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I think I may be the only person in the world (certainly on the internet) who actually likes Summer on Smash. I mean, Miguel's verse adds absolutely nothing to the song, and that post-chorus bit where the beat breaks down and Swizz says SUMMER ON SMASH yet more times is irritating, but that beat is great.

And vocally Swizz Beatz has been in "so bad he's hilarious" territory for a while now. I mean, how can you hear WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE WELL and not smile out of sheer bemusement?

As for that trio of new albums that I checked out last week, I'm currently going Channel Orange > Skelethon > Life is Good. The latter's pretty consistent for a Nas album, but his on-mic performance has nothing on even Untitled (which, to be fair, I've always thought was unfairly maligned). Bye Baby is the only song where he displays even a modicum of emotion, and he simply doesn't rap well enough to make up for that for the most part.

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also apologies for probably single-handedly knocking VU&Nico and pet sounds out of the top 20. the latter doesn't even make it!

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not bad! karma as the highest jazz album is cool, as is cosmogramma so high

nice to see laughing stock get its props too (highest talk talk album!)

fun fact: i've heard 88 of the first 90 but only half of the final ten

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glad to see the frank/aesop/nas trifecta is getting love here as well as RYM

lots to listen to when i get back home!

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man you guys and your bans why can't you be placid and boring like me

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s'all good, everyone else seems to think i should be quaking in my boots

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that said i am totally down for recording a comedy verse when i have more time

think i could pull off some danny brown-style surrealist aggression pretty well!

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paysage d'hiver freestyle coming up!

(not really i can't rap for s***)

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I wanna take on some rap board dude at some point from the 22nd onwards.

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care, ya bastards

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valar morghulis (all topics must purge)

surprise of the year so far: the new om album is like, really good. loads of violin, cello and piano swirling around, and they sound like a whole different band (which i guess they are since haikus left)

first worthwhile thing they've done since conference of the birds in my opinion

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these days i find myself listening to the colour of spring more than either of the last two talk talk albums

it's possible that this says something about my changing outlook on life but i'm okay with it

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...no he didn't!

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yeah but you were talking about the openers in reference to their albums, not the songs themselves

15 step is about as electronic as in rainbows gets (besides maybe videotape), and i don't think it's less of a rock song than say, climbing up the walls

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also also

Openers:

Bloom > 15 Step >> 2+2=5 > EEIRP > Airbag > Packt >> You > Planet Telex

Closers:

LIAGH > AWATD >> MPS > Street Spirit > Videotape >> Separator > Blow Out >> The Tourist


...and in general the closers are way way better (I'd put Videotape above 15 Step)

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I think genres are very fluid and subjective but at the same time I'm perplexed anyone would place OK Computer and In Rainbows in separate ones.

For me, though, every Radiohead album besides Kid A is a rock album of some description, and even then I don't think any other blanket term suits it better. They've certainly never made an album I'd describe as primarily electronic, which would seem like the obvious alternative unless you include ridiculously vague classifications like "alternative".

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i happen to enjoy valtari because it has that sort of bland summery pleasantness that goes well with sun and general contentedness (see beach house, washed out)

to claim it's anywhere near ( ) is patently ridiculous though

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what the hell is in rainbows if it isn't a rock album?

also i stand by the EEIRP judgement, it's flawless as an introduction to kid a, and pretty cool live, but easily in the bottom half of that album quality-wise

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bloom and 15 step are the only radiohead openers that are legitimately great songs as opposed to good introductions to the tone of their respective albums

fantastic band for closers, but album openers not so much

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os mutantes in the top ten is cool but i can't say i like any album in the top three and odessey and oracle top is just ugh

as is arthur being the third kinks album
as is abbey road being the FIFTH beatles album
as is the jazz contingent (well chosen as it is) being so low
as is forever changes and astral weeks outside the top ten

actually, i don't like this list much at all!

edit: wait, they have please please me above a hard day's night too? come on


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yeah sure i'll sign (heavyweight probably)

can't say i'll be able to rap too often though

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Can I have three more, please? If so:

Swans - The Sound (trying again!)


Tenhi - Varpuspäivä


Goodie Mob - Still Standing


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Snow in San Anselmo
You Don't Pull No Punches, But You Don't Push the River

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i wouldn't call it one of my favourite radiohead songs, but i think the album version of videotape is actually one of their most powerful statements. like, potentially top three.

also how anyone could think that song is about anything other than suicide is beyond me

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a current favourite and two artists you really need to get into

Swans - The Sound


Cocteau Twins - Cherry Coloured Funk


Danny Brown - Monopoly


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danny brown's favourite album ever is forever changes. could I love this man any more?



