Rank Anything You Feel Like Ranking

1. Black Peter
2. Cumberland Blues
3. High Time
4. New Speedway Boogie
5. Dire Wolf
6. Uncle John’s Band
7. Easy Wind
8. Casey Jones

1. Dire Wolf
2. High Time
3. Uncle John's Band
4. Black Peter
5. Casey Jones
6. New Speedway Boogie
7. Cumberland Blues
8. Easy Wind

1. A Promise
2. Knife Play
3. Angel Guts: Red Classroom
4. The Air Force
5. Chapel Of The Chimes
6. Split with Jim Yoshii
7. Twin Peaks
8. FORGET
9. Girl With A Basket Of Fruit
10. Women As Lovers
11. Nina
12. Fag Patrol
13. Dear God, I Hate Myself
14. Always
15. Fabulous Muscles
16. La Forêt
17. Ciautistico!

Not ranked: the Merzbow collaboration, the other Larsen collabs, the random one-off collabs, "Unclouded Sky" which I wasn't even aware of until this very moment

Really good ranking! Though I'm sad you've seemingly no love for Fabulous Muscles, a top 5 lock for me any day of the week. Never heard Ciautistico.

It's the only Larsen collaboration I listened to and it did nothing for me, and haven't heard the subsequent ones.

Fabulous Muscles hit me at the wrong time. The title track was inferior to the version that appeared on the split EP, and "I Luv The Valley" was a XITSJ song. The rest of the album sounded so in-the-box, like, entirely made on an SP-303 (I don't actually know if this was the case). "Bunny Gamer" and "Crank Heart" are not important songs to me, I was missing the gamelan and the sound of a room. La Forêt was the same but even worse. The Air Force came back in a big way-- pop hooks were back, and Saunier-recorded drums were highly welcome. It wasn't until Angel Guts that Xiu Xiu got back into "full-tilt tunelessness" but it was coupled with miraculous production choices-- it and Basket Of Fruit are watershed "hi-fi noise" albums, in my view

Angel Guts remains my favourite production credit in Congleton's discography tbh! It's an amazing sounding record even if the criticisms levelled at certain lyrics on it are for reasonably reasonable reasons

1. George Harrison
2. Ringo Starr
3. George Martin
4. Paul McCartney
5. Brian Epstein
6. John Lennon

I can follow. I agree the tt is inferior to the EP version. I only knew the XITSJ 'Valley' after I had heard this one. I do hold 'Bunny Gamer' and 'Crank Heart' dear, and i love 'Clowne Towne'. But I agree I that "full-tilt tunelessness" is where they shine. 'Basket of Fruit' makes me really look forward to the new album proper, which has been finished, he's said recently!

1. The Vixen
2. The Beast
3. The Governess
4. The Dark Destroyer
5. The Sinnerman

(from the hardest to beat to the easiest)

1. The North
2. The South
3. The East
4. The West

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5zav2yrC7M

1. Whiskey
2. Beer
3. Gin
4. Tequila
5. Red wine
6. Vodka
7. Mezcal
8. Cognac
9. Rum
10. Brandy
11. White Wine

1. Beer
2. Red wine
3. Cognac
4. White wine
5. Țuică
6. Rosé
7. Vodka
8. Whiskey
9. Gin
10. Rum
11. Tequila
12. Brandy
…
99. Raki/ouzo/pastis, etc. (anything anise-flavoured can vanish from the face of the earth for all I care)

Agreed on anything anise flavored at the bottom. It’s one of the most nefarious tastes ever

love me some rakı. şerefe!

1. English ale/English bitter
2. Guinness
3. Beaujolais/Morgon/other French light reds
4. Crémants
5. Gin-forward cocktails
6. Rum
7. Cognac/Poire/Grappa (tie)
10. Mezcal
11. Scotch/Irish whisky

All other drinks are unwelcome

1. wine
2. islay whisky
3. porter/stout
4. pisco sour
5. amari
6. g'n't
7. margarita
8. caipirinha
9. mezcal
10. heavy/bitter

I've decided to quit booze for the foreseeable future and haven't had a drink in 2 weeks so that list was painful for me to write lol

And here's the top seven worst alcohols:

1. 99% of white wine (esp. oaky ones, Chardonnay, i.e.)
2. Liqueurs, other than the orange-y classics (Aperol, Campari, both acceptable)
3. Bourbon (syrupy whiskey? keep it)
4. Heavy reds-- they taste nice but bring heartburn and a maudlin mood
5. Anises
6. IPAs
7. Vodka-forward cocktails (although: a night of shots of potato vodka, such as Luksosowa, and the psychedelic hangover, is a once-every-couple-years luxury)

Here are my favourite three cocktails:

1. Corpse Reviver #2
2. Pimm's Cup
3. White Negroni

Alsatian white is generally excellent.

