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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #50 on: 14 Sep 2009, 22:55 »

E! (and scarred?) I am glad to see that you have continued on in this endeavor. Although I am heartbroken over the lack of commentary about the winners and losers of the last match. HEARTBROKEN I SAY

Sorry, I got wasted all weekend.

Uhhm I'll do commentary next round?

Oh wait I have one for Radiohead:

"IN RAINBOWS? MORE LIKE IN PAINBOWS. LIKE IN MY EARS! AHAHAHAH"

Yeah I dunno.
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #51 on: 14 Sep 2009, 23:19 »

Our Endless Numbered Days - 12
The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place - 14

I'm really, really, really, really, really hoping Iron & Wine ends up taking this one.

(The irony is that I'm listening to EitS now)
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #52 on: 14 Sep 2009, 23:33 »

"IN RAINBOWS? MORE LIKE IN PAINBOWS. LIKE IN MY EARS! AHAHAHAH"

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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #53 on: 14 Sep 2009, 23:37 »

In my defense, I voted for it.

But "15 Step" still plays during the credits of "Twilight."
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #54 on: 15 Sep 2009, 01:00 »

W H A T
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #55 on: 15 Sep 2009, 02:19 »

I noticed when I was watching it with the Rifftrax (which were fucking hilarious, mind you), and nearly cried.

Indisputable Proof.
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #56 on: 15 Sep 2009, 02:28 »

Well shit if it is on WikiAnswers
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #57 on: 15 Sep 2009, 02:34 »

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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #58 on: 15 Sep 2009, 04:55 »

Took me a day to decide on the first one. I was okay after that.


1 Radiohead - Kid A
4 Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
11 Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
2 Fugazi - The Argument

1 Low - Things we lost in the fire
4 Death from above 1979 - You're a woman I'm a machine
14 Battles - Mirrored
7 Agalloch - The Mantle

1 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
5 Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
3 Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a cold dead place
2 Broken Social Scene - You Forgot it in People

1 McLusky - McLusky do Dallas
13 Boris - Akuma no uta
3 Interpol - turn on the bright lights
10 The Knife - Silent Shout


1 Daft Punk - Discovery
5 Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
3 Isis - Panopticon
7 The Avalanches - Since I Left You

1 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven
5 Stars - Set Yourself on fire
14 Dead Meadow - Dead Meadow
2 Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antartica

1 Animal Collective - Merriweather Postpavillion
5 Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
3 The Strokes - Is This It?
2 Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun

1 Arcade Fire - Funeral
4 Radiohead - In Rainbows
6 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
2 Owls - Owls
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #59 on: 15 Sep 2009, 09:20 »

But "15 Step" still plays during the credits of "Twilight."

"15 Step is now the top selling track from In Rainbows, selling more than double compared to the album’s radio singles."

*sigh*

Well, at least it's not the overall top selling track, right? Let's see, that would be... oh, it's Creep. Never mind.
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #60 on: 15 Sep 2009, 10:03 »

Sigh...I hate Radiohead fans that aren't actually fans of Radiohead.
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #61 on: 15 Sep 2009, 10:15 »

Radiohead - Kid A
Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site
The Books - Lemon of Pink
Fugazi - Argument

Low - Things We Lost in The Fire (sorry mono)
DFA 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Battles - Mirrored (sorry mogwai)
Agalloch - The Mantle

LCD SS - Sound of Silver
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People (sorry grizzly bear)

TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Boris - Akuma No Uta
Postal Service - Give Up
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna...

Daft Punk - Discovery
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
Isis - Panopticon
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals

GY!BE - Lift Your Fists...
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Broken Social Scene - s/t
M83 - Saturdays = Youth

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gun
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You
Soulwax - Nite Versions

Arcade Fire - Funeral
Radiohead - In Ranbows
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Owls - Owls
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #62 on: 15 Sep 2009, 10:32 »

Sigh...I hate Radiohead fans that aren't actually fans of Radiohead.

