Red Mosquito

the suburbs is excellent

Are you saying it's the best record on that list and the one I should listen to first?

I think I like a song or two on there, but i'm not a huge fan of AF.

Oh great...

BurtReynolds wrote:I think I like a song or two on there, but i'm not a huge fan of AF.

go to hell

The Suburbs was okay...maybe Lonerism was ok too? i dont quite remember about it...The Kurt Vile was ok too.

The Kurt Vile and Sun Kil Moon ones are good. I'd say Deafheaven is good, but I hate that grunting shit.

I do not care for Tame Impala. At least, I don't care at all for what I've heard so far.

BurtReynolds wrote:The Kurt Vile and Sun Kil Moon ones are good. I'd say Deafheaven is good, but I hate that grunting shit.

CHOMP

I really like the Kurt Vile album. Several others I've taken a pass through and didn't care for. The rest I haven't heard.

Kevin Davis wrote:I really like the Kurt Vile album. Several others I've taken a pass through and didn't care for. The rest I haven't heard.

Excellent. Thank you, KD.

durdencommatyler wrote:I do not care for Tame Impala. At least, I don't care at all for what I've heard so far.

yeah, they are a weird band. I like then fine when they came out, and the last one kinda grew on me but these days i heard a impala song and its just ughh man, it sounds awful to me.

These are the ones from that list that I like

Never Hungover Again - Joyce Manor: sorta punky, loud, melancholy-tinged, cool guitars
Halcyon Digest - Deerhunter: very reverby, sorta-experimental misshapen pop (sort of like mid-period Broken Social Scene)
Transgender Dysphoria Blues - Against Me!: straight-up Epitaph punk, classic Against Me sound but more confessional and with better drums
Walkin On A Pretty Daze - Kurt Vile: mostly mellow twiddly guitar things, also very reverby, explores some cool moods
Harmlessness - The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die: emo-ish, fist-pumping melodies and tempo changes, almost post-rocky at times. probably my favorite of these
The Monitor - Titus Andronicus: loud and sloppy, lots of screaming, lyrics about the American Civil War, really catchy stuff, "A More Perfect Union" is awesome
Celebration Rock - Japandroids: this is the weakest of the batch but I still like it. juvenile lo-fi punky stuff.

It's not a super strong or diverse list, but I like those albums

durdencommatyler wrote:Just finished up listening to the Celebration Rock Podcasts's S1 episode about top 10 albums of the decade (so far). I haven't listened to a single record that was listed between the two participants. Fifteen total (they have some overlap between them) albums that are considered the best of the decade. And I haven't heard any of them.

Halfway thru that podcast and I was about to search out their lists. Thanks joe. And plat, I will start with your cutdown.

Also he is getting better as an interviewer. By this podcast he was not dominating the conversation as much.

Listening to The Suburbs is a bit like living in the suburbs: there's some pretty and sublime moments within, especially if you give it close attention, but it's overall pretty boring.

durdencommatyler wrote:

Brett wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:Just finished up listening to the Celebration Rock Podcasts's S1 episode about top 10 albums of the decade (so far). I haven't listened to a single record that was listed between the two participants. Fifteen total (they have some overlap between them) albums that are considered the best of the decade. And I haven't heard any of them.

What were the albums?

In no particular order:

Never Hungover Again - Joyce Manor
Sunbather - Deafheaven
Southestern - Jason Isbell
Attack on Memory - Cloud Nothings
Benji - Sun Kil Moon
Halcyon Digest - Deerhunter
Transgender Dysphoria Blues - Against Me!
LOSE - Cymbals Eat Guitars
Walkin On A Pretty Daze - Kurt Vile
Lonerism - Tame Impala
Home, Like NoPlace Is There - The Hotelier
The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
Harmlessness - The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
The Monitor - Titus Andronicus
Celebration Rock - Japandroids

Not buying it. The National is included or the list is null and void.

That Kurt Vile album is fantastic but Smoke Ring for My Halo is even better, quite possibly an all time favorite of mine.

Benji is good but at this point its hard for me to care about anything Koz does past the first 2 SKM albums.

I feel like I should like Arcade Fire so much more than I do.

I kinda dig Cymbals Eat Guitars and The World is A Beautiful Place.

No one listens to this stuff anyway.

There are few bands or artists that offend my sensibilities so aggressively as Arcade Fire.