operation: help boorishly using lists

Christmas came early Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 9225

Boorishly has a problem. He wants to know what young people listen to so he can infiltrate their defenses and strike with his rod stewart and his neil diamond. But he isn't rick rubin so it is a lot harder than he thought. This is where you come in.

List your 10-25 favorite albums since 2000. Ostensibly enough people will do this and boorishly will know not only what bands are worth checking out but also what albums, and he will also know what stuff people love but don't talk about so much because it isn't brand new (boorishly, do not listen to the band brand new).

I will do my list soon but for now my ipod is kibitzing.

Christmas came early Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 9225

i figured out my ipod. are people interested in this or should we change the subject? i put this in its own separate thread because it seemed like if we spent all of boorishly's thread talking about music he should review it would mean spending less time talking about the music he did review. also it's not like threads aren't a renewable resource.

here's my list of my favorite albums from 2000-2008 (only listing one album per group) in no particular order other than 'Feels' is my number 1:

Animal Collective- Feels
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and Matt Sweeny- Superwolf
Songs: Ohia- Magnolia Electric Co.
Radiohead- Kid A
Sufjan Stevens- Come On Feel the Illinoise
Br. Danielson- Brother is to Son
Devendra Banhart- Cripple Crow
Joanna Newsom- Ys
The Hold Steady- Separation Sunday
Why?- Elephant Eyelash
Unicorns- Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Jay-Z- the Black Album
Kanye West- Late Registration
The Thermals- The Body The Blood The Machine
Menomena- I Am the Fun Blame Monster (of all the albums, this may be the one that is the most fun to physically own as it has the best packaging. That is the real reason it ended up on this list ahead of so many other bands/albums)

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:08 pm

okay so I didn't want to spend a lot of mental energy on this so it might not be a very good list. I removed some of the bands that aren't exactly "normal" for young people to like.

Arctic Monkeys: Favourite Worst Nightmare
The Aliens: Astronomy for Dogs
Flogging Molly: Swagger
Franz Ferdinand: Franz Ferdinand
The Hives: The Black & White Album
Ted Leo & Pharmacists: Shake the Sheets
Ted Leo & Pharmacists: Living with the Living
Me First & the Gimme Gimmes: Blow in the Wind
The New Pornographers: Mass Romantic
The New Pornographers: Electric Version
The Raconteurs: Consolers of the Lonely
Regina Spektor: Begin to Hope
Sons and Daughters: This Gift
The Strokes: Is This It
The Strokes: Room on Fire
Switchfoot: Nothing is Sound
Switchfoot: Oh! Gravity.
The Thrills: Teenager
The White Stripes: Icky Thump
Andrew W.K.: I Get Wet
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Show Your Bones

Christmas came early Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 9225

this is steve's forum. bands that aren't "normal" for young people to like are encouraged here.

true falcons will attack children · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:23 pm

1. The Castlevania 20th Anniversary Deluxe Music Collection that I got when I pre-ordered Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
2. The Life Aquatic Soundtrack
3. MC Frontalot - I don't have any album by him just a folder full of random songs that he has made for songfight or put up on his website.
4. Gorillaz - Demon Days
5. Seu Jorge - Cru (I really like the Life Aquatic Soundtrack so I looked for more stuff by the guy)
6. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
7. The Green Hornet radio dramas
8. Flight of the Conchordes
9. that song at the end of Portal
10. that pi song by Hard n' Phirm
11. that first Tenacious D album

true falcons will attack children · Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:53 pm

Th... That seriously is, like, my entire music collection.

Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 5693

some albums/eps i particularly like:

TV on the Radio - Young Liars
The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee (but really just anything)
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (I think this is 1998? who cares)
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Self - Gizmodgery
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (but I haven't heard Feels, so it might be better)

I'd also like to hear Boorishly's opinion on Loveless by My Bloody Valentine, which is 1991 but the young people still like it

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 1:26 am

I'm not much younger than Boorishly, but I enjoyed at least 14 post-2000 albums, if not more.
I've included some skinny on what situations each might be good for.

