In the past 15 years, who has released a better pair of consecutive, full-length studio albums than Modest Mouse's The Lonesome Crowded West -> The Moon & Antarctica?

brash & vulgar is seriously a great album and i don't think i've seen anyone on ilm talk about it.

xp

Les savy fav - go forth & let's stay friends

warning - strength to dream & watching from a distance

Straight Outta Lynwood - Alpocalypse

wait people like the moon and antartica

what a country

i liked it when i heard it. kinda like indie prog. though i preferred that one sunny day real estate album as far as indie art rock goes. it doesn't usually go very far.

that's kinda why i liked blueberry boat too. i mean at least they gave it a go. that's all i ask. give it a go.

well give it a go but don't sound like the eels or flaming lips and throw away all your beach boys albums. THEN give it a go.

why not...

Opeth - Ghost Reveries -> Watershed
Nellie McKay - Obligatory Villagers -> Normal as Blueberry Pie
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft -> Modern Times
Ulver - Shadows of the Sun -> Wars of the Roses
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend -> Contra

weird choice of consecutive ulver records but they work for me too bc of blood inside -> shadows of the sun

Stankonia -> Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

lol

Bennett's 'Street Vs. Science' and the one they did before that

Electric Version -> Twin Cinema

Aquemini -> Stankonia does count though.

Miranda Lambert: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Revolution.

Perfect From Now On -> Keep It Like a Secret

What Burns Never Returns -> American Don

Talker -> Acre Thrills

Reveille -> Apple O'

Journey to the End of the Night -> OOOH! (Out of Our Heads)
Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle -> Apocalypse
Things We Lost in the Fire -> Trust
My Father Will Guide Me Up The Rope To The Sky -> The Seer
The Coroner's Gambit -> All Hail West Texas

("A" for "The" in the Swans title)

Super æ -> Vision Creation Newsun

Mclusky

Mclusky do Dallas -> the difference between you and me is that I'm not on fire

This is not an arguable point fyi

i actually really like The Moon & Antarctica, but I'm not that into The Lonesome Crowded West. Granted, I didn't hear the latter until years later.

For me:

Dots & Loops -> Cobra & Phases Group
Sonic Nurse -> Rather Ripped
Last Exit -> So This Is Goodbye
He Poos Clouds -> Heartland
Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives -> One-Word Extinguisher

Kim Zolciak's "Don't Be Tardy For The Party" -> "Google Me" is a worthy contender for the OP.

In my case

Bjork: Vespertine ==> Medulla
Joe Henry: Tiny Voices ==> Civillians
Deerhoof: Deerhoof Vs Evil ==> Breakup Song
Ben Allison: Riding the Nuclear Tiger ==> Peace Pipe
Amir ElSaffar: Two Rivers ==> Inana
Cunninlynguists: A Piece of Strange ==> Dirty Acres
UA: Golden Green ==> ATTA

Also this:

Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives -> One-Word Extinguisher

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - A Ghost Is Born

Brad Nelson otm

My unpopular opinion would be Is This It -> Room On Fire

jjj otm

Each One Teach One > Secret Wars

The Art of Self Defense > Surrounded by Thieves

Polar Bear
Held On The Tips Of Fingers - Polar Bear

Any two in a row of LCD Soundsystem's albums

Caribou
Andorra - Swim

Electrelane
The Power Out - Axes

Grizzly Bear
Veckatimest - Shields

Lamchop
Nixon - Is A Woman

Wild Beasts
Two Dancers - Smother

Four Tet
Ringer - There Is Love In You
Pause - Rounds

The Beta Band
Hot Shots II - Heroes to Zeroes

Plus cosign on many of the other pairs suggested.

The Necks
Drive By - Chemist

Cotton Jones
Paranoid Cocoon - Tall Hours in the Glowstream

Beach House
Teen Dream - Bloom

Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter
Like Love Lust and the Open Halls of the Soul - Marble Son

Fleet Foxes
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

Neko Case
Fox Confessor Brings The Flood - Middle Cyclone

The first time I became aware of the existence of a band called 'Modest Mouse' was probably the first time the inherent gentrified pointlessness of a lot of American indie really hit me. And STILL I'm not sure that most of the suggestions on this thread are actually right.

Mass Romantic > Electric Version

― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Wednesday, February 27, 2013 1:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Electric Version -> Twin Cinema

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Actually Mass Romantic > Electric Version > Twin Cinema > Challengers is a pretty un-fuck-withable four album run. For some bands, that's a whole career right there. Even Together has its heights.

The first time I became aware of the existence of a band called 'Modest Mouse' was probably the first time the inherent gentrified pointlessness of a lot of American indie really hit me. And STILL I'm not sure that most of the suggestions on this thread are actually right.

― Matt DC, Thursday, February 28, 2013 3:16 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I would agree about gentrified pointlessness for a lot of american indie going on now, but I fail to see how it would apply to an album like TLCW. Care to explain?

ugh sorry, forgot the put the italics on.

Lonesome Crowded West still kicks after all these years, I just checked

if you can't count:

Silent Shout -> Fever Ray

then my answer is :

Satanic Panic in the Attic -> The Sunlandic Twins -> Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

I don't know Modest Mouse, but...

Ys -> Have One on Me

thread would be harder to argue with if it remembered/counted building nothing out of something

generic cutesy twee indie accusations not rly the right ones for this band i think; they're scuzzy and restless and bleak especially in the 90s, also pretty bluecollar iirc (songs mostly about working and drinking and cars breaking down). never listen to them anymore but if i put on LCW right now i know i wouldn't regret it

anyway brand new eyes --> paramore

Modest Mouse is just an awful band name.

generic cutesy twee indie accusations not rly the right ones for this band i think; they're scuzzy and restless and bleak especially in the 90s, also pretty bluecollar iirc (songs mostly about working and drinking and cars breaking down). never listen to them anymore but if i put on LCW right now i know i wouldn't regret it

anyway brand new eyes --> paramore

― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Thursday, November 21, 2013 1:28 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah totally otm they are like real indie dead-end type vibe (or at least were)...i remember isaac showing up to some in-store in mpls and pissing off the store ppl cuz he was wasted and drinking beer in the store in the middle of their set and being an asshole

overall i dunno it's weird i feel like between brits and their weird-ass definition of "indie" and all this nu-indie ipod commercial casio & glockenspiel kiddie shit the idea of what indie rock really was has gotten really twisted on ilm and elsehwere, not actually like i dunno a bunch of drunk shambly dudes rocking out to polvo and grifters and shit

yea but there was always twee glockenspiel indie shit, right? i feel like there's a thread somewhere talking about this whole other indie universe that was not SST, black flag, butthole surfers, big black, etc but still was part of the underground. some alternate indie universe to azerrad's book. i might be thinking of something nitsuh abebe wrote, either on that thread or some column. at some point though "indie" become twee npr fleet foxes bon iver etc etc.

also i am kind of amazed this thread didn't get ripped apart and turn into some photo-bombing chaos in 5 posts? how did that not happen?