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« Reply #400 on: October 23, 2009, 10:46:25 PM »

I probably over-reacted, but I guess I find the whole "Haha you like Animal Collective, you poor thing" pretty annoying. Oh well! Sorry if I acted like a dick for a second there.
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« Reply #401 on: October 24, 2009, 12:04:35 AM »

I don't like Animal Collective but I'd never go so far as to pity their fans. I reserve that pleasure for brokenCYDE and Attack Attack!.
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« Reply #402 on: October 24, 2009, 12:29:53 AM »

5) Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Have you gotten into The Antlers yet? If you like Grizzly Bear, I could see a branching/linking appeal. I've been all over Hospice lately. Kind of fitting since one of my family members is dying, but still. It's soooo good.
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« Reply #403 on: October 24, 2009, 12:47:55 AM »

My list is still a work in progress as I'm trying to catch up on the significant releases I've missed this year, but anyways...

1. Deastro - Moondagger
2. Ramona Falls - Intuit
3. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
4. The Antlers - Hospice
5. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
6. Flight Of The Conchords - I Told You I Was Freaky
7. Music Go Music - Expressions
8. Dead Man's Bones
9. Port O'Brien - Threadbare
10. Bruce Peninsula - A Mountain Is A Mouth
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« Reply #404 on: October 24, 2009, 12:48:57 AM »

New Russian Circles is so good.
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« Reply #405 on: October 24, 2009, 07:56:36 AM »

10. Bruce Peninsula - A Mountain Is A Mouth

Should bump that up 8 or 9 spots.
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« Reply #406 on: October 24, 2009, 08:13:37 AM »

So you are saying the problem with the Pains of Being Pure at Heart is that they need to sound more offensive to people's ears?  I don't really follow

No, they're just really boring and doing stuff that's been done for ages, now. I liked them when I heard a song or two off the album, then sat down and listened to the whole album. Yawn. Listen to Cruyff in the Bedroom is you want some decent 'gazey pop.
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« Reply #407 on: October 24, 2009, 11:14:46 AM »

Well yeah it's not like I didn't understand your opinion.  Honestly, I just think they are very relaxing to listen to.  I guess there's kind of a fine line between boring and relaxing though so I can understand why people don't like the album.

What I was really replying to in that post was more confusion at Tom's response:
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« Reply #408 on: October 24, 2009, 11:31:10 AM »

St. Vincent's Actor was really good, yeah.
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« Reply #409 on: October 24, 2009, 03:44:19 PM »

What I was really replying to in that post was more confusion at Tom's response:
that's kinda part of the problem there

Looks to me like everyone else is on the same page
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« Reply #410 on: October 24, 2009, 04:04:05 PM »

^two horrible posts

man you cannot deny it is both a terrible band name and album name
The excellent cover art cancels those out, leaving the music as the sole reason for listening to the album!  Woah!

edit: Hold it.  Why is Decemberists #10 in my list and Fun excluded?  I knew there was a problem with it.
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« Reply #411 on: October 24, 2009, 09:49:17 PM »

Looks to me like everyone else is on the same page

No, not really.  I was trying to say TBOBPAH shouldn't draw quite as much ire as either Wavves or Animal Collective because the main reason people do not like them is that they are "boring" not because "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah this hurts my ears what the hell are you doing to those instruments", to which you replied that they should be more offensive to the ears to sound better.  This is what did not make any sense.
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« Reply #412 on: October 24, 2009, 10:57:26 PM »

the pains of being pure at heart are pretty good ~pop music~
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« Reply #413 on: October 25, 2009, 01:27:07 AM »

Jesus, just because I said I liked Wavves and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, I'm suddenly a Pitchfork-brainwashed little shit. Way to fucking go, people.

I just so happen to like stuff covered by Pitchfork. Major difference...
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« Reply #414 on: October 25, 2009, 03:55:56 AM »

I think Pitchfork's given good reviews to almost all of my favourite records from this year.
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« Reply #415 on: October 25, 2009, 04:03:38 AM »

I don't have a huge beef with Poopspork, but sometimes their reviews can be baffling - they literally had nothing bad to say about Doves' Kingdom of Rust but it still only merited a 7.8.
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« Reply #416 on: October 25, 2009, 06:10:01 AM »

Rammstein - Liebe ist fur alle da.

Best album of 2009.
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« Reply #417 on: October 25, 2009, 08:15:05 AM »

Yonder is the Clock

Oh wow at first I didn't see that little "l" in there and maybe it's just because I've been dancing to surf music for the last hour and a half, but damned if "Yonder is the
Cock" wouldn't be the best name for an album ever.
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« Reply #418 on: October 25, 2009, 10:03:19 AM »

I think Pitchfork's given good reviews to almost all of my favourite records from this year.

