left before i could hang out with any philly ilx people. but most of them left too!
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 December 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
greenfield will be my final resting place. i love it here so much. and you can all come and visit me. my door is always open. except when i'm closed. well, most of you can come visit me...
http://halecustomsigns.com/images/158_large.jpg
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 December 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link