GAPDY poll

I dunno why I just read half this thread, it was hypnotic, like finding some ancient cuneiform tablet from a civilization I've never heard of

2008 albums poll is p good for that (tho maybe less uncannily unfamiljar)

GAPDY's Greatest Hits:

1. Phoenix: 1901 (233,103,471 plays on Spotify)
2. Phoenix: Lisztomania (221,197,960)
3. Grizzly Bear: Two Weeks (188,354,857)
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Heads Will Roll (163,890,937)
5. Phoenix: Lasso (47,094,987)
6. Animal Collective: My Girls (43,832,825)
7. Grizzly Bear: Ready, Able (27,650,183)
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Zero (24,967,278)
9. Phoenix: Fences (21,754,426)
10. Phoenix: Rome (21,381,951)

Dirty Projectors get nowhere near; the most streamed track on Bitte Orca is Stillness Is The Move (7,892,685)

And yet they're the best band out of all of them :)

If this had been the GAPDYX poll then "Intro" would be on top at 464 million

Dirty > Phoenix > AnCo > YYYs > Grizzly

― mike t-diva, Monday, February 1, 2010 11:36 PM (twelve years ago)

I've listened to them all again. Now it's:

YYYs >> Grizzly > Dirty >> AnCo > Phoenix

YYYs is the only one that still gives pleasure. Grizzly starts promisingly, doesn't keep it up, but remains listenable. The vocals on the remaining three annoy me a lot, for broadly similar reasons. AnCo and especially Phoenix were a struggle to get through. (NB I bought four of them on CD at the time, and was sent another as a promo (gratefully received) so there must have been a time when I liked all of them.)

"Heads Will Roll" and "Zero" are by far the best thing to come out of 2009 GAPDY, though as a whole album I do think that Bitte Orca has held up the best.

The albums I listen to with the most regularity from this era are Person Pitch and Tomboy

new songs by both "y" and "p" out this week

the phoenix song is horrible, jesus

I like the YYYs song

Can someone please make a video essay on whatever the hell was going on here pic.twitter.com/LxBSJSPfCO

— jack fernandez news and updates (@jackanfer) May 23, 2023

https://uproxx.com/indie/blog-rock-best-albums-all-time-list/

“Can someone please make a video essay on whatever the hell was going on here”

The Twitter user @jackanfer, who is presumably under the age of 30, posed this question atop a list of seven critically acclaimed albums from 2009. The first five – Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca, Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, Phoenix’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ It’s Blitz!, and Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest – were such common fixtures in year-end top-tens that they inspired an acronym of “GADPY” as a deeply online shorthand for indie rock hegemony. This post soon became the main character on Twitter for the next few days because people chose not to take the original question as rhetorical.

Ian Cohen should have given ILX a shout out or even just Whiney.

I now see mookieproof did post this already, I found out by the article that posted today, sorry.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51xnSwWmLZL.jpg