That's not to say it's bad, it's not, just that it doesn't work as a single, really.
― The Reverend, Sunday, 2 March 2008 09:05 (sixteen years ago) link
i disagree. that hook is anthemic, man. and the way he hits so many of those lines right on point, effortlessly ('whether in miami...underwear', 'errywhere the strap be,' we do it for a month or two') really make it work for me.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 2 March 2008 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
big shit poppin was boring
― deej, Sunday, 2 March 2008 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/We%27re_All_Going_To_Die.jpg
i like this cover!
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 2 March 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Were there really 50 solid albums from 2007? You know like how Juno says "do me a solid?" I don't mean it like that. I mean that none of the tracks get skipped over, because every song is good. In Rainbows, and Kala, and Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga were prob my favs of this year, and I normally skip around 3 tracks on each of these.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 2 March 2008 22:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Thee Majesty - Vitruvian Pan still my #1.
― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 2 March 2008 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Who the fuck are Of Montreal anyway? One of those bands you never hear anything about ever, until they're suddenly top 10 in the Pitchfork poll? See also The National.
(Nb - this may be a British thing)
― Matt DC, Sunday, 2 March 2008 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Of Montreal put out 2 really good records in '04 and '05 that were pretty much ignored in terms of critical acceptance, but then people realized they fucked up and decided to make up for it by backing their next record which was merely "okay" in comparison. This happens all the time to indie bands. It also happened to Weezer when The Green Album was released.
― billstevejim, Monday, 3 March 2008 00:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm gonna completely disagree with that, as I couldn't really see what the fuss was about until this record, which I really like.
Also, going by both memory and the Metacritic pages, I'm not quite sure where you're getting that thing about the last two records being critically ignored.
― maciej recognizing trill, Monday, 3 March 2008 01:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Those 2 records were well-reviewed initially, but did not appear in "best of the year" lists as often as Hissing Fauna.. those lists usually grab more people's attention that a few random positive write-ups. This was somehow the record that Rolling Stone, SPIN and Pitchfork enjoyed enough to include it in their favorites of 2007.. which would have been more justly applied to Satanic and Sunlandic. Just my own opinion.
Also pretty much everyone I know IRL who has heard Hissing Fauna thinks "Grotesque Animal" is the worst thing on it.
― billstevejim, Monday, 3 March 2008 01:37 (sixteen years ago) link
of montreal pretty famous here for ages
― roxymuzak, Monday, 3 March 2008 02:27 (sixteen years ago) link
here too, being that they're a GA band
― Curt1s Stephens, Monday, 3 March 2008 02:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I guess I meant the whole American South.
― roxymuzak, Monday, 3 March 2008 02:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I think "The Past is a Grotesque Animal" is one of the best tracks on that album. It's the centerpiece. The record wouldn't be whole without it.
I also had the experience that maciej describes...couldn't see the appeal of that band until this album.
― Dan S, Monday, 3 March 2008 06:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks for putting this together, musically
― Jeff W, Monday, 3 March 2008 12:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, it seems this is the case with most people. It's just my own opinion..
― billstevejim, Monday, 3 March 2008 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
how many votes were cast? 25 votes for number 1? should we even bother next year??
― winston, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 03:49 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean, 25 votes!!! this poll tells us nothing about nothing
― winston, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 03:50 (sixteen years ago) link
i think that means 25 people voted it as their number one, not that 25 people voted for it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 04:19 (sixteen years ago) link
25 people voted for it. 2 people voted for it as their number one.
winston, no one's claiming that this poll includes a huge sample set or that this poll is anything resembling definitive. I don't know what you are expecting, but feel free to lower those expectations to a more reasonable level.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 04:23 (sixteen years ago) link
aha
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 04:25 (sixteen years ago) link
If you look at the first post, it says there were 64 ballots cast, to answer that question.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i know but it just seems like there have been way more ballots in the past
― winston, Thursday, 6 March 2008 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
not to mention blurbs
― winston, Thursday, 6 March 2008 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
looking back at the '05 poll; i guess nothing has changed in terms of # of ballots. i'll shut up now
― winston, Thursday, 6 March 2008 00:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Fewer blurbs because I didn't have time to search ILX using the world's crappiest search function for 100+ choice quotes that may or may not even exist. And compared to just about every other poll this is Zogby stuff.
― musically, Thursday, 6 March 2008 02:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Listening to "Watch My Feet" right now and can't help but feel like it was really, really robbed in this thing. I don't think I voted for it, mind you, but...
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 02:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I wouldn't say it was really, really robbed considering that only like 4 rap songs even placed in this godforsaken poll.
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 02:57 (sixteen years ago) link
that song is aiiight
― tremendoid, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, it was very robbed.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
YA DIIIIIIIIIIIIG?
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
2007 was the worst year in the history of popular music.― billstevejim, Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:35 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark
I still stand by this.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
burtstantonjim
(Sorry dude, I had to...)
― don't quixote me on that (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 04:59 (twelve years ago) link
how was 2007 the worst year in the history popular music, when the best pop album of the decade was released that year?
― prego, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 10:23 (twelve years ago) link
2007 was a'ight. I'm very impressed with 2011 as it happens.
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 10:23 (twelve years ago) link