Seem to recall that Eels get quite a kicking from them. Shootenanny is a 4.9 ffs
noooo! Not the buggmeister!!
The Get up kids score is a little harsh.
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I mostly agree, although I loved their first three albums and think they’re all great. Especially Your Favorite Music, which is definitely one of my favo(u)rite albums. I remember getting so shocked and annoyed at that review way back at the time.
Looking at their reviews on Pitchfork now, they did get a few 6 and 7s, so there was a bit of like at times.
Not sure if they got any sub-3s, but Eels generally got some low reviews from them also, from what I can remember.
0.0 for zaireeka!
fo,m
I like the 0 for Zaireeka because who can be bothered to get four separate systems to play one album on!
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Dear You is a 4/5 Pitchfork you bandwagon jumping fucks.
They hate Eels with a passion for some reason, after giving End Times 3.9 and Tomorrow Morning 3.6, they didn’t even bother with the next two albums and then gave The Deconstruction a 3.
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Only Sun Kil Moon album I like
A lot of Kozalek and Why? on there. Seems like if you’ve made really good music before, a mediocre album will get utterly trashed, while mediocre albums by mediocre artists will get a 5 or 6, seems a bit harsh.
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No such thing as good music writing anyway, totally pointless endeavour
Classic Bam
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8.0
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Best new Bam
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Nyc ghosts and flowers is good. Also quite liked the lupe fiasco and eels records iirc
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Behind the Music is really good
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I read the Mission of Burma one quite recently actually and it’s scored lowly due to being a poorly thrown together compilation or something rather than the obviously brilliant music.
That NIN one 
“It’s black. Pitch black. As black as your fucking soul! And I’m typing on this machine. This machine is grinding me down. I feel like a fucking machine! Grrrarrrgh!”
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8: two Eels, two Lou Reed, Mars Volta, B&S, WITTR and Zaireeka. Frances the Mute is probably my least favourite of the bunch, but it’s a 5/10 at worst for me.
I own:
The Vines - Winning Days
I maintain that this was solid at the time and that some of it will still hold up.
Bell X1 - Flock
Loved this at the time but I’d probably find a lot of it very bland now. I did hear the opening track in a bar the other night for the first time in years and it still sounded like a bit of a banger though
The Fall - Ersatz GB
Definitely one of the weakest Fall efforts but still get a bit of fun out of it when I’m in a Fall mood.
Oasis - Heathen Chemistry
Yeah this one hasn’t aged well. Don’t mind some later Oasis but this one is mostly very shit in retrospect.
Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With the Arab Strap
I like the first two albums so bought a cheap copy of this in CEX once. It’s incredibly boring apart from like 2 or 3 songs.
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