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2011-10-18, 03:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Can we just do another music thread?
Have you guys heard of Merely Canadian? They're the coolest thing since absolute zero. Their hit single "Hot Chocolate or the Time" is just... well, you have to hear it to believe it.
~ ♅
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2011-10-18, 07:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-18, 07:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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I heard that Pitchfork's breaking out the 9.4s for them... it's like 2008 all over again!
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2011-10-18, 07:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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As long as I don't see 10/10s for Kanye again...
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2011-10-18, 08:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Fun fact: if you mention that rating to 99% of people who follow Pitchfork, they will immediately act like you, they, or Kanye doesn't exist.
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2011-10-18, 08:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-18, 08:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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"What? What about Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy? I don't know what that is! Who are you? Who am I? What's a 'Kanye'?"
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2011-10-19, 07:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Can we just do another music thread?
so i saw bob dylan monday night Oo
my review is here
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2011-10-19, 04:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-19, 05:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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"The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought." - Thomas Beecham
Do you guys agree with that?... I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.
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2011-10-20, 01:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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C'mon, Raist. College Droupout got an 8.2. And College Dropout was miles better than MBDTF, easily. In fact, there are loads of better rap albums that they give mid 9s, which as everyone knows, are the scores pitchfork hands out to albums they really like, but don't think their fans'd let 'em get away with 10s for.
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2011-10-20, 04:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-20, 04:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Chris Rock going on for two and a half vulgar minutes about how awesome Kanye made some girl at sex doesn't to me make a PERFECT album. Or, the best album of the last ten years. Or, the best album last year. It was a good album, but it didn't even make my top ten last year.
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2011-10-20, 04:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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I most certainly do. It is of the same sentiment as my favorite music quote is:
"Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart, and some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens."
-Patrick Rothfuss
Effective music has a way of penetrating with ease to depths that other mediums need far more effort from the subject to reach.At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of the trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise.
-Camus, An Absurd Reasoning
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2011-10-20, 04:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-20, 04:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring
It's one of my favorite things. It's like if twee music likes you, but also wants you to die.
Did you not like The Suburbs? It was probably the second most acclaimed album of last year from my recollection. It didn't make my top ten either.
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2011-10-20, 04:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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I really did not like The Suburbs. And it's not me being a "hater", I mean I loved Neon Bible and Funeral. The 'Burbs on the other hand? Naahhh... If I had to choose a favourite of '10 aside from Kanye it'd be the new Big Boi. Or the new Deerhunter. Those were pretty rad and a heck of a lot more fun to listen to than The 'Burbs.
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2011-10-20, 05:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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I've been on a binge...
Of listening to !!! and DFA 1979, non-stop, sprinkled, oddly enough, with Because I Got High, by Afroman.
Any other recommendations?
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2011-10-20, 05:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-20, 06:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hmm. Top 10 albums of last year in my opinion, in no order
MBDTW-Kanye West
The Suburbs-Arcade Fire
Fences-Fences
Crystal Castles II-Crystal Castles
Plastic Beach-Gorillaz
High Violet-The National
This Is Happening-LCD Soundsystem
Crazy For You-Best Coast
Body Talk-Robyn
Teen Dream-Beach House
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2011-10-20, 07:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Just curious if there are any Carbon Leaf fans in the playground.
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2011-10-20, 08:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-20, 09:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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!!! is god tier.
Check out Out Hud, LCD Soundsystem's debut, GANG OF FOOOOUUUURRRRR, and possibly Maserati. Also Afroman's hoopy.
Best albums of 2010 was Transference, by Spoon. I loved Plastic Beach and I loved This is Happening, but Transference was pretty goddam singular.
Other things I liked... Le Noise was enjoyable, but then I'm a Neil Young fanboy. Grinderman's always fun; hell, anything Nick Cave does is pretty up there. I love Janelle Monae unconditionally; I wouldn't say Archandroid's even in the running for "best of 2010", but just the fact that it exists tickles me pink...
For my part, I find Arcade Fire, Deerhunter, Beach House, the whole Wavves/Best Coast/Girls crowd, somewhere on the spectrum from "unremarkable" to "obnoxious".
...I am not a Wavves fan.Avatar by Kris on a Stick
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2011-10-20, 09:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-20, 09:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-20, 10:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-20, 10:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-20, 10:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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2011-10-20, 10:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Not mad, just a little disappoint.
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2011-10-20, 11:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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I love lists. Here's one such list. 2010 albums that made me feel happy on the inside. In order from most happy to least happy.
1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantast (Kanye West)
2. Halcyon Digest (Deerhunter)
3. Sir Lucious Leftfoot (Big Boi)
4. Have One On Me (Joanna Newsom)
5. The ArchAndroid (Janelle Monae)
6. Cosmogramma (Flying Lotus)
7. This Is Happening (LCD Soundsystem)
8. Kvelertak (Kvelertak)
9. Your Future, Our Clutter (The Fall)
10. Contra (Vampire Weekend)
Haters gonna hate picks 1 and 10.