What if I like their compositions, but can't stand listening to the band playing those compositions?
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #63 on: 15 Sep 2009, 11:53 »

Still kind of in shock and awe about no love for JT, Lil Wayne, Outkast, Gnarls Barkley or any other spectacular myriad pop acts. Really? Dead Meadows is better than Futuresex/Lovesounds? Or Stankonia? Craziness.

I'm going to hope for your sake that this is just a bad joke.
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #64 on: 15 Sep 2009, 12:13 »

Dead Meadow is the fucking tits, they have my vote as long as they're still in it.
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #65 on: 15 Sep 2009, 12:54 »

Still kind of in shock and awe about no love for JT, Lil Wayne, Outkast, Gnarls Barkley or any other spectacular myriad pop acts. Really? Dead Meadows is better than Futuresex/Lovesounds? Or Stankonia? Craziness.

I'm going to hope for your sake that this is just a bad joke.

And if it is, what the hell is wrong with Gnarls or Outkast?  Those are legitimately creative and quality acts!
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #66 on: 15 Sep 2009, 12:57 »

My commentary on the last round is thinking that Nina Nastasia, Beulah and several others recieved few votes while people still think that Sigur Ros are not the most boring band and Animal Collective have anything to offer.
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #67 on: 15 Sep 2009, 12:58 »

*sigh*
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #68 on: 15 Sep 2009, 13:13 »

I think both of those things. I'm not sorry.
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #69 on: 15 Sep 2009, 13:24 »

Still kind of in shock and awe about no love for JT, Lil Wayne, Outkast, Gnarls Barkley or any other spectacular myriad pop acts. Really? Dead Meadows is better than Futuresex/Lovesounds? Or Stankonia? Craziness.

Honestly I'm surprised about the lack of JT,  (I don't like him but everyone else here basically lost their shit over Futuresex/Lovesounds when it came out which proves we are a petty, petty lot) but apart from that maybe Outkast deserved a gong and I woulda given that for Speakerboxx/Love Below over Stankonia anyway. Gnarls Barkley write great pop music but it is pretty forgettable (I haven't spun either of their albums a month past buying it)

My commentary on the last round is thinking that Nina Nastasia, Beulah and several others recieved few votes while people still think that Sigur Ros are not the most boring band and Animal Collective have anything to offer.

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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #70 on: 15 Sep 2009, 13:40 »

My commentary on the last round is thinking that Nina Nastasia, Beulah and several others recieved few votes while people still think that Sigur Ros are not the most boring band and Animal Collective have anything to offer.

I am hoping that it at least inspired a few people to listen to Nina and Beulah.  If they lost because people didn't give them a chance, that is just silly.
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #71 on: 15 Sep 2009, 13:50 »

Yellow
Sigur Rós - Takk... (god damn you for making me make this choice)
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
The Books - The Lemon of Pink (Sucker for The Books. Also helps that I saw them live and it blew my fucking mind. Also they are very nice people.)
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (sorry, I love this album. sorry fugazi.)

Red
MONO - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Death from Above 1979 - I'm a Woman, You're a Machine
Battles - Mirrored (Another soul-destroying choice. As much as I love Happy Songs, I have to admit Mirrored is the better album.)
Agalloch - The Mantle

Orange
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (no contest.)
The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas (The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton. 'nuff said.)
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People (And again, my soul is dead. The better album by a MARGIN.)

Green
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (One of my favorite albums of all time, no contest)
BORIS - Akuma No Uta (One of the most badass albums I own. Inconceivable to NOT vote for this.)
The Postal Service - Give Up (Guilty pleasure sans the guilt.)
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Lifechanging album right here.)

Blue
Daft Punk - Discovery (If you don't like this album I don't think we can be friends.)
Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy (If this was an award for "most emotionally devastating record of the decade" this would probably win)
ISIS - Panopticon (Sorry Animal Collective, but this is one of my favorite metal albums of all time. In Fiction melts me.)
N/A (I have no opinion on either of these bands.)

