DISCUSSION: theboarddot's Albums/Songs of the Decade

[dij22]

Oct 21, 2019 15:34:02 GMT -6 neader said:

this is also great

Their new album is pretty underrated.  "Body Chemistry"  is one of my favorite songs of the year.

[neader]

Agreed. The one with Magic Mountain or whatever was meh.

Listened to the debut this morning and definitely think Portamento is better.

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Oct 21, 2019 15:34:02 GMT -6 neader said:

this is also great

One of my favorite records of all time. <3

[Tweet]

Just gonna throw some shit at the wall and see what sticks, if anything. Let me know if I should stop wanking going forward

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In 2012 certain corners of the internet eagerly anticipated Jack White’s debut album. This was not a “debut” because he was already a member of The White Stripes (a top 100 band of all time), The Raconteurs (that one song is cool), and the Dead Weather (never listened!), but it was the debut under his own name. Perhaps coincidentally, Wikipedia tells me it came out the year after the Stripes broke up.

(drinks beer) So, uh, there are only “4 or 5 songs” that are even good on this album (the first four and and maybe the last 2), and by good I of course mean comparable to the Stripes. Not that that’s the point. Where you go after you do what the Stripes those projects became, propelling you to international fame and very well documented baseball exploits that gave me my Facebook cover photo for the start of baseball every year? What does a Jack White album even “mean” in 2012, a decade + into his career?

I’m still wondering that last one seriously. I played on a whim driving through my hometown, which coincidentally was the last summer I fully spent there. There are times where you can hear the emotion of those decade + albums. The emotion is there, but the sound has changed from a guitar riff announcing the arrival of your second wind on a Saturday night to a clarinet or whatever shit is being played on “Love Interruption”. It’s new, but it isn’t stale, and that’s not a bad thing when you don’t have to try anymore and/or youenjoy going to ballgames with the boys. Sometimes there is nothing better to do.

[Timbo]

I havent listened to it since 2012. But of his solo albums it was the only tolerable one.

[Tweet]

For the record anything I word vomit in here is not necessarily gonna be on my list. But the are “important” albums to me and/or associated with this forum. I’ll have song shit too maybe

[monasterymonochrome]

I was obsessed with this album back when it came out - honest to god one of the first CDs I ever bought the week it came out. I was 16, going heavily through my first major White Stripes phase, and this album hit a sweet spot for the rest of that year. I probably listened to that record more in 2012 than I have in 2013-2019, but I'll always have good, nostalgic associations with it.

[neader]

Sixteen Saltines still rips and I have fond memories of being on the rail at Lolla 2012 with him opening by covering Public Service Announcement by Jay Z before going into it.

[claypoolfan]

My ex wife and I had a mutual infatuation with Jack White in that period and specifically that album. I learned a few tracks from it and I used to play and sing Love Interruption all the time and we'd laugh about how silly and excessive the lyrics were. That's pretty much the only song these days where the lyrical content will make me have a little bit of a breakdown.

Haven't listened to the album in a while as a result but I remember really loving every track besides Sixteen Saltines which I always thought didn't fit in with the rest.

[dij22]

Love that album and I think his solo output is very underrated in general

[lollaman44]

freedom at 21 was a favorite part of his set last year.

ditto about the 2012 set.

[chvrchbarrel]

Nov 5, 2019 16:53:53 GMT -6 lollaman44 said:

freedom at 21 was a favorite part of his set last year.

ditto about the 2012 set.

i remember thinking freedom at 21 was the best part of the chicago theatre show on the lazaretto tour

[Timbo]

I did enjoy his live show. Iirc, he mostly played non-solo material.

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On one hand, we’re presented with the best song John Darinelle penned the back half of this decade. On the other hand, we’ve got the second time a sonic change in the Mountain Goats made a generation of the faithful question their allegiance. This type of thought comes natural, just like the imagery of the famed Sisters of Mercy frontman coming home from a battle no one’s sure if he sees as won or lost does in the song. Matt Douglas' instrumentation breathes new life into the formula. The lyrics are quintessential Darinelle. However, there are no guitars on the album, so as stoic white dudes adverse to change, resistance naturally creeps into your head, both here and in the entirety of the album Goths. But can you go back at this point, even if you want to? And why would you want to? Your new experiences have only changed you internally; externally, it's the same shit on a different day. Leeds is still the same. There’s a comfort in that only if you want there to be.

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(I am pleasantly surprised at the number of people who have (mostly positive) thoughts on that jack white album)

[chvrchbarrel]

Of all eligible TMG material, "Goths" is the one I least-expected to see

[andrewvb]

i think bird is exclusively reviewing albums that are not among the best of the decade for whatever reason.

[teekoh]

My guess would be that he likes them.

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@avb

Nov 4, 2019 11:32:26 GMT -6 Tweet said:

For the record anything I word vomit in here is not necessarily gonna be on my list. But the are “important” albums to me and/or associated with this forum. I’ll have song shit too maybe

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Nov 6, 2019 9:09:28 GMT -6 teekoh said:

My guess would be that he likes them.

Here is the boards top 10

Frank ocean
Frank ocean
Vampire weekend
Kendrick
Kendrick
Father John misty
Beach house
Kanye
Kanye
The National

Why even do the poll amirite?

