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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: E. Spaceman on 29 Sep 2009, 11:58
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voting goes on until 23:59 (GMT -6) Friday Night
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My votes
Low -Things We Lost in The Fire
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift yr Skinny Fists
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You
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Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Boris - Akuma No Uta
Daft Punk - Discovery
Yo La Tengo - I am Not Afraid of You
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Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (ALL THE WAY BABY)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists... (the only real difficult choice this round)
Arcade Fire - Funeral (versus Yo La Tengo? No effing contest)
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Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Daft Punk - Discovery
Yo La Tengo - I am Not Afraid of You
man what happened to broken social scene
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Kid A
Sound of Silver
Discovery
Funeral
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Kid A
Sound of Silver
Lift Yr Skinny Fists
I Am Not Afraid Of You
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Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You
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pass
Boris
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
pass
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Radiohead - Kid A
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
Daft Punk - Discovery
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Man, how the fuck did both Broken Social Scene albums get knocked out.
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Low
LCD Soundsystem
GY!BE
Yo La Tengo
The fact that two of my absolute favourite albums are still up there is pleasing. Good work folks.
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Low
Boris
Daft Punk
Arcade Fire
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Low -Things We Lost in The Fire
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Daft Punk - Discovery
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You
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Funeral (This was hard)
Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Sound of Silver
Low
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Oh man, go Low.
Low
Daft Punk
LCD Soundsystem
Arcade Fire
That is a pretty good collection right there. There are no albums in this top eight that I disapprove of.
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yes, yes it is.
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Low
Boris
Godspeed
No vote
im predicting final showdown between low and godspeed.
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Wait one god damn second, how the hell did LCD Soundsystem beat BSS?? I'm absolutely floored by the result. Really it's stunning. That being said, here are my votes:
Radiohead - Kid A
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (Despite what I wrote above, I still think this is the better album of this particular matchup)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - LYSFLAtH (very cool to see this still in running. Probably not for much longer but glad it made it so far)
Arcade Fire - Funeral (Well, this'll possibly make it past YLT but I doubt it at this point)
So...Yo La Tengo vs. Low in the final maybe? Pretty disapointing if so.
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im predicting final showdown between low and godspeed.
This would be my favourite things ever.
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Radiohead- Kid A
LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver
Daft Punk- Discovery
Arcade Fire- Funeral
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Radiohead - Kid A
Boris - Akuma No Uta
Daft Punk - Discovery
Arcade Fire - Funeral
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I am going to have to ask every one who is voting for Kid A is they have actually heard the Low record.
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To be fair, that is the hardest vote i've had so far.
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radiohead
lcd soundsystem
daft punk
arcade fire
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Low - Things we lost in the fire
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of silver
Daft Punk - Discovery
Yo La Tengo - I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass
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Radiohead - Kid A
Daft Punk - Discovery
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and Will Beat Your Ass
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
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I am going to have to ask every one who is voting for Kid A is they have actually heard the Low record.
Musically I prefer Kid A, but even if I did not, voting for the "greatest album" is more than about the musical quality of the album, for me, anyway. Combination of nostalgia and the general significance of the album makes Kid A an easy winner for me.
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I am going to have to ask every one who is voting for Kid A is they have actually heard the Low record.
why?
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I am going to have to ask every one who is voting for Kid A is they have actually heard the Low record.
the general significance of the album makes Kid A an easy winner for me.
This is something that needs to be seriously considered.
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Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Boris - Akuma No Uta
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift yr Skinny Fists
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You And Will Beat Your Ass
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Low - Things We Lost In The Fire (I'm not actually that big on this record but it's still better than Radiohead and besides, the idea of Radiohead winning is horrible)
Boris - Akuma No Uta
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists...
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You...
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How did Kid A win AGAIN. Over Yoshimi I can MAYBE understand if disagree with but over Fugazi into the top 8? WTF? Sound of Silver and Discovery both got through though so I guess I can't complain.
The Things We Lost In The Fire (I don't really like this particularly either but at this point I just want to see Radiohead finally lose)
ABSTAIN (I can't do it. I don't hate Kid A enough to vote that over it just for it to lose)
Sound of Silver (This one is rather difficult, but as much as I admire Akuma no Uta Sound of Silver is just nicer to listen to)
Discovery (Also hard but I would rather Discovery win it than Lift Yr Skinny Fists; it's even closer this time but I still think that Discovery is more fun to listen to, if only because it's actually in any way accessible)
Funeral
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I am going to have to ask every one who is voting for Kid A is they have actually heard the Low record.
why?
Because basically everyone has heard Kid A, if they are interested in modern alternative music. Things We Lost in the Fire is a much less popular album, generally, and I would be much less likely to assume that someone had listened to it. If the person was a regular on this forum, given how much Low is touted here, I'd expect them to be familiar with the record. However, many people voting here have low post counts, and I know absolutely nothing about them. The people with lower post counts in this thread seem to be voting for Radiohead more frequently than people with higher post counts. I can only hope, if they are voting for Radiohead, that they have at least given the other album a chance.
I'm not saying I can't understand a vote for Kid A. It's an album I enjoy a lot. But maybe I'm also just bitter that it beat Fugazi?
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No I mean "why do you think your taste in music is so special that someone who doesn't share it must not have experienced as wide a range of music as you"
and as an addendum "why would you associate post counts with breadth of musical exposure" or "why do you think that one or two people makes some kind of pattern of ignorance?"
I mean I may have implied anyone who voted for Daft Punk over the Avalanches suffered from some kind of brain damage but at least that is ridiculous enough to definitively be a joke, whereas you have implied that people who voted for Kid A might just be lazy which I think is kind of insulting.
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I think you are misinterpreting the seriousness of my initial statement.