Purple
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (And there goes the only ambient album to make it this far.  :-()
Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Basically an AC album. Fantastic one at that.)
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
M83 - Saturdays = Youth (Cannot put into words how happy this album makes me)

Blue
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (Screw you guys, this is a fantastic album of psych pop. Not the greatest album ever, no, but still emotive and danceable and interesting.)
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Sigur Rós - Agaetis Byrjun (At least this SR will make it through. Not much else needs to be said about this album. It changed my musical perspective forever.)

Gold
Arcade Fire - Funeral (Still gives me chills)
Radiohead - In Rainbows (Ditto)
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Amazing album, deserves way more praise than it gets)
Mogwai - Mr. Beast (Second favorite Mogwai album, which still ranks it above most everything else.)
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #72 on: 15 Sep 2009, 14:01 »


The Books - The Lemon of Pink (So very, very disappointed that Trail of Dead didn't beat Franz. C'mon, people. Double-u tee eff.)

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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #73 on: 15 Sep 2009, 14:13 »

You think that's bad?  The Books beat out fucking Dopethrone.  What the fuck's up with that?  I can't leave you people alone with easy decisions these days.

Anyway,

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Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
no vote
no vote

Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
no vote
Battles - Mirrored
Agalloch - The Mantle

no vote
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place
no vote

no vote
Boris - Akuma No Uta
no vote
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are you the Destroyer?

The Decemberists - Castaway
no vote
Isis - Panopticon
The Avalanches - Since I Left You

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists
no vote
Dead Meadow - Dead Meadow
no vote

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
no vote
Soulwax - Nite Versions

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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #74 on: 15 Sep 2009, 14:43 »

Radiohead - Kid A
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Fugazi - The Argument

N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A

LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
N/A
N/A
N/A

N/A
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Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
N/A

N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lif Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
N/A
N/A
N/A

N/A
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
N/A
N/A

N/A
Radiohead - In Rainbows
N/A
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #75 on: 15 Sep 2009, 15:47 »

You think that's bad?  The Books beat out fucking Dopethrone.  What the fuck's up with that?  I can't leave you people alone with easy decisions these days.

That one really was pretty weird. I was fully expecting Dopethrone to get an easy ride there (deservedly so). Also, how did we manage to lose Silkworm in the first round? I thought liking Silkworm was the one thing this forum was good at.
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #76 on: 15 Sep 2009, 17:08 »

Yeah, the Silkworm thing is weird. Not only is this place good at liking Silkworm, it's also good at not liking Sigur Ros. Strange outcome, this!
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #77 on: 15 Sep 2009, 17:24 »

Silkworm sounds like a wombat on crack being squeezed slowly between two epileptic porcupines compared to Sigur Ros.

ironically, i think Sigur Ros actually used that sound in one of their songs.  :|
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #78 on: 15 Sep 2009, 17:41 »

Oh you.

Man I'm pretty sure SKWM and Fugazi dropped out pretty early of the last time we did one of these competitions as well. There is obviously a silent minority in this forum. A silent minority with horrible taste in music
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« Reply #79 on: 15 Sep 2009, 17:48 »

it must be all these newer kids/mostly non posters who are voting or something.

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« Reply #80 on: 15 Sep 2009, 17:50 »

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« Reply #81 on: 15 Sep 2009, 17:54 »

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« Reply #82 on: 15 Sep 2009, 18:03 »

I just want everyone to know that I have a long list of everyone who voted for The Books over Dopethrone and I know exactly who you are
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #83 on: 15 Sep 2009, 18:50 »

Not joking at all.

The Blueprint is pretty much the greatest hip-hop album of the decade. Jay is completely on fire on those tracks, spinning ridiculous internal rhymes, jumping from breathing life into hip-hop's tired promiscuity (Girls, Girls, Girls) to one of hip-hop's all time heartbreakers (Song Cry). He spits some of the most intense wordplay in the game and, dammit all if the beats are fantastic, too. Kanye before sped-up soul samples were just an afterthought, Timbaland when he didn't just have to put a robot buzzsaw synth over a track to make it a hit, Just Blaze being fucking Just Blaze. Man, fantastic, fantastic record.

