I also never listened to Uncle Tupelo. Should I change that?
Okkervil River:
Black Sheep Boy
The Stage Names
Down the River of Golden Dreams
I Am Very Far
The Silver Gymnasium
The Stand Ins
Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See
Mike wrote:I also never listened to Uncle Tupelo. Should I change that?
Okkervil River:
Black Sheep Boy
The Stage Names
Down the River of Golden Dreams
I Am Very Far
The Silver Gymnasium
The Stand Ins
Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See
If you like alt country...yes. You'd love UT.
"My balls feels like they're in a French press." ~ bodysnatcher
Mike wrote:I also never listened to Uncle Tupelo. Should I change that?
Okkervil River:
Black Sheep Boy
The Stage Names
Down the River of Golden Dreams
I Am Very Far
The Silver Gymnasium
The Stand Ins
Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See
man, i absolutely love the stand ins....it and black sheep boy are my favorites with the stage names right behind
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
Mike wrote:I also never listened to Uncle Tupelo. Should I change that?
Okkervil River:
Black Sheep Boy
The Stage Names
Down the River of Golden Dreams
I Am Very Far
The Silver Gymnasium
The Stand Ins
Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See
man, i absolutely love the stand ins....it and black sheep boy are my favorites with the stage names right behind
I felt pretty bad putting it so low. Places 3-6 are pretty much interchangeable as I think they're all great. I'm a huge Okkervil River fanboy. Black Sheep Boy at number 1 is pretty much cemented, though.
We Have the Fact and We're Voting Yes
Transatlanticism
The Photo Album
Plans
Something about Airplanes
Narrow Stairs
Codes and Keys
You can play these songs with chords
Boxer
Alligator
Sad songs for dirty lovers
Trouble will find me
High violet
National
Clarity
Bleed American
Chase This Light
Futures
Damage
Invented
Static Prevails
1. Dilate
2. To the Teeth
3. Educated Guess
4. Living in Clip
5. Revelling/Reckoning
6. Up Up Up Up Up Up
7. Little Plastic Castle
8. Not a Pretty Girl
9. Knuckle Down
10. Out of Range
11. Evolve
12. Ani Difranco
13. So Much Shouting So Much Laughter
14. Puddle Dive
15. Red Letter Year
16. Which Side are you on?
17. Reprieve
18. Not so soft
19. Imperfectly
20. Allergic to Water
August and Everything After
Hard Candy
Recovering the Satellites
This Desert Life
Somewhere under wonderland
Saturday Nights
Underwater sunshine
Blur
Parklife
13
Modern life is rubbish
Great escape
Think Tank
Leisure
Electro Shock Blues
Beautiful freak
Souljacker
Blinking lights
Daisies of the galaxy
End times
Cautionary Tales
Shootenany
Hombre Lobo
Wonderful glorious
Tomorrow morning
For the birds
Dance the devil
Fitzcarraldo
Burn the Maps
Another love song
The Cost
Kid A
The Bends
Ok Computer
In Rainbows
Pablo Honey
Hail to the Thief
Amnesiac
King of Limbs
A grand don't come for free
Original pirate material
Everything is borrowed
Computers and blues
Hardest way to make an easy living
Little earthquakes
From the choirgirl hotel
Under the pink
Boys for pele
Beekeeper
To venus and back
Scarletts walk
...then the rest...
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Kicking television
Being There
Summer Teeth
Ghost is born
Sky blue sky
AM
Wilco
Whole Love
Mike wrote:I also never listened to Uncle Tupelo. Should I change that?
Okkervil River:
Black Sheep Boy
The Stage Names
Down the River of Golden Dreams
I Am Very Far
The Silver Gymnasium
The Stand Ins
Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See
man, i absolutely love the stand ins....it and black sheep boy are my favorites with the stage names right behind
I felt pretty bad putting it so low. Places 3-6 are pretty much interchangeable as I think they're all great. I'm a huge Okkervil River fanboy. Black Sheep Boy at number 1 is pretty much cemented, though.