Ditto, mostly, most stuff I like that they cover on that site, they seem to review well

I even got some stuff on the basis of reading some reviews on there, and liked that too. I fail at being indie

Then again Ferry Corsten's remix album is one of my CDs of the year so that's no great surprise
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« Reply #419 on: October 25, 2009, 07:02:52 PM »

Jesus, just because I said I liked Wavves and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, I'm suddenly a Pitchfork-brainwashed little shit. Way to fucking go, people.

I just so happen to like stuff covered by Pitchfork. Major difference...

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« Reply #420 on: October 25, 2009, 11:24:01 PM »

Yonder is the Clock

Oh wow at first I didn't see that little "l" in there and maybe it's just because I've been dancing to surf music for the last hour and a half, but damned if "Yonder is the
Cock" wouldn't be the best name for an album ever.

Sounds like it could be a perfectly acceptable Bill Callahan or Will Oldham record.
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« Reply #421 on: October 26, 2009, 07:36:33 AM »

Yeah that's what I was thinking too.
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« Reply #422 on: October 27, 2009, 02:19:38 PM »

A collaboration between the two is probably not far off.
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« Reply #423 on: October 27, 2009, 04:32:17 PM »

Jesus, just because I said I liked Wavves and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, I'm suddenly a Pitchfork-brainwashed little shit. Way to fucking go, people.

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« Reply #424 on: October 27, 2009, 06:00:36 PM »

Whenever I revise my previous list, Girls' Album will definitely be there.

Two somewhat-comparable releases this year would be from the Smith Westerns and the Mint Chicks, and I enjoy Girls so much more.
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« Reply #425 on: October 27, 2009, 06:02:38 PM »

Haven't felt the urge to go listen to Girls. Am I missing something?
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« Reply #426 on: October 27, 2009, 06:27:42 PM »

I dunno, I gave them a listen and didn't really hear too much that was interesting to me. Plus, the dude's voice sounds like he's trying way too hard to give it that "duuuuuude" inflection. That's just me though, apparently a lot of people have really loved it, or utterly loathed it. I wasn't particularly moved one way or the other.
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« Reply #427 on: October 27, 2009, 07:43:19 PM »

Haven't felt the urge to go listen to Girls. Am I missing something?

It's always your call whether to check things out or ignore whatever. If you haven't felt the urge because you've already listened to them, I'm not going to force you, ha. If you haven't had the urge because haven't listened to anything from them yet, here's the video for the first track, Lust for Life.

I downloaded Album back when bedhead posted it in the MF thread, and it's really grown on me. I don't see his voice as a trying too hard "duuuuude" inflection. Owens seems earnest. Even on potential cheese tracks like "Big Bad Mean Mother Fucker" (a great segue to "Hellhole Ratrace") or "Headache."

I think it's funny I enjoy this album so much considering what I said earlier about why The Pains of Being Pure at Heart doesn't catch me at all, but while both have their obvious influences, Girls sticks with me. Something about the overall vibe: from his voice, to the lyrics, to the guitars, to all those little touches included throughout the songs.

*makes a note to try and see them live*
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« Reply #428 on: October 28, 2009, 05:59:22 AM »

This is my pre-list list, hastily thrown together just then because my God I listen to a lot of music and I'm really not looking forward to doing the end of year list. So I thought I'd get a head-start and then try to slide the next two months' worth of stuff in as I go. Obviously this list is highly subject to my mood right now, and I could probably come back to it tomorrow and have no idea what I was thinking. Also it feels like more than a year even since I've listened to some of this stuff and I've barely listened to quite a lot of it.

I think I'm going to have to set aside a good week or maybe two for exclusively going through all of this year's music, one by one, before I do the end-of-year list. Yes, I take list-making that seriously, even though nobody will even read the damn thing. Anyway:

Albums:

Eleventh He Reaches London- Hollow Be My Name
Baroness- Blue Record
Pulling Teeth- Paranoid Delusions Paradise Illusions
Regina Spektor- Far
Future of the Left- Travels With Myself and Another
Om- God is Good
Converge- Axe To Fall
Frank Turner- Poetry of the Deed
Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Elvis Costello- Secret, Profane and Sugarcane
Calvin Harris- Ready For the Weekend
Between the Buried and Me- The Great Misdirect
Doomriders- Darkness Come Alive
Lewd Acts- Black Eyed Blues
Alexisonfire- Old Crows/Young Cardinals
Fuck Buttons- Tarot Sport
Russian Circles- Geneva
Mumford & Sons- Sigh No More
Yuksek- Away From the Sea
Pelican- What We All Come to Need
Mastodon- Crack The Skye
Passion Pit- Manners
Mountain Goats- The Life of the World to Come
Kowloon Walled City- Gambling on the Richter Scale
Porcupine Tree- The Incident
The Whitest Boy Alive- Rules
Neil Young- Fork in the Road
Karnivool- Sound Awake
Lonely Island- Incredibad
The Field- Yesterday and Today
A Death in the Family- Small Town Stories
Amosouers- Amosouers
The Devil & Abbe May- Hoodoo You Do
Arcane- Chronicles of the Waking Dream
Darkest Hour- The Eternal Return
Isis- Wavering Radiant
Killswitch Engage- Killswitch Engage
The Decemberists- The Hazards of Love
Kylesa- Static Tensions
Simian Mobile Disco- Temporary Pleasure
MSTRKRFT- Fist of God
A Place to Bury Strangers- Exploding Head