(whole five-part interview is tremendous entertainment, for the record)

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for the record, what i'm used to thinking of my top five landed:

#78
#32
#20
#30
#88

i guess all these years i've spent here forcing my taste on everyone have paid off!

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From: WingedInsignia | #294
WalrusJump posted...my main impression was "why the hell is spirit of eden 110 spots higher than laughing stock?"



Calling it right now: Giggs.

Nope! I do prefer Spirit of Eden but Laughing Stock probably made my top 20 too. Only way you could blame me is indirectly, cos my attempts were always to get people here into both yet only Spirit seems to have really stuck.

iconsience's clear preference for Spirit has always left me a little perplexed too, actually!

p.s. not everything is my fault, honest.

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cool stuff, shame you don't love it quite so much as i do

can i go again? if so, videotape

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I don't know why anybody would make fun of my top 5 when 1: It's awesome, and 2. It doesn't contain 3 albums by a single band which doesn't even deserve more than 1 album in a top 50 rock albums list.

can't disagree with your second point (if only because radiohead's best albums aren't rock), but your top five doesn't contain any bands which would even deserve one in such a list!

p.s. lolkanye is more talented than anyone in your top five. except MAYBE geoff tate, but he kinda invalidated himself by making cheesy prog metal

p.p.s. 31-40 is so much better than the top ten it's not even funny. at least they all placed highly!

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a wolf at the door

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i'd vote tenhi as best active folk band personally but besides that i pretty much agree 100% with seg

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only listened to it once but i much prefer her bounty series of singles

album doesn't get interesting until the last two tracks imo

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after a few listens i've come round on both the new krit and curren$y records

both suffer from a handful of wayward hooks but other than that they're quality stuff and contain some of their best material

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fair enough! you should get on the-dream's stuff for sure though (assuming you enjoy the song in that link), he's clearly the most direct antecedent to frank ocean and his discography is remarkably solid

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i'm as big a fan of the weeknd as anyone, but to credit that "suite" style of modern R&B songwriting to anyone but the-dream (and prince before him, obviously) is just ignorant



good song though, even if the last few minutes did seem kinda superfluous

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that last batch is amazing

can't even particularly hate on scenes from a memory placing highest (despite how hilariously bad it is) due to how much it awed me when i was 13

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only thing on blues and roots which is anywhere near mingus' best work is moanin' imo

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white pony is better than both yo

also:

220 | Alanis Morisette | Jagged Little Pill
219 | Arcturus | The Sham Mirrors
218 | Miles Davis | B****es Brew
217 | Ghostface Killah | Supreme Clientele
216 | Rome | Flowers From Exile
215 | Leonard Cohen | Songs of Leonard Cohen
214 | Belle & Sebastian | If You're Feeling Sinister
213 | Henryk Górecki | Symphony No. 3 (London Sinfonietta/David Zinman; Dawn Upshaw)
212 | Black Sabbath | Paranoid
211 | The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow

best batch yet

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:(

damnit seg/rusty, seems you guys suck at can after all

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if you're talking to me i most certainly would have!

top 25 album right there

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future days > tago mago yes

if ege bamyasi is above both then board 8 is excellent at can

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i highly doubt it, project has only ever released the six songs that make up that record

plus it's weird ambient psychedelic black metally stuff so yeah

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whatever the hell murmuüre is

the best part is that everyone who's heard it still feels this way

fantastic record

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We Are the Romans > Jane Doe let it go down in the annals of history

disgusting result

well, as disgusting as an 8.5/10 album placing above a 9.5/10 album can be, anyway

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i feel oddly compelled to post here

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also, dance of the moon and the sun is a wonderful album but certainly not for everyone, so my pick is E 1999

screw everyone that album rules

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oh hey, pale ravine made it! mind disclosing if anyone voted for it other than me? i'd be surprised!

nothing else in that batch does much for me (nice to see slint and boredoms though, respectable bands fo sho)

edit: so far batch 1 > 2 > 3 > 4. hope this trend doesn't continue!

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meh
meh
meh
can't say
meh
can't say
meh
fantastic; too low
good
fantastic; too low

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good
who cares
good
good
fantastic
good
good
meh
lol
lol

p. much better than rolling stone's already

NEXT

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