Futuresex/Lovesounds, by the way, is a pop record whose SHORTEST song is OVER FOUR MINTUES LONG. And there are MULTIPLE SEVEN MINUTE PLUS TRACKS. The Timbalake pair pushed each other and pushed each other, and basically set the template for pop and hip-hop's cross-pollination. They were responsible for the first top 40 record since the Beatles to have sitar melodies. JT's voice is, of course, incredible and it pushed boundaries while keeping terrific hooks and the best dance beats this side of Daft Punk.

Gnarls Barkley's debut was the most creative soul music has been since Motown, Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III jumped through more genres (synth-pop on "Shoot Me Down", minimalism on "A Milli", jazz on "Dr. Carter", R&B on "Mrs. Officer") than anything short of a Broken Social Scene record, Outkast crafted classics throughout their entire career, songs that'll be the kind of things that musically define our time. If you say you didn't bob your head at least once to "Hey Ya" or were impressed by Andre 3000's machine-gun flow on "B.O.B." I just straight don't know what to do.

Meanwhile, Dead Meadow's out-of-focus guitar riffage is a bit limp, failing to distinguish itself from a smoky haze, at times and, while interesting texturaly, songs tend to blend together to the point where I can't tell one from the other. Additionally, sometimes their psyche flourishes just bother me (The guitar squeals on "Lady" are fingernails on a chalkboard to me). While the band is obviously comfortable in its mid-tempo groove, it gets a bit stagnant for me, failing to differentiate it self in any real way (Except for "At the Edge of the Wood", which is a prety cool song).

Not to say its a bad record. It's not. But I can't in good conscious say its superior to any of the above.
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« Reply #84 on: 15 Sep 2009, 18:55 »

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« Reply #85 on: 15 Sep 2009, 19:02 »

I just want everyone to know that I have a long list of everyone who voted for The Books over Dopethrone and I know exactly who you are

I regret nothing. I love Dopethrone but ultimately I love The Books a little more.
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #86 on: 15 Sep 2009, 19:06 »

You should probably see someone about that.

Long songs on a pop record isn't all that novel these days, and it's definitely not a mark of quality. And I can think of a few hip-hop records better than The Blueprint this century (J Dilla's absolutely superb 'Donuts' springs to mind) and I never thought Tha Carter III lived up to the hype though it was solid. Gnarls Barkley didn't impress me at all, and they're the only act you mentioned I might have actually picked the tepid Dead Meadow over.
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #87 on: 15 Sep 2009, 19:22 »

man im just shocked the dude argued for the merit of an album based on the length of the songs.

also who the fuck are the books?
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #88 on: 15 Sep 2009, 19:25 »

Donuts is freaking great, agreed. But it takes its amazing technical abilities by sacrificing just the slightest bit of pure listenability for me. I can put Jigga any time any day and just straight out enjoy that record. For Donuts, I have to be a bit more cerebral to get behind it. Dilla's catalog is spectacular front to back, no arguments, and I would definitely vote for that to be on this list, too.

On the other stuff...

*shrugs*

I just can't agree on your assessments on the other records you mentioned. It happens.

(C'mon, people, we know that the track length thing was a way to state that people don't really look at that album. I made other comments about its content so, please, let's try not to Fox News the comment.)
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #89 on: 15 Sep 2009, 19:27 »

Does Jaydiohead count as a hip hop album? 'Cause that's what i would nominate for best hip hop album.
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #91 on: 15 Sep 2009, 19:38 »

That website fills me full of hatred.  Now I have to go find their myspace so that I can actually listen to music.  When did people stop having intelligible websites?  I am just thick for expecting websites to be helpful and not try to be art?

