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Wednesday, December 07, 2005
flawless top ten
Steve McPherson (editor) said ... you guys on myspace? i saw this posted as a bulletin and i began to get excited, because a flawless top ten list is different than just a top ten of all time or something, because a great album can have lulls and problems and still be great, but there's something i truly value about an album that's a front-to-backer, an album you can put on and listen to all the way through and feel like you've gone someplace. so rather than bothering with doing it on myspace, i'm starting it here. so reply with your own top ten flawless front-to-backers:
 1.
jimi hendrix :: electric ladyland
2. boards of canada :: music has the right to children
3. jeff buckley :: grace
4. d'angelo :: voodoo
5. radiohead :: the bends
6. deftones :: white pony
7. dj shadow :: endtroducing
8. death cab for cutie :: the photo album
9. spoon :: a series of sneaks
10. miles davis :: porgy and bess
note: these are not in any order, really, and how could they be? how can you
order ten flawless things?
Driver2165 said ... interesting dichotomy there. i would say,
 Dave
Fischoff :: The Ox & The Rainbow
Neutral Milk Hotel :: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Television :: Marquee Moon
Sunny Day Real Estate :: LP2
Bob Dylan :: Blood On The Tracks
Julie Doiron :: Desormais
Drive Like Jehu :: Drive Like Jehu
Pink Floyd :: Animals
Pedro the Lion :: Control
Portishead :: Dummy
Steve McPherson (editor) said ... bravo on sunny day real estate's LP2.
how it feels to be something on narrowly missed my list and that pedro
is great as well. it seems like, looking through the original and quite voluminous
post on myspace, that neutral milk hotel's masterpiece seems to be on everyone's
list. it's also a near miss for me and could easily be right up there. i'm not
familiar with julie doiron or david fischoff. i'll have to check them out.
Driver2165 said ... i decided lp2 is the flawless and how
it feels is the better album. more people need to know julie doiron. i saw
her at the turf club last year and there were two parties of 3 people there
to see her. there were 10 people for the opening guy (matt marko) who were very
rude to her during her entire set. when i saw her in vancouver there were 150
people there, she sold out, for a $12 cover, with no opening acts. That was
awesome
Steve McPherson (editor) said ... the how it feels.../LP2
difference is much like transatlanticism/photo album difference. transatlanticism
is the better album, i think, but whenever i put on the photo album,
i always feel like it's over too quick because every single song is great.
i downloaded that julie doiron from itunes
the other day. it's pretty spectac. kind of reminds me of a french, female pedro
the lion circa it's hard to find a friend, especially in the way it sounds.
very live and present. so: thanks for the rec.
Jesse said...
I’ve been meaning to weigh in on this for awhile. Sorry it took me so
long:
 Love-cars
– I’m Friends with All Stars
Radiohead – OK Computer
Sunny Day Real Estate – How it Feels…
Hum – Downward is Heavenward
Death Cab for Cutie – The Photo Album
Pedro the Lion – Control
Guster – Lost and Gone Forever
Further Seems Forever – The Moon Is Down
Denison Whitmer – Philadelphia Songs
Bill Mike Band – Better News
These are roughly in order of length. A CD such as Love-cars’ IFwAS
is an impressive front-to-backer because it’s 50 minutes long. It’s
easier to make every song on an EP good. I would say SDRE’s How it
Feels to Be Something On is the flawless album, but LP2 reaches higher
highs and lower lows.
Here are some near-misses:
Muse – Origin of Symmetry
Jump, Little Children – Vertigo
Cloud Cult – Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus
Cloud Cult is the closest of these to make the list, which is impressive considering
it is 70+ minutes and 20+ tracks. I’ll have to check out some of the groups
I don’t know from your lists.
continue the conversation
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