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I mean I may have implied anyone who voted for Daft Punk over the Avalanches suffered from some kind of brain damage but at least that is ridiculous enough to definitively be a joke, whereas you have implied that people who voted for Kid A might just be lazy which I think is kind of insulting.
sorry edited this in to address what you just said while you were obviously typing that post proving once and for all that I am a motherfuckin' psychic
I think you are misinterpreting the seriousness of my initial statement.
Man if it wasn't serious what was with this whole post
Because basically everyone has heard Kid A, if they are interested in modern alternative music. Things We Lost in the Fire is a much less popular album, generally, and I would be much less likely to assume that someone had listened to it. If the person was a regular on this forum, given how much Low is touted here, I'd expect them to be familiar with the record. However, many people voting here have low post counts, and I know absolutely nothing about them. The people with lower post counts in this thread seem to be voting for Radiohead more frequently than people with higher post counts. I can only hope, if they are voting for Radiohead, that they have at least given the other album a chance.
I am not sure I get how this fits into the joke
then again I didn't get the first joke either so maybe you are just way too clever for me.
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Hating on Radiohead is pretty played out.
Kid A
Sound Of Silver
Lift Yr Skinny Fists…
Funeral
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I am still sad that Okkervil River got knocked out. F that noise. I would protest the tournament but I just really really really want Low to win over Radiohead.
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Hating on Radiohead is pretty played out.
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I do not think they are a bad band at all, I am not saying that. They're good and they deserve praise, but they're not as good as everyone makes them out to be. Maybe my expectations were too high when I first heard them, but I've really just always been underwhelmed by Radiohead.
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That is a completely understandable position. I was really commenting on the general direction the thread had taken than your post. I remember thinking Kid A was absolute garbage the first time I heard it.
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No I mean "why do you think your taste in music is so special that someone who doesn't share it must not have experienced as wide a range of music as you"
I don't think this. You have taken some things I said and added meaning to them in a way that was by no means intended.
Man if it wasn't serious what was with this whole post
Because basically everyone has heard Kid A, if they are interested in modern alternative music. Things We Lost in the Fire is a much less popular album, generally, and I would be much less likely to assume that someone had listened to it. If the person was a regular on this forum, given how much Low is touted here, I'd expect them to be familiar with the record. However, many people voting here have low post counts, and I know absolutely nothing about them. The people with lower post counts in this thread seem to be voting for Radiohead more frequently than people with higher post counts. I can only hope, if they are voting for Radiohead, that they have at least given the other album a chance.
I am not sure I get how this fits into the joke
then again I didn't get the first joke either so maybe you are just way too clever for me.
I figured I might as well attempt some justification off the top of my head. I felt that the line of this post which you left out might make it clear that I really wasn't trying to make a big deal of it all.
I like Radiohead. I really do. I think they've made some great songs, and recorded some great albums. For a while, Kid A was one of my favourite records. I don't like it nearly as much nowdays, but I still think it is pretty great.
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dude I'm just stylin' on you you don't gotta care/justify your actions
I mean I'm basically just bein' a dick cause I'm mad Discovery beat Since I Left You
I mean even though nearly half the people voted for the Avalanches I look at this thread and think "this thread does not like the Avalanches" so now I gotta rough up everyone who posts in it.
We're not so different, you and I. Just because you're a Jet and I'm a Shark doesn't mean we can't both agree that Yo La Tango should still beat Funeral.
By the way putting on my LP of Since I Left You
RIP AVALANCHES (in this thread)
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Radiohead
LCD Soundsystem
Daft Punk
Arcade Fire
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That is a completely understandable position. I was really commenting on the general direction the thread had taken than your post. I remember thinking Kid A was absolute garbage the first time I heard it.
Your quoting of a post related to my post right after I posted lead me to believe otherwise. Thanks for clarification!
Post post post so many posts in that sentence.
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dude I'm just stylin' on you you don't gotta care/justify your actions
I definitely don't gotta, but I do like to.
And on the same note, I just wish Fugazi was still around.
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Man, I like Radiohead and all, but I really don't see how it can compare to Low.
It's fucking Low!
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Radiohead - Kid A
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Daft Punk - Discovery (Tough choice.. I guess I ended up picking Discovery because it's more fun and uplifting, whereas Skinny Fists can really depress me sometimes)
Arcade Fire - Funeral
All of these were pretty easy, with the exception of Daft Punk vs GY!BE.
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Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
BORIS - Akuma No Uta
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (ALL THE WAY BABY)
Arcade Fire - Funeral
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Fugazi- The Argument
Fugazi- The Argument
Fugazi- The Argument
What The Hell Guys Fugazi- The Argument
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i thought we all had an agreement
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Haha no but seriously
Low- Things We Lost in the Fire
LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver
Daft Punk- Discovery
PASS (and/or Fugazi- The Argument)
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Yeah, it's Low. It's boring.
I'm voting solely for Boris in this round.
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Kid A by Radiohead
Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem
Lift Yr Skinny Fists... by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Funeral by Arcade Fire
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I am the kid pouting in the corner over the fact Soulwax got knocked out.
/pout
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Can i still vote even if I haven't voted in any of the other rounds?
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Neither
Boris
Daft Punk
Arcade Fire
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Kid A
Pass
Lift Yr Skinny Fists
Funeral
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Low
LCD Soundsystem (arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggg only difficult decision)
Daft Punk
Arcade Fire
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Low
Boris
GY!BE
Arcade Fire
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Low
LCD Soundsystem
GYBE
Yo La Tengo
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Can i still vote even if I haven't voted in any of the other rounds?
Yes. (although, I'm no authority or anythin')
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Low
LCD
GY!BE
Arcade Fire