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Title: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: E. Spaceman on 08 Oct 2009, 17:35
(http://i37.tinypic.com/x5dxdy.jpg)



You decide, we have until tuesday
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: E. Spaceman on 08 Oct 2009, 17:37
(It's Low  - Things We Lost In The Fire)
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: squawk on 08 Oct 2009, 17:39
Oh I didn't know this was like, the last part of the series of threads you've had on this competition. I thought it was just a thread declaring Low as awesome.

Anyway the answer is Low
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Reed on 08 Oct 2009, 17:41
Low
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Scarychips on 08 Oct 2009, 17:42
Well, do we even need this thread at this point? I'm still voting for Funeral by the Arcade Fire, but can't we just award that title to Low, right now?
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: AanAllein on 08 Oct 2009, 17:52
I'm voting for Arcade Fire
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: SWOON! at My Gravitas on 08 Oct 2009, 17:53
Yyyyyyyyeah, Things We Lost In the Fire.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Dimmukane on 08 Oct 2009, 18:37
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire

duh.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Lhefriel_Medies on 08 Oct 2009, 19:00
ABSTAIN (Both so relatively boring that I really can't bear to vote)
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: karl gambolputty... on 08 Oct 2009, 19:01
Low
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: DarkAvenger on 08 Oct 2009, 19:11
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire

Finally.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: scarred on 08 Oct 2009, 19:40
Arcade Fire.



Low is just plain ZZzZZzzzzZzzz
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Koremora on 08 Oct 2009, 20:49
Low, bitches.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: JD on 08 Oct 2009, 21:03
Arcade Fire
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Reed on 08 Oct 2009, 21:16
What the hell is wrong with you people saying that Low is boring? I have terrible ADD and I love the album.

Fuckers.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: KickThatBathProf on 08 Oct 2009, 21:23
Low
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Melodic on 08 Oct 2009, 21:23
Arcade Fire - Funeral

you fuckers.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: JD on 08 Oct 2009, 21:49
What the hell is wrong with you people saying that Low is boring? I have terrible ADD and I love the album.

Fuckers.

Clearly my ADD is worse.

Wait, fuck what was I talking about?
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: WriterofAllWrongs on 08 Oct 2009, 22:25
Fucking Low. 
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Christophe on 08 Oct 2009, 23:20
in b4 Shane votes for Boris
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: TheFuriousWombat on 08 Oct 2009, 23:41
Arcade Fire fo' sho'
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Retrospectre on 08 Oct 2009, 23:55
Arcade Fire.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Daft pun on 09 Oct 2009, 02:02
It's Low bitches.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: el_loco_avs on 09 Oct 2009, 02:06
Arcade Fire




Neither is in my top 5 for best of the decade. Both are in my top 20. ... *shrug*
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: StaedlerMars on 09 Oct 2009, 05:27
Lo' fo' sho'

Fixed that for you.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: NotAFanOfFenders on 09 Oct 2009, 06:28
(Boris)
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Yayniall on 09 Oct 2009, 06:33
Funeral for me.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Damnable Fiend on 09 Oct 2009, 06:46
Low
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Gridgm on 09 Oct 2009, 06:51
a fire a fire...in the arcade to be specific
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: valley_parade on 09 Oct 2009, 07:10
in b4 Shane votes for Boris

Doing it anyway.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: sean on 09 Oct 2009, 07:39
Low

i will lose hope in this forum if arcade fire wins. really guys?
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: WriterofAllWrongs on 09 Oct 2009, 10:09
If you really wanted to turn the tide in Low's favor you could point out that if we say Funeral is better than Things We Lost In The Fire, we will be just like Pitchfork.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Scarychips on 09 Oct 2009, 11:37
OH NOES we dont want to b liek teh p4k, rite?????

Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Tom on 09 Oct 2009, 12:20
Low
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: zoidbergslo on 09 Oct 2009, 13:18
funeral by arcade fire
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Touch Me Im Sick on 09 Oct 2009, 13:43
Low
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: JD on 09 Oct 2009, 15:56
Forum, you now have the choice between a really good album and a pretty boring, standard indie rock record that nobody will remember twenty years from now.

I will remember it just to spite you.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: SWOON! at My Gravitas on 09 Oct 2009, 16:43
Someone should totally start a pool for how long it'll take for Pitchfork to break down and make a "top records ever" list.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: The Duke on 09 Oct 2009, 17:16
You should probably have put a poll in this thread.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Nodaisho on 09 Oct 2009, 17:28
I'm not sure what the greatest album of the decade is, but it sure as hell isn't either of these. What the hell is wrong with you people?
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Be My Head on 09 Oct 2009, 17:31
I think Pitchphork should rate the best music of all time.

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i293/Jarlaxle_56/beethovenkanye.jpg)
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: JD on 09 Oct 2009, 18:01
I'll congratulate you if you do. Also Pitchfork's "TOP RECORDS EVER" will probably rank it in the top 10. and it does NOT count if you suddenly remember they existed because of Pitchfork.
I don't give fuck about pitchfork.

