rap seems particularly prone to this as it can seem like a chore to go back and listen to a hip hop album that came out 3 or 4 years ago
― President Keyes, Friday, 30 November 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
I really prefer "Ruins" to any of the later Oneohtrix Point Never thingsBeyonce "B'Day" was, in my small world anyway, the album that opened the gates of pop (broadly speaking) to me and my indie friends and everybody put away their Shins records foreverShostakovich symphonies 5 > 10 > 4 is the consensus but I think but 4 > 10 > 5 is correctEno: Green > Jets > Tiger > Science is the consensus but I think Tiger > Jets > Science > Green is correctStereolab mk. 1 > McCarthy >> all other iterations
Also:
I say this every three weeks I feel but Fucked Up's "Epics In Minutes" is one of the best albums (compilations) I can think of and towers over "Hidden World" and everything else(edited because I said this seven years ago already)
― fgti is for (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 30 November 2018 19:58 (five years ago) link
Does The Outsiders vs. Chief from Eric Church fit here?
I really love Give Me Back My Hometown, but Outsiders is lesser overall I think. I dunno about indie dudes I guess, but it felt at the time like all critics were showering praise on The Outsiders retroactively for Chief
― Will (kruezer2), Friday, 30 November 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
It's hard to tell with a case like that, since "Springsteen" (from Chief) is the song that got him noticed by country outsiders
― President Keyes, Friday, 30 November 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
1989
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Saturday, 1 December 2018 06:51 (five years ago) link
sorry - wrong way round. taylor had 4 (better) records under her belt before 1989
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Saturday, 1 December 2018 07:19 (five years ago) link
I was saying that indies were up on those records. You guys should stick to gchat for stuff like this.
― peacocks, Sunday, January 30, 2011 7:10 PM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you should stick to dchat, where the d stands for my dick
― url sweatshirt (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, January 30, 2011 7:11 PM (seven years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 1 December 2018 07:57 (five years ago) link
Shostakovich symphonies 5 > 10 > 4 is the consensus but I think but 4 > 10 > 5 is correct
Stalin was a milquetoast Animal Collective fan but even he knew that the Pretty Toney Album is better than Fishscale.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 1 December 2018 10:24 (five years ago) link
It's 14 > 10 > 15 > 13 > 4 > 1 > 8 > 9 > 5 > the rest, as far as I'm concerned.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 1 December 2018 10:34 (five years ago) link
Oooooh, no 11? No Leningrad? Wow
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 1 December 2018 15:06 (five years ago) link
For The Roses - Joni Mitchell
Also yeah, Shos 11 bangs wtf
― MaresNest, Saturday, 1 December 2018 15:22 (five years ago) link
10 is really amazing, the first mvt. is perfect in every way, along with 1st mvt. Bartok Music For Strings+ it's my favourite 'unspooling' in the canon. 2nd mvt. is fun when Dudamel does it; 3rd mvt. is good jokes I guess, the DSCH thing is cheesy; 4th mvt. well idk I read that at the premiere all the starving Leningradians ran out into the street crying with joy at its conclusion but to me it just sounds like a snooze alarm that won't quit
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 1 December 2018 15:31 (five years ago) link
"For The Roses" isn't "light years" ahead of "Blue" but I do think it deserves much more love than the three more-celebrated albums that followed it
― flamboyant goon tie included, Saturday, 1 December 2018 15:35 (five years ago) link
Listen I like For the Roses a lot but that is a wild opinion
― The Poppy Bush AutoZone (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 1 December 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
FTR seems entirely in Blue's shadow and appears to be a bit of a blank spot, some songs are every bit as beautiful, fraught and confessional as Blue.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 1 December 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
The 11th Symphony is decent film music disguised as Soviet agitprop. Not a bad work by any means, but it lacks the tragic heft of his less populist pieces. I like my Shosty either morbidly despairing or caustically mocking the powers-that-be, head-on, so I tend to gravitate towards his later material. Anyway, in keeping with the thread's premise, I do agree that the 4th is a better work than the 5th (I may even prefer the 1st, overall) but it doesn't top the 10th.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 1 December 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman >>>>> Sweetener
― ufo, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link
The new Idles seems like a pretty good example of this phenomenon.
― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
― ufo, Tuesday, December 4, 2018 8:17 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
severely otm
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
extREMELY otm ^
― austinb, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
Ariana Grande, My Everything >>> dangerous woman > Sweetener
― maffew12, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
christ, of all her records, my everything?
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
hell yeah. now don't have me take this all the way to the "inclining" thread!
― maffew12, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
er, declining. so many threads.
jesus this thread is embarrassing plz stop
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 01:03 (five years ago) link