but then ironically the 28 rules are usually part of the selection process so
― Ban (Julie Lagger), Monday, 12 December 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
AD album is so terrible, can't imagine any of the things I haven't heard on here are worse.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
the Burial album is literally the most unmemorable thing I've ever attempted to pay attention to
― OH NOES, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
you probably don't remember the most unmemorable thing you've attempted to pay attention to
― n/a, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
ahah
― sisilafami, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
I know for a fact I don't remember the most unmemorable thing I've attempted to pay attention to because I've tried to listen to Burial multiple times and I don't remember a single thing about anything they've released.
― OH NOES, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
Burial really is one of the worst things on this list easy
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Monday, 12 December 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
arrested development is the gift that keeps on giving
― the deli llama, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
u dont even need a gift: dig your hands in the dirt, children play with earth
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Monday, 12 December 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
if you don't like the Metamorphosis mix of "People Everyday", you don't actually like music
― OH NOES, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
almost all of these make more sense to me than having a totally middle-of-the-road Sonic Youth record as #1 of the year. Murray St was great but Thousand Leaves ... nah.
― chjips ahoy (sandbox dmr), Monday, 12 December 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
'far side virtual' is by far the most worthless thing on here.
― nuhnuhnuh, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
it's ugly, stupid, pretentious, and you can't even dance to it.
― nuhnuhnuh, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
lol listening to Burial again and now at least I have something to remember them by now (all of the terrible shit Jamie XX does is very Burial-influenced)
― OH NOES, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
arrested development aren't so bad, i just thought it was a funny choice for avant-gardey THE WIRE
― the deli llama, Monday, 12 December 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
mark s was maybe editor then
― Minga Frump (Jimmy Riddle), Monday, 12 December 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
The Burial album is still grebt tbh, fuiud
― lebateauivre, Monday, 12 December 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
maybe Ferraro is so bad that it will fade into obscurity and then get rediscovered by people who never grew up hearing the Microsoft Windows midi sound.
― skip, Monday, 12 December 2011 23:05 (twelve years ago) link
kinda redundant after his second album though, imo
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, 12 December 2011 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
Mm, ok, put that way I see what you mean. Maybe Burial's first album is the best example of "you had to have heard it then" or something.
― lebateauivre, Monday, 12 December 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
I reckon Untrue should have beaten Comicopera, but The Drift should have beaten the first Burial one.
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, 12 December 2011 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
wire top trumps
― schalke nult fear (nakhchivan), Monday, 12 December 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, Untrue got beaten on beard length
― los krampusinos! (pomplamau5), Monday, 12 December 2011 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
swans were robbed at the death
― schalke nult fear (nakhchivan), Monday, 12 December 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
For what is worth Niun Niggung is fucking class and anyone who disagrees is a cloth eared cave dwelling cunt in a Hillman Hunter.
― jigsaw jenny, Monday, 12 December 2011 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://pablochiste.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/forrest_gump_303722x.jpg
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
How does one justify dismissing ATL as MOR and then in the same post call Murray Street great?
― massachusetts_capricorns_cru (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
Like Murray Street is basically ATL with all the awesome unsettling skronk excised...
― massachusetts_capricorns_cru (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
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lol
― wil smif, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 01:51 (twelve years ago) link
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― massachusetts_capricorns_cru (henrietta lacks), Monday, December 12, 2011 7:42 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink
my favorite songs on each are "Rain On Tin" and "Wildflower Soul" so all i care about is the hippie epix
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 01:56 (twelve years ago) link
otm. I kinda forgot about wildflower soul. that's a good one.
― chjips ahoy (sandbox dmr), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
i loved A Thousand Leaves at the time but it hasn't aged well, partly because the performances are a little lacking and partly because it's the only SY album longer than Daydream Nation and doesn't really justify it. some great songs here and there, though.
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
when Thousand Leaves wins this just wanna point out i wasn't saying it was a terrible record just pointless and unexceptional like every SY joint post Sister
― Ban (Julie Lagger), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
thanks for the challops bro
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
it's only challops if everybody in SY doesn't agree with me
― Angles that bitch (Julie Lagger), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
If I'm in the wrong mood ATY sounds boring (and Kim screechy), but "Hoarfrost" (my favorite Ranaldo song ever) and "Hits of Sunshine" never fail to grab me.
― Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
Al has a better memory about this than I do: didn't ATY score well in the late nineties Sonic Youth poll?
iirc in the poll of 90s albums it got left in the dust by dirty and washing machine and goo
― Mr. Stevenson #2, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
man washing machine was a great album
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 02:51 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^^^
Am I missing something with this "ATY" acronym?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
believe it was a play on the length & tediousness of the record, fans called it "A Thousand Years". I like it just fine though.
― sleeve sandbox, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
sonic youth
― youtube cover, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y21VecIIdBI
― sarahel, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
after a lot of thought i think i'm voting for vespertine because ugh, but then that books record never announced itself as anything noteworthy to me either, and then i've never heard a robert wyatt record but i guess i trust his pedigree
feel like one day that burial record is going to shrug off the gross stigma that you all attach to it
also wtf @ anyone who denounced the last few years of picks, the broadcast and actress records are pretty great and i much prefer kind of modest list toppers that just happened to be liked by a lot of people than, um, attempts at pinning the musical accomplishments of a year on one album
which may not be an accurate reflection of how lists are made but that's kind of how they come off every year forever
― Brad Nelson, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 04:44 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that Broadcast record rules school
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 05:33 (twelve years ago) link
this thread is a p effective advertisement for the qualities of that ferraro record atp
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 05:54 (twelve years ago) link
Robert Wyatt steady has the shittiest album titles of any legacy artist
― boof troop (dealwithit.gif), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 05:56 (twelve years ago) link
this thread is a p effective advertisement for the qualities of that ferraro record atp? ?(?_ ?)?, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 05:54 (8 hours ago) Permalink
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net etiquette says you should not provide unsolicited negative feedback but
'far side virtual' is by far the most worthless thing on here.? nuhnuhnuh, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:57 (Yesterday) Permalinkit's ugly, stupid, pretentious, and you can't even dance to it.? nuhnuhnuh, Monday, 12 December 2011 21:58 (Yesterday) Permalinkmaybe Ferraro is so bad that it will fade into obscurity and then get rediscovered by people who never grew up hearing the Microsoft Windows midi sound.? skip, Monday, 12 December 2011 23:05 (Yesterday) Permalink
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just FYI. I want to vote bjork twice but I can't.
― wolves lacan sandbox ed, Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
counterpoint
this thread is a p effective advertisement for the qualities of that ferraro record atp― є(٥_ ٥)э, Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:54 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:54 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink
otm. if JF makes our year end list it will be because of this thread. I'm still convinced that the reason four out of five GAPDY artists made the 09 albums top 10 was because of that damned acronym
― massachusetts_capricorns_cru (henrietta lacks), Tuesday, 13 December 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
OK, now I've actually heard the James Ferraro record, it is both hilarious and oddly compelling.
It is like a Steve Reich piece recorded by LOLcats.
And that Wire blog explaining how it came to be number one all written in maths, like "this album being number one is due to a glitch in statistical analysis" is one of the most brilliant pieces of writing I've read all year.
― Thomosexual II (Fotherington Thomas), Wednesday, 14 December 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link