And North American takes on English ale are almost systematically better than the real thing (or rather, what’s left of it seeing as an ABV above 3.8% is viewed as hard liquor there).

IPA is good not bad despite its connotations on this side of the pond.

I'm off alcohol for a month too, but my list would have sweet port/sherry and grand mariner and baileys and other grandma drinks near at the top because I have the tastes of someone's great-grandmother.

dark krusovice and becharovka and a decent home-made slivovice would be up there too

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Oh, stick tweets under lists

they haven't made a ranking low enough for how i feel about tweets

the worst thing I have done during lockdown is start reading buzzfeed listicles

Always way too low on yr list fgti! wildly underrated imho

also I almost never drink now but when I do, it's (usually) michelada time baby

fgti you might enjoy Calvados if you’ve never tried it

And North American takes on English ale are almost systematically better than the real thing (or rather, what’s left of it seeing as an ABV above 3.8% is viewed as hard liquor there).

have to disagree with this. some nice stodgy CAMRA-friendly ale served one slightly cool from a cask is usually better than BRIT BASTARD BITTER or whatever

fgti you might enjoy Calvados if you’ve never tried it

Seconded. I should've included it in my list, just ahead of gin.

Oh yeah I kind of thought of Calvados in the same brainbreath as "cognac/poire/grappa". I was trying to remember what it was called as I was typing but just thought "all the fruity high-% liquors go here"

Grappa is my wife, though, I intend to stay dry and healthy til I'm 80 and then just drink grappa all day til I'm stinky and dead

Disagree with "North American takes on English ale" being better-- nothing nicer than a cask ale served at the correct temperature in a smelly damp pub. Though my controp abt this is that the Guinness they make in North America is slightly better than actual Guinness

1. Bourbon
1. Scotch
1. Beer

back in my drinking days, the only reason i'd drink an ipa is to get hammered faster. oftentimes, i'd chug whilst holding my nose. never understood how anybody could drink that schitt and talk about the flavors and aroma and blech, no, stop. it tastes like how the trash bag that's been sitting in the sun for several hours smells.

there was an australian beer that the liquor shop up the street from me wold occasionally stock and it was excellent, esp on hot days. think it was coopers? was really expensive. preferred that or any dark beers. even the cheapest dark lager or whatever was usually pretty good to me. or, when it was on sale, hendrick's gin. but that was always rare; a treat when it did happen though, to be sure.

haven't had a drink in five years now? i can't remember. it's been that long.

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is that in order of those you'd most like to preserve in knife play?

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I think pinkies just grow back anyway

it’s based on a variety of factors, a rubric, if you will.

no dirty stuff.

listen I get it you don't want them coming for the stinkie

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1. Law of Ruins
2. Severe Exposure
3. The Pigeon is the Most Popular Bird
4. Paranormalized
5. Half Control (never heard it)
6. A Good Year for Hardness (never heard it)

slip it in
my war
nervous breakdown
damaged
the process of weeding out
loose nut
in my head
jealous again
family man
i can see you
six pack
tv party

Meditation 2
Meditation 1
Meditation 4
Meditation 6
Meditation 5
Meditation 3

horror movies I've watched so far this fall:

Pulse
Santa Sangre
Inferno
Poltergeist
Evil Dead 2
Eyes of Laura Mars
Prom Night
Carnival of Souls
Ghostwatch
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Jennifer's Body
Friday the 13th Part 2
Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th Part III

cerberus
eurydice
skelly
asterius
poseiden
hades
zagreus
dionysus
charon
achilles
persephone
tisiphone
artemis
orpheus
chaos
dusa
house contractor
patroclus
athena
hermes
megaera
sispyhus
aphrodite
zeus
nyx
theseus
ares
demeter
hypnos
alecto
thanatos

thanatos is the incel of hades

Top ten "made at home from scratch" follies

1. French fries
2. Pizza
3. Bhaji/pakora
4. Pho
5. Battered fish
6. Pie
7. Chicken wings
8. Sushi
9. Suckling pig
10. Stuffed dumpIing varietals (pierogi, wonton, ravioli, etc.)

Obv that doesn't include pre-prepared (i.e. frozen) versions of the aforementioned

haha, what was the french fry folly?

i had a frozen pizza folly recently, for sure. let me dig up that photo...