The Blood Brothers - Crimes
if you like things that are artfully abrasive

Broadcast - Tender Buttons
if you like a calming pensive mood

William Orbit - Pieces in a Modern Style
if you like reinterpretations of classical music via synthesizers

Ladytron - 604
if you like two women singing and/or rhythmically speaking over some danceable music with occasional high-pitched sounds

Jordan Rudess - Feeding The Wheel
if you've ever thought Dream Theater should ditch their vocalist and focus more on keyboards

The Strokes - Room On Fire
if you feel like "life is crappy, but let's make the most of it"

The Streets - Original Pirate Material
if you like British rap about geezers

Camera Obscura - Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi
if you want nice Scottish female vocals on some nice songs

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Sleep/Holiday
if you'd rather the vocalist be male and Welsh

Thievery Corporation - Mirror Conspiracy
if you like down-tempo grooves

Adam Green - Friends of Mine
if you like absurd lyrics sung seriously with string accompaniment

Tegan & Sara - So Jealous
if you like it when twin Canadian girls rock out

The Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done
if you want some upbeat indie rock my friends make

Tom & Joyce - Tom & Joyce
if you want to pay $25 for a Brazilian import and never regret it

If my assessments are off, feel free to correct them.

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:03 am

the baber I am not going to read this thread because it is about the journey not the destination and if you can't handle the occasional Lemon Jelly misfire then you don't deserve to be on the journey with me.

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:36 am

Oh. If "misfire" means something the young people don't actually listen to, you can ignore half my list.

I also noticed it stops at 2005 anyway.

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:52 am

Off the top of my head:

The Strokes - Is This It?
The White Stripes - White Blood Cells?
Daft Punk - Discovery
Pulp - We Love Life
Josh Rouse - 1972
Richard Hawley - Cole's Corner
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Ted Leo + The Pharmacists - Tyranny of Distance
The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
The Decemberists - Her Majesty, The Decemberists
The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The National - Boxer
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
Field Music - Field Music
Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album
Brian Wilson - Smile
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Oasis - Don't Believe the Truth
Annie - Anniemal
Solomon Burke - Don't Give Up On Me

I'm sure there's a lot I'm leaving out.

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:53 am

I missed the post where Boorishly was being difficult. Whatever, Boorishly.

Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 1065

the baber you have good taste

boorishly you are silly

I like:

Joanna Newsom - Ys
CocoRosie - La Maison de Mon Rêve
Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Animal Collective - Feels
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Diane Cluck - Countless Times

and like a bunch of other stuff too but that's what I spend most of my time listening to.

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:34 pm

Richard Laviolette- A Little Less Like a Rock, A Little More Like Home
Richard Laviolette- Mary Carl
The Decemberists- Picaresque
Matthew Good- Hospital Music
Islands- Return to the Sea
The Mars Volta- Deloused in the Comatorium
The Unicorns- Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
The Weakerthans- Reconstruction Site
The White Stripes- anything, really
Barn Owl- Chasing the Glow

Christmas came early Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 9225

boorishly you are welcome to misfire as often as you want. you can just come back here and post your list when you're done with your project, or you can come here when you're ready to start listening to radiohead but you don't know what radiohead music people listen to.

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 5:49 pm

i guess i'm in the autumn of my youth, so i still count.

sleepytime gorilla museum - in glorious times
shiftless rounders - ghost in the radio
john vanderslice - time travel is lonely
david thomas broughton - complete guide to insufficiency
entrance - wandering stranger
neko case - fox confessor brings the flood
six organs of admittance - the sun awakens
a silver mt. zion - born into trouble as the sparks fly upward
sigur ros - takk

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 6:10 pm

Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Girl
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Belle & Sebastien - Push Barman To Open Old Wounds
Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans
Daft Punk - Human After All
Skin - Flesh Wounds
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Kashmir - The Good Life
Patrick Wolf - The Wind In The Wires
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief, In Rainbows
Damien Rice - O
Sebastien Tellier - Politics
Cocorosie - La Maison De Mon Reve
The Killers - Sam's Town

Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 8693

Boorishly, I hope you ignore us. Let your fancy lead you! Buy albums recommended to you by the guy in the used record shop who dresses like a wizard and knows all the lyrics to The Magician's Birthday (album, not song)! At least you'll have an impression of contemporary pop music which is genuinely interesting. To hell with young people!