EPs:

Cave In- Planets of Old
Toehider- Not Much of a Man
Sleepmakeswaves & Tangled Thoughts of Leaving- Split
Boris/Torche- Chapter Ahead Being Fake
These Estates- I Can't Wait!
Pelican- Ephemeral

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« Reply #429 on: October 28, 2009, 06:00:44 AM »

Actually that is a really solid top 10. Everything that deserves to be there, nothing that doesn't. Happy.
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« Reply #430 on: October 28, 2009, 09:57:43 AM »

Haven't felt the urge to go listen to Girls. Am I missing something?

"Album" is good, but not as good as p4k make it out to be.
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« Reply #431 on: October 28, 2009, 03:13:00 PM »

That NSFW version of their video where one of the dude's is singing into the other dude's dick is pretty hilarious.

But fuck a band for naming a song "Lust for Life" when there is already a perfectly good song already named "Lust for Life" 32 years ago.
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« Reply #432 on: October 29, 2009, 06:37:11 AM »

But fuck a band for naming a song "Lust for Life" when there is already a perfectly good song already named "Lust for Life" 32 years ago.

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« Reply #433 on: October 29, 2009, 07:06:40 AM »

But fuck a band for naming a song "Lust for Life" when there is already a mindblowingly dull song named "Lust for Life" 32 years ago.

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« Reply #434 on: October 29, 2009, 07:16:43 AM »

Nope, sorry, try again.
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« Reply #435 on: October 29, 2009, 08:13:06 AM »

Nah, I'm happy with it, I'll let it stand.
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« Reply #436 on: October 29, 2009, 08:59:27 AM »

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« Reply #437 on: October 29, 2009, 09:24:12 AM »

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« Reply #438 on: October 29, 2009, 01:10:49 PM »

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« Reply #439 on: October 29, 2009, 06:21:12 PM »

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« Reply #440 on: October 29, 2009, 09:26:44 PM »

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« Reply #441 on: October 30, 2009, 04:44:22 AM »

Nah, I'm happy with it, I'll let it stand.
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« Reply #442 on: October 30, 2009, 04:51:13 AM »

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« Reply #443 on: November 02, 2009, 12:58:53 PM »

I bought the new Weezer album today. As much as they are hit and miss these days I will ALWAYS buy a new Weezer album... Thoughts to follow.
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« Reply #444 on: November 02, 2009, 06:13:11 PM »

On first listen, it's pretty average - I'm hoping I'll get a better impression as I listen more. But it seems to have a very strong sense of ridiculousness to it while still being very Weezerish.
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« Reply #445 on: November 02, 2009, 10:05:59 PM »

That new Weezer is really terrible. Like, All-American Rejects bad. How did they go from "Only In Dreams" and "Across The Sea" to "The Girl Got Hot" and "I Can't Stop Partying"? Depressing.
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« Reply #446 on: November 03, 2009, 01:44:26 AM »

I think Tiny Mix Tapes' review summed it up pretty well.
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« Reply #447 on: November 03, 2009, 02:41:08 AM »

That new Weezer is really terrible. Like, All-American Rejects bad. How did they go from "Only In Dreams" and "Across The Sea" to "The Girl Got Hot" and "I Can't Stop Partying"? Depressing.

Were you aware when you wrote that that Rivers actually collaborated with the All-American Rejects on this steaming shitpile of a record?
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« Reply #448 on: November 03, 2009, 03:30:05 AM »

All this hullabaloo about "oh, if only Weezer could make an album that was as good as Blue/Pinkerton" is complete cock and is much like hoping your scumbag boyfriend isn't gonna cheat on you again when he does so repeatedly. Rivers sucks, the whole band sucks, AHHHH C'MON FUCK THIS BAND, let's just forget that they ever existed. If you don't believe in them they can't hurt you anymore!
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« Reply #449 on: November 03, 2009, 03:41:42 AM »

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