Board 8 > iconsience redux vol 5984: i ain't your buddy, pal

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Not only did Frank Ocean get Odd Future its first BNM, it got a 9.5 on pitchfork

welp.

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VincentLauw posted...

Not only did Frank Ocean get Odd Future its first BNM, it got a 9.5 on pitchfork

pretty bad review, too!

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awful review.

if you've never heard of Frank Ocean you'd have no clue what Channel Orange sounds like. In a funny turn of events, no one has spent more time talking about Frank Ocean's sexual preferences than Pitchfork.

Though I agree with the score. Channel Orange is as close to a 10 as possible without being a 10.

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Pyramids>Thinkin Of You>Pilot Jones

that's the top 3.

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Forrest Gump > Thinkin Bout You > Bad Religion


Pyramids is top 5 for sure though

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Pyramids, Bad Religion, and Pilot Jones for me. Forrest Gump and Crack Rock had me laughing, though I think that was partially the intent

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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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how have i missed this topic for two weeks

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I still have to listen to Life is Good

or any Nas album besides Illmatic




Odd Future is killing it this year, OF tape vol. 2 was great besides a few bad songs (it's still Odd Future), Hodgy's Untitled EP is short but sweet, Channel Orange is one of the best releases this year and we still have Domo (& Alchemist!) and MellowHype records coming soon which should both be really good. Maybe even Tyler's new record who knows. Also Earl release some solo music already damn

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From: Seginustemple | #057

Pyramids, Bad Religion, and Pilot Jones for me. Forrest Gump and Crack Rock had me laughing, though I think that was partially the intent

Forrest Gump definitely has something quirky to it, it's why I like it so much!

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CherryCokes posted...

how have i missed this topic for two weeks

Did you also miss the new Mission of Burma album?

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Nope!

It's pretty good!

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first song off No Idols. Domo Genesis, Earl Sweatshirt, Vince Staples & Action Bronson over an Alchemist beat and it's great

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current New Pornographers album ranking

Twin Cinema > Together > Mass Romantic > Electric Version > Challengers

I'm not sure a band's discography rotates more often for me than theirs

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Mass Romantic > Twin Cinema > Together > Electric Version > Challengers

The only time it changes is when a new album comes out.


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I listened to Twin Cinema and Mass Romantic last night/this morning. Twin Cinema just has more great songs, I think. And it flows better

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i remember when together first came out i adored it, kinda faded on me a bit over time though

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I think they're both fairly close in quality, but I give the nod to Mass Romantic because: it's more chaotic, and I like that; it has Neko Case's best performances on any New Pornos album, even though she's grown more comfortable with her voice over time; it doesn't have "Three or Four" or "The Bones of An Idol," neither of which I like at all (and I'm not too big on "Twin Cinema," either"); and as great as "The Bleeding Heart Show" is, and it's really great, I might like both "Mass Romantic" and "Letter from an Occupant" just a touch more.

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i think i might spend the day listening to new pornos.


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Mass Romantic and Twin Cinema are fantastic but i never really liked any of their other albums. Together is decent I guess though.

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Track by track

Mass Romantic > Twin Cinema
The Fake Headlines > The Bones of an Idol
Use It > The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism
The Bleeding Heart Show > Mystery Hours
Jackie, Dressed in Cobras > Jackie
Letter from an Occupant > The Jessica Numbers (this is much closer than most think)
These Are the Fables > To Wild Homes (also really close, but midcard rather than top tier)
Sing Me Spanish Techno > The Body Says No
Execution Day > Falling Through Your Clothes
Broken Beads > Centre for the Holy Wars
The Mary Martin Show > Three or Four
Star Bodies > Breakin' the Law

Now, Twin Cinema has two more tracks - Streets of Fire and Stacked Crooked, which are better than almost everything in the first 12. If we replaced them in for weaker songs...

Streets of Fire > Execution Day > Falling Through Your Clothes
Stacked Crooked > The Mary Martin Show > Three or Four

something like that

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Mass Romantic > Twin Cinema
The Fake Headlines > The Bones of an Idol
The Slow Descent into Alcoholism > Use It
The Bleeding Heart Show > Mystery Hours
Jackie > Jackie, Dressed In Cobras
Letter from an Occupant > The Jessica Numbers
To Wild Homes > These Are the Fables
The Body Says No > Sing Me Spanish Techno (very close)
Execution Day > Falling Through Your Clothes
Broken Beads > Centre for Holy Wars (Holy Wars takes it if we're comparing live tracks though, so good)
The Mary Martin Show > Three or Four
Star Bodies > Breakin' The Law

Not that I'm in favour of such a binary ranking system. And yeah, "Streets of Fire" is great. Top five New Pornos song, easily.


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Love Streets of Fire. Thinking about learning it on guitar and dueting with a friend of mine on it.

My favorite radio station, WFNX, is going off the air tonight at 7pm. It's been on the air for 29 years, and was instrumental in breaking a ton of alternative bands, most notably Nirvana (and virtually any band from Boston worth mentioning), all while being independently owned and operated.

Normally, they do a free-form Friday, but since the station goes off the air tonight, they did it last night.

This is the playlist they played for their last night on the air.

http://tjconnelly.com/2012/07/20/the-last-night-of-wfnx/

It's honestly one of the best playlists I've ever had the pleasure of hearing.

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last five songs

PJ Harvey - Down by the Water
Pixies - Gigantic
Patti Smith - Gloria
David Bowie - Changes
The Cure - Let's Go to Bed (which was also the first song they played in 1983)

I am not ashamed to say that I started tearing up during Gigantic and started openly crying during Changes. I owe so much of my love of music to this station, it's such a goddamned shame to see it go.

