Best Ever Albums

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

baystateoftheart — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 19:58:56 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 08/25/2019 23:58

Now Only defeats Idiot Proverbs 10-7 and advances to the sweet sixteen.

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

Repo — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 12:55:57 GMT

Author: Repo

Posted: 08/14/2019 16:55

I'm a sucker for good, catchy, It's Friday Night! indie rock so... Idiot Proverbs

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

cestuneblague — Tue, 6 Aug 2019 16:32:59 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 08/06/2019 20:32

I think the whole fedora speil was clearly in jest, but I guess everybody was dipping their chicken fingers in the relish this go-around so w/e. I still prefer Elverum, just slightly.

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

Skinny — Tue, 6 Aug 2019 15:13:31 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 08/06/2019 19:13

Smokey Robinson & the Empiricals.

EDIT: Also, just lol at "Never heard of Guy Fawkes"

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

Fischman — Tue, 6 Aug 2019 13:58:25 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 08/06/2019 17:58

thirstyDog wrote:

Fischman wrote:

Skinny wrote:

Fischman wrote:

S kinny wrote:

Fisch man wrote:

I just don't care for moaning, groaning, complaining, whining, and bitching. Especially when just generally doing so about some general state of affairs in a world of plenty. It's pathetic.

Now, if you've had some specific horrific event in your life, then there's actually some cause for complaint.

Figures.

Well, good. I'd hate to disappoint you like I have in the past. Every once in a while it's good if I actually do conform to your image of me. I'd hate to topple your world to badly.

You have literally never not been a caricature.

Well, see, now your regressing. Back to making blindly prejudicial false assertions in spite of evidence to the contrary. but like I said, I'd hate to disturb your inbred view of things, so do carry on.

Oh shit, you really are a caricature 🤣 Where's your guy fawkes mask at? What's your reddit handle? How many swords are in your collection? Do you own a fedora?

See,
You too take a single data point and extrapolate all sorts of unrelated things out of it. You don't know squat. It's really quite pathetic, when someone draws prejudicial conclusions based on so little.

FTR:
Number of swords owned=0
Number of fedoras owned=0
Never had a reddit account
Never heard of Guy Fawkes

There's a shitload you don't know about me, yet in your ignorance, you still choose to see a caricature. Sad.

Here's the real sad part. It is my taste to not like music that comes across as whiny to me. Others here express their tastes, and it's not always pretty either. Even Mr holier than thou supposedly tolerant Skinny himself went straight up ageist in expressing his taste during a previous game. Folks around here seem pretty selective in when to condemn or when to let slide tastes, or even the expressions thereof.

I might put some stock in what you narrow minded reactionaries say if you could look beyond your own prejudices.

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

baystateoftheart — Tue, 6 Aug 2019 12:20:57 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 08/06/2019 16:20

Let’s not get sucked into a vortex of personal attacks. It is well-known that Fischman has views on mental health/illness that the majority of people on this forum find reprehensible/harmful. But we don’t have to reprise the same discussion every time it comes up.

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

thirstyDog — Tue, 6 Aug 2019 11:11:24 GMT

Author: thirstyDog

Posted: 08/06/2019 15:11

Fischman wrote:

Skinny wrote:

Fischman wrote:

Skinny wrote:

Fisch man wrote:

Figures.

Well, good. I'd hate to disappoint you like I have in the past. Every once in a while it's good if I actually do conform to your image of me. I'd hate to topple your world to badly.

You have literally never not been a caricature.

Oh shit, you really are a caricature 🤣 Where's your guy fawkes mask at? What's your reddit handle? How many swords are in your collection? Do you own a fedora?

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

thirstyDog — Tue, 6 Aug 2019 11:10:40 GMT

Author: thirstyDog

Posted: 08/06/2019 15:10

Mornin

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

Fischman — Tue, 6 Aug 2019 10:08:32 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 08/06/2019 14:08

Skinny wrote:

Fischman wrote:

Skinny wrote:

Fischman wrote:

Figures.

