And that's different from almost every other rock critic how?
I've tried to march in the Slayer Pride Parade ...
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Jon B. - Sep 16, 2005 7:22:02 am PDT #519 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Hayden - Sep 16, 2005 7:38:48 am PDT #520 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
True, Pitchfork isn't too different from anyone else, much as they'd like to think otherwise. I did enjoy David Cross's rip a few months back on their occasional tendency towards over-intellectualizing indie rock (although that's a sin I proudly call my own, too).
dw - Sep 16, 2005 10:18:14 am PDT #521 of 10003
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And that's different from almost every other rock critic how?
It's not. But they're the ones that most have me recalling my college Soviet Culture class.
Hayden - Sep 16, 2005 4:36:42 pm PDT #522 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Anyone interested in doing a Best Of The Half-Decade So Far Deathmatch?
I'd nominate:
- Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
- Brian Wilson - SMiLE
- New Pornographers - Electric Version
- The Wrens - The Meadowlands
- Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
- Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
- Richard Davies - Barbarians (which nobody loves like I do, so there's that)
- Spoon - Girls Can Tell
- Yo La Tengo - ...and then nothing turned itself inside-out
- Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain
- Deerhoof - Milk Man
- Decemberists - Her Majesty
- Decemberists - Picaresque
- Liars - They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top
- Mastodon - Leviathan
- Wire - Read and Burn 01 and 02
- Calexico - Feast of Wire
- Arcade Fire - Funeral
- Madvillain - Madvillainy
- M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts
If you're interested, let me know what your recommendations would be. I'll set up the brackets.
dw - Sep 16, 2005 7:17:19 pm PDT #523 of 10003
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You could do an entirely Northwest bracket.
- New Pornographers - Electric Version
- Decemberists - Her Majesty
- Decemberists - Picaresque
- Neko Case - Blacklisted
- Modest Mouse - The Moon And Antarctica
- Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
- Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
- Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
Not sure about the bracketing or if the Decemberists deserve two slots.
Mr. Broom - Sep 16, 2005 9:08:32 pm PDT #524 of 10003
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
If they do, it's got to be Castaways and Picaresque. Her Majesty's solid, but also solidly third-place.
Kate P. - Sep 17, 2005 12:18:18 am PDT #525 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Electric Version over Mass Romantic ?? I must respectfully disagree. (Haven't listened to Twin Cinema enough yet to offer a strong opinion vs. the other two, but so far I reeeeaaaallllly like it.)
dw - Sep 17, 2005 9:33:21 am PDT #526 of 10003
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Electric Version over Mass Romantic ?? I must respectfully disagree. (Haven't listened to Twin Cinema enough yet to offer a strong opinion vs. the other two, but so far I reeeeaaaallllly like it.)
So, do they get two albums? Twin Cinema will more than likely be in my Top 5 for the year, so it should probably go, too.
How many albums in the brackets? 64? If so, should we limit them to 2/artist?
Hayden - Sep 17, 2005 7:58:09 pm PDT #527 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I'd say 8 or 16 in the bracket. And I stand strongly by Her Majesty or Picaresque over Castaways & Cutouts AND by Electric Version over Mass Romantic, but y'know, that's kinda the point of the match.
So, how about 2 Decemberists & 2 New Pornographers?
dw - Sep 17, 2005 8:46:28 pm PDT #528 of 10003
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16 is a really small number, especially if 1/4 of the slots are going to two bands.
Pool play could work, but then we're overthinking and overworking. Why not just a Decemberists qualifying bracket?
1. Castaways vs. The Tain
2. Her Majesty vs. Picaresque
3. Winner of 1 and 2 -> #1 seed in main event
Like I said, just with the Northwest you could come up with an eight-team bracket.