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  • Tiny Mix Tapes' Top 25 LPs Of The Year

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    25. Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
    24. Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic
    23. Caribou - The Milk of Human Kindness
    22. Mount Eerie - No Flashlight: Songs of the Fulfilled Night
    21. Akron/Family & Angels of Light - Akron/Family & Angels of Light
    20. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
    19. Sigur Rós - Takk...
    18. The Decemberists - Picaresque
    17. Six Organs of Admittance - School of the Flower
    16. Spoon - Gimme Fiction
    15. Konono No. 1 - Congotronics
    14. Wilderness - Wilderness
    13. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
    12. M.I.A. - Arular
    11. Dead Meadow - Feathers
    10. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
    9. Sleater-Kinney - The Woods
    8. Xiu Xiu - La Foret
    7. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
    6. Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
    5. Akron/Family- Akron/Family
    4. Gang Gang Dance - God's Money
    3. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
    2. Deerhoof - The Runner's Four
    1. Animal Collective - Feels


    Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
    Above all else, you should hear this record.

    "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
    - Jeffry 'The Dude' Lebowski

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  • Find Candace is quite creepy. I like it.

  • The only correct answer on that whole list is Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született.

  • Hurrah! Another Top 25 list of dross and boredom! Am I really the only person on the planet who doesn't like the direction Sleater-Kinney took with The Woods? My favourite release by them is still 'Call The Doctor'.


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  • Re:

    Quoth KharBevNor:
    Hurrah! Another Top 25 list of dross and boredom!

    I only agree with maybe 5 off that list; Sleater-Kinney being one of them. Dave Fridmann is the man.

    "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
    - Jeffry 'The Dude' Lebowski

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  • Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

    most.worthless.band.of.2005.

    Quoth Niquaidus:
    The French are arrogant, they never bathe, and they're cowards who would be speaking German right now if it wasn't for us.
  • Re:

    Quoth Oh_Dae_Su:
    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

    most.worthless.band.of.2005.


    I don't think that they're the worst.
    But I think they're highly overrated.

    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 1 Jan 2006, 05:53

    Re: Re:

    Quoth mindjogger:
    Quoth Oh_Dae_Su:
    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

    most.worthless.band.of.2005.


    I don't think that they're the worst.
    But I think they're highly overrated.

    I think I saw them on Conan once, but they must've sucked because I can't remember anything about how they sound.

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    Quoth smittyfree53:
    Quoth mindjogger:
    Quoth Oh_Dae_Su:
    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

    most.worthless.band.of.2005.


    I don't think that they're the worst.
    But I think they're highly overrated.

    I think I saw them on Conan once, but they must've sucked because I can't remember anything about how they sound.


    They're not terrible, but if I saw them perform, I would forget about them too.
    Nothing about them stands out to me.

  • boring list i was quite surprised hearing that it came from tinymixedtapes

  • i think you may prefer the wire's top 50 stephtar, oh, maybe not

    there's nothing boring about fourtet and konono no 1, though i'll admit they're the only two that really grabbed me this year

    the sigur rós album was very average sigur rós

    plus, no mention of dälek's 'absence' ~ stand-out record of the year


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  • I liked the new sigur rós album, but I didn't think the new four tet one was amazing. It was good alright, but I well prefer the old downbeat Pause stuff.

    And dälek is too fucking scary for my liking.

    Edited by hey_mr_crow on 1 Jan 2006, 11:38
    • cosmia said...
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    • 1 Jan 2006, 11:33

    Re:

    Quoth hey_mr_crow:
    I liked the new sigur rós album, but not didn't think the new four tet one was amazing. It was good alright, but I well prefer the old downbeat Pause stuff.

    And dälek is too fucking scary for my liking.


    yeah, i think the first song on the four tet album is great but the album really goes nowhere from there. and from the song ive heard on my college radio library, id really like to hear the older stuff!

  • 2 and 3 are excellent choices, but I don't really give two shits about that Animal Collective album.

