latepassapedia: records that were light years better the ones indie dudes eventually endorsed as classics

I really prefer "Ruins" to any of the later Oneohtrix Point Never things
Beyonce "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 forever
Shostakovich symphonies 5 > 10 > 4 is the consensus but I think but 4 > 10 > 5 is correct
Eno: Green > Jets > Tiger > Science is the consensus but I think Tiger > Jets > Science > Green is correct
Stereolab 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)

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

It's hard to tell with a case like that, since "Springsteen" (from Chief) is the song that got him noticed by country outsiders

1989

sorry - wrong way round. taylor had 4 (better) records under her belt before 1989

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

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.

Shostakovich symphonies 5 > 10 > 4 is the consensus but I think but 4 > 10 > 5 is correct

It's 14 > 10 > 15 > 13 > 4 > 1 > 8 > 9 > 5 > the rest, as far as I'm concerned.

Oooooh, no 11? No Leningrad? Wow

For The Roses - Joni Mitchell

Also yeah, Shos 11 bangs wtf

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

"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

Listen I like For the Roses a lot but that is a wild opinion

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.

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.

Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman >>>>> Sweetener

The new Idles seems like a pretty good example of this phenomenon.

Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman >>>>> Sweetener

― ufo, Tuesday, December 4, 2018 8:17 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

severely otm

extREMELY otm ^

Ariana Grande, My Everything >>> dangerous woman > Sweetener

christ, of all her records, my everything?

hell yeah. now don't have me take this all the way to the "inclining" thread!

er, declining. so many threads.

jesus this thread is embarrassing plz stop