#1846

I had never listened to Joanna Newsom before (due to her not being on Spotify). Ys is incredible, think I’ll have it on repeat today.

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#1847

It’s up there somewhere in the ether.

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#1848

Good example to illustrate your point this. Whenever I listen to Danny Brown I think that. By any kind of objective measure it shouldn’t work and his voice is aesthetically horrible. But somehow it does and his stuff is really good!?

As you say, you don’t need many variables to make infinite variations - even if you don’t count all the additional intervals we could make between the standard musical notes. Pretty much all life on the planet is built from four DNA bases.

Fuck, even more so if you look at someone like Basinski where the variation is literally the physical disintegration of a short tape loop.

There’s more music out there than ever before and so it can feel harder to find the good stuff, but even with that in mind I made a playlist of favourite songs of 2019 for some friends recently. Had to stop at about 30 so it wasnt too long, but listening back I thought it was full of great stuff and I love that 70 years after popular music began we can still come up with musical ideas that sound fresh.

Hope I never tire of listening to old favourites, digging back through back catalogues and discovering new stuff.

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#1849

Listening back to funeral it is weird how they must have made a conscious decision to move away from what was good about them, the frantic energy, the urgency, replaced with plodcore

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#1850

Very, very much this.

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#1851

It’s weird, at the weekend I was listening to Funeral thinking, great album (especially the opening) but a bit patchy, definitely top 50 but not top 20. Right now I’m harbouring nothing but negative thoughts towards the album for topping the poll, above a bunch of albums I feel are much more interesting or enjoyable. Stupid mentality really, hope it passes.

#1852

Yeah.

My sister (who likes some good stuff, some shit stuff) recently listened to the latest Arcade Fire album, and phoned me to say “when did they stop having fun with loads of ideas and amazing instruments?”.

Can’t be arsed with anything after track one on The Suburbs to be honest. It’s just not what I loved about the band.

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#1853

They might be good songs, but loads of people have good songs, should have kept what was special about them

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#1854

Funeral completely sucks, it’s so dumb arcade fire are getting canonised for having 3 songs

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#1855

Don’t do that.

#1856

They’re just inexplicably well liked. I don’t understand the longevity of pavement either

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#1857

Find me a better way to safely walk at the side of a busy road.

Everything’s inexplicably well liked if you don’t like it yourself. I don’t understand why people like Interpol or The National. Great that so many people get something out of it though.

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#1858

I tell you what. I’ve assembled my top 100 in a list, and am putting them in order, and I reckon my number one wasn’t on this big list at all.

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#1859

Aye he meant to say Neon Bible

#1860

No, I understand why a band like the rolling stones are canonised despite it not massively being my thing. Some bands don’t deserve to be remembered in the way they are

#1861

Genuinely, I think it’s because they weren’t in mourning anymore. The whole story of Funeral was that they’d had a few really unfortunate passings in their friends and families over a short period of time, so they felt that energy and put it all over Funeral. It would have been disingenuous to keep doing it once they’d had that cathartic experience of realising a highly regarded album and touring it with a genuine excitement around them.

(Also Neon Bible is a really underrated record)

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#1862

There is loads of stuff to be sad about or they could have stopped

#1863

…yeah because the rest of their stuff is a laugh a minute right?

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#1864

Having worked through this thread to the end some thoughts in no particular order:

  1. In relation to the ‘DiS is so boring/predictable’ wave of comments: this is an inevitable byproduct of aggregation. All of the cool quirky interesting and idiosyncratic choices are flushed out by the polling process and only the big well known ones remain because they’re the one everyone has heard. This happens every year in the AOTY thread and every year people think it’s noteworthy or worth complaining about. It’s like in your primary school art lessons: doesn’t matter how interesting and vivid each individual poster paint is: you smoosh them all together and you just get brown (like the colour of the ‘Funeral’ cover in fact).

  2. Joanna Newsom is fab but also totally marmite and I get why people wouldn’t like her, that’s fine.

  3. Using the ignore user function as a way to skip over certain bits of the conversation that you’re not a fan of doesn’t work that well because you can still see all the replies to the user and therefore it doesn’t cut that bit out. I guess that’s what the scroll button on the mouse is for.

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#1865

I don’t know, never got into it due to the plodcore

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