#139

:rotating_light: :rotating_light:

EVACUATE THE THREAD

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#140

If you were including individual artists US Girls are on 3 great albums in 5 years… (though I know you’ll disagree with me on the most recent one)

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#141

I’m assuming this is some kind of in joke, i have no idea what it means!

A lot of UFOF has a very similar feel to Adore or some of the gentler tracks on Siamese Dream.

#142

sorry, just a reference to the tendency for threads to go off the rails when a certain band are mentioned :smiley:

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#143

Aha fair enough :joy:

#144

Think Buck Mill has ever been to Disney World?

#145

did his parents like REM a lot?

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#146

Stop using Saddle Creek pejoratively

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#147

Never heard of them. Happy to struggle on without your help but hope you’ll reconsider if I’m in serious need at some point :+1:

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#148

Saddle Creek is perfectly fine, you just don’t really expect a Saddle Creek band to become the most hyped band on the boards in 2019

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#149

Coming up with a list like that is tough and something I’ve been trying to figure out myself. Factoring in both the quality and quantity of albums:

Tier 1a
Deafheaven
Alcest
The National

Tier 1b
Big Thief
Protomartyr
Parquet Courts

Beyond that there are lots of artists who released albums better than most albums by the Tier 1b bands, but don’t quite have the quantity (Holy Fawn, Tropical Fuck Storm, The Antlers, etc.) or consistency (Titus Andronicus, Youth Lagoon, etc.) to back up a best of the decade claim. Greg Dulli probably belongs to be on the list too with three great albums.

Cloud Nothings and Ought are particularly hard to place. I’ve always liked Cloud Nothings but I’ve never thought they did something truly exceptional until Last Building Burning, and Ought is great but there’s something about them that creates a feeling of wasted potential.

(This also comes with the disclaimer that I’m very new to Mark Kozelek, and if he has a couple albums as good as Perils then he should be on the list too.)

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#150

I’ve been quiet in this thread, but I think Big Thief are fantastic and find it pretty amazing that Lenker has now released 5 great albums in 4 years. She’s one of the very best and most interesting songwriters out there.

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#151

I can confirm he does but he’s probably better placed on a ‘biggest tit of the decade’ list

#152

What record label would it be expected for the most hyped band of 2019 to be on?

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#153

Disintegration State.

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#154

you guys all really like some really boring bands eh

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#155

Not that it matters, but I inexplicably forgot Strange Ranger, who are basically to Modest Mouse what Big Thief are to Radiohead (if you want a reductive analogy).

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#156

It’s number 4 on my list of things I’m looking for in a band

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#157

Yes, that beep can be pretty annoying actually

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#158

of them, i’d have cloud nowts and courtney b

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