I am posting what my last.fm profile says to post!

1. Bjork – Medulla
2. Deerhoof – Friend Opportunity
3. Melt-Banana – Bambi’s Dilemma
4. Mastodon – Leviathan
5. Beirut – Gulag Orchestra
6. Pivot – Make Me Love You
7. Pig Destroyer – Phantom Limb
8. Squarepusher – Hello Everything
9. Laura Veirs – Carbon Glaciers
10. Decoder Ring – Somersault
11. Ellen Alien & Apparat – Orchestra of Bubbles
12. Lisa Gerrard – Silver Tree
13. Cephalic Carnage – Xenosapiens
14. Ghostface –Fishscale
15. Sleater-Kinney – The Woods
16. Yo La Tengo – I Am Not Afraid of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
17. Bjork – Volta
18. Radiohead – Kid A
19. Mastodon – Blood Mountain
20. Air – Virgin Suicides
21. The Drones – Wait Long By The River Till The Bodies of Your Enemies Float By
22. Basement Jaxx – Kish Kash
23. Blackalicious – Blazing Arrow
24. Sarah Blasko – What the Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have
25. Battles - Mirrored

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 6:54 pm

The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
The New Pornographers - Challengers
The Coup - Steal This Album
PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
TV On the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Jim White - Drill a Hole in the Substrate and Tell Me What You See
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Spiritualized - cats and kittens We are Floating in Space

Christmas came early Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 9225

to be fair if boorishly took like 2 albums from each of our lists he'd have a cd collection just as diverse and of mixed quality.

Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:25 pm

Love, Your Third Daughter wrote:

the baber you have good taste

boorishly you are silly

I like:

Joanna Newsom - Ys
CocoRosie - La Maison de Mon Rêve
Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
Andrew Bird - The Mysterious Production of Eggs
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Animal Collective - Feels
Iron & Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days
Diane Cluck - Countless Times

and like a bunch of other stuff too but that's what I spend most of my time listening to.

you have the same musical taste as my boyfriend (minus the Leonard Cohen/Joni Mitchell) and it gets insufferably dull after a while.

I do not get it.

Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 1065

Shandy I will seduce your boyfriend
we will listen to Leonard Cohen while we peel each other tangerines

you will be

lonely

lonely

lonely

Joined: 10 Jan 2008 Posts: 1065

When the tangerines are gone we will put on Ys and we will weep together.

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:19 am

Looks like you guys are going to hate it when I get around to writing about Franz Ferdinand!

Christmas came early Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 9225

boorishly i am not going to hate it
over rated is what they are. no doubt.

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 11:25 am

Man, I can't believe I left off Midlake! Trials of Van Occupanther would be in my top five for sure.

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:08 pm

Love, Your Third Daughter wrote:

Shandy I will seduce your boyfriend
we will listen to Leonard Cohen while we peel each other tangerines

you will be

lonely

lonely

lonely

And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from China

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:41 pm

the baber wrote:

boorishly i am not going to hate it
over rated is what they are. no doubt.

Same here.
I'm surprised to see them listed so often (well, only twice) (surprised vs. quality, not surprised vs. popularity).

I actually have a men's medium Franz Ferdinand shirt that I bought once because it was only a dollar and I figured I could give it to someone. I never found anyone to give it to.
Steve, you want it?

Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 1:55 pm

Nothing wrong with Franz Ferdinand but they don't stand the test of time.

(I haven't listened to either album in months)

Christmas came early Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 9225

Professor Stevie Freezie wrote:

Man, I can't believe I left off Midlake! Trials of Van Occupanther would be in my top five for sure.

oh shoot that is a good one
also steve i am glad rabbit fur coat is on your list because i like that album a lot more than i thought i would, and it makes me think the dude in rilo kiley is their biggest weakness.