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Post by kmc on Apr 11, 2006 19:48:09 GMT -5
I agree. I might also add that, while Blacklisted is one of my favorite albums, song for song Fox Confessor is better, and as an album more cohesive. The singing is better, the writing is better, the sense of style and mood are better.
The new Elvis Costello live cd is amazing, by the way, as is the new Built To Spill. Big fan of both.
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Post by Kensterberg on Apr 11, 2006 19:49:09 GMT -5
There's a new live Elvis disc? What's on it?
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Post by Dr. Drum on Apr 11, 2006 20:24:56 GMT -5
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Post by melon1 on Apr 15, 2006 17:48:53 GMT -5
Now that JLLM says that the new Built To Spill is the shiznit, even better than half of his list(he says) I GOTTA check it out. A fan, no doubt.
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Post by melon1 on Apr 17, 2006 15:53:27 GMT -5
And the Album of the Century goes to.......(drum roll)........
YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT
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Post by melon1 on Apr 17, 2006 15:55:10 GMT -5
The rest of the list coming in the next hour or so.....
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Post by maarts on Apr 17, 2006 16:05:14 GMT -5
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.
Well, if that album is Album of the century around here it's time I started packing my bags and leave.
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Post by Paul on Apr 17, 2006 16:07:38 GMT -5
And the Album of the Century goes to.......(drum roll)........ YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT ;D That's what I'm talking about! Called it way back on page one; its a no brainer really. |
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Post by phil on Apr 17, 2006 16:08:54 GMT -5
Well, if that album is Album of the century around here
it's time I started packing my bags and leave.
HÉ ! Don't forget to leave a forwarding adress ...
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Post by melon1 on Apr 17, 2006 16:48:20 GMT -5
Wait, maarts, Aegitus Byrjun ended up on there. Don't leave us, dude.
Here's the participants:
Fuzznuts
maarts
kMc
JLLM
Dr. Drum
Ken Holzman
Weeping Guitar
pattentank22
luke
thorny
dolly
Rocky
Paul Cook
Mr. T
Adam
R.i.t.
Rileydog
frag
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Post by melon1 on Apr 17, 2006 16:52:32 GMT -5
18 in all.
Here's the scoring system I used:
1=40
2=38
3=36
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13=16
14=14
15=12
I gave an extra 10 points to each album for each list it appeared on more than 3. A total of 25 albums ended up on at least 3 lists so I figured that would be a good place to stop. I'll put after each album the points it got(nothing even came close to YHF) and the number of lists it appeared on. Here goes...
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Post by melon1 on Apr 17, 2006 17:06:39 GMT -5
The Top 25 Greatest Albums Thus Far This Decade
1. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco 434 (12)
2. Funeral - Arcade Fire 308 (9)
3. Kid A - Radiohead 282 (7)
4. Turn On the Bright Lights - Interpol 250 (7)
5. Hail To the Theif - Radiohead 246 (7)
6. Lateralus - Tool 226 (6)
7. You Forgot It In People - Broken Social Scene 204 (5)
8. The Moon and Antartica - Modest Mouse 198 (5)
9. Origin Of Symmetry - Muse 144 (5)
10. Set Yourself On Fire - Stars 134 (4)
11. Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antenna To Heaven - Godspeed You!Black Emporer 120 (5)
12. (3-way tie) Franz Ferdinand(5), Elephant - White Stripes(4) & Love and Theft - Bob Dylan (4) 118 pts each
15. Silent Alarm - Bloc Party 110 (4)
16. Is This It? - The Strokes 106 (4)
17. Mass Romantic - New Pornographers 94 (4)
The rest made 3 lists each.
18. (tie) Blacklisted - Neko Case & Frances the Mute - The Mars Volta both 90 pts
20. A Ghost Is Born - Wilco 84
21. Streetcore - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros 80
22. Aegitus Byrjun - Sigur Ros 74
23. (tie) 100 Broken Windows - Idlewild & XTRMNTR - Primal Scream Both 66 pts
25. Illinois - Sufjan Stevens 62
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Post by riley on Apr 18, 2006 7:00:16 GMT -5
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Well, if that album is Album of the century around here it's time I started packing my bags and leave. I'm not packing. I'm not surprised. I'm just in total disagreement. Wilco are good, but the blind allegiance baffles me. |
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Post by Paul on Apr 18, 2006 8:02:54 GMT -5
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Well, if that album is Album of the century around here it's time I started packing my bags and leave. I'm not packing. I'm not surprised. I'm just in total disagreement. Wilco are good, but the blind allegiance baffles me. Blind allegiance? I'm confused. I'm pretty nit picky about what I listen to, and IMHO Wilco has not released a bad album. AGIB get slammed around here (don't know why), and I really enjoy all but one song from that album. I've listened to Wilco for years, scrutinized them, didn't embrace them initially, and finally really came to like them; I don't think I follow them blindly. |
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 18, 2006 9:51:25 GMT -5
Of course, we'll all have to modify our list as new albums come out.
Oh. And another thing. Some of us could stand to modify our lists due to certain more-worthy albums we merely forgot about. For instance, I should have included ISIS's Panopticon in mine, but didn't. A move I regret.
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