Best Ever Albums

Re: Closed- 2000s BST play-in: Strokes v Modest Mouse

cestuneblague — Tue, 8 Oct 2019 07:59:33 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 10/08/2019 11:59

Not hard to explain the Strokes victory

Re: Closed- 2000s BST play-in: Strokes v Modest Mouse

craola — Mon, 7 Oct 2019 19:00:40 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 10/07/2019 23:00

Skinny wrote:

'Hard to Explain' shows that Casablancas might be the best English-speaking white male pop lyricist of his generation.

pretty confused by this comment, to be honest. casablancas' lyrics aren't anything special to me. meanwhile, isaac brock is generally considered one of the best lyricists in the indie scene and has inspired a ton of artists within the scene.

casablancas... well, the strokes in general, really come across as too clever by half, so i guess my bias might be bleeding through this a bit, but i don't really get it. what about this track makes casablancas the great english speaking white pop dude?

Re: Closed- 2000s BST play-in: Strokes v Modest Mouse

cestuneblague — Mon, 7 Oct 2019 16:42:46 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 10/07/2019 20:42

Bumping so this doesn't get lost

Re: Closed- 2000s BST play-in: Strokes v Modest Mouse

baystateoftheart — Sun, 6 Oct 2019 16:16:43 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 10/06/2019 20:16

Really good Modest Mouse song, but Hard To Explain is basically perfect. I briefly toyed with nominating it myself.

Re: Closed- 2000s BST play-in: Strokes v Modest Mouse

cestuneblague — Sun, 6 Oct 2019 11:44:18 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 10/06/2019 15:44

Skinny wrote:

'Hard to Explain' shows that Casablancas might be the best English-speaking white male pop lyricist of his generation.

.. Can't say I agree with that in any way, but while I still find Is This It quite overrated and have cared even less for what they've done since, "Hard to Explain" is close to perfect and gets my vote over the fine but somewhat neutered dirg e that Modest Mouse used to pull off in much more aggressive fashion.

Re: Closed- 2000s BST play-in: Strokes v Modest Mouse

Hayden — Sun, 6 Oct 2019 11:33:10 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 10/06/2019 15:33

Strokes for me.

Re: Closed- 2000s BST play-in: Strokes v Modest Mouse

LedZep — Sun, 6 Oct 2019 06:41:09 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 10/06/2019 10:41

Skinny wrote:

the best English-speaking white male pop

That's oddly specific

Re: Closed- 2000s BST play-in: Strokes v Modest Mouse

Skinny — Sun, 6 Oct 2019 05:56:55 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 10/06/2019 09:56

'Hard to Explain' shows that Casablancas might be the best English-speaking white male pop lyricist of his generation.

Re: Closed- 2000s BST play-in: Strokes v Modest Mouse

Jhereko — Sun, 6 Oct 2019 05:53:22 GMT

Author: Jhereko

Posted: 10/06/2019 09:53

One of the most overrated of the 00s vs one of the most underrated.

Re: Closed- 2000s BST play-in: Strokes v Modest Mouse

dihansse — Sun, 6 Oct 2019 03:28:59 GMT

Author: dihansse

Posted: 10/06/2019 07:28

I really like Modest Mouse and this track but Hard To Explain Comes from one of my favorite 2000 albums so this one wins

Re: Closed- 2000s BST play-in: Strokes v Modest Mouse

Repo — Sat, 5 Oct 2019 20:40:16 GMT

Author: Repo

Posted: 10/06/2019 00:40

Hard To Explain. I've underappreciated The Strokes for some reason. Their entire discog is really solid.

Re: Closed- 2000s BST play-in: Strokes v Modest Mouse

Fischman — Sat, 5 Oct 2019 19:39:26 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 10/05/2019 23:39

Neither one does much fore me, but the MM was the more unique and therefore interesting between the two, so it got my vote.

Re: Closed- 2000s BST play-in: Strokes v Modest Mouse

Anonymous — Sat, 5 Oct 2019 17:02:30 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 10/05/2019 21:02

I'll go Modest Mouse. Really spacious, weird and interesting track. Hard to Explain is cool but I don't find it so exciting these days.

Re: Closed- 2000s BST play-in: Strokes v Modest Mouse

babyBlueSedan — Sat, 5 Oct 2019 16:41:30 GMT

Author: babyBlueSedan

Posted: 10/05/2019 20:41

I thought about nominating 3rd Planet but I didn't want to go all indie rock for my picks. Gotta go with Modest Mouse since they're my favorite band and this is one of my favorite songs off of a very underrated album, but I won't be disappointed to see Hard to Explain go on.

Re: Closed- 2000s BST play-in: Strokes v Modest Mouse

craola — Sat, 5 Oct 2019 16:30:25 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 10/05/2019 20:30

Ahem... cellphone woes. I meant to tap MM:POTS, but I spect I missed and hit that abstain button. Looks like Isaac Brock is going to lose anyway, but he has my ghost vote.

Re: Closed- 2000s BST play-in: Strokes v Modest Mouse

Tha1ChiefRocka — Sat, 5 Oct 2019 15:54:48 GMT

Author: Tha1ChiefRocka

Posted: 10/05/2019 19:54

Something off of "The Moon & Antarctica" would've won here, but not that MM track.

Closed- 2000s BST play-in: Strokes v Modest Mouse

cestuneblague — Sat, 5 Oct 2019 15:43:13 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 10/05/2019 19:43

Strokes- Hard to Explain Captain: Tap

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Modest Mouse- Parting of the Sensory Captain: Purplepash

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