best electronic album of all time

8/4/2010 3:58:30 PM

kraftwerk - computer world

8/4/2010 4:16:08 PM

I really really liked the kids performance in The Road, may have to read the book

do you like prog?

8/4/2010 5:03:54 PM

no

occasionally i will listen to yes for a laugh, though

8/4/2010 5:08:12 PM

prog is something I feel like I should like, I enjoy complex compositions, but I just can't really get into it


what is something (in the music/literature/film area) that you feel like you should like but can't quite get into

8/4/2010 5:11:35 PM

the hold steady (because of the dude's voice)

the movie closer (because i hate all the characters)

8/4/2010 5:19:20 PM

on a whim i just filled out my neil young anthology

a few of these albums i know are terrible, but i have a thing about being complete

how do you feel about neil

8/4/2010 5:32:27 PM

love neil

haters gonna hate, i love trans

8/4/2010 5:40:33 PM

What's the best Neil Young album after 1975

Are you going to say Trans

[Edited on August 4, 2010 at 5:50 PM. Reason : Harvest Moon doesn't count]

8/4/2010 5:44:59 PM

I hope Neil Young will remember a Southern man don't need him around anyhow.

8/4/2010 5:49:09 PM

vb plz answer rust never sleeps to the above question. motherfuckers need to know!

yo vb,

philosophical question

if somebody throws hand sanitizer in the trash

does the trash get sanitized

or the sanitizer get trashed?

[Edited on August 4, 2010 at 5:55 PM. Reason : .]

8/4/2010 5:52:36 PM

I'm listening to Pacer, so what's your favorite side project (or, I guess, side project of a side project)

I feel like this question has probably been asked in 21 pages

8/4/2010 5:56:14 PM

if you had to reincarnate as a dust mite living in an ac/dc deep cut

which song would you want it to be

8/4/2010 5:59:48 PM

if you had to live on a desert island,

and the things/people you encountered on the island were associated with the things in a bob dylan non-album song,

what dylan song would it be?

(ex: if you picked "desolation row," you would meet all the famous people/characters mentioned in the song "desolation row," such as cain and abel, the hunchback of notre dame, and bette davis. but you can't pick "desolation row," because it was on an album)

8/4/2010 6:13:19 PM

i will choose rust never sleeps

the sanitizer gets trashed, because it's not trash sanitizer

you could argue that pavement is a side project, but i, too, love that amps record

dust mite me would probably hang out in "can i sit next to you girl?"

"can you please crawl out your window?"

8/4/2010 9:35:28 PM

Will "Alphabeats" ever have a top 10 song on the US charts?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BOMhenAQcw

8/4/2010 9:42:27 PM

Need some Stacey Kent alternatives asap.

8/4/2010 10:02:25 PM

^^ doubtful

^ i got nothin'

8/4/2010 10:04:43 PM

i liked your ask the goalie thread more.

8/4/2010 10:05:10 PM

since i missed the neil young conversation earlier

how do you feel about mirrorball?

8/4/2010 11:27:14 PM

i don't think it's a great album, but it's fun

it's obvious that they enjoyed doing it, and it comes through in the sound, which is always pretty cool

8/4/2010 11:29:18 PM

yeah one of my friends thinks it sucks, and i enjoy it from time to time, so i was just making sure i'm not crazy. i think pearl jam ended up with the best 2 songs from those recording sessions though.

8/5/2010 12:01:38 AM

do you like Elastica by Elastica o_o

8/5/2010 12:06:36 AM

How about France Gall alternatives?

8/5/2010 12:18:05 AM

Quote :

"Elastica - Elastica (1995) Continuing to document my obsession with female-fronted guitar pop bands, I bring you Elastica, a band that gave us one perfect record and not much else. I’ll briefly address the criticisms of this album just to get them out of the way: the tabla sounds on “Indian Song” are hokey, and two of the songs sound a lot like two Wire songs. Anyway. There’s something about the total package of this album that really speaks to me. The whole thing has a disinterested snarl that’s echoed in both the cover photo and Justine Frischmann’s vocals. To reinforce the concept of, “Here are our songs, like them or don’t,” only four of the sixteen tracks are longer than three minutes and three clock in at under ninety seconds. Elastica are unapologetically a pop band, and as a result their songs are fueled by the quality of the hooks and the resulting energy. When the energy behind a song is exhausted, they stop playing it and move to the next one, never adding an extra chorus or unneeded instrumental break. There are few albums that work completely in any context, the kind where you’re not compelled to skip a track or two depending on if you’re in the car or at a party. This is one of those albums."

