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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #50 on: 10 Oct 2009, 22:30 »

I'd honestly say that Beethoven never figured out how to write a complete piece of music until his fifth symphony
I find the Fifth to drag on too long. I've heard that is a problem with a lot of his work, but I haven't heard enough to know for sure.

I think the problem with this was that we aren't getting the best album, we are getting the album that the most people don't dislike. Same problem as tends to happen with popular music.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #51 on: 10 Oct 2009, 22:37 »

I find the Fifth to drag on too long. I've heard that is a problem with a lot of his work, but I haven't heard enough to know for sure.

1)  The coda certainly is...significant, but at least it doesn't just kind of fizzle like his previous four symphonies (was reminded of this fact yesterday upon attending a performance of his first, which I've actually played before).  That and he brings his motivic development to a very pleasing close in the fifth.

2)  Listen to more Beethoven.  I actually prefer his less popular symphonies more, probably due to the unfamiliarity.  Though, there does seem to have been a bit of a push recently to play his first two symphonies.  Maybe because of the recent 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.

3)  I was really drunk when I made that post, but I still stand by it pretty much.  The only thing is that the subject under discussion was concertos, and I brought up Stravinsky, whose main focus was ballet.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #52 on: 10 Oct 2009, 23:25 »

I was thinking that it was going a bit long before the coda, at which point I heard the recapitulation begin and thought "Oh, good, it is almost done." The coda started shortly afterward, and I stopped paying any attention to it.

He starts off strong, but tends to draw it out for too long with too little, which is by no means a rare mistake. I seem to remember some of Bach's work getting a bit self-indulgent with harpsichord solos, to the point where even Iron Butterfly would think it is a bit over-done.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #53 on: 11 Oct 2009, 07:56 »

You guys like hideously boring music.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #54 on: 11 Oct 2009, 08:14 »

I guess I have to go with Low...






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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #55 on: 11 Oct 2009, 10:48 »

Yeah. Arcade Fire. I can't understand how Low is in the running this far. It's good. It's just not great.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #56 on: 11 Oct 2009, 13:07 »


There are probably about ten bands in the history of American rock music which might stand a chance against Low

Man, I'm gonna chalk that up to knowing hyperbole since it's just a completely crazy thing to say.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #57 on: 11 Oct 2009, 19:08 »

I'd swap you a Minutemen for a Replacements but yeah, pretty much.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #58 on: 11 Oct 2009, 19:22 »

These things always end up as "which band is better" contest. It's rather irritating.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #59 on: 11 Oct 2009, 19:26 »

And Tommy goes blah blah blah low is an amazing band. I don't care. I found Things We Lost In The Fire boring and I find Funeral more fun to listen to.

I also don't think these results are entirely legitimate, considering the hullabaloo at the beginning.

(I'm rather amused hullabaloo is in Firefox's dictionary)
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #60 on: 11 Oct 2009, 19:32 »

I am very sorry our competition is not as well run as yours, JD.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #61 on: 11 Oct 2009, 19:52 »

These things always end up as "which band is better" contest. It's rather irritating.

Uh, what? It's a competition where people vote on which band they prefer. What were you expecting it to be?
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #62 on: 11 Oct 2009, 20:16 »

looking back that this i have only one real regret.

why the fuck did i not nominate jokes by kidcrash what the hell guys.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #63 on: 11 Oct 2009, 20:19 »

I am very sorry our competition is not as well run as yours, JD.

You should be.(I kid, If there was a website people could listen to everything, regardless of your geographical position, this would have gone way better)
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #64 on: 11 Oct 2009, 21:21 »

You mean, like the Internet?


No album on the list is rare enough that 10 mins on google wouldn't find it
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #65 on: 11 Oct 2009, 21:23 »

10 minutes of Google searching, for any album that was in this contest, is probably a gross overstatement.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #66 on: 12 Oct 2009, 05:05 »

Hissing Fauna, are you the Destroyer?

Oh wait.

Things We Lost in the Fire
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #67 on: 12 Oct 2009, 06:25 »

Skeletal Lamping

Oh wait.

Things We Lost in the Fire

FYP.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #68 on: 12 Oct 2009, 06:28 »

The Sunlandic Twins.

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Things We Lost in the Fire

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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #69 on: 12 Oct 2009, 09:50 »

Apparently Low must be the greatest band I would never listen to for longer than 2 minutes.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #70 on: 12 Oct 2009, 12:19 »

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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #71 on: 12 Oct 2009, 12:22 »

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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #72 on: 12 Oct 2009, 12:50 »

Low.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #73 on: 12 Oct 2009, 12:53 »

Whoever has the Kevin Barnes gag account is slacking the fuck off.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #74 on: 12 Oct 2009, 14:47 »

Hey man fuck you. I have important shit to do. Monday is Mile High Club day.

Y'all should feel privileged to witness the glorious cock of Kevin Barnes.

Low are a bunch of pussies. If they could just take a minute to get off Brigham Young's rotting cock they might make a decent fucking album.

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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #75 on: 12 Oct 2009, 21:36 »

I'm going to say Funeral, Things We lost in the fire and slowcore music in general is just bland and bleh.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #76 on: 13 Oct 2009, 03:39 »

Arcade Fire.

Can't believe I'm voting for Funeral, but this is a pretty disappointing final round.

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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #77 on: 13 Oct 2009, 07:12 »

Low.

What a wonderful album to play really loud.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #78 on: 13 Oct 2009, 07:25 »

Deerhoof, Sonic Youth

Sucking at music a good band does not make, Tommy.

And honestly, maybe Low did pioneer slow-core, but I'm still set in my ways that the American Analog Set perfected it.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #79 on: 13 Oct 2009, 12:57 »

Low. I've been abstaining up until now, but I have to cast a vote at this point because this things usually end embarrassingly.
Shane, AAS are slowcore? They're slow, but they sound absolutely nothing remotely like any of the 'pioneers' of the genre and are lacking in any of the genre characteristics, except for their preference for slower tempos.
Take all the bands from Tommy's last post and throw them onto a compilation with the American Analog Set, they'd be the odd one out. They write pop songs. Mostly slow pop songs, but still pop songs nonetheless. They also use a drum machine and a heavily processed guitar sound which makes them sound remarkably sterile next to bands as dynamic as those guys, too.

Slow=/=Slowcore
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #80 on: 13 Oct 2009, 15:48 »

Low won
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #81 on: 13 Oct 2009, 15:56 »

Wait, what?
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #82 on: 13 Oct 2009, 16:10 »

I predict the most subdued victory party ever.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #83 on: 13 Oct 2009, 16:38 »

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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #84 on: 13 Oct 2009, 18:56 »

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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #85 on: 13 Oct 2009, 21:52 »

They also use a drum machine and a heavily processed guitar sound which makes them sound remarkably sterile next to bands as dynamic as those guys, too.
You know I'd been trying to put my finger on why slowcore was so goddamn dull and it all makes sense now.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #86 on: 14 Oct 2009, 03:31 »

Well, that's just the American Analog Set, which aren't actually slowcore. Most of them actually have pretty heavy drummers.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #87 on: 14 Oct 2009, 12:44 »

Dude, fuck the subdued party.

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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #88 on: 14 Oct 2009, 15:41 »

Okkervil River or Soulwax should have won
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #89 on: 14 Oct 2009, 15:44 »

They couldn't both have won!

That's ludicrous.
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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #90 on: 14 Oct 2009, 15:46 »

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Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
« Reply #91 on: 14 Oct 2009, 16:20 »

I'm still upset that Somebody Came Suddenly didn't even make it through the nomination process.
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