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From: CherryCokes | #075

My favorite radio station, WFNX, is going off the air tonight at 7pm. It's been on the air for 29 years, and was instrumental in breaking a ton of alternative bands, most notably Nirvana (and virtually any band from Boston worth mentioning), all while being independently owned and operated.

It sucks when this happens. My favourite radio show, Brave New Waves, went off the air in 2007. I listened to it nearly every night at midnight for seven years. That show introduced me to so many acts: GY!BE, Kim Hiorthoy, Supersilent, William Basinski, Mirah, Destroyer, Kevin Drumm - the list goes on.


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Yeah, it's a real bummer. They're going to continue streaming online, and the talent has started a new online venture with the people who own the Boston Globe, I think, but I have much less reason to ever listen to terrestrial radio now.

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I'm not exactly sure how this is calculated, but here's a top 100 list based on the ratings from iconsience RYM members:
http://tinyurl.com/iconsience

Kinda neat!


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wonder how much different that list would look if cokes used rym

anyway from that list i am only missing, Fever to Tell, White Blood Cells, Elephant, Portishead, Nevermind, Tabula rasa, Horses in the Sky, Revolver, B****es Brew, Reasonable Doubt and Symphony No. 3

so i know what i'll be getting over the next week.

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The only strange outliers on that list are North and Oneirology (without A Piece of Strange no less) but I like both of those albums anyways. Good stretches in there, 58-53 is a real hot streak. We have cultured ourselves here rather broadly now haven't we?

I wouldn't wanna clique with anyone else, boo

here I am talkin to myself

Sorry to hear about your guys radio stations, much respect to the Nirvana breakage.

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North should be higher IMHHHHHO

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Rusry posted...

wonder how much different that list would look if cokes used rym

anyway from that list i am only missing, Fever to Tell, White Blood Cells, Elephant, Portishead, Nevermind, Tabula rasa, Horses in the Sky, Revolver, B****es Brew, Reasonable Doubt and Symphony No. 3

so i know what i'll be getting over the next week.

you may get an answer to this sooner than you think!

Do you have a lot of idle time at your job?


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From: iiicon | #079

I'm not exactly sure how this is calculated, but here's a top 100 list based on the ratings from iconsience RYM members:
http://tinyurl.com/iconsience

Kinda neat!

that's exactly how I figured the top 10 would look like (barring placements)

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iiicon posted...

Do you have a lot of idle time at your job?

About 2/3 of my time here is idle. That's why I've been able to read so many comic books lately!

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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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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I haven't rated Pet Sounds yet!

So part of the blame is on me for that one

Apparantly I've heard 79 and have 8 more than that in my collection still


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I should also tidy up my RYM. I haven't finished it yet and a few records are definitely rated too high/low for my tastes now

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Snoop Dogg is releasing a reggae album under the moniker "Snoop Lion"

http://pitchfork.com/news/47226-snoop-dogg-announces-reggae-lp-as-snoop-lion-shares-major-lazer-produced-track/

Were the Mayans right?

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http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13916-between-friends-ft-earl-sweatshirt-and-captain-murphy/

new flylo track

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it could be the late hour but damn rusty only that first sentence makes sense to me

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More than half way through 2012

has anyone's favorite song/albums list changed outside of Channel Orange?

I'm adding Cloud Nothings to both lists.

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that'd be cool to see cokes. rym seems to be the only site that i don't get banned. RIP Rausty era on lastfm, feel like that is making them ban easy on me there so i swithced to the name Edvn.

also i think i only told icon, but i think i was pretty accurate of pitchfork being BNM happy after that 9.5 score for channel orange

it really didnt make any sense at all vince lol.


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another day, another BNM from pitchfork.

i knew this would happen but damn they should spread this out.

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wait

They BNM'd Gossamer?

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also, reading the Life is Good review, this paragraph is the truest thing Pitchfork has ever published

Life Is Good is so consistent, in fact, that it's disorienting, and those of us with a long history navigating Nas albums will have a lot of pressing questions: What are all these top-shelf beats doing here? Where are the queasy sex jams, the songs rapped from the perspective of heroin spoons or discarded E&J bottles, the choruses about being a Warrior and a Hero? Where is the blindingly ill-fitting Nas Radio Bid? (The lone example, the Swizz Beatz-produced "Summer on Smash", is just inoffensively generic.) But above all: What happened this time?

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It's about living well as the best revenge after a breakup you fools. This is Nas's most emotionally mature work yet (yes, I might even argue with Illmatic despite how mature the guy was as a teen) and the top-notch beats are only proof that he's still got an ear for it, probably a better ear now than he's had in the past. If there's one criticism I would make it's that the beats are actually *almost* too clean-cut, they sound as if Nas wanted to make a Kanye album as far as scope of musical backdrop. Actually I'm undecided if this is a criticism or not because he takes Kanye's 'bowl you over with class' aesthetic and actually applies more finesse and intelligence to it, but up to the point where it tries to be so majestic it becomes nearly campy and self-parodic. I've only heard the album twice so I'll reserve judgment but I really like it so far.

Ohnomite is still better.

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"It’s like back in the day, with motherf***ers like Mozart. There wasn’t no f***ing words on that s***. It was just sounds and beautiful-ass melodies. That’s what was entertaining to people." - Kid Cudi, from this Complex interview

http://www.complex.com/music/2012/07/good-music-cover-story

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