    • Boonjam said...
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    • 1 Jan 2006, 19:27
    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are indeed entirely pointless.

    I have never heard them once, but I am relatively confident that I know absolutely everything about their music already. They will have absolutely no lasting impact. They are all style and no balls

  • now that i really look at it, there's only ONE good album on that entire list (Lightning Bolt)

    the rest of it is just hipster pleasing trash.

    big surprise.

    Quoth Niquaidus:
    The French are arrogant, they never bathe, and they're cowards who would be speaking German right now if it wasn't for us.
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    Quoth Oh_Dae_Su:
    now that i really look at it, there's only ONE good album on that entire list (Lightning Bolt)the rest of it is just hipster pleasing trash.big surprise.

    You've listened to them all, have you? How did you like Venetian Snares?

    "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
    - Jeffry 'The Dude' Lebowski

    tinymixtapes.com / PopMatters / Exclaim!
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    Quoth Oh_Dae_Su:
    now that i really look at it, there's only ONE good album on that entire list (Lightning Bolt)

    the rest of it is just hipster pleasing trash.

    big surprise.


    Rossz Csillag Alatt Született is definitely hipster pleasing trash


    Perhaps a little too big, but it gets the point across :D

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    Quoth FilmoreHolmes:You've listened to them all, have you?

    no, but i'm sure that more than 4/5 of them will wind up on some Garden State/Royal Tenenbaums/Napoleon Dynamite-esque film's soundtrack, so there's no point in bothering.

    Quoth FilmoreHolmes How did you like Venetian Snares?

    well, if they're on a list with Sufjan Stevens, Decemberists, Broken Social Scene and Sleater Kinney they can't be anything special.

    (yes, i'm fully aware that i'm an ignorant asshole.)

    Quoth Niquaidus:
    The French are arrogant, they never bathe, and they're cowards who would be speaking German right now if it wasn't for us.
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    Quoth imafknninja:
    Rossz Csillag Alatt Született is definitely hipster pleasing trash

    Then you didn't listen to it.
    Quoth Oh_Dae_Su:
    yes, i'm fully aware that i'm an ignorant asshole.

    And a liar. You can't say there's only one good album on the list if you haven't listened to any of them. I'd say there's more like 5 or 6 good ones and at least one horribly shite one (MIA). Enjoy your bliss.

    "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
    - Jeffry 'The Dude' Lebowski

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    Quoth Oh_Dae_Su:
    Quoth FilmoreHolmes:You've listened to them all, have you?

    no, but i'm sure that more than 4/5 of them will wind up on some Garden State/Royal Tenenbaums/Napoleon Dynamite-esque film's soundtrack, so there's no point in bothering.

    Quoth FilmoreHolmes How did you like Venetian Snares?

    well, if they're on a list with Sufjan Stevens, Decemberists, Broken Social Scene and Sleater Kinney they can't be anything special.

    (yes, i'm fully aware that i'm an ignorant asshole.)


    The thing is, VS is absolutely nothing like them. If you take a look at my journal, you'll see my top 10 of the year. Rossz Csillag Alatt Született is at #5, in between Arsis' A Diamond for Disease and Meshuggah's Catch 33. Two death metal albums.

    Give it a try before you write it off.

    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 1 Jan 2006, 23:13

    mmm... excellent

    good list. Feels is amazing.

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    Damn netscape...

    "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
    - Jeffry 'The Dude' Lebowski

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    Edited by FilmoreHolmes on 1 Jan 2006, 23:53
    • Boonjam said...
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    • 1 Jan 2006, 23:52

    Re: Re: Re:

    Quoth Oh_Dae_Su:
    Quoth FilmoreHolmes:You've listened to them all, have you?Garden State/Royal Tenenbaums

    Please don't compare Garden State and The Royal Tenenbaums

  • People, people, he's trolling. Pay him no heed.

    Although I fully acknowledge his points.


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