Well, good. I'd hate to disappoint you like I have in the past. Every once in a while it's good if I actually do conform to your image of me. I'd hate to topple your world to badly.

You have literally never not been a caricature.

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

Skinny — Tue, 6 Aug 2019 05:29:23 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 08/06/2019 09:29

Fischman wrote:

Skinny wrote:

Fischman wrote:

Figures.

Well, good. I'd hate to disappoint you like I have in the past. Every once in a while it's good if I actually do conform to your image of me. I'd hate to topple your world to badly.

You have literally never not been a caricature.

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

Fischman — Mon, 5 Aug 2019 17:26:23 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 08/05/2019 21:26

Skinny wrote:

Fischman wrote:

Figures.

Well, good. I'd hate to disappoint you like I have in the past. Every once in a while it's good if I actually do conform to your image of me. I'd hate to topple your world to badly.

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

Skinny — Mon, 5 Aug 2019 17:03:46 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 08/05/2019 21:03

Fischman wrote:

Figures.

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

Fischman — Mon, 5 Aug 2019 17:02:26 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 08/05/2019 21:02

Skinny wrote:

How does one realise that their malaise is generic, and thus - presumably - less valid than a specific malaise? Asking for a friend.

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

Skinny — Mon, 5 Aug 2019 16:50:06 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 08/05/2019 20:50

Fischman wrote:

Lots of depressing stuff on both albums. At least Mount Eerie sounds like there's a real reason behind the depression beyond generic malaise.

How does one realise that their malaise is generic, and thus - presumably - less valid than a specific malaise? Asking for a friend.

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

Fischman — Mon, 5 Aug 2019 14:45:09 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 08/05/2019 18:45

Lots of depressing stuff on both albums. At least Mount Eerie sounds like there's a real reason behind the depression beyond generic malaise.

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

baystateoftheart — Sat, 3 Aug 2019 16:19:20 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 08/03/2019 20:19

Now Only is far better than A Crow Looked At Me, as the time elapsed since the wound of loss allows him to write better, more developed, and more poetic songs about life as a widower. Great album.

Idiot Proverbs has really good instrumentals for the most part, but the title is often an apt description of its lyrical quality... a pretty good album overall, but easily the lesser in this contest.

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

RoundTheBend — Thu, 1 Aug 2019 22:29:42 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 08/02/2019 02:29

Alright, I think I've decided... while Mount Eerie still has a level of honesty few artists are able to convey, and even last years thing was my selection due to that, Tiny Little Houses has my vote solely on the fact that if I were to chose between the records to listen to at any given time, I'll bet my mood/kid at heart in me would totally pick Tiny Little Houses before I listened to the Mount Eerie record again, as fantastic of a record it is.

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

dihansse — Thu, 1 Aug 2019 16:46:12 GMT

Author: dihansse

Posted: 08/01/2019 20:46

I very much liked Phil Elverum's A Crow Looked At Me because it was so sad and self-searching. Like many other people I was getting a bit worn out by a second version of the same album. It's certainly different from Crow and in some ways it's sometimes even better but it just feels strange to hear the same feelings in another album.
And Idiot Proverbs was already part of my 2018 chart so I'll go for that.

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

RoundTheBend — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 21:49:37 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 08/01/2019 01:49

I'm not sure why it bothers me that the Mount Eerie is similar in content to the 2017 effort.

I think a Weezer/Anniversary loving 12 year old self would absolutely love Tiny Little Houses. It still tickled something for me, but idk...

In otherwords, imma have to sit on this one for a bit, they both are awesome yet leave a weird aftertaste.

Re: Round 1: Mount Eerie v. Tiny Little Houses

thirstyDog — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 18:38:10 GMT

Author: thirstyDog

Posted: 07/30/2019 22:38

Idiot Proverbs is pretty good once you get past the singer's voice. But Now Only is a masterpiece.