8/5/2010 2:59:41 AM

i know

8/5/2010 3:01:34 AM

Any recommendations for bands a vein similar to Arcade Fire?

BTW, Sprawl II is indeed an amazing, amazing track.

8/5/2010 3:39:11 AM

for some reason, okkervil river jumps into my head

not nearly as dramatic or epic, but damn good shit with interesting instrumentation, beautiful vocals, and songs that meander

my friend calls AF "musket rock" and throws them in with neutral milk hotel and shit because of anachronisms in arrangements, but i think that's silly

in other words, i really like okkervil river

8/5/2010 3:44:51 AM

so you said you've wanted to come to my trivia...... here is round 2 of last night.....


Round 2- Famous Literature, in other words

One example would be-Ebony Gorgeous= Black Beauty


1. The Time of Incorruptibility
2. Everything Silent on the Occidental Anterior
3. In Order to Murder a Member of the Mimidae family
4. Awareness and Responsiveness
5. The Basis of Type
6. The Baseball Player Behind the Plate in the Grain
7. Absent with the Currents
8. Across the Seeing Cup
9. A Crease in Chronology
10. Egotism and Discrimination

8/5/2010 3:50:05 AM

^I like that.

8/5/2010 3:52:27 AM

^^ i'm posting to say that i've seen that

i'll give myself five minutes from right now

8/5/2010 3:57:07 AM

8/5/2010 3:57:51 AM

1. The Age of Innocence
2. All Quiet on the Western Front
3. To Kill A Mockingbird
4. Sense & Sensibility?
5. ?
6. The Catcher in the Rye
7. Gone With the Wind
8. Through the Looking Glass
9. A Wrinkle in Time
10. Pride & Prejudice

8/5/2010 4:02:38 AM

great job!


5. Origin of the Species

8/5/2010 4:05:58 AM

9/10 ain't bad for all by my lonesome at 4 AM

things i learned during round 3 of kings trivia this week:

- shelton's furniture used to be a rock venue and the b-52's played there
- thelonious monk played at the frog & nightgown
- pretty much everyone in this town hates ryan adams as a person

8/5/2010 4:11:39 AM

yeah man, 9/10 is great ay 4 am by your lonesome!

8/5/2010 4:12:41 AM

to be fair, though, that's in an area of expertise for me

i'm also especially good at identifying songs from clips less than two seconds in length

very often when the clip doesn't even contain music, because i'm such a huge goddamn nerd that i know what the interstitial noise is on hundreds of records

but i bombed out on the round where you had to identify shots by their ingredients

winning team was 44/60, we were second with 41/60

*sigh*

8/5/2010 4:17:15 AM

Quote :

"since i missed the neil young conversation earlier how do you feel about mirrorball?"

dude i love Sarah McLachlan too!!!

8/5/2010 8:53:45 AM

ive been trying to get the gf into okkervil river, but it's not taking.

however, she loves shearwater

so w/e

8/5/2010 9:06:40 AM

take what you can get?

8/5/2010 9:08:37 AM

How do you Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs" in comparison the "The Funeral"

8/5/2010 9:45:47 AM

Quote :

"the THE FUNERAL"

8/5/2010 9:51:16 AM

fuck

8/5/2010 9:56:10 AM

i recommend you read the last 2 pages bassjunkie

8/5/2010 9:58:37 AM

Ah, word. Gracias

8/5/2010 10:09:09 AM

What kind of music did your parents listen to with you when you were a kid? And did you find yourself gravitating towards or veering away from that kind of music as you got older?

8/5/2010 3:50:37 PM

Also, DO U LIKE THE NU THE ARCADE FIRE CD "THE SUB HERBS" VB

8/5/2010 3:55:10 PM

we listened to some '70s country, and i listened to normal garbage FM radio until i was about 11

but my parents were never big music folks

8/5/2010 4:12:59 PM

Mine weren't either.

But I sometimes wonder if all the stuff my dad and I listened to when I was a kid (typical old white guy stuff like CCR, The Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel) were all important building blocks for most of what I like now (even though I didn't like listening to that stuff when I was a little kid and rebelled against it when I was a teen).

8/5/2010 4:21:44 PM

my mom played a lot of showtunes while she was cleaning the house, which might explain my love for heavy orchestration

i go to dinner with my parents a lot, and my dad always makes positive comments if i'm listening to something like sharon jones or jr. walker, but we never talked about that kind of stuff when i was little, so that just might be the universal appeal of good soul music

8/5/2010 4:26:51 PM