Best Ever Albums

Re: [CLOSED] +1500 Round 1: Chill Out VS Are You Sleepy?

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Jun 2014 20:20:46 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/30/2014 00:20

Looks like the Gerbils need to Chill Out

11-6

Re: [CLOSED] +1500 Round 1: Chill Out VS Are You Sleepy?

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 01:15:15 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/28/2014 05:15

Eh, not my favorite matchup. The KLF are a group I always felt like I should like more but never really did. Their experimentation is interesting and some of their ideas are great, but for the most part I find Chill Out to be kind of aimless, with less ideas than it's length deserves (which isn't saying much considering it's only 44 minutes). As for The Gerbils, they suffer from the same problems I find most Elephant Six bands that aren't Neutral Milk Hotel or OTC (or early Of Montreal if they count) have. Fun tunes that are ultimately unimpactful and uninspired lyrically, which doesn't do so much when the structures are so simple.

Neither of these records are bad, but neither are very good to me. Would much rather have both Field Mice and The Dodos go on, or have Holo go on with the way that poll is looking. Think I'll give the vote to The KLF though, because they're more interesting at least.

Re: [CLOSED] +1500 Round 1: Chill Out VS Are You Sleepy?

Listmeister — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:21:15 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 06/27/2014 17:21

Liked both of them a lot. It's hard to decide because they're so very different. Chill Out demonstrates what good ambient music can be (unlike... never mind). The Gerbils are masters of guitar and vocal harmonies. So do I vote for good songs or good music?

I didn't get this far in life by saying "ooh, I can't decide." Vote goes to the Gerbils.

Re: [CLOSED] +1500 Round 1: Chill Out VS Are You Sleepy?

WindowAbove — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:20:46 GMT

Author: WindowAbove

Posted: 06/27/2014 17:20

Chill Out

Re: [CLOSED] +1500 Round 1: Chill Out VS Are You Sleepy?

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 13:13:34 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/27/2014 17:13

Elephant 6 is a pretty stupid name for anything (perhaps more so because I have a huge bias against the collective considering I can't stand a majority of them instead of actually disliking the name, but whtevs) and The Gerbils certainly didn't strike too high on my enjoyment meter.

On the other hand, I've listened to Chill Out a handful of times before this and it's pretty damn good so I voted for that.

Re: [CLOSED] +1500 Round 1: Chill Out VS Are You Sleepy?

meccalecca — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 11:07:36 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 06/27/2014 15:07

Wasn't expecting to vote against Elephant 6, not even lower tier Elephant 6, but I thoroughly enjoyed Chill Out. Great nomination Mercury.

Re: [CLOSED] +1500 Round 1: Chill Out VS Are You Sleepy?

Norman Bates — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:36:09 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 06/27/2014 14:36

Chill Out is good throughout (but I'm not in love with it as some others are on this site), whereas Are You Sleepy? seemed to lose momentum pretty quickly. Not a bad record, I will relisten, but for now my vote goes to The KLF.

Re: [CLOSED] +1500 Round 1: Chill Out VS Are You Sleepy?

NickVolos — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 09:59:14 GMT

Author: NickVolos

Posted: 06/27/2014 13:59

Vote to Are You Sleepy? It was the one that actually did not put me to sleep... 🤣

Re: [CLOSED] +1500 Round 1: Chill Out VS Are You Sleepy?

Mercury — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:52:52 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 06/27/2014 03:52

Chill Out is an old favorite of mine. It got me interested in Ambient music and electronic music and was one of the first albums that did that for me. I suppose if you like ambient music, or music that is sort of trippy and adventurous, and music that is engaging and electronic, and music that is truly a full album experience that weaves you through some sort of cross country journey, if you like just really creative and captivating ambient-electronic-ambient house music, you'll probably really love this.

Also the way it was recorded or produced was interesting. Per all the stories I heard of it it was recorded "live". Like they assembled the samples and the music and put it all down in one take. So if they made a fuck up and missed something (which I assume they did a few times maybe) they had to rerecord it.

Yeah, and The KLF were so cool back in the day. The White Room is another really solid album by them, but it doesn't move me like Chill Out. Chill Out just puts me in a good, relaxed, happy ' mood. Love this damn thing!

I haven't heard the Gerbils album yet, so I won't vote just yet.

[CLOSED] +1500 Round 1: Chill Out VS Are You Sleepy?

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:15:15 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/26/2014 23:15

Thumbnail. Click to enlarge.

Chill Out by The KLF

Thumbnail. Click to enlarge.

Link

Nominated by Mercury

VS

Thumbnail. Click to enlarge.

Are You Sleepy? by The Gerbils

Thumbnail. Click to enlarge.

Link

Nominated by Goodsir

Only vote if you have listened to both albums. Thank you.