Heard Fleet Foxes... what's so special about them?
It leans towards easy listening to me..


I'll put it together with Vampire Weekend in the category "I don't understand the hype on this band other than the hype for hyping a 2008 release"

I listened to a hip-hop album and liked it, see I am open minded.

being open minded has more to do with being readily available to listen to any kind of music more than actually liking music outside your safe genre.

Liking a broad array of genres, that's having a wide taste.


edit: don't need you saracism ok

FOR EXAMPLE i listened to fucking מתן ממן which is an israeli dude who does MONGOLIAN THROAT SINGING or some shit and although i didn't particularily LOVE IT i still thought it was cool and unique and something that's possible to listen to once in a while.

why does everyone do this. its like when indie kids listen to mastodon and like metal. it's always a specific supposedly obtuse example.

also, i don't see what's so evil about pulling up a pitchfork list of 2008 albums?? okay so i like a lot of the stuff they like, is that really such a crime? and to use it to refresh my memory, i don't see how that's so awful, either. seeing as how i liked a majority of their picks and its ALL CONVENIENTLY there (i don't know any sites that list all 2008 albums) it was the quicket resource. sorry.

you're the one saying "evil" and "crime". I said it's "bad", don't pin it on me as though I said it was anything worse or even implied it. and it is bad! pitchfork is both hilariously genre limited and as I pretty succesfully demonstrated isn't even being fair to their own reviewers or audience.

I also don't know if you're being serious that you don't know any other sites that list the 2008 albums. I mean, someone mentioned Rolling Stone in here, right?

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/24958695/albums_of_the_year/31
http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/2008.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2008_albums
http://blog.allmusic.com/2008/12/05/allmusics-favorite-albums-of-2008/

I linked the last.fm one earlier and mentioned the AV Club as well.

none of those are perfect (one puts Mellencamp in the top 10) but don't even play like this man, you're ignoring the more damning point; you went to Pitchfork first to remind yourself of what YOUR favorite albums were. you didn't look in your own library for this, you went STRAIGHT TO PFORK. what the hell man? why would you ever do this? how can you say "2008 was a great year for music" and need a reminder to what came out? that doesn't make any sense at all. do you expect anyone to believe this:

a lot of the shit i listen to got horrible reviews on pfork and guess what, i still listen to them!!

i'm not one of those I LUV ALL MUSIC EXCEPT COUNTRY AND RAP. i listened to your hip-hop mixtape and i liked it. i really don't know how to justify OPEN-MINDED to you?? unless i list all my OBSCURE WEIRD ARTISTS and only then may i get Steel's Stamp of Approval.

when you couldn't remember a single artist that wasn't on Pitchfork's list? no one's asking for obscure, but there's a reason people keep saying "listened to the stuff in FP's list, man it's just the same indie shit we've been hearing for years", and it's not because they want my Stamp of Approval (if anything I'd get the feeling a GW member would take great glee in spearing me on some obscure musical point as I am probably the biggest nerd on this forum). it's because it is kind of boring and you ain't fooling anyone by claiming openmindedness.

being open minded has more to do with being readily available to listen to any kind of music more than actually liking music outside your safe genre.

Liking a broad array of genres, that's having a wide taste.

this is true and a good distinction but I also would find it suspect if someone said they were openminded and then proceeded to list like 12 albums all clearly designed for one type of person. even pfork threw some dumb DJ/rupture or something no one heard of so they didn't get this claim. the validity of an open mind is that you can also close it to awful concepts, but I find it hard to believe someone with an open mind would only have a single genre, or hell TYPE OF SOUND of music in their list.

And yeah 2007 is pretty much my favorite year in music.

is this a fake post.

I mean maybe I'm being dumb but as panda said look at 1977 dude there's no way Person Pitch or Sound of Silver can compete with Low or Exodus.

20 TO 30 okay dude I'm gonna have to ask you to list because I have to struggle with five I could list now, let alone 20 TO 30.

dude i cannot think of 20 to 30 albums in any year let alone 2007. I'd have to struggle with like five years although probably could do it if I had a wikipedia or something.

you can't tell me you don't think that's a huge number!

i don't see anyone saying "listened to the stuff in FP's list, man it's just the same indie shit we've been hearing for years"

Heard Fleet Foxes... what's so special about them?
It leans towards easy listening to me..

damn good.  DAMN good year. *reads indie magazine*

What's all the fuss about fleetfoxes? I see them on all the music blogs being raved as geniuses and whatnot, but I don't catch it myself.

most of the rest of the list i felt was very mediocre/forgettable though.

Man I just listened to most songs Flower Power posted and.. well you should really
come to my hometown cause it's full of that kind of music here. Not my kind of balls
though, but yeah.

sorry about using quotation marks as it's not a real quote but come on.

you keep ignoring my point man. DS says he can list 20 to 30 albums from a year ago. I doubt it. but I bet he won't need to refer to anything until he hits the higher twenties.

the point of these lists is you maybe forget one or two that deserve to be there. you don't need to use another list to reference your own dude. you can claim "I downloaded so many albums" but so did I and I still can tell you ten releases I thought were among the best in 2008. fuck it I did it earlier in this topic with just hiphop releases better than the Carter III.

do you really not get what's bad about jogging your memory with a biased and incorrect list? or that you even need to jog your memory to think of ten albums? sure you might forget a few, I forgot Cham had a mixtape, Killer Mike I Pledge II, Bun B's Ill Trill, but you shouldn't need to get all your stuff from one site's list! how did you not think of ten albums on your own?

It is a huge number. I don't really mean 20-30 flawless, totally awesome blah blah albums but albums I really liked in any case. I can't think of another year like that. Anyway, if you really want a list I'll try to remember all the best albums and post it later. Lists... heh.

I'm honestly curious because like I said I'm struggling to think of five I'd still want to listen to. some were OKAY but life's too short for okay.

Can we all just agree people that claim to like "All Music" are the most boring pieces of shit ever. Seriously, I for one don't like Polka music or The New Complexity Music of the 80s. It's impossible to like everything, you're just boring.

Didn't Q-Tip come out with a new album this year? Was it any good?

also if I considered the previous year to be a great year in music I would also think I would remember my favorite albums. why do you need to jog your memories of what you thought was a great year?