I'm not sure what the greatest album of the decade is, but it sure as hell isn't either of these. What the hell is wrong with you people?
I agree
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Liz on 09 Oct 2009, 18:50
All of you jerks that voted for Arcade Fire are... jerks. Yeah.

LOW

LOW

LOW

(Still mad about Okkervil River losing out so early but Low is a good substitute)
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: JD on 09 Oct 2009, 18:56
no it isn't you silly girl
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: look out! Ninjas! on 09 Oct 2009, 20:14
The Arcade Fire.

(this is the first round that I can vote in all brackets)
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: pulpfiction21 on 09 Oct 2009, 21:01
Low
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: David_Dovey on 09 Oct 2009, 22:39
Mediocrity wins again!

Low, I guess.

Geez.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Bastardous Bassist on 09 Oct 2009, 22:48
I think Pitchphork should rate the best music of all time.

Beethoven

To be honest, Beethoven did not write concertos that were good, whereas Mozart did.  Also, Mozart's later symphonies heavily inspired Beethoven's early work.  I'd honestly say that Beethoven never figured out how to write a complete piece of music until his fifth symphony (despite the fact that I do consider his third symphony the first Romantic piece of music).

p.s.  Stravinsky.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Durin on 10 Oct 2009, 10:17
Arcade Fire.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: De_El on 10 Oct 2009, 10:47
I forgot this was still going on.

Low
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Nodaisho 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.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Bastardous Bassist 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.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Nodaisho 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.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: valley_parade on 11 Oct 2009, 07:56
You guys like hideously boring music.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Mr. Doctor on 11 Oct 2009, 08:14
I guess I have to go with Low...






But I still think The Manical Vale was the shit... you guys suck.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Beren 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.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: TheFuriousWombat 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.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: E. Spaceman on 11 Oct 2009, 19:08
I'd swap you a Minutemen for a Replacements but yeah, pretty much.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: JD on 11 Oct 2009, 19:22
These things always end up as "which band is better" contest. It's rather irritating.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: JD 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)
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: E. Spaceman on 11 Oct 2009, 19:32
I am very sorry our competition is not as well run as yours, JD.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: David_Dovey 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?
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: sean 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.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: JD 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)
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: E. Spaceman 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
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: scarred on 11 Oct 2009, 21:23
10 minutes of Google searching, for any album that was in this contest, is probably a gross overstatement.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: BlahBlah on 12 Oct 2009, 05:05
Hissing Fauna, are you the Destroyer?

Oh wait.

Things We Lost in the Fire
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Scarychips on 12 Oct 2009, 06:25
Skeletal Lamping

Oh wait.

Things We Lost in the Fire

FYP.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: David_Dovey on 12 Oct 2009, 06:28
The Sunlandic Twins (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3293/2962113894_0921b66cec.jpg).

Oh wait.

Things We Lost in the Fire

FYP.

FYFYP

dude some people on this forum have school/jobs/etc. -JC
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Alex C on 12 Oct 2009, 09:50
Apparently Low must be the greatest band I would never listen to for longer than 2 minutes.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: JD on 12 Oct 2009, 12:19
my eyeeeeeeesssssss
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Durin on 12 Oct 2009, 12:22
Hey look it's a penis!
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: JediBendu on 12 Oct 2009, 12:50
Low.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Reed on 12 Oct 2009, 12:53
Whoever has the Kevin Barnes gag account is slacking the fuck off.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Kevin Barnes 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.

Peace xo
Kevie
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: BlakeJustBlake 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.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: theoryC on 13 Oct 2009, 03:39
Arcade Fire.

Can't believe I'm voting for Funeral, but this is a pretty disappointing final round.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Joseph on 13 Oct 2009, 07:12
Low.

What a wonderful album to play really loud.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: valley_parade 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.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Sox 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
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: E. Spaceman on 13 Oct 2009, 15:48
Low won
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: SWOON! at My Gravitas on 13 Oct 2009, 15:56
Wait, what?
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Inlander on 13 Oct 2009, 16:10
I predict the most subdued victory party ever.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: karl gambolputty... on 13 Oct 2009, 16:38
hooray
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: KickThatBathProf on 13 Oct 2009, 18:56
wooo
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: KvP 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.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Sox 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.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: Liz on 14 Oct 2009, 12:44
Dude, fuck the subdued party.

I LOVE LOW. THIS MAKES ME SUPER HAPPY YAYYYYY
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: JD on 14 Oct 2009, 15:41
Okkervil River or Soulwax should have won
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: StaedlerMars on 14 Oct 2009, 15:44
They couldn't both have won!

That's ludicrous.
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: JD on 14 Oct 2009, 15:46
key word being or
Title: Re: What is The Greatest Album of the Decade?
Post by: SWOON! at My Gravitas on 14 Oct 2009, 16:20
I'm still upset that Somebody Came Suddenly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs-SZSHUc6g&feature=PlayList&p=A3FCE4558DE53081&index=0&playnext=1) didn't even make it through the nomination process.