Guess I will look into Uncle Tupe lo!
i admittedly haven't spent a lot of time with i am very far and the silver gymnasium, but i don't think they'd ever come close to the top three for me
that said i love this band, and feel like they're extremely underrated
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
that said i love this band, and feel like they're extremely underrated
oh yes. They're one of my favorite bands of the last decade. (+ 2-3 years) I think they should be huge.
I totally get not loving I Am Very Far and The Silver Gymnasium and I think I'm in the minority with my love for those two looking at how they were received in general. I thought I Am Very Far brought an interesting new sound for the band and the huge instrumentation on some tracks really fit them. (We Need A Myth is a wonderful example) The Silver Gymnasium scaled the experimentation back again but produced some killer songs (It Was My Season, Pink-Slips, Where The Spirit Left Us,..) and was really solid overall.
edit: Listening to The Silver Gymnasium again makes me want to put it above I Am Very Far.
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
that said i love this band, and feel like they're extremely underrated
oh yes. They're one of my favorite bands of the last decade. (+ 2-3 years) I think they should be huge.
I totally get not loving I Am Very Far and The Silver Gymnasium and I think I'm in the minority with my love for those two looking at how they were received in general. I thought I Am Very Far brought an interesting new sound for the band and the huge instrumentation on some tracks really fit them. (We Need A Myth is a wonderful example) The Silver Gymnasium scaled the experimentation back again but produced some killer songs (It Was My Season, Pink-Slips, Where The Spirit Left Us,..) and was really solid overall.
edit: Listening to The Silver Gymnasium again makes me want to put it above I Am Very Far.
yeah i really only listened to each of them a few times (yes i'm a terrible person), so i really need to spend more time with them before ranking...i still don't see them getting near my top 3 because i absolutely love those
i just realized i haven't listened to black sheep boy in way too long
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
that said i love this band, and feel like they're extremely underrated
oh yes. They're one of my favorite bands of the last decade. (+ 2-3 years) I think they should be huge.
I totally get not loving I Am Very Far and The Silver Gymnasium and I think I'm in the minority with my love for those two looking at how they were received in general. I thought I Am Very Far brought an interesting new sound for the band and the huge instrumentation on some tracks really fit them. (We Need A Myth is a wonderful example) The Silver Gymnasium scaled the experimentation back again but produced some killer songs (It Was My Season, Pink-Slips, Where The Spirit Left Us,..) and was really solid overall.
edit: Listening to The Silver Gymnasium again makes me want to put it above I Am Very Far.
yeah i really only listened to each of them a few times (yes i'm a terrible person), so i really need to spend more time with them before ranking...i still don't see them getting near my top 3 because i absolutely love those
i just realized i haven't listened to black sheep boy in way too long
I'd definitely give them another chance.
The Tallest Man On Earth:
The Wild Hunt
Shallow Graves
There's No Leaving Now
Sun Kil Moon:
Ghosts Of The Great Highway
April
Benji
Admiral Fell Promises
Among The Leaves
Sufjan Stevens:
Illinois
Seven Swans
The Age Of Adz
Michigan
A Sun Came
Enjoy Your Rabbit
New Adventures in HiFi
Automatic for the People
Collapse Into Now
Green
Monster
Life's Rich Pageant
Up
Out of Time
Accelerate
Fables of the Reconstruction
Reckoning
Around the Sun
Murmer
Reveal
Mike wrote:Do you like Among The Leaves? I admittedly did not listen to it very often but every time I did I was very underwhelmed.
I do. It's got a nice mix of songs with a more "traditional" structure and songs with the rambling, confessional style he's been doing with Benji and the Desertshore and The Album Leaf records.
Mike wrote:Do you like Among The Leaves? I admittedly did not listen to it very often but every time I did I was very underwhelmed.
I do. It's got a nice mix of songs with a more "traditional" structure and songs with the rambling, confessional style he's been doing with Benji and the Desertshore and The Album Leaf records.
Maybe I need to give it another shot.
I tried to rank R.E.M.'s catalog but stopped. Too many albums that are totally different that I love about the same. Automatic would be on top, though, and New Adventures In Hi-Fi would be way lower than in other people's rankings.
Something like this:
1. Automatic
2. Reckoning
3. Up
...insert a lot of great albums...
14. Around The Sun
