Best Ever Albums

Re: (Closed) 2015-2019 Round 1: Cate le Bon vs Car Seat Headrest

babyBlueSedan — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:12:00 GMT

Author: babyBlueSedan

Posted: 09/28/2020 03:12

This tourney is no longer home to Car Seat Headrest

Cate Le Bon wins 13-9

Re: (Closed) 2015-2019 Round 1: Cate le Bon vs Car Seat Headrest

mickilennial — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 17:40:17 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 09/27/2020 21:40

Car Seat Headrest is the Greta Van Fleet of indie rock

Re: (Closed) 2015-2019 Round 1: Cate le Bon vs Car Seat Headrest

baystateoftheart — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 16:16:28 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 09/27/2020 20:16

It's amusing to me how disliked Car Seat Headrest is by a number of forum regulars. Beach Life-In-Death is great and easily gets my vote. The Cate Le Bon song is pretty good, but rather listless. The music video was definitely the highlight.

Re: (Closed) 2015-2019 Round 1: Cate le Bon vs Car Seat Headrest

LedZep — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 08:14:02 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 09/25/2020 12:14

Beach Life-in-Death easily for me. Heard Reward several times, but I didn't really like it. It felt very run-of-the-mill, and didn't really bring anything new to the art pop style in 2019. Her voice is great and the songwriting chops are mostly there, but none of the songs (including Home To Me) blew me away.

Re: (Closed) 2015-2019 Round 1: Cate le Bon vs Car Seat Headrest

19loveless91 — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 03:47:46 GMT

Author: 19loveless91

Posted: 09/25/2020 07:47

I listened to both versions of that album for the first time yesterday. I think around the time when Teens of Denial hype was going around, I tried some of his older stuff, probably including Twin Fantasy, and I got turned off by the production. Not that I dislike lo-fi stuff, or that the new version does everything better, but the vocals are far more bearable and it makes it a pretty good listen. So I much prefer the 2018 re-do, including this song.

Re: (Closed) 2015-2019 Round 1: Cate le Bon vs Car Seat Headrest

NJ — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 21:58:03 GMT

Author: NJ

Posted: 09/25/2020 01:58

Looks like I should've nominated Drunk Drivers...

BLID is clearly the better song, though I do kind of prefer the original version, so I can see not wanting to vote for an inferior remake of a song that wouldn't qualify. But it was allowed to be nominated, and it is a better track, so I'm obviously going for my nominee.

Re: (Closed) 2015-2019 Round 1: Cate le Bon vs Car Seat Headrest

cestuneblague — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 21:09:01 GMT

Author: cestuneblague

Posted: 09/25/2020 01:09

I've always liked Cate but never really fallen in love with her sound as of yet, and this song doesn't move the needle any further but I still enjoy it well enough. The Car Seat song kind of lost me pretty early, realize I've never actually listened to the re-do of that album in it's entirity 🤔

Re: (Closed) 2015-2019 Round 1: Cate le Bon vs Car Seat Headrest

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 18:09:24 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/24/2020 22:09

This wouldn't be my Cate pick on the record (that'd go down to the Marc Ribot esque boney breakdown on the magnificent Magnificent Gestures) but I can't in good conscious vote for a CSH song from the first half of the decade. I feel like the rerecording didn't really change that one up too much and actually took me away from what I loved so much about that album.

Re: (Closed) 2015-2019 Round 1: Cate le Bon vs Car Seat Headrest

19loveless91 — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 18:03:42 GMT

Author: 19loveless91

Posted: 09/24/2020 22:03

I actually find the CSH track to be infinitely more interesting. Even if a 15-minute track is a bit of an unfortunate choice for a song tournament

Re: (Closed) 2015-2019 Round 1: Cate le Bon vs Car Seat Headrest

Purplepash — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 05:29:26 GMT

Author: Purplepash

Posted: 09/24/2020 09:29

Reward is an under-rated album that should be in the top 100 for 2019 (it's in mine), but Beach Life-In Death is one of my favourite CSH songs (although it's one of the few that I prefer the Mirror to Mirror version).

Re: (Closed) 2015-2019 Round 1: Cate le Bon vs Car Seat Headrest

babyBlueSedan — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 21:16:32 GMT

Author: babyBlueSedan

Posted: 09/24/2020 01:16

I'm not in love with Home to You (mostly I just think it's a little long) but it's still the easy vote here. This is one of the better Car Seat Headrest songs I've heard but I'm still happy that this is probably the last time I'll listen to a song by him.

Re: (Closed) 2015-2019 Round 1: Cate le Bon vs Car Seat Headrest

Skinny — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 14:02:12 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 09/23/2020 18:02

Repo wrote:

Cate.

Obviously. It's not even close.

Re: (Closed) 2015-2019 Round 1: Cate le Bon vs Car Seat Headrest

Repo — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 13:38:23 GMT

Author: Repo

Posted: 09/23/2020 17:38

Cate.

(Closed) 2015-2019 Round 1: Cate le Bon vs Car Seat Headrest

babyBlueSedan — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:14:36 GMT

Author: babyBlueSedan

Posted: 09/23/2020 03:14

Home to You by Cate le Bon

Link

Year: 2019
Nominating user: LittleM1971

vs

Beach Life-in-Death by Car Seat Headrest

Link

Year: 2018
Nominating user: NJ

Matches closes end of day Sunday September 27th