[neader]

Nov 6, 2019 9:36:16 GMT -6 Tweet said:

Nov 6, 2019 9:09:28 GMT -6 teekoh said:

My guess would be that he likes them.

Here is the boards top 10

Frank ocean
Frank ocean
Vampire weekend
Kendrick
Kendrick
Father John misty
Beach house
Kanye
Kanye
The National

Why even do the poll amirite?

idk this fucking place put frank at like 9 in 2016 and radiohead at 1 so i don't think the list would be that good

[chvrchbarrel]

If anyone is looking for a break from the the usual, I highly recommend Marianne Faithfull's stunning 2014 release Give My Love to London.

Its hard to go wrong when your credits include Eno, Cave, Cohen, and Waters all on the same record. Hearing Marianne's voice in its deteriorated - but still hauntingly beautiful - state makes this an even-more-powerful listen than her early popular output.

"Love More or Less" is my favorite track.

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In 2011, ITunes was still a thing, pumping out “indie” recommendations to lonely kids on the internet who refused to read blogs and had just discovered they might like things other than Pitchfork’s “Best New” designation. It was the closest thing I remember experiencing as a prototype to the Spotify curated playlists. The algorithm spits out a tune with cover art of what you imagine a psychedelic daydream to be. Turns out, the greens and golds of the artwork match the song. To the lonely internet kid, it manages to evoke feelings of being on a beach both at sunrise and sunset without words.

Scott Hansen once described the Tycho album Dive as a set of artifacts with more in common with the past than the future. Nowhere in the album is that clearer than “Coastal Brake”, an engulfment of analog equipment. Is it IDM? Is it chillwave? Is it boring? (No.) Whatever it is, Tycho brought something of a warm embrace to a rapidly changing world. They say to never look back, but it’s hard not to when something makes you long for something you know makes you feel whole.

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(Awake is my favorite Tycho album but that is my favorite Tycho song)

[monasterymonochrome]

Nov 5, 2019 19:24:24 GMT -6 Tweet said:

On one hand, we’re presented with the best song John Darinelle penned the back half of this decade. On the other hand, we’ve got the second time a sonic change in the Mountain Goats made a generation of the faithful question their allegiance. This type of thought comes natural, just like the imagery of the famed Sisters of Mercy frontman coming home from a battle no one’s sure if he sees as won or lost does in the song. Matt Douglas' instrumentation breathes new life into the formula. The lyrics are quintessential Darinelle. However, there are no guitars on the album, so as stoic white dudes adverse to change, resistance naturally creeps into your head, both here and in the entirety of the album Goths. But can you go back at this point, even if you want to? And why would you want to? Your new experiences have only changed you internally; externally, it's the same shit on a different day. Leeds is still the same. There’s a comfort in that only if you want there to be.

One of the best Mountain Goats tracks of the decade for sure.  That album doesn't get a lot of replay from me, but this song and "Wear Black" are absolute keepers.  One of these days - god forbid - maybe I'll even move back home to Youngstown and this song'll hit 100000x harder

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“If we’re all lucky we’ll get old and die” Matt Flegel sneers on “Pointless Experience”, the second song on the first album his new band, Viet Cong, had put out. Granted, it shouldn’t have been a surprise to hear thunder shoot out of his vocal chords: after all, his previous (and good) band Women had broken up after an on stage fight, and the gritty, angry post-punk needed a new weapon. The album screams from the dead industrial corridor that left behind abandoned factories with ghosts and shells throughout North America. 11+ minutes of “Death” never seems like enough. Nor does the locked groove at the end of side A’s “Bunker Buster”. Rebirth was possible with this band by your side.

And then they had to start again. Not because of the music, but because of the name. Turns out, the real Viet Cong still stir a lot of emotions in people, all of them negative. The tolerant left of Oberlin College forced a show cancellation there because of the name. Why did a band whose tunes aligned with the angry cosmic shift that started in 2015 suddenly get cancelled? Was it racism? Cultural appropriation? An honest oversight on the part of the band? When you’re good, people find you on the internet, and in this case they found a lightning rod. “Change the name,” they said. “You’re not Gang of Four. You’re not Joy Division.”

The eventual new name, Preoccupations, seems apt. The original name brought the attention of horrible atrocities that still ripples through currents of culture to this day, instead of the fact that this is one of maybe ten new bands of this decade under a post-punk banner that doesn’t sound like a carbon copy of something from the past. Blend together New Order and the Strokes with self-proclaimed aping of This Heat, and you get the band above. There’s a sense of repetitive urgency laced in every distortion and every moment. And if New Material, their quietly underrated third album is any indication, we’ll be lucky enough to see what happens in the next decade for them.

[Timbo]

My interest in them has waned quite a bit. First two records are great. Last one was decent, but the sound that they've helped bring more attention to is so overdone now that I struggle to care anymore.

I'm probably just old and jaded now. My music addiction has caused the old things to no longer do it for me. Probably start listening to Christian music in a year.

[thebosma]

We call that “Doing the Kanye”

[Timbo]

Fuck I'm gonna go get Chik-fil-a for lunch now I guess.