Correction: the album after that one. But Shine a Light is okay.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 3 March 2017 00:35 (seven years ago) link
you are referring to tournament of hearts, which has one of the best 5-song sequences in indie rock
― call all destroyer, Friday, 3 March 2017 00:39 (seven years ago) link
Yep.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 3 March 2017 00:39 (seven years ago) link
"College rock?"
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 3 March 2017 00:47 (seven years ago) link
Yeah man. Leave us old people alone with our college rock memories
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 3 March 2017 00:49 (seven years ago) link
Enon vs mates of state. Unsure.
― jjjusten, Friday, 3 March 2017 00:52 (seven years ago) link
Aren't stellarstar corporate ringers or something? Saw ads and shit for them EVERYWHERE at the time
― a but (brimstead), Friday, 3 March 2017 01:18 (seven years ago) link
yep i remember that too
― call all destroyer, Friday, 3 March 2017 01:43 (seven years ago) link
The college/indie rep for whatever label Stellasterisks were on was pushing them very hard in my store, FWIW.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 3 March 2017 02:51 (seven years ago) link
Although I was a college radio DJ myself at one time, these albums come from a period when I'd pretty much stopped listening to the stuff, and certainly to the 2nd-tier stuff, so to my knowledge I've never heard any of these albums. The Constantines were on a CD that came with the 2005 Believer magazine music issue that I listened to a bit that year, and which featured in places a similar vibe to many of these, as I'm listening to them now, though the freak-folk sound was by then in the ascendant.
― o. nate, Friday, 3 March 2017 03:12 (seven years ago) link
Enon vs Doves vs Black Heart Procession
Cloud Cult is still huge here and are fucking abysmal
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 March 2017 03:47 (seven years ago) link
@ AB - I only ever saw Enon at Tasty World, with Doll Farm opening. If they played 40 Watt too I'm sorry I missed it!
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Friday, 3 March 2017 04:50 (seven years ago) link
I'm a former college radio DJ in my 30s. Enon - High Society gets my vote, listening to that is like taking a time machine back to those days.
― larry appleton, Friday, 3 March 2017 04:52 (seven years ago) link
That Long Winters album has some very excellent power-pop on it. Constantines were great live, though I also think the album after is their best. Wasn't that Doves album pretty huge?
― Jalapeño Coladas, Friday, 3 March 2017 09:12 (seven years ago) link
Long Winters album is the best thing on this list by a decent margin
― alpine static, Friday, 3 March 2017 09:45 (seven years ago) link
which is not to say everything else sucks, it's just that When I Pretend To Fall is a classic, in my book.
next: Weakerthans, Pinback
― alpine static, Friday, 3 March 2017 09:46 (seven years ago) link
only one I know is Kashmir which is indeed a great Danish rock album
― niels, Friday, 3 March 2017 12:24 (seven years ago) link
Long Winters, followed by Weakerthans, with Pinback pretty high on the list too.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Friday, 3 March 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 16 March 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link
I'm tempted to listen to the ones I haven't heard, but at the moment another vote for Enon. That was actually my #1 album in the year it came out.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 16 March 2017 01:43 (seven years ago) link
i own Stellastarr*, Doves, Constantines and Enon. voting Doves
― Bee OK, Thursday, 16 March 2017 01:54 (seven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 17 March 2017 00:01 (seven years ago) link