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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #93 on: 15 Sep 2009, 19:52 »

Does Jaydiohead count as a hip hop album? 'Cause that's what i would nominate for best hip hop album.

not only is that not really a hip hop album it is not even nearly as good as Skeet Spirit: A Crunk Tribute to Radiohead in the first place
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #94 on: 15 Sep 2009, 20:06 »

(C'mon, people, we know that the track length thing was a way to state that people don't really look at that album. I made other comments about its content so, please, let's try not to Fox News the comment.)

It just really stuck out as odd, partly since you went and put it in bold.

For me, any time Donuts is in danger of getting to cerebral he goes and hits me with a track like the effortlessly swinging 'Time: The Donut Of The Heart' or the sheer unadulterated summertime joy of 'Two Can Win' and the good times are rolling again so it's definitely a record I can fling on any old time. But regardless, I think we can agree that it's pretty pathetic that we haven't got a single hip-hop record into the second round of this thing (and that J Dilla is awesome).
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #95 on: 15 Sep 2009, 20:15 »

who would have thought that a music forum full of nerdy white socially awkward people would not be pushing a massive hip-hop contingent

I shoulda nominated The Loneliest Punk though because that album is fucking dope.

The main reason I avoided nominating too much hip-hop though is that I mostly like stuff like Brad Strut that everyone here would fucking hate anyway.
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #96 on: 15 Sep 2009, 20:27 »

As far as Dead Meadow vs Justin Timberlake goes, one act put together a phenomenal stoner-rock record for 200$ in a garage, whereas the other put together a pretty good (or so I've heard) pop/dance album (which admittedly I have not listened to in its entirety) with a whole lot of studio help and a previous career in a boy band.  One act pens lyrics involving Lovecraftian creatures, and the other act sings about bringing sexy back. 

When I listen to the opening strains of Sleepy Silver Door, I am visualizing the trees and mountains uprooting themselves to fight against the Old Ones; when I listen to Sexyback, I visualize some kids found those giant pianos you walk on and started stomping on a few keys at random and repeated that for a while because they thought it sounded cool.  For me to really like a record it has to paint a scene in my mind that captivates me and make me want to stare at it awhile.  It doesn't have to follow a theme, it just has to be pleasing to my inner eye or whatever you want to call it, and Futuresex/Lovesounds doesn't do that for me. 

That's the best justification I can offer as to why I would pick Dead Meadow over Futuresex/Lovesounds.  I don't think it's a bad album, it's just not one I like, whether it is superior to the other or not.


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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #97 on: 15 Sep 2009, 20:36 »

Does Jaydiohead count as a hip hop album? 'Cause that's what i would nominate for best hip hop album.

not only is that not really a hip hop album it is not even nearly as good as Skeet Spirit: A Crunk Tribute to Radiohead in the first place

I'll look into that
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #98 on: 15 Sep 2009, 20:37 »

YELLOW

Sigur Ros
Flaming Lips
Franz Ferdinand
Fugazi

PINK

Low
Death From Above 1979
Mogwai
Death Cab

ORANGE

LCD Soundsystem
Daft Punk
Explosions in the Sky
Broken Social Scene

GREEM

McLusky
Bloc Party
Interpol
The Knife

LIGHT BLUE

Daft Punk
Okkervil River
Animal Collective
Girl Talk

PURPLE

Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Stars
Broken Social Scene
Modest Mouse

DARK BLUE

Animal Collective
Wilco
The Strokes
Sigur Ros

GOLD

Arcade Fire
Radiohead
Arcade Fire
Owls
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Re: Greatest Album of the Decade Tournament, ROUND TWO
« Reply #99 on: 15 Sep 2009, 20:49 »

Does Jaydiohead count as a hip hop album? 'Cause that's what i would nominate for best hip hop album.

not only is that not really a hip hop album it is not even nearly as good as Skeet Spirit: A Crunk Tribute to Radiohead in the first place

I'll look into that

if you have not found it by Friday I will